What is the purpose of China’s institutional reform?

At the just-concluded national "Two Sessions", China announced a major reform plan for the State Council's institutions. The scope of integration, abolition, and establishment involves almost all the institutions of the State Council, covering ecological environment, agriculture, and justice. , finance, immigration policy, veterans’ affairs and many other aspects.

In the past 40 years since China’s reform and opening up, the State Council has carried out 7 organizational reforms, basically with the word “reduction” at the forefront. For example, in the 1998 reform, the number of departments under the State Council was adjusted from 40 to 29, and the administrative establishment was streamlined by nearly half.

While this time the State Council's reform is "subtracting", it also pays more attention to "optimization." Take the adjustment of agriculture as an example. In the past, government management functions related to agriculture were scattered among ministries such as the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Water Resources, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Forestry Bureau. No matter how hard civil servants worked, cross-ministerial communication and coordination were greatly hampered. It reduces efficiency and increases costs to a certain extent. There was once a joke: if a frog jumps into a rice field, it is under the control of the Ministry of Agriculture, and if it jumps into the woods on the shore, it is under the control of the Forestry Bureau.

The newly established Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs after the reform included agriculture-related functions and straightened out the relationship between powers and responsibilities. At the same time, the management functions of this department have been expanded to "rural areas". "Rural areas" is a social category. In other words, through this round of institutional reform, China is turning more attention to rural areas and paying attention to rural social development and people's well-being. develop.

As we all know, reform is difficult, especially when it involves the adjustment of power and interests. This requires ensuring that the reform is scientific in design and resolute in implementation, and will not be compromised or shaken by one person, one thing, or one moment. Now that the curtain has been raised, China's reform, including the reform of government institutions, will inevitably proceed in all aspects.

There is an idiom in China called "Government leads to people's harmony", which describes that the government is well-organized and the people are happy. The original intention and goal of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government is to better serve the people. The gradual deepening of reforms will definitely bring new changes to China's economic and social development.