Analysis of Role of Standardization in Establishing On-line Government Services Platforms

Abstract

The standardization of on-line government services platforms signifies much to license issuing agencies, which seek streamlining routines and increasing efficiency. This article analyzes the role of standardization in online government services platforms from three aspects by elaborating on the necessity for on-line government services and the role of and issues about on-line government services platforms and examining the causes for these issues from the perspective of standardization. Standardization shall serve the purpose of economic growth and social welfare as well as deepening reform in all areas and in administrative community, of reforming the system of government administration. These two administrations gave priority to the reform of streamlining administration, delegating powers and improving regulation and services. The reform of administrative licensing is exactly an offensive move for the transformation of government functions as well as central cannon for administration streamlining and powers delegating. As the task of streamlining administration and delegating powers with regard to number of items under administrative licensing has been nearly completed, the reform of the administrative licensing system shall focus on efficient and convenient licensing services. Both national policies and local practices are set to improve the efficiency of government services by building online government services platforms. 1. Definition An online government services platform is a vetting administration platform that integrates application, data exchange, approval, supervision, inquiry and other services, providing companies and the public with one-stop service in an efficient, transparent and standardized way. Totally different from traditional vetting administration mode, it is based on modern Internet and data technologies, creating an innovative workplace. It demonstrates the restructuring and optimization of vetting structure and process and removes temporal, spatial and division restrictions. 2. Justification 2.1. Legal and Policy Background Article 33 of Administrative Licensing Law of the People’s Republic of China states that “administrations shall establish and improve related systems, introduce E-government practices, post licensing items on their websites and enable the submission of e-application for administrative licensing ”. Since 2015, the State Council issued a series of documents, which focused on the reform of administrative licensing system as an offensive move for the transformation of government functions and a central cannon for administration streamlining and power delegating. In Jan. 2017, Notification of Issuing and Distributing Guidelines for Building ‘Internet + Government Service’ Technologies System by General Office of the State Council (hereinafter referred to as No. 108) was distributed to address such issues as an incomplete set of services, insufficient information sharing, low rate of acceptance and inconvenient services for companies and the public;Notification of Sharing General Information on Citizens, Enterprises, Institutions and Social Organizations Contained in 2nd Symposium on Health and Education (SOHE 2019) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 268