From the late 80s, due to the financial problems and bureaucratic inefficiency caused by administrative state expansion, some developed countries including New Zealand, Australia and UK, launched a movement named new public management (NPM) that led to a wave of worldwide administrative reforms. In recent times China has undergone a similar revolution, and NPM has played a great role in this process. During the last ten years, some new and innovative practices relating to public governance such as shared service including shared bicycles shared electronic cars has greatly changed Chinese society and raised some theoretical questions. For example, how might China achieve the balance between democracy and efficiency, because the awareness of citizen participation is greatly growing? What capacity (especially the institutional capacity) should the stakeholders (such as the government, social enterprise, market and citizen and so on) have?  How could China create public value in public service delivery with public-private-partnership, and other the related issues about risks evaluation and control in public service delivery process, particularly in the outsourcing and contract services? Although NPM can put forward some good explanations, its limitations are emerging and cannot fully answer these new and important questions emerging in modern Chinese society.

30 years ago, in the wave of NPM, New Zealand was hailed as a new model of public management by many countries. 30 years later, what happened in Chinese society has already happened in developed countries. How did New Zealand, the model for NPM respond to this? How has its public management changed over the years? Are there any experiences or lessons that can be learnt from? Although there are significant differences between New Zealand and China in terms of administrative systems and socio-culture, I still believe that there are many inspirations, summarized from practice and theory in New Zealand, for China's practice and theory. In order to answer the questions, it is necessary to examine the changing shape of public management practice and theory in New Zealand. Concretely, we should analyze new forms of management, public value, good governance and collaboration, new organizational forms and relationships in New Zealand. And most importantly, we should summarize the emerging perspectives in public management in New Zealand. Thus, the project will firstly describe the experience and analyze future prospect of public governance practice in New Zealand, and secondly, analyze the emerging perspectives in public management derived from New Zealand practice. And finally, the project will examine whether the emerging perspectives can be implemented in China's public management reform by comparing the governance of China with that of New Zealand.