Abstract: The relationship between politics and commerce is a complex and sensitive subject, whose nature is to clarify the role that government and enterprise play in resource allocation. The officials, in exercising public authority on behalf of government, are supposed to take as one of their responsibility to serve enterprises. However, not only officials have the tendency of rent-seeking, but entrepreneurs tend to seek maximum interests through participating in and influencing government decision-making, which can result in the alienation of the relationship between politics and commerce. The causes of the alienation of government- commerce relation vary, yet they come down to over-centralized public power, immature market economy system, business people’s profit-seeking natureand imperfection of public administration supervision system. The establishment of a healthy government-commerce relation should be based on the rule of law, led by service, taking interaction as impetus and regard equivalence as principle.

Key words: transformation period, the relationship between politics and commerce, alienation