“精兵简政”和“大社会小政府”的口号早就喊出,但历史上多次精简活动均未见效,此为何故?显然是有种特殊的机制在驱动。那么,在今天新一轮机构精简开始之时,人们自然会心存疑虑:此番会否再现往日的循环? 继去年的中央级政府机构精简后,省级地方机构精简工作即将开始,五百多万省级机构官员将裁减一半,随后,精简工作再转向数量更为庞大的地县级官员,……人们看到,当今为了配合机构精简,到处都在宣传机构臃肿之害。例如,指出官民比例已从建国时的1:600增加到现在的1:30,国家 The slogans of “simple and easy administration” and “small government of large society” have long been called out. However, many simplifications in history have not worked out. Why is this? It is obviously a special mechanism that is driving the drive. Well, when the new round of institutional streamlining begins today, people naturally have their doubts: Will this cycle reflect the past? After the simplification of the central government agencies last year, the streamlining of provincial-level local institutions is about to begin. Five hundred Tens of thousands of provincial agency officials will be cut in half, and then work will be streamlined to shift to a much larger number of county-level officials ... People see today the proliferation of agencies that are running rampant in line with corporate streamlining. For example, it is pointed out that the ratio of government officials to that of civil servants has increased from 1: 600 at the time of the founding of the People’s Republic to 1:30 now, the state