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The new round of restructuring of government agencies is aimed at
strengthening and improving the functions of the government in
economic and market regulation, social management and public
services, said Jiang Enzhu, a spokesman for the first session of
the 10th National People's Congress at a press conference in
Beijing on Tuesday.
Answering a question from a Xinhua reporter, Jiang said China has
since its reform and opening up restructured government agencies on
four occasions, trying to gear up with the development of the
socialist market economy. But the current administrative system
still leaves much to be desired with the deepening of the reform of
the economic system and China's accession to the WTO and that
dictates another restructuring of government agencies in order to
keep up with the development of the times.
The goal of the scheduled restructuring is to establish a clean and
efficient administrative system with standardized behaviors and
well-coordinated, fair and transparent operations, Jiang said.
The new round of restructuring will start out with the agencies of
the central government before spreading to local governments, Jiang
said.
The plans for the restructuring of central government agencies will
be submitted to the first session of the 10th NPC scheduled to open
Wednesday.
Jiang disclosed that experiments in the reform of the
administrative system are being carried out in Shenzhen and four
other cities aimed at shaping up a public administration system as
required by the socialist market system. The principle for the
experiments is simplicity, unity and efficiency, with harmonious
operations of policy decision making, execution and supervision.
The reform does not involve reform of local people's congresses,
people's courts and people's procuratorates, Jiang noted.
(Xinhua News Agency March 4, 2003)
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