China's Governance: Across Vertical and Horizontal Connexions

92 Pages·2017·1.425 MB·English

by  Peijie Wang (auth.)

SPRINGER BRIEFS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
Peijie Wang
China's
Governance
Across Vertical
and Horizontal Connexions

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Peijie Wang
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Preface
This book is intended to put together all major ingredients of governance of the
People’sRepublicofChina(PRC)inasinglevolume,acrossverticalandhorizontal
connexions. It consists of seven chapters contained in three parts: State
Governance, Organization of Production, and Governance Approaches. The book
provides an integrated overview of contemporary topics and issues in the gover-
nance of the PRC, which evolves while persists over time and, at this moment in
time, enters into a critical phase of development. The book is a purely analytical
text, involving no value judgement of social institutions and political systems. It
places a focus on material life and material forces of production in addressing the
design and construct of PRC governance in various fields.
Thisbookiswrittenintheframeworkofhistoricalmaterialisthistoriography.Its
worldviewabouthumansocietyandhistoryasarticulatedbyhistoricalmaterialism
isthat‘humanbeingsenterintodefiniterelationsofproductionindependentoftheir
will, which are appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material
forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the
economicstructureorinfrastructureofsociety,onwhicharisesalegalandpolitical
superstructure’ (Marx 1859). Therefore, ‘the mode of production of material life
conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life’ (ibid); the
modeofproductionisbasedontheleveloftheproductiveforces.Inthevicinityof
material, social and intellectual life and economic, political, and legal structures
comes state governance. It is a creature crafted by, and imposed upon, human
beings, full of dialectical engagements. It is an entity of the unity and conflict of
opposites; it is a process of the passage of quantitative changes into qualitative
changes; and it experiences the negation of the negation constantly. This book
centersonthemodesofproductionandunfoldsalongtheselines,throughtimeand
space of the PRC.
Plymouth, UK Peijie Wang
May 2015
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Reference
Marx,Karl(1859),AContributiontotheCritiqueofPoliticalEconomy(PublishedinEnglishby
ProgressPublishersinMoscow1977).
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China s Governance
Across Vertical and Horizontal Connexions
(纵横中国)
Table of Contents
I. State Governance (治国秉政)
1. State Structure and Organs of State Power (国家机构)
2. Executive and Administration (行政管理)
II. Organization of Production (生产组织)
3. Modes of Production (生产方式)
4. Approaches to Production (生产方法)
III. Governance Approaches (施政举措)
5. Briefs in Governance (归口管理)
6. Divisions Between Lines and Blocks and Connexions (条块分割)
7. Generally Practised Governance Protocols (千年官场)
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Contents
Part I State Governance
1 State Structure and Organs of State Power ... .... .... ..... .... 3
1.1 Overview .. .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 3
1.2 Administrative Divisions ... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 7
References.. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 12
2 Executive and Administration .. .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 13
2.1 Central Government.. ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 13
2.2 Latest Evolutions in and Current State of Economic
Domain Management . ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 16
References.. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 21
Part II Organization of Production
3 Modes of Production. .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 25
3.1 Introduction and Related Concepts.... .... .... .... ..... .... 25
3.2 Foundation of the Mode of Production, the State Assets
and Enterprises.. .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 26
References.. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 30
4 Approaches to Production ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 31
4.1 Introduction and Background.... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 31
4.2 Historical Lines of Evolutions of PRC Ministries
of Industrial Production .... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 32
4.3 Overview of Transitions from Ministries to Industrial
Corporations.... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 36
4.4 ‘One Divided into Two’.... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 37
4.5 Other Major Central Enterprises.. .... .... .... .... ..... .... 39
References.. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 42
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Part III Governance Approaches
5 Briefs in Governance. .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 47
5.1 Briefing on Briefs.... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 47
5.2 Industry, Agriculture, Finance and Commerce ... .... ..... .... 48
5.3 Culture, Education, Publicity, Health, Science
and Technology . .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 52
5.4 Legal and Political Affairs and International Relations. ..... .... 56
References.. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 59
6 Divisions Between Lines and Blocks and Connexions.... ..... .... 61
6.1 Introduction and Related Notions. .... .... .... .... ..... .... 61
6.2 Divisions and Connexions in Action .. .... .... .... ..... .... 62
6.3 Divisions and Connexions in Examples .... .... .... ..... .... 67
6.4 Alternations, Swings, and Controversies.... .... .... ..... .... 70
References.. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 75
7 Generally Practised Governance Protocols .... .... .... ..... .... 79
7.1 Complexity and Simplicity.. .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 79
7.2 Parity and Equivalence..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 79
7.3 Allegory Versus Literality .. .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 84
7.4 Controversies and Fantasies . .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 85
References.. .... .... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... ..... .... 87