ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes this study by arguing that public education reform in West and East has gone through similar trajectories in modes of governing. It assures network governance contributes to processes of policy implementation in China. The process of resource transactions allows different parties to negotiate resources that they each value in different ways, which facilitates the work of making agreements about governing. Network governance is a useful concept for understanding public education reform in West and East. The chapter reports that how this study contributes to network governance theory and its limitation and implications. It explores future possible research about Chinese education reform using network governance theory.
