This article examines how the Chinese government came to endorse the concept of performance management, and analyses the experiments with performance management since the early 1990s (mainly at the local level). The incentives are examined, especially the performance-based reward and promotion...

The Chinese government has undertaken extensive reforms to its civil service system over the past ten years. The capacity of the civil service has improved, but perhaps due to reasons other than civil service reform. This article reviews the government reforms in the context of the particular...