Relationship between Service-oriented Government and Citizens Participation in China

Nowadays, building a service-oriented government and pursuing good governance have become indispensable choices for Chinese government to promote socio-economic development. Citizen participation in a service-oriented government belongs to the category of positive interaction. Citizen participation serves as the basis for building a service-oriented government and the participation can not only effectively monitor and restrain the government, but also can well make up for deficiencies by the government. In view of the obstacles we are facing, such as lack of consciousness, short of system support, insufficient information, underdeveloped legal practices, this paper argues that we should change our ways of thinking, improve participation in the system, offer support to social intermediary, to better citizen participation and promote the establishment of a service-oriented government.