China's current administrative system is challenged with problems and needs further reform and improvement, said experts at the first annual conference of the Network for Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance.

The problems have remained in China's administrative system, which have greatly lowered the government's working efficiency, said Bo Guili, professor with the China National School of Administration.

"The governments of different levels have handled a pile of issues that are not supposed to be within their responsibilities," Bo said.

Some local governments have wrongly interfered with the internal affairs or operational practice of companies within their ranges and even made decisions for the companies, he said.

"The lines between the duties and functions of different level of governments are not yet clearly drawn," he said.

Even after more than two decades of reform nationwide, the aforesaid problems, which are widely viewed as in-depth ones in China administrative system, remained here and there and have greatly obstructed the country's social and economic development process, said Bo.

"The only way for the Chinese government to better its governance capability is to practically shift its daily focuses to public administration and service," he said, rating the deepening of the reform of China's administrative system a must.

"To effectively meet the growing demand of public service and demand of the civil communities, the Chinese government will enhance its public service functions as priority," said Chen Fujin, vice president of the China National School of Administration.

Such a function will be improved to meet the far-from-satisfied social need of basic public service, he said.

To achieve that end, Bo said, China needs to simplify and optimize its governmental organizations and better its efficiency so as to shape a sound, transparent and efficient public administration system.

Source: Xinhua