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BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The Central Committee of the Communist
Party of China (CPC) has said that pursuing further administrative
reform is "imperative" for the building of a service-oriented,
responsible, law-abiding and clean government.
The CPC National Committee made public a resolution titled "Opinions
on deepening reform of the administrative system", which was adopted
by the 17th CPC Central Committee at its second plenary session on
Feb. 27.
The resolution will be handed over for debate to the First Session
of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC), due to open on
Wednesday.
"Reforming the administrative system is an important part of
political reform," the document says, adding it is an inevitable
demand for the upper structure to adapt to the changes of economic
reality.
"The reform will run through the whole process of the country's
Reform, Opening-up and Socialist Modernization Drive," it stresses.
The CPC Central Committee and the State Council have attached great
importance to the reform of administrative management, according to
the document.
Since the launch of the Reform and Opening-up Drive in the
late1970s, particularly since the 16th Party Congress in 2002, China
has constantly pushed forward administrative reform and achieved
much, it says.
Generally, it says, China's administrative system is suitable to the
requirements of economic and social development and is capable of
ensuring the development of the Reform, Opening-up and Socialist
Modernization Drive.
China stands at a new historic starting-point for developing a
prosperous society in a comprehensive way and the Reform and
Opening-up Drive has entered into a crucial stage, the document
says, adding: "Facing the new situation and new tasks, the existing
system of administrative management still has some aspects that are
not compliant."
The resolution lists those unsuitable aspects, such as insufficient
change in government functions, excessive administrative
interference in micro-economic operations, and relatively weaker
social management and public services.
There are other outstanding problems, such as overlapping functions
of government departments, disparities between power and
responsibility, and low efficiency.
It further points out that the setting of government departments is
less rational and the administrative operation and managerial system
remains imperfect. There still exist the phenomena of the abuse of
power, the gain of personal profits through the use of public power,
and corruption, due to the imperfect supervisory and restrictive
mechanism on administrative powers.
In deepening administrative reform, China will uphold the great
banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, be guided by the
Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Important Thought of "Three
Represents", the document says.
According to the goal set in the document, a relatively perfect
socialistic administrative system with Chinese characteristics will
be established in China by 2020.
In the resolution, the CPC Central Committee calls for accelerating
the functional change of the government, in order to let the
government do what it should do, let the market play a fundamental
role in the allocation of resources, and let citizens and civil
organizations play their role in the management of public affairs,
to provide public products in a more efficient way. The government
should implement its functions in an overall and correct way, it
says.
The government should make more use of economic and legal means to
readjust economic activities, with the support of administrative
means, while strengthening the government functions in promoting
employment and readjusting distribution of income, it says,
stressing: "The government should pay greater attention to public
service."
On the issue of institutional reform, it describes the principles as
simplicity, unification and efficiency, while demanding mutual
restriction and coordination among the powers of decision-making,
implementation and supervision.
China will explore the practice of setting up larger government
departments that could combine a number of functions in an organic
way.
It also calls for promoting the institutional reform of local
governments, which should readjust the setting of local government
departments in accordance with their main responsibilities.
The resolution stresses that abiding by the Constitution and laws
should be a fundamental principle for the government. "Any power
must be accompanied by responsibilities. The exercise of power must
be supervised, and violation of any law must be punished," it says.
It calls for accelerating the pace of building a law-abiding
government, by standardizing decision-making activities and
improving the mechanism for scientific and democratic
decision-making.
It pledges to set up a results-based responsibility system and a
scientific and rational assessment and appraisal system for
government management, while improving the supervisory system on
administrative powers.
Governments at all levels must accept the supervision by the
people's congresses and committees of the Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conferences at the same level, the document says.
"Government must be more transparent. People's rights of knowledge,
participation, expression and supervision must be strictly
protected," the resolution says.
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