Research on the Positioning of Government Functions in China under the Background of Smart City Construction

In the process of smart city construction, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and some other cities are facing many problems, among which the most essential one is the government＇ s leading role cannot give a better play due to the constraints of the traditional government functions. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out a reasonable position for the government functions in the construction of smart city. This paper issues that the government should reflect functions in the construction of smart city, such as the planning function of top-level design and unified planning; the organizational function of providing funds and talent protection; the coordinating function of promoting multiple-subject cooperation; the controlling function of establishing technical standards and legal norms.

G20 and Transformation of Global Economic Governance

The Group of 20(known as G20)was founded in Germany in 1999with an aim at handling international financial crisis,in particular preventing a regional crisis from spreading and becoming a bigger one.It is unfortunate that this meeting mechanism(forum)designed for tackling future impact has to play its role.The US and Europe both witnessed an unprecedented financial crisis with

Promoting the Transformation of Government Function for Achieving the Coordinated Urban-Rural Development of Resources and Environment: Practice of “MultiPlan Integration” in Xiamen

This paper analyzes the main problems in China's urban planning and construction, including conf licts among various spatial plans, the lack of a unified spatial planning management system, the inefficiency of examination and approval administration, and the social contradictions caused by unclear information. It articulates the significance of multi-plan integration from the viewpoints of implementing the national strategies issued by the central government, meeting the underlying demand of development transition of cities, and promoting the modernization of a city governance system and city governance capacity, etc. It introduces in detail the practice of multi-plan integration in Xiamen, which takes the urban development strategies in consensus as the top-level design, establishes a spatial planning system through the "strict control based on one blueprint" and the "coordinated management on one platform," promotes the transformation of the government function via reforming the examination and approval administration system, and builds up a guarantee mechanism through the direct inspection by the top leader of the government and the joint efforts from the top to the bottom. It finally summarizes the effects of the practice of multi-plan integration in Xiamen and proposes some suggestions on further completing the spatial planning system, improving the examination and approval administration system, and accelerating the transformation of the government function, etc., in hope of serving as a reference for other Chinese cities.

Experiential Logic in the Transformation of Contemporary China’s Social Governance

How does Chinese society maintain its orderly operation and show stability and harmony to the utmost while China rapidly transforms its economic system and international circumstances become increasingly complicated?This is an important question that this essay tries to answer,and the analysis mainly involves the exploratory practice of the transformation of Chinese social governance.This exploratory practice is a process through which China constantly breaks through the traditional blockades of vested interests,overcomes newly formed challenges,and forms a new Chinese-style“one axis and multiple components”pattern of social governance during its rapid re-establishment of both social relationship structure and social psychology order on the unbalanced and insufficient conditions of development within its vast territory.During this process,the constant return to the CPC’s mass line,as well as the“mechanism of reversed transmission of pressure,”the“anticipation-led mechanism”and the“mechanism of turning crisis into opportunity”that the CPC has improved during its long-term revolutionary struggles and its deepening of reform and opening-up,has played an important part.The simplistic duplication of Western theoretical analytic paradigms cannot explain the experiential mechanism for the transformation of social governance,which is peculiar to China.The creation of research framework of“system and life”is just an effort for comparison and dialogues with Western classical theories.It is not only helpful for the development of sociology about Chinese transformation,but will provide new knowledge for worldwide social transformation.

The Evaluation Model of Government Intervention (GI) and its Optimization

The paper discusses how to reach the equilibrium and optimization GI during the period of economic transformation. The market economy might not work because of its mechanism flaws, based on the assumption that the government is the supplier and the market economy is the demander Of GI, there is an equilibrium and optimization issue. The theory suggests that GI could reach equilibrium through adjusting the government revenue, thus leads to the result of functional complement between the market economy and the GI, and the optimum economic efficiency.

Confession Governance and Verdicts in China's Criminal Justice

The objective phenomenon of reliance on confessions is the source of many problems in the practice of criminal justice in China. Although successive amendments to the law have endeavored to improve the handling of confessions, they have been unable to resolve the dilemma of a rigid management mode, incompatible management strategies, and conflicting attitudes towards management. This paper has made a multi-dimensional reinterpretation of it from the judges＇ perspective, including functional analysis, cultural interpretation and immediate considerations. It reveals that behind its functions of offering moral comfort or allowing evasion of responsibility, confession, as a medium of physical and intellectual management, has the more important function of supplementing and improving the legitimacy of criminal verdicts. The remolding of the legitimacy of criminal verdicts with the coordinated improvement of the management of confessions will change the mode of association between those who currently govern confession and those they govern and will clash with the current closed mode of criminal justice management, thereby promoting a transformation in the governance of criminal justice.