政府购买服务是政府利用财政资金,采取市场化、契约化方式,面向具有专业资质的社会组织、企业、事业单位购买服务的一项重要制度安排。政府向社会组织购买服务,是通行于国际社会的一种新型的公共服务供给方式,其具体做法是政府引入市场机制,把直接向社会公众提供的一部分公共服务和社会管理事项,按照一定的方式与程序,交由具备条件的社会组织承担,并根据服务数量和质量向社会组织支付费用。通过将一些政府不擅长、不专业、成本高的服务项目向市场主体和社会主体开放,有利于控制行政机关规模,促进政府转变职能、提高政府效能、扩大公共服务,同时促进市场主体和社会主体发育,从而划清政府、市场、社会之间的界限,为实现政府、市场和社会三者的和谐共荣产生积极作用。 Government procurement of services is an important institutional arrangement for the government to use government funds to take market-oriented and contractual approaches and to purchase services for social organizations, enterprises and institutions with specialized qualifications. The government purchases the services from the social organizations is a new type of public service supply that is widely used in the international community. The specific approach is that the government introduces the market mechanism, according to a certain way, some public services and social management items directly provided to the public And procedures, by the conditions of social organizations to bear, and according to the quantity and quality of services to social organizations to pay the fee. By opening up some service projects which are not good, unprofessional and high cost to the market players and social subjects, some government programs will help to control the scale of the government agencies, promote the government to change its functions, improve government efficiency and expand public services, and at the same time promote the market players and social actors Development, so as to draw a clear line between the government, the market and society and play an active role in bringing about a harmonious and common prosperity among the government, the market and the community.