China's Government Restructuring Plan Adopted

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China's Government Restructuring Plan Adopted

The 10th National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature of China, adopted Monday a plan submitted by the State Council for streamlining government departments.

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The 10th National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature of China, adopted Monday a plan submitted by the State Council for streamlining government departments.

According to the plan, adopted by a large majority vote at the third plenary meeting of the on-going first session of the 10th NPC, one ministerial-level department has been struck from the list to reduce the total number from 29 to 28.

New in the list is the Ministry of Commerce, which is mandated to exercise the functions of the former State Economic and Trade Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, which have disappeared from the list.

The State Development Planning Commission is renamed the State Development and Reform Commission, which is put in charge of the country's economic restructuring, while the State Family Planning Commission is renamed the State Population and Family Planning Commission, which takes the responsibility of beefing up research in population development.

Under the government restructuring plan, the State Council will form a commission for the management of state property, responsible for the reform and reorganization of state-owned enterprises, and a commission to regulate the banking industry, and establish a state food and drug administration on the basis of the State Drug Administration to reinforce supervision over the safety of food, health products and cosmetics. The State Administration of Work Safety will be upgraded to oversee industrial production and coal mining.

In the last round of government streamlining, the number of ministry-level departments under the State Council was cut to 29 from 40. Before that, China attempted to streamline the government in 1982, 1988 and 1993.

Organizational setup of Chinese government

The following is an unofficial translation of the new organizational setup of the State Council, which was adopted Monday at the third plenary meeting of the on-going first session of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC), the top legislature of China:

1. Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

2. Ministry of National Defense;

3. State Development and Reform Commission;

4. Ministry of Education;

5. Ministry of Science and Technology;

6. Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense;

7. State Commission for Nationalities Affairs;

8. Ministry of Public Security;

9. Ministry of State Security;

10. Ministry of Supervision;

11. Ministry of Civil Affairs;

12. Ministry of Justice;

13. Ministry of Finance;

14. Ministry of Personnel;

15. Ministry of Labor and Social Security;

16. Ministry of Land and Resources;

17. Ministry of Construction;

18. Ministry of Railways;

19. Ministry of Communications;

20. Ministry of Information Industry;

21. Ministry of Water Resources;

22. Ministry of Agriculture;

23. Ministry of Commerce;

24. Ministry of Culture;

25. Ministry of Health;

26. State Commission for Population and Family Planning;

27. People's Bank of China;

28 Audit Office.

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