By Xu Yue & Yue Zongwei, Personnel Bureau of General Office, DRC

Research Report, No.223, 2021 (Total 6288) 2021-8-19

Abstract: The difficulty in policy implementation not only rests with the poor performance caused by perfunctory, selective and distorted implementation manner at the grassroots level, but also with some underlying reasons that the problems to be addressed are too complex, the policy itself is defective, the implementation mechanism is deficient, the implementation method is simplex, and the responsibility is not in place. It is necessary and feasible to construct an open, multi-dimensional and result-oriented policy implementation mechanism to solve the intractable problem relating to policy implementation. Measures to be taken are mainly as follows: local authorities and local government departments can make consultations on some policies under certain conditions according to the actual situation for flexible implementation; the public and enterprises are to be encouraged to participate in the implementation of policies and supervise the entire implementation process; the guidance and coordination mechanism for policy implementation needs to be established; and the simplex implementation model needs to be shifted to a multi-dimensional one, such as a creative or a flexible implementation mechanism. In addition, efforts need to be made to encourage government departments and local authorities to give full play to their initiative and creativity to better implement major policies based on actual conditions. As regards some policies with difficulties for putting into effect, they could adopt flexible ways to have relevant policies put into practice.

Keywords: policy implementation mechanism, open, multi-dimensional and effective, creative implementation, flexible implementation