Research of Institutional Reform in County Administrated by Jiangsu Province

The implementation of institutional reform in county administrated by provincial government, reduction in the local administration levels, and the establishment of administrative system with reasonable levels is a significant measure to promote the institutionalized, scientific, and standardized development of a service-oriented government, which has practical and profound strategic significance. However, the reform will also bring many complex issues such as the range of provincial government control, distribution of benefits in city and county government, adjustment in administrative division, transformation of government functions, institutional reform and dispersion of personnel. The institutional reform in county administrated by the province involve a wide range, with a far-reaching influence, which cannot be achieved with one stroke. It will not be popularized before repeated demonstration and a pilot plan, and the development of an improved programs and sound supporting measures. This paper, with the aid of related knowledge and theories in local government, analyzes the historical inevitability and the drawbacks of the county administrated by the city and probes into the necessity and feasibility of the institutional reform in county administrated by the province through the analysis of the pros and cons of the system of the two. Besides, it also conducts a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the resistance and momentum of the institutional reform in county administrated by the province, providing a theoretical basis for and reference to it. Combined with the practice of the reform in the county administrated by Jiangsu Province, an in-depth thinking is carried out on the urgent need of the reform, pointing out the existing problems and difficulties, exploring its related measures and providing sound reference to and advice.