On October 16, 2021, the third public administration E’mei forum entitled “Chinese Governance and Chinese Wisdom” was successfully organized by the School of Public Affairs & Law at the training base academic hall of the E’mei campus, Southwest Jiaotong University. More than one hundred experts, scholars of public administration, and young talents from the major institutions of social science in China such as Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Xiamen University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Sun Yat-sen University, Jilin University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hunan University, Central South University, China Agricultural University, Sichuan University, Shenzhen University, Southwest University, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and other universities as well as political scientists attended the forum. Meanwhile, the conference was supported heavily by invited guests from influential journals includingExploration, Public Administration Review, The Journal of Shanghai Administration Institute, Journal of Gansu Institute of Public Administration, China Youth Study, Journal of Rural Studies, Journal of Social Sciences,andTheory and Reform.
The forum began at 8:30, on October 16. First, Wang Yongjie, Dean of the School of Public Affairs and Law delivered a speech and expressed a warm welcome and gratitude to all the experts and scholars who attended the forum. On the basis of the one-hundred history of Southwest Jiaotong University, he discussed five important construction directions of the School of Public Affairs and Law and sent best wishes for the success of the forum.
Next, the invited experts and scholars delivered keynote speeches around the theme of the forum. Peng Bo, Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University analyzed the challenges and solutions of “Chinese Governance” in a new era based on the governance innovation case studies.
Professor Zhou Zhongliang of Xi’an Jiaotong University discussed how to achieve high-quality development of the health service system from the perspective of healthy governance.
Professor Yelin of Sun Yat-sen University explored and thought about the connections between health, fitness, sports, and urban governance with the theme of “the Livable City and the Modernization of Urban Governance”.
By asking the question “what is Chinese wisdom?”, Professor Yu Wenxuan of Xiamen University combined traditional Chinese medicine and quantum physics to put forward a series of enlightening opinions.
Associated Professor Mei Ciqi of Tsinghua University delivered a keynote speech entitled “Inward or Outward? To Find the Golden Rules to Judge the Effectiveness of Policy Mix”, and analyzed the relevant questions about “Chinese wisdom” in detail by taking China’s epidemic prevention and control as an example from the perspective of policy memory.
Professor Pang Mingli of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law conducted a situational discussion on how to effectively achieve the implementation of documents with documents by taking educational evaluation and reform policy as an example.
Professor Zang Leizhen of China Agricultural University conducted an empirical analysis of the hidden tension between government performance and government scales based on the global panel data.
Professor Tan Haibo of Hunan University expressed his unique opinions on the theme of “‘Resource Interdependence’ or ‘Perfunctory Patchwork’: the Third Interpretation of Grass-roots Sports Governance”.
Professor Luo Liangbo of Southwest Jiaotong University analyzed how to combine theory with experience in detail on the basis of the “composite narrative style of public administration studies”.
From 13:30 p.m. to 17:50 p.m., three parallel forums were conducted simultaneously. The participants delved into the six themes: public governance and party politics, human resources and organization reform of the public sector, public policies, environmental governance and regional development, rural revitalization, and grass-roots governance, which were remarked on and discussed meticulously by the experts and scholars of relative fields. (There were some pictures of the parallel forum.)
The combination and development of emerging technology and governance system are the challenges of the national governance system and governance capacity, and also the great opportunities for China to enter a new era of smart governance. In recent years, driven by the emerging technological revolution, national governance is developing in the direction of informatization and intelligence and pays more attention to people’s sense of happiness, fulfillment, and security, which not only brings new questions, tasks, and subjects for the national governance but also provides strong driving force and vast space for the theoretical innovation and academic prosperity of Chinese public administration. In the context of the new era, scholars of public administration are supposed to combine international vision and the development of the times to offer China’s wisdom for the modernization of the national governance system and capacity on the basis of China’s ground realities. A new era breeds new ideas and new ideas guide new practices. And then let’s look forward to the fourth public administration E’mei forum in 2022!
