关键词: 国家治理, 分权, 中央集权, 多中心政治体制, 多层级核心政治体制

Abstract: How to explain the systems and mechanisms that produce excellent governance performance is the key to understanding the “Chinese experience”. Based on the relationship between the Party and government and the relationship between central and local government in China's political system, this paper proposes a new theoretical framework of “multilevel core political system” to explain the “Chinese model”. China's multilevel core political system contains such attributes as noninstitutional decentralization, organization system of vertical centralization and horizontal competition, and administrative principle of asymmetric responsibility and right, forming the doublelayer governance mechanism that is combining the features of centralization and decentralization. It is possible to make dynamic adjustment according to the change of the principal contradiction of social governance. Therefore, China's system has the flexibility and advantage of “unification and division” in governance. The proposal of this theoretical framework will provide inspiration for the modernization reform of national governance system and governance capacity.

Key words: national governance, decentralization, centralization, multicenter political system, multilevel core political system