Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 110 5th International Conference on Economics, Management, Law and Education (EMLE 2019) Research on Promoting the Society Affiliated to Hainan Association for Science and Technology to Undertake the Government’s Transfer Functions with Institutional Innovation Against the Background of Free Trade Zone (Port) Construction Xuan Gao Jing Geng International Hospitality Management School International Hospitality Management School University of Sanya University of Sanya Sanya, China 572022 Sanya, China 572022 Abstract—The Party Central Committee and the State outside world [1]. As of March 2017, the number of pilot Council regard the construction of the free trade zone (port) as free trade zone in China has increased from 1 in the past to a new policy designed to further reform and open up the 11, which basically forms “1 + 3 + 7” pattern of from the national economy. Its purpose is to construct an internationally coast to the inland and east-west coordination [2]. competitive business environment that conforms to international conventions, and make domestic enterprises In October 2017, at the 19th National Congress of the internationally competitive in medical, education, tourism, Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping finance, aviation, new energy and other fields. The previous came up with to further delegate powers to the construction experience reveals that the key to the success of free trade zone of the pilot free trade zone and explored the construction of (port) construction is institutional innovation, moreover, which the free trade port with greater reform autonomy [3]. After is bound to be accompanied by the innovation in the field of this concept was introduced, free trade port immediately social management system. This provides a broad development became one of the hottest high-frequency words, which space for social organizations, especially the Association for attracted wide attention at home and abroad. [4] Soon Science and Technology and its affiliated societies to undertake afterwards, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the government’s transfer functions. Through the investigation Hainan Province became a special economic zone, the Party of the current situation of Hainan Association for Science and Central Committee declared that it would support Hainan Technology and its affiliated societies to undertake the Province to gradually develop the construction of the free government’s transfer functions and taking the construction of trade port on the basis of the construction of the pilot free free trade zone (port) as the background, this research looks trade zone. [5] If the free trade port is version 2.0 of the free for the new ideas and methods of Hainan Association for Science and Technology and its affiliated societies to undertake trade zone and is the performance of solidifying and the government’s transfer functions in the way of discussion in deepening the reform and development [6], the essence of order to further improve the self-capacity of Hainan the state’s support for the construction of the free trade zone Association for Science and Technology and further improve (port) in Hainan is just like institutional innovation that has the increasingly strong of the system of Association for Science been repeatedly stressed by Liu Cigui, Secretary of the and Technology to undertake the government’s transfer Hainan Provincial Party Committee [7]. Through the functions. construction of the free trade port, breakthroughs and innovations in trade supervision, market access, financial Keywords—Hainan Association for Science and Technology; opening and other aspects will be carried out, so as to form undertake the government’s transfer functions; institutional reproducible and propagable experience [8]. innovation; free trade zone (port) The construction experience of 11 domestic free trade zones shows that the process of promoting the construction I. INTRODUCTION of free trade zone must be accompanied by the reform and In China, the free trade zone mainly refers to the special innovation in the field of administrative management system. economic zone established within the national border but Without the reform and innovation of the latter, the outside the customs duties with the purpose of free trade and construction of the former is difficult to succeed [9]. trade facilitation, which is a kind of upgrading Therefore, “taking back the hands of government and transformation of the existing tax-protected zone at that time, reducing government intervention” is the key point of the in order to better play the role of “window” opening to the construction of free trade zone (port).[10] It is required to Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). 330 Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 110 accelerate the transformation of government functions, adjust databases, which laid a good foundation for the association the relationship between government and market, and to undertake the government’s transfer functions in the future. promote the construction of service-oriented government[11], which undoubtedly provides the broad development space B. The Typical Cases of Government’s Transfer Functions for social organizations, especially the local Association for Undertaken by Hainan Association for Science and Science and Technology to undertake the government’s Technology and Its Affiliated Societies transfer functions. 1) Hainan Quality Association is entrusted by the government to provide quality professional technical II. THE CURRENT SITUATION AND EXPERIENCE OF services and carry out the evaluation and training work of HAINAN LOCAL ASSOCIATION FOR SCIENCE AND third-party customer satisfaction: Entrusted by the Quality TECHNOLOGY TO UNDERTAKE THE GOVERNMENT’S and Technology Supervision Bureau of Hainan Province, TRANSFER FUNCTIONS Hainan Provincial Quality Association actively carried out Hainan Association for Science and Technology the pilot activities for enterprises with standardized good undertaking the work of the government’s transfer functions behaviors, and cultivated 12 enterprises with standardized as early as can be traced back to December 2000.12 At that time, Hainan Association for Science and Technology was good behavior in 2017; organized four industries of wire entrusted by the department of Human Resources and Social and cable, Xingyue Bodhi, commodity concrete, and Security of Hainan Province to undertake the review work of products related to food in our province to carry out the the professional titles of natural science researchers in the quality status survey of product production enterprises and whole province. The peer recognition mechanism adopted in form the Quality Analysis and Quality Improvement Plan the review work has been affirmed by the Provincial Report of Wire and Cable Industry and other reports; Department of Human Resources and Social Security, which undertook training course on improving quality provides referential experience for other Science and management ability of new front-line employees in low- Technology Associations at all levels and their affiliated carbon manufacturing industry, with a total of 600 societies in undertaking the government’s transfer functions. participants. 2) The mid-term evaluation of Boao Lecheng A. The Basic Situation About Government Functions international medical tourism pilot area project undertaken Undertaken by Hainan Association for Science and by Hainan Medical Association: On May 28, 2015, the Technology and Its Affiliated Societies Health and Family Planning Commission of Hainan At present, data statistics display that Hainan Association Province issued the Measures for Medical Technology for Science and Technology is more and more mature in Evaluation of Hainan Boao Lecheng International Medical undertaking the government’s transfer functions. In 2017, a total of 29 societies undertook 75 items of government’s Tourism Pilot Area (Trial Implementation), entrusted the transfer functions. The Provincial Quality Association Provincial Medical Association to undertake the mid-term undertaken 25 training missions of Provincial Tourism evaluation of Boao Lecheng international medical tourism Committee, Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau and other pilot area project, and set the Secretariat of the medical government departments, with a total of nearly 4000 people technology expert committee of Boao Lecheng international trained. The Provincial Meteorological Society organized the medical tourism pilot area of the Health and Family capability evaluation test of the technicians of lightning Planning Commission of Hainan Province in the office of protective device detection in 2017. The Provincial the Provincial Medical Association office. According to the Mechanical Engineering Society held the “lift safety requirements of the Evaluation Method, the Provincial management and lift attendant operator training course”. The Medical Association has recruited more than 260 national Provincial Doctor Association and the organization department of Ding’an county Party committee of the experts to form an evaluation team from 18 specialties Communist Party of China held the signing ceremony of recommended by the Chinese Medical Association, the talent strategic cooperation and carried out cooperation