Brief summary
I was invited to attended The Ninth Public Administration Seminar of Taiwan, Mainland, Hong Kong and Macao, and made speech entitled The Collaborative Governance between Non-governmental Organization and Government in La Shihai. During the seminar, I adopted the advices putted forwarded by judges and other presenters. The political scientists, economist and professors showed great interests in the case, and came up with valuable suggestion for the further study and extension of the case. Thus I will keep refining the thesis. Also I benefited a lot from other’s brilliant presentations regarding to people-oriented politic, economic and finance, which played great important role in extending my knowledge, improving my future research level and perfecting the thesis.
The introduction of the host and participants
The seminar was held by National Chengchi University (NCCU). NCCU was built in 1927 and was famous for humanities and social sciences disciplines. In the future, NCCU will still attach importance to humanities and social sciences disciplines. In the humanities, social sciences, law, business and communication academic fields, NCCU will value teaching and research, theory and practice, as well as internationalization and localization. Meanwhile NCCU will strengthen the links among the humanities, social sciences and technology, so as to facilitate the diversified development of academic research. The NCCU aims at being the top university and fostering new-century leaders who have humanistic care, innovate spirit and international view.
Professors, associate professors, lectures and master students from Fudan University, Renmin University of China, Sichuan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xiamen University, National Taipei University, Shih Hsin University and National Chengchi University attended the seminar. All the participants wrote articles about people-orientation which was also the theme of the seminar. They discussed people’s current concerns deeply from the perspective of government reform, the effect of social charity organizations’ participation, and non-governmental organizations’ participation in governance, showing strong academic atmosphere.
The brief introduction of the experts who attended the seminar
Professor Tang Jingping is the vice-president of the Academy of Social Sciences at NCCU and the president of the seminar. Professor Tang graduated from political school at University of Southern California and focused in ecology politics, public management and the humanities area. Every two years, he would publish at least one paper on SSCI’s top periodicals. Tang Jingping is famous in both American and Taiwan ecology politics academia.
Personal homepage: http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~cptang/
Professor Niu Mingshi was born at Taiwan in 1958. After graduated from Taiwan University in 1981, Niu Mingshi went to University of Texas at Austin and was awarded with the doctorate in 1987. Then Niu Mingshi lectured at the Politics School of Stony Brook University. Since 1988, Niu started to lecture at Duke University. Niu Mingshi’ major research theme includes game theory, international politics, electoral system and behavior and China study. Professor Niu has published one book and around 50 papers on American academic journals. He also published many papers on periodicals of mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. His recent research focused on the development of China local self-government and democratization, cross-strait relations, system and governance. Professor Niu Mingshi was the dean of SHUFE at SPEA from February 2010 to February 2013.
Professor Dong Keyong was born in 1953 and was awarded with the bachelor of economics in School of Economics of Peking University in 1982. In 1985, Dong Keyong got the master degree in economics in Renmin University of China (RUC). In 2001 he got the economics doctorate at Renmin University of China and got the Excellence Doctoral Dissertation Award. Dong Keyong is currently work as the professor and doctoral supervisor in School of Labor and Human Resources of RUC, the senior advisor of School of Labor and Human Resources Training Center at RUC, the dean of School of Public Administration and Policy at RUC, and the director of Center for Human Resource Development and Management Research of RUC. He was entitled to government particular subsidy. In 2003, Dong Keyong worked as a guest professor at University of Michigan. During that period, he developed a course, The Economic Policy in China’s Structural Reform, for the master students at Ford School of Public Policy in University of Michigan. He also worked as a senior visiting scholar in Canada, America and European Union. Dong Keyong had worked as the dean of School of Labor and Human Resources at RUC for many years. Currently, he is the director of Institute of Social Security at RUC, the member of IIRA, the vice-chairman of the China Association for Labor Studies, the vice executive secretary of China Labor Law Association, the vice executive secretary of China Human Resource Development Association, the China expert of Human Resources Development at APEC and the member of International Journal of Human Resources Management.
Professor Jiang Xiaoping is a female and was born on June 1963 in Chongqing. She is Han and a member of Communist Party of China. Jiang Xiaoping is the professor, the doctoral supervisor and the dean of School of Public Administration at Sichuan University (SCU). Currently, she is the vice executive secretary of China Government Performance Management Association, the vice director of Sichuan Public Administration Society, the expert of Talent Work Expert Advisory Group in Sichuan, the consultant expert of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, the Chengdu Government adviser, the consultant expert of the significant administrative decision-making for Chengdu Government, the director of Centre for Chinese Local Governance Innovations at SCU, deputy director of the Academic Degrees Committee (management) at SCU, and vice director of MPA Education Steering Committee at SCU. Professor Jiang Xiaoping currently teaches public administration, public policy, administrative law, the history of China’s political system, the government of China, as well as politics and government behavior course. She was awarded with National Outstanding Young Teachers by Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation and the First Prize of Sichuan Outstanding Teaching Achievements.
Brief introduction of the research
The successful poverty alleviation projects in mainland China have attracted international attention in recent years. However, the international research of famers’ shaking off poverty is mainly focused on government deeds, such as rural infrastructure, urban-rural integration and policy-based lending. However, there is little research about the contribution of non-governmental organization and the possible role they may play in the future. The gradually developed social groups on the one hand can contend against government’s policy, on the other hand, can cooperate with government to achieve positive results in terms of improving the efficiency of land resource allocation and improving grassroots’ living standards. In my research, I used the development of La Shihai’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as the example, and then analyzed how the NGOs overcome the difficulties of collective actions, how they develop in face of the government intervention and how they successfully carry out governance capabilities. Also the research mentioned about the challenges in order to provide the rural with some experiences.
During the seminar, experts were curious about the relationship between NGOs and government. This was due to the fact that usually at the international level, the NGOs had little cooperation with government. In addition, the jurisdiction of them is not overlap. However, the case is different in mainland China. I think the difference between the international mode and mainland mode is the novelty of the research. We can learn developed countries’ experience, but cannot duplicate it in China. China’s policy of opening to the outside world and the development of market economy showed that China cannot entirely copy the international experience as China has its own characteristics and will find out a way for the collaborative governance between non-governmental organization and government with Chinese characteristics. My research is about the start of collaborative governance in community environment between Chinese non-governmental organization and government.
The effect of the seminar
My research is case-based, and need further improvement in the description of the case and the integration of the case and theories. During the seminar, experts shown great interest in the case, and they discussed deeply about the case’s universality and particularity, which enabled me to improve the research and integrate the case with theories.
I think through the discussion in this seminar, the paper will be more logical, and the description of the case will be better-organized, and the integration of the case and theories will be more perfect. I will also try to publish the paper on international periodicals.
Reflection of the seminar
I have benefited a lot from the seminar. Firstly, my research was affirmed by the experts and professors who attended the seminar. They put forward valuable suggestion for the improvement of the paper, which enlightened me to refine the case and integrate the case with theories better.
In addition, I experienced the high-level academic atmosphere. When discussing and communicating about the papers, all the scholars have shown great enthusiasm and sense of responsibility. This is a very precious experience.
The relevant information about the seminar
Brief introduction of the council
President: Tang Jingping (the vice-president of the Academy of Social Sciences at NCCU)
Dong Keyong (the dean of School of Public Administration and Policy at RUC)
Hao Yufan (the dean of Society and the Humanities at University of Macau)
Xu Renhui (the dean of the School of Public Administration at Shih Hsin University)
Geng Yan (the dean of the School of Public Administration at Nanchang University)
Lin Jiexing (the department director of Public Policy and Management at I-Shou University)
Jiang Xiaoping (the dean of School of Public Administration at Sichuan University)
Gong Ting (the professor of Department of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong)
Secretary General: Wei Na (the professor of School of Public Administration and Policy at RUC)
The detailed record of the seminar:
http://conference.nccu.edu.tw/actnews/intro.php?Sn=53&OSn=219