On Administrative Guidance

Author: Guo Runsheng
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Publish Date: 1999-01-01
Features: Although the Chinese administrative-led model has been established in theory and policy, and administrative guidance has proven effective in administrative practice, it is regrettable that both practical experience and theoretical research closely aligned with it currently indicate that administrative guidance is not the central focus of Chinese administrative law studies. Since the mid-1980s, the mainstream of Chinese administrative law academia has consciously shifted the focus of administrative law research, but so far, administrative guidance remains on the periphery of the research scope in administrative law. Clearly, this is highly abnormal. Corresponding to the fact that administrative guidance will inevitably become the center of modern (Chinese) government governance, administrative guidance should also become the central focus of research and discussion in the field of administrative law. This is an urgent requirement posed by economic development and the practice of administration to the young field of administrative law in China. There may be many reasons why the field of administrative law has neglected the study and discussion of the administrative guidance system, but one possible cause is a vague understanding of the relationship between macro-control and administrative guidance. Administrative macro-control behavior refers to administrative actions taken by the central government based on the provisions of the Constitution and laws to regulate and control the operation of the macro-economy.