Yantai, 4th Dec., 2010.

I found an article on administrative reform by Kenneth Foster.

"Chinese leaders have recognized the critical importance of reforming the state administrative system, whose imperfections are correctly seen as partly responsible for corruption, chaotic market competition, and poor public services. To address these problems, both national and local Party leaders have conceived and attempted to implement a variety of reforms aimed at creating a more effective, reliable, and obedient bureaucracy. In this effort, they, like political leaders around the globe, are seeking to enhance their ability to govern and to minimize citizen complaints about government. And in attempting to improve bureaucratic performance, they face the same kinds of problems as other would-be administrative reformers, regardless of the type of political regime, including opposition from entrenched interests, the difficulty of dealing with contradictory goals, and the complexity of administrative systems and their interrelated elements (for a comparative perspective on administrative reform in developing countries, see Schneider and He?edia, 2003). Indeed, the very nature of China's political regime and the state that supports it are and will be crucially affected both by the reform models chosen by leaders and by the out comes of to such reforms."