Forum opens today

The fourth China-Europe Senior Forum on Government Management will begin today at the China National School of Administration (CNSA).

Leaders from the State Council and European Union (EU) Commission in China will deliver keynote speeches at the forum, which closes on November 15.

Senior officials from the central government departments and local governments, experts and scholars from local and foreign schools of administration, domestic and foreign top universities and research institutes, as well as officials from EU member countries will participate in the high profile forum.

The number of attendees at the three-day event is expected to reach 250, including 50 foreigners.

Themed "public sector reform and the improvement of government performance", the forum will cover a variety of key issues, ranging from transformation of government function, government organ set-up and its reform, livelihood issues, efficiency management, government responsibility system and execution capacity, legal governance and electronic governance, to government work transparency.

The forum will offer an opportunity for high quality academic reference and practical exchange to Chinese and European governments.

Conforming to the needs of reform, policy of opening up and the socialist modernization drive, the CNSA began construction in 1988, and was officially opened in September 1994.

It is a key training center for middle and senior-level civil servants, senior executives and policy research fellows. It provides policy consultancy for government management and develops theoretical research in public management fields.

(China Daily 11/13/2007 page19)