Abstract: With the continuous economic and technical development, China’s special equipment inspection and supervision shows some points to be improved and are mainly reflected in the unclear responsibility of the government, enterprises and inspection institutions, the lack of regional coverage principle execution, the indefinite legal standard relation, the gap between existing legal standards and demand of market economy and technical progress. This paper holds that the new public management theory has reflected the tenet of special equipment inspection and supervision, has enriched the content of special equipment inspection and supervision, and has provided the development power of special equipment inspection and supervision. On the basis of new public management theories, this paper proposes to establish the special equipment classification and supervisory system, define the boarder of legal and illegal inspection, implement the inspection institution reform, open the socialized inspection market, clarify the relation between laws and standards, and set up a special equipment inspection regulations and standard system complying with the demand of market economic system and technical progress.
Keyword: Special equipment; new public management; testing and inspecting; regulations and standards