This book provides an all-round analysis and exploration of the course, status quo and future of the Chinese Government''s governance reform under the framework of government governance modernization. The authors bring their decades of experience in crafting policy in China to explain the relationship between China''s government and market, between government and society, between the central government and local governments, functional transformation, organizational structure optimization, reform of public institutions, allocation of fiscally supported personnel, the building of a law-based government and other major issues, while also laying out a case for structural changes in the years to come.