我国的审批制度形成于高度计划经济时代,至今仍是政府履行职能的基本方式。行政审批过多,审批效率低下,寻租现象时有发生,审批制度已经成为推进行政体制改革,转变政府职能的突出矛盾。“十五”计划纲要指出,要加快改革政府审批制度,大幅度减少行政性审批,规范审批行为。总体看来,改革的重点在于以下几个方面: China’s approval system is formed in a highly planned economy era, is still the government to perform its functions the basic method. Excessive administrative examination and approval, inefficient examination and approval, rent-seeking phenomenon have occurred from time to time, examination and approval system has become the promotion of the reform of the administrative system, the prominent contradictions in the transformation of government functions. The Outline of the 10th Five-Year Plan states that it is necessary to speed up the reform of the government examination and approval system, substantially reduce administrative examination and approval, and standardize examination and approval. Overall, the reform focuses on the following aspects: