官僚制是政府治理的一种组织形式。在工业社会时期,它曾经发挥过重要作用。但在信息社会,官僚制正面临深刻的危机,其内部信息机制和激励机制的不适应是引起危机的根源。在世界范围内兴起的“新公共管理”运动就是对这一危机的反应。中国官僚制的转型对中国经济增长做出了重要贡献,但下一步改革任务更艰巨、意义更深远。
As an organization form of governmental management, bureaucracy played an important role in industrial society, but now it faces a deep crisis in the information society due to the conflict between its information mechanism and that of stimulation. New Public Management rising worldwide is the very reaction to the crisis. The bureaucratic transformation in contemporary China has contributed greatly to China's economic growth. However, its further reform will be mere difficult and more significant.