Comparative Studies on Vertical Administrative Reforms in China and Germany

This book has a collection of 30 pieces of research results of Chinese and German experts, scholars and government officials. They are categorized into four sections:

1. Introduction and analysis of the current situation of Sino-German administrative systems, such as experimental units of counties directly under the management of provincial governments in the progress of China's urbanization, comparison of the Sino-German intergovernmental jurisdiction division, history of the German administrative regions and local finance of Germany etc.;
2. Sino-German challenges faced by the administrative systems, such as challenges of reform of counties directly under the management of provincial governments in China, urbanrural imbalance in the progress of modernization of Germany and impacts of population change on local administration management.;
3. Sino-German exploration and experience in administrative reform, such as experience and inspiration of the administrative hierarchy reform of Hainan, China, efficiency and expectation of strategies of “urbanrural integration” in Chengdu, China, intermunicipal cooperation in Germany – design and limits of shared service, multilevel function reformation of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany;
4. Sino-German strategies of administrative reforms under the financial crisis, such as influences of economic and financial crisis on German administration, strategies of China's urbanrural integration and optimization of longitudinal administrative levels under financial crisis, promotion of equivalence of public services with fiscal balance.