Introduction to the Basis of Implementing the Power and Responsibility List System in China

Abstract

Since the 1980s, western countries have begun to pay attention to the supervision and control of public power. With the improvement of the various laws and regulations and e-government technology to mature, the government has promoted the administration according to law and government affairs public, gradually exposing the government power operation problems. After the third plenary session of the 18th CPC central committee in 2013, the system of power and responsibility list was transformed from the initial exploration of local practice to a top-down comprehensive reform. In 2015, the State Council requested that the three levels of governments of provincial, municipal and county in the country make a clear list of all the powers at the end of 2016, announce them to the public and accept social supervision. The implementation of the power and responsibility list system is an important measure for the modernization of the governance system and governance capacity of the country. This paper sorts out the connotation, significance, status quo, and existing problems of the power and responsibility list system, hoping to carry out a better system of accrual list for key point and direction, and understanding of national governance has updated.