Administrative Reform (monthly) is an academic journal under the auspices of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration). Founded in September 2009, it has the domestic uniform issue number CN11-5876/D and is openly distributed at home and abroad. The journal has been recognised as a core journal of China Humanities and Social Sciences Journals Comprehensive Evaluation (A Journal), a source journal of Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI) Extended Edition, a national Chinese core journal, and a core journal of RCCSE.
The journal Administrative Reform aims to serve the central work of the Party and the State, provide decision-making references for administrative reform, focus on reform practices, provide a platform for exchanges, and reflect theoretical innovations, and to support the development of an administrative system with Chinese characteristics. The journal has published articles by numerous Party and state leaders, top government figures, experts and scholars, which have been widely reprinted in Xinhua Digest, China Social Science Digest, Red Flag Digest, as well as People's Daily Online, China Economic Net and other media.
The main columns of the journal Administrative Reform include Current Concerns, Government Management Innovation, Social Governance, Cultural Management, Rule of Law Government, Economic Construction, Emergency Management, Digital Government, Comparison and Research, etc. The journal is well known in both academic and practical fields with its high academic level and practical value, and it provides abundant practical cases and industrial information for the general readers.