Shanghai’s Administration Efficiency Ranked Second in the Investigation Report of Beijing Normal University

Source: China Youth Daily     November 2, 2011

The Investigation Report on the Efficiency of China’s Provincial-level Local Governments (2011) published recently by the School of Management and the Academy of Government of Beijing Normal University manifests that Shanghai's administration efficiency ranked second among all provincial-level local governments in China, Jiangshu and Beijing respectively ranked the first and the third, while Xizang and Guizhou in western China ranked last.

The Report has made quantitative measurement and analysis on the government efficiency of the 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in China mainland. The Report has evaluated the administration efficiency of local governments in four aspects, namely, public service, public goods, government scale, and social welfare. The administration efficiency of provincial-level governments has close relationship with regional economic strength, the efficiency of provincial-level governments in the eastern China is the best, then comes those in the central region, and those in the western China are comparatively weak.

The Report has stated that the efficiency of provincial-level local governments has three main characteristics: Firstly, the ranking regions of the efficiency of provincial-level local governments in China are of higher concentration, approximately appearing a staircase distribution trend from higher efficiency to lower one: i.e., "from east to northeast, then to central region, and finally to west"; secondly, the efficiency of part of provincial-level local governments is inconsistent with the overall trend of the region where it is located, for instance, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai and Shanxi in the west region enter into the top 15, whereas Hainan in the east ranks the twenty-ninth; thirdly, the economic development and the advancement of government efficiency have correlation, either promote mutually or supplement each other.