200 1, China successfully joined the WTO, and the distance between China and the world is getting closer and closer, and the pace of China's integration with the world is also accelerating. The surging tide of economic globalization has provided China with great historical opportunities and a series of challenges. This requires that the field of education should be based on international standards and norms, based on the reality of China, organically and closely combine academic research with applied research, and optimize the allocation of educational resources. The establishment of the School of Government Administration of Peking University is a practical response to these requirements. In the new century, adjusting the relationship between government and market, government and enterprises, realizing socialist democracy and rule of law and its value goal, and adjusting the relationship between state management mode and economic globalization are urgent problems facing China's socialist modernization and reform and opening up. Faced with these issues, it is urgent to pool the advantages of politics, economics, law, management and other disciplines, conduct in-depth research, and contribute to the modernization of our government and public administration. As a world-renowned school that has experienced a hundred years of vicissitudes, Peking University and China are closely related to each step forward. Especially in today's further reform and opening up in China, Peking University shoulders an arduous historical mission and has a long way to go.

As far as government and public management are concerned, Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, Maxwell College of Syracuse University in new york, School of Public Administration of University of California at Berkeley and School of Public Administration of Oxford University are all world-renowned schools of government and public management. Because these colleges have trained first-class politicians and public management talents, they have become the pride of the school and become the yardstick of the school's training level and school-running level. In order to meet the urgent needs of economic and social development, Peking University made full use of the advantages of multi-disciplines, and jointly established the Department of Political Science and Administration and the Department of Urban and Environmental Studies as the School of Government Administration of Peking University. Their cooperation and exchanges with government departments, National School of Administration and famous universities at home and abroad have also created a good external environment and basic elements for the School of Government Administration.