1st Ld-Writethru-China Focus: CPC issues decision on deepening reform of Party and state institutions (2)

-- Optimizing the structure and functions of government institutions

The decision stressed the resolve to remove institutional barriers so that the market plays the decisive role in resource allocation and the government plays its role better.

The functions of macro-management institutions should be allocated in a reasonable way. Government functions of anti-monopoly and anti-fair competition should be strengthened and optimized. Better functions on financing management are also needed to forestall systemic financial risks and protect financial security, according to the document.

It called on efforts to further streamline administration and delegate powers. The direct allocation of market resources by the government and the direct interference in market operations should be reduced to the utmost.

It also stressed better systems of market supervision and law enforcement.

The reform of natural resources and environmental management systems includes implementing the strictest possible systems for environmental protection and establishing regulatory agencies to manage state-owned natural resource assets and monitor natural ecosystems.

The document also outlined measures to improve public services management, strengthen operational and post-operational oversight as well as enhance administrative efficiency and government effectiveness.

-- Promoting coordinated reforms of institutions in the Party, the government, the military, and people's organizations

Such reforms are necessities for strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC as well as achieving the coordinated and effective functions of these institutions.

The reforms include better arrangement of Party and government organs to avoid decentralizing or overlapping responsibilities, reforming the people's congresses, political advisory bodies, and judicial organs, strengthening the role of people's organizations as bridges linking the Party and the government with the people, leveraging the role of social organizations, making public institutions better serve public interests and deepening reform in areas covering both the military and civilian services.

-- Improving the setup of institutions at local levels

It called for a smooth and vigorous work system of central and local institutions, in which orders are executed without fail.

While the central authorities should strengthen macro-management, local authorities were asked to do their jobs well on the condition of carrying out orders from the top to the detail.

The setup of local institutions must ensure the effective implementation of the policies from the CPC Central Committee and national laws and regulations, said the document.

In the meantime, it pledged to give more decision making power to organs at and below the provincial level.

A lean and effective grassroots governance system should be set up to strengthen the foundation of the system and capacity for governance of the state.

Grassroots authorities should not simply copy the structure of their superior level but adapt to their respective responsibilities, said the decision.

Coordination between centrally administered agencies and local authorities should also be improved, said the document.

-- Legalizing the staffing of institutions

The decision called for managing all organizations and institutions in accordance with the law, and accelerating the process of legalizing the institutions, and their functions, powers, operational procedures as well as responsibilities.

The Party shall have its own staffing regulation and there should also be a law on institution staffing, said the decision.

While stressing that the staffing rules should be strictly followed, it also called for a dynamic adjustment mechanism and requirements for timely information disclosure.

Those who fail to observe the staffing rules and legal requirements would be held accountable.

-- Enhancing Party's leadership over deepening reform of Party and state institutions

The CPC Central Committee should coordinate and supervise the holistic implementation of the reform, while local authorities and departments were urged to resolutely implement the reform tasks, said the decision.

Authorities at various levels should not act until their reform plans are approved by the CPC Central Committee.

The document said that the whole Party and Chinese people of all ethnic groups should rally closely around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, achieve unity in thought and action, and ensure that all tasks of deepening reform of Party and state institutions are accomplished.

Continued efforts are needed to improve the system of Party and state institutions that are well conceived, fully built, procedure based, and functioning efficiently, said the document.

It also called for hard work to secure a decisive victory in finishing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, to speed up the socialist modernization and to realize the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation. Enditem