The decision-making process in China

In China, the government's decision system is so-called democratic centralism decision system under the socialist democracy. However, because of the old China leaves us much more feudal despotism than democratic and legal. Personal superstition, patriarchal or parents’ style national psychology and thinking mode are deep-rooted. So for quite a long time, China's political and decision-making system in real social level was still the highly centralized system.

Anyhow, in the actual social level, the main defects are bureaucratic phenomenon, power phenomenon and privilege

Since the reform and opening-up, China has carried out a series of government decision-making system reform. Take my hometown --- Hangzhou as an example. Following is the current major issues decision system.

The principles of major issues decision are: scientific, lawful, and democratic.

The contents of major issues included several aspects: for instance, discuss local regulations (draft) and review the rules, Review the national economic and social development plans, annual plan, long-term plans, government investment plans and annual financial budget plan. Review the major construction projects, especially the government investment projects, government procurement projects which worth more than 1 500 000yuan. Review major policy reforms in relation to the social security, health, science and technology, education, culture and environment protection and so on.

The decision-making process is generally classified into three stages: decision-making preparation, decision-making submitted and decision-making feedback.

(1)Decision-making preparation included suggestions, investigation and study, the scheme, evaluation, assessment and comments.
(2)Decision-making submitted stage. It included submission, preparation of material, and review of decision-making and implementation of the decision.
(3)Decision-making feedback stage. The implementary department is responsible for reporting the new questions and performance of the bill to the leading department periodically, so that the decision could be tracked.

The problems in the decision-making process
1 The information collection and processing for the decision is incomplete and distortion.

It can be said that in China, most mistakening decision-making is due to the inaccuracy and incompletion. The reasons of this phenomenon are mainly in the following aspects: the first is the way of obtaining information is not scientific, some of Chinese government officials used to using typical survey method, holding the conversazione and so on. Some officials, even release the false information for so-called achievements, all mentioned above lead to the onesidedness and distortion of information.

2 Decision schemes are always low degree of democratization.
Democratic centralism is a basic principle in the process of decision-making. However some local government decisions more emphasize on centralism than democracy. Many decisions are still decided by the leaders, which are quite common. Some decisions are taken in the form of democracy in the surface, but actually some core personal opinions play a key role, which means the vast majority of people's opinions are aside. The so-called democracy is only an adornment.