The significance of public service

It is conducive to alleviating various outstanding social problems that China is currently facing.

In the process of building a harmonious socialist society in China, the biggest challenges are: unbalanced development between regions and between urban and rural areas, large income gap among residents, intensified constraints on resources and environment, unbalanced internal and external demand, unreasonable investment and consumption structure, and so on.

These problems are closely related to two pairs of prominent contradictions in China at present: first, the contradiction between the growing demand of residents for public services and the overall shortage and low quality of public services; The second is the contradiction between the gradual establishment and improvement of the market economic system and the slow transformation of government functions. Public service is the basis of maintaining basic social fairness, and usually acts as a "buffer" for social contradictions. Therefore, strengthening the government's public service function and accelerating the improvement of China's public service situation are conducive to alleviating various prominent contradictions facing China's current economy and society and smoothly promoting the construction of a harmonious society.

Conducive to improving the system and mechanism of public service supply

At present, the China government has not formed a sustainable financial support system, a standardized government division of labor and accountability mechanism, and a fair resource allocation system between regions and between urban and rural areas, which has seriously affected the quantity and quality of public services and restricted the effective play of basic functions of public services. Strengthening the performance management of government public services, strengthening the responsibilities of governments at all levels and government departments, and promoting the formation of indirect competition mechanism between governments are conducive to improving various institutional mechanisms for the supply of public services in China and guiding governments at all levels to gradually establish government functions and performance concepts centered on public services.

It is conducive to public participation in the management and supervision of public services.

With the continuous improvement of informatization level and people's living standards, the public's demand and quality requirements for public services are getting higher and higher, and they are more and more sensitive to the differences between countries and places. They are no longer just satisfied with knowing how much money the government has spent on public services, but are more concerned about what effect these expenditures have achieved and what tangible improvements have been brought to the public's work and life. From the perspective of meeting the information demand, accelerating the performance evaluation of government public services and forming a regular public reporting system can not only provide decision-making reference for the government to further improve China's public services, but also meet the public's information demand, improve the public's ability to participate in government management and supervision, promote the scientific and democratic decision-making, and enhance the government's credibility in the public's mind.

It is conducive to improving the overall allocation efficiency of public resources.

The function of government resource allocation is not only not weakened, but also constantly strengthened. Although China's fiscal expenditure only accounted for 18.5% of GDP in 2005, China belongs to a "big government" country in terms of the resources and functions that the government can actually control. Facing the trend that the global government scale is expanding and the resources controlled by the government are increasing, improving government management and efficiency, especially strengthening the performance management of public services, is conducive to improving the efficiency of resource allocation in the whole society and improving the overall welfare of the people.

It is conducive to improving the government's management ability and international competitiveness.

Under the background of economic globalization and integration, the international competition represented by multinational enterprises has gradually evolved into all-round competition in markets, enterprises, governments and resources between countries. The government is no longer the backstage of international competition in the traditional sense, but directly stepped onto the front desk of international competition. As one of the most important subjects of resource allocation, the government's competitiveness has become an important factor to determine the national competitiveness. The competitiveness of the government directly depends on its management ability and resource allocation efficiency. Therefore, it has become the strategic choice of our government to improve the government management system, ensure the efficient operation of the government, give full play to the public service function and continuously improve the efficiency and competitiveness of government management.