地方化分权使大量决策权和公共财政开支从中央政府转移到地方政府,极大地激发了地方政府发展经济的积极性,是我国改革开放政策取得成功的重要基础。然而,地方化分权也将使地方集团利益的特征更加明显,地方政府之间的竞争日益激烈。研究者对“地方化”发展的研究视角应该从“分权”与“发展”转向“整合”与“协调”,重点关注“地方-市场”关系下地方政府的职能角色,“国家-地方”关系下的权限划分及其运行机制的法定化、制度化和程序化,“地方-地方”关系下的组织协调和利益分配等。
Fundamental to the success of its opening-up policy, China's urban decentralization endows local government with power of decision-making and public finance and hence motivates local government's endeavor in economic development. Nonetheless, decentralization of power increases the competition of local government in protecting their own benefit. Researcher should transfer emphases of their studies from "power" and "development" to "integration" and "coordination", which involves the role of local government in "location-market" relationship, legislation, institution, and normalization of power division and mechanism in "state-province" relationship, and overall management and coordination in "location-location" relationship.