【主持人的话】改革开放36年来,政府职能转变始终是个热点话题,也是改革实践中一个焦点问题。随着我国社会主义市场经济的建立与完善,我们围绕转变政府职能、推进行政管理体制改革,在理论认识和实践发展上都有不断创新。党的十八大,十八届三中、四中全会对新的历史条件下我国政府职能的界定和认识又有了新的突破,特别是十八届四中全会提出,要“加快建设职能科学、权责法定、执法严明、公正公开、廉洁高效、守法 [Host’s words] 36 years of reform and opening up, the transformation of government functions has always been a hot topic, but also a focus of reform practice. With the establishment and improvement of China’s socialist market economy, we have been constantly innovating both in the transformation of government functions and in the reform of the administrative management system, both in theory and in practice. The 18th CPC National Congress, the 3rd, 4th Plenary Sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee have made new breakthroughs in defining and understanding the functions of our government in the new historical conditions. In particular, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee proposed that ”we accelerate the building of Scientific functions, statutory powers, strict law enforcement, fair and open, clean and efficient, law-abiding