It is evident that institutional reform is pivotal in facilitating the modernisation of the national governance system and enhancing governance capacity. This paper analyses the logic of China's institutional reform following the reform and opening-up. It identifies three phases in the sequential trajectory of change: the streamlining and economic recovery phase, the market and functional transformation phase, and the coordination and structural optimisation phase. Then it attributes three basic logics of China's institutional change to the sequence of these phases: structural logic, conceptual logic, and behavioural logic. The structural logic primarily addresses the genesis of China's administrative ecosystem. It examines the distinctive structural attributes of China's institutional reform in the context of endogenous environmental pressures and external demonstration effects. The conceptual logic delves into the practical manifestations of pivotal political concepts across the three institutional reforms, with a particular focus on the varying reform focal points. Finally, the behavioural logic discusses the formation of the key branching points in China's institutional reforms with the path-dependence law. It also explores behavioural logic, which mainly discusses the formation of key branch points and path-dependence patterns of China's institutional reforms. Additionally, it considers how institutions with institutional resilience can bridge the structural gap between ideals and reality.

Xiangyuan Li. Structure-Concept-Behaviour: The logical attribution of China's institutional reform after reform and opening up. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 11: 135-142. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.071120.

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