The Legacy of Governmental Public Project Management in Developed Countries for China

Governmental investment is an important mode of national macro-control and economic intervention,which closely interacts with economic growth.First of all,common features of centralization,decision-making,specialization,prevention and supervision are summarized by way of illustrating the main types of governmental public project management in six developed countries.Then,the conclusion that "the first mode in the Chinese Construction Agent System is closer to the management system in the developed countries" is drawn on the basis of comparing two modes of "Chinese Construction Agent System",and system-related,institutional and legal flaws existent in the current modes are also analyzed.Lastly,this paper discusses how informative the related experience of the developed countries is for reforming Chinese governmental public project management and the prospects of the Chinese Construction Agent System.