Contemporary Chinese political relations

Author: Yang Hongshan
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: Yang Hongshan, male, born in 1971, admitted to Peking University in 1990, and obtained bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in law successively. In 1998, he joined the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office. Currently, he is an assistant researcher at the Institute of Government Management under the Political Development of Peking University and a teacher at the School of Public Administration of Renmin University of China. He has participated in the writing of An Introduction to the System of Local Government in China and published 20 academic papers, including The Government Perspective of Market Logic, Theories of Sovereignty Interference, Absolute Sovereignty, and Limited Sovereignty, On the Market Economy and Limited Government, and On the Reform of Political Management Models. This book primarily focuses on the development of the political relationship network structure centered around the government during China's modernization process, while also addressing the development of the political relationship network structure centered around the ruling party. The book is divided into eight chapters. Chapter 1 is the introduction to the book, which starts from the relevant theories of modernization and focuses on exploring the connotation of modernization, the connotation of political modernization, the internal connection between political modernization and political relationships, and the development of political relationships during China's contemporary political modernization process. Chapters 2 to 8 select seven major relationships with global and fundamental impacts in the contemporary Chinese political relationship system and discuss them separately. These seven relationships are: the relationship between the party and the government, the relationship between the party and the military, the relationship between parties, the relationship between the legislature, executive, and judiciary, the relationship between the central and local governments, the relationship between the government and society, and the relationship between the government and the market. The author believes that the basic direction for the reform and optimization of contemporary Chinese political relationships is: in the relationship between the party and the government, moving from the separation of party and government functions and the party governing in the government's stead to the separation of party and government functions, democratization of the party-government relationship, and legalization of party and government behavior; in the relationship between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, shifting from the "unity of deliberation and execution" model to the "........