Abstract: The improvement of government governance efficiency is an important starting point to promote the establishment of governance system and the modernization of governance capacity. How to objectively and fairly evaluate the governance efficiency of local governments under the new development concept during the“13th Five-Year Plan”period is of great significance for the realization of the new improvement of the governance efficiency during the“14th Five-Year Plan”period. At present, more attention is paid to local governments'“doing their best”to improve governance efficiency, but less attention is paid to the governance efforts of local governments under the situation of unbalanced development. Based on this, this paper constructs a MINC-U-DEA model to carry out a study that can not only reflect the governance efforts of the local governments under the new development concept of the Party center, but also affirm the local governments'“doing within their capabilities”under the“initial endowment”. Through an empirical analysis of 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) and the eight comprehensive economic zones in China, it is found that, considering the differences in the“initial endowments”, the governments' governance efforts in the greater northwest region can be effectively measured, and the government governance efficiency in the southern coastal regions benefits more from the economic development.During the“13th Five-Year Plan”period, the country has made remarkable achievements in green development, but all the regions need to be strengthened in terms of innovation and development. The regional differences in the efficiency of government governance are relatively larger, and different regions have different ways to “do their best”to improve the government governance efficiency on the basis of“doing within their capabilities”. In addition, based on their own reality, the performance efforts of the provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) in their same region are also inconsistent. The most obvious internal difference is found in the northwest region, and the difference in the southwest region is the smallest.

Key words: government governance efficiency, new development concept, DEA, initial endowment, the eight comprehensive economic zones