Abstract

Whether the reform measures can really take root, influences the achievement of the reform blueprint since the third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, and determines the success of the reform. During the crucial period when the economic development entered the “new normal”and the deep-water period of reform, the deeper the reform advance, the deep-seated institutional mechanisms and the drawbacks of the obstacles of the vested interest become more prominent, and the contradictions and problems facing the reform become more complex. In the face of the stern situation, the research group of the Institute of Economic System and Management of the NDRC selected and studied on the important issue “how to promote the design of reform to be scientific and reasonable, the coordination and implementation of reform to be smooth and efficient, and the supervision and evaluation of reform to be accurate and powerful, to ultimately ensure the reform policies implemented. And taking the promoting mechanism as the breakthrough point, the research group carry out detailed analysis and research thoroughly, and the achieved abundant results including one main report, five project reports, one research review report and two investigation reports.

First of all, based on the definitions of “the top-level design”，“the reform obstruction”，and “the policy execution”，the general report analyzes the six main manifestations of current reform obstructions in China, that is, the alternative execution of “superior has the policy, inferior has the countermeasure”，the additive implementation of “the local policy”，the selective execution of “garbling a statement for their interests”，the symbolic execution of “complying in public but opposed in private”，the one-sided implementation of “deformation and distortion”，and the wait-and-see execution of “glancing left and right”. Then we dig out the background and reasons of the current reform obstructions in three aspects, the defects of the mechanism, the interests of curing and the concentration of power, and every aspect is composed of the subject, procedure and method three elements. Thirdly, we clarify the general idea of improving the reform promoting mechanism and unplugging the obstruction currently, which is “focusing on one general target, breaking two core issues, and promoting three key initiatives”. Finally, we put forward policy suggestions from three aspects, the policy making and design mechanism, the coordination and implementation mechanism and the supervision and evaluation mechanism of reform as below:to strengthen the dominant position of the Central Reform Leading Group in the reform policy-making process to reshape the policy-making system; to improve the coordination mechanism between transverse departments and longitudinal intergovernmental, which provides more incentives to the reformers; to strengthen the supervision and evaluation of reform and break through the “blocking”of reform promoting process. And we put forward specific reform measures of five key areas including the reform of administrative approval system, the reform of state-owned enterprises, the reform of the taxation system, the reform of the household registration system, and the reform of medical and health system.

The five project reports are composed of five modules including the basic theory, the policy making and design mechanism, the coordination and implementation mechanism, the supervision and evaluation mechanism, and major fields of reform to solve the obstruction problems and make suggestions. The research review report illustrates and comments on the relevant concepts, obstruction manifestation, reasons, and solutions, which provides detailed basic theory support. The two investigation reports analyze the questionnaire results and investigation in six provinces including Guangdong and Sichuan, and the other two areas of Hubei and Shenzhen, and then come to high-value conclusions and suggestions as well.

The innovation of this research lies in two aspects: Firstly, to establish a theory system of the promoting mechanism of reform. At present, the research on the promoting mechanism of reform at home and abroad is too few to form a system. Our research bases on three mechanisms including the policy making and design mechanism, the coordination and implementation mechanism and the supervision and evaluation mechanism of reform as the core, to establish the reform promoting theory system at the period of comprehensively deepening reform. Secondly, to put forward a set of effective measures to unplug the obstructions during the process of comprehensively deepening reform. We strengthen the related system design of reform promoting in our research, and put forward the general idea and the policy recommendations period by period in several fields in order to solve the obstruction problems in China's comprehensively deepening reform process at present and in the future.