CAS Reforms its Institutional System

During the first phase of initiation of Knowl-edge Innovation Program (KIP), from 1998 to 2000,CAS has undergone a large-scale institutional con-solidation, involving 60 research institutions(in-cluding 33 institutes and the like. As a result, 40institutes won preferential support from the KIP.

INSTITUTION AND REFORM OF THE AWARDING SYSTEM IN CAS

Aoperational system of S&T awards can play a role of stimulation and promotion towards S&T workers. This article gives a brief review of the evolutionary process undergone by the CAS system of awards and an analytic exposition on the institution and operation of the current system. In addition, it evaluates the operation of the system and lists problems in this respect. At last, it puts forward proposals to restructure and perfect the system. Since its inauguration in 1949, the

Coordinating Supply-Side Reform and Demand-Side Management

In essence,understanding the relationship between supply-side structural reform and demand-side management requires grasping the interplay between supply and demand.Supply and demand are interdependent and interactive,and their equilibrium determines the equilibrium valuesof microand macroeconomic variables.Focusing solely on either supply or demand,regardless of the time length,is one-sided.To promote supply-side structural reform,China should depend on demand and take a measured approach to its expansion.In the absence of demand,the supply-side structural reform would lose its direction and purpose.Enhancing demand-side management involves delving deeper into supply-side structural reform because the scale and growth of demand,alongside changes in demand structure,are fundamentally influenced by institutional factors.Hence,further reforming the systems and mechanisms that hinder the optimization of demand structure and the growth of demand is precisely what supplyside structural reform should entail.

规划机构改革与空间治理现代化的路径选择

In recent years,with the profound changes of"promoting the modernization of the national governance system and capacity,"the reform of state institutions has become an important measure and step.In the field of planning management,the establishment of the Ministry of Natural Resources plays a crucial role in the institutional reform over the years.This paper discusses the reform of planning management from the perspective of the public management and urban planning discipline,and tries to explore the internal logic between"institutional reform"and"governance modernization."It demonstrates the interweaving and transforming process between the adjustment of planning agencies and national governance,discussing whether the establishment of the Ministry of Natural Resources has responded to the path selection of governance modernization.The paper makes a diachronic analysis on the 13 state institutional reforms since the founding of People’s Republic of China,especially on the adjustment process of planning management agencies.It builds an"institution-governance"analysis framework with the three elements including institution,function,and management as its core and with the institutional strength and governance effectiveness as the entry and exit,and analyzes the parallel transitions of planning management agencies and spatial governance logic as well as the necessary undertaking mechanisms,with the aim to provide reference for the establishment of a new pattern of spatial governance.

Causes of China’s current economic development pattern

At the beginning of the 21st century,China’s economy entered a period of rapid growth and current economic development pattern was formed.Despite the rapid growth of the economy,the current development pattern has caused divergence from the aim of development,stagnation of the means of development,and distortion of the drivers of development.The cause of the current economic development pattern is one where market-oriented reforms are pushing local governments to shift roles from profit entities to market entities,but local governments are failing to undertake the responsibilities of the market and have been exceeding their authority,ignoring their roles,or misplacing their efforts for some time.If the current economic development pattern is not changed,China could either fall into the“middle-income trap”or the“resource-exhaustion trap.”