针对社会和经济学界对政府职能改革和定位的关注与分歧,笔者采访了中国社科院马克思主义研究院原理部主任、博士生导师胡乐明教授。他认为政府是源于社会成员的共同需要而产生的一种提供公共物品的制度安排。由于公共性是一个连续区间以及公共物品的扩张性,政府活动的合理范围是难以明晰的且会不断地扩张。我国应通过政府改革,增加公共物品的供给,合理扩张政府的活动范围,以应对经济全球化的挑战。 In response to the concerns and disagreements on the reform and orientation of government functions in the social and economic fields, the author interviewed Prof. Hu Leming, director of doctoral supervisors and director of the Institute of Marxism at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He believes that the government is derived from the common needs of members of society arising from a system of public goods arrangements. Because publicity is a continuum and the expansion of public goods, the reasonable range of government activity is hard to see and will continue to expand. Through government reform, China should increase the supply of public goods and rationally expand the government’s scope of activities so as to meet the challenge of economic globalization.