From April 9 to 15, 2021, the annual conference of the American Society of Public Administration (ASPA) was held online, with the theme of Picking Up the Pieces: Pandemics, Protests and the Future of Public Service. More than 1000 scholars and practitioners from many countries around the world have participated in the event. Professor Bao Guoxian of China Research Center for Government Performance Management, Lanzhou University (hereinafter referred to as "the Center") and Irving Yi-Feng Huang, associate professor of Tamkang University, Taiwan organized and initiated a session themed Collaborative Governance Performance and Service Innovation: Application of the PV-GPG Framework after COVID-19 Pandemic. The theory of Public Value-Based Government Performance Governance (PV-GPG) is an innovative research result put forward by Professor Bao's team based on over ten years of theoretical exploration and practical accumulation. Gao Xiaoping, the president of the National Government Performance Management Society, once commented that "PV-GPG actually focuses on solving an essential problem of management, that is, what concept should be used as a 'meta-problem', as a leading category, to integrate all relevant elements of public organization performance and construct a government performance management system.

The session was convened by David Rosenbloom, a member of the National Academy of Public Administration and Professor of American University. Professor Stephen Condrey, the former president of ASPA, and Kirk Emerson, a member of the National Academy of Public Administration and professor at the University of Arizona, served as commentators. 9 faculty of Prof. Bao’s team attended the conference and presented their papers. More than 20 scholars from inside and outside China participated in it.

Prof. Bao and PhD student Zhang Hong presented a paper entitled How to Benchmark the Local Governments’ Performance, which introduced in detail the construction process of the performance benchmarking system of China's county-level government performance index released by the Center in 2020 and the breakthrough methods for bottleneck problems. Professor Wang Xuejun gave a paper entitled How Performance Rating Impacts on Public Service Motivation: A Mixed-Methods Study. Associate professor Irving Yi-Feng Huang and associate professor Lang Mei presented their paper entitled Fighting against COVID-19 through Community Governance in Taiwan: A Perspective of PV-GPG. Associate professor Li Yinan and associate professor Sun Fei shared their research entitled From Knowledge Divergence to Knowledge Sharing: The Realization Paths for The Continuity of Citizen Participation in Government Performance Management. Associate professor Bao Haixu read his paper entitled Examining the Effects of Governmental Networking with Environmental Turbulence on The Geographic Searching of Business Model Innovation Generations. Ma Xiang, senior research fellow presented his study entitled Can Regional Decrees Improve Government Responsiveness to the Public? An Empirical Study of Leaders' Directives and Local Government Responses in China. Professor Condrey and Professor Emerson expressed their strong interest in the papers and made comments, and proposed constructive suggestions for revision. Professor Rosenbloom made an overall review and summary of the session, and highly affirmed the team's focus on the theme of PV-GPG and their positive actions in promoting the development and application of the theories.

American Society of Public Administration (ASPA) is an influential academic organization in the field of public administration in the world at present, and its annual conference is known as an annual gathering to communicate and share the cutting-edge theories and practices in the field. Since 2018, Professor Bao's research team has participated in the event three times in the form of organizing panels, which has produced a positive impact on the academic community of public administration domestic and overseas and has important and far-reaching significance in promoting the exchange and international cooperation of the theory of government performance governance based on public value.

Since 2014, Professor Bao Guoxian's team has attended the ASPA’s annual conference and presented the research results. In 2018 and 2019 the team has held panels with the theme of Better Government Services Through Public-Value-Drive Performance Leadership: What Can the PV-GPG Model Contribute? and 40 Years of Chinese and American Government Performance Management Based on the PV-GPG Theoretical Framework respectively. Professor Kuotsai Tom Liou, Professor David Rosenbloom, Professor Yang Kaifeng and Professor Stephen Condrey have served as convenors or commentators.