改革开放,其实是中国政府转型从萌芽到成型、从实践到理论的建构过程。政府转型是推动上层建筑适应经济基础的必然要求,力图解决生产关系与生产力、上层建筑与经济基础之间的矛盾。一方面,政府转型是适应市场经济和社会发展的需要而进行的改革,通过发展目标、政府职能、政策工具、政府机构和财政结构的改革,政府引领经济社会实现转型;另一方面,这种转型进一步推动了中国的市场经济建设和社会建设,使得政府治理体系成为推动经济社会发展的制度性力量。
The reform and opening-up since 1978 in China is the development process of state building, the core of which is the government transformation. In order to manage the contradictions between the relations of production and productivity, the superstructure and the economic basis, the government must transform itself. On the one hand, the government transformation is the reform in need of market economy and social development, the government leads to the transformation of economy and society by transforming the development goals, the governmental functions, the policy instruments, the governmental agencies, and the financial institutions. On the other hand, the government transformation promotes the construction of market economy and society, reconstructs the relations among the government, the market and the society.