Friday, 2nd Dec. 2016

Sponsor:

School of Public Administration, Renmin University of China

Research Center for Evidence-based Governance, Renmin University of China

Invitation letter

In November 2013, the third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee defines the overall goal of comprehensively deepening the reform as improving and developing the socialist institutions with Chinese characteristics, promoting the modernization of state governance system and governance capacity. This is the first time that the modernization of governance has become a major guiding ideology of the reforming strategy of the party and the state. It will certainly have extensive and far-reaching impacts on the practice and theoretical research of the governance. Compared to the importance and significance of the practice of governance, however, the theoretical research on the China Governance is still insufficient.

In order to promote the progress of the theory of governance in China, strengthen the dialogue with foreign governance theory, promote the generation of governance theory system with Chinese characteristics, the school of public administration, Renmin university of China is scheduled to hold Workshop on Evaluation and Reflection of China Governance Research (hereinafter referred to as the Governance Workshop) on December 2, 2016 (Friday).The Governance Workshop will consist of two parts. First, leading scholars in Chinese governance studies are invited to publish their views on governance research for high-level dialogue and communication. Second, a symposium will be held to invite some potential young and middle-aged scholars to conduct in-depth theoretical dialogue on some important topics of Chinese governance research, and the relevant results will be published in the form of a Journal album.

In view of your in-depth study of the above topics, we invite you to join us today for a constructive discussion. The workshop specifically addresses (but is not limited to) the following topics:

l The development of the theory of governance and reflection;

l Governance reform in the field of theory and specific policies, management;

l The fusion of governance theory and other social science theories;

l Comprehensive evaluation on the status quo of Chinese governance;

l International comparison of governance research;

l The future of China's governance research;

l Other issues related to governance theory.

Related matters:

(I) Please confirm and contact mmdaxue@126.com before November 15, 2016 (please indicate "Governance Workshop" in the email subject).

(2)For non-local scholars, we will bear the expenses of transportation and accommodation to and from the conference.

(3) Contact Liu Qingfei (TEL:18810852038) for conference Affairs.

I am looking forward to your reply.

Best Regards,

School of Public Administration, Renmin University of China

November 7, 2016