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DECISION OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE NINTH NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS REGARDING THE STATE COUNCIL'S INSTITUTIONAL RESTRUCTURING PLAN

Category  STATE INSTITUTIONS Organ of Promulgation  The National People's Congress Status of Effect  In Force
Date of Promulgation  1998-03-10 Effective Date  1998-03-10  

Decision of the First Session of the Ninth National People's Congress Regarding the State Council's Institutional Restructuring Plan




APPENDIX: STATE COUNCIL'S INSTITUTIONAL RESTRUCTURING PLAN

(Adopted at the First Session of the Ninth National People's Congress on

March 10, 1998)

    Having listened to the explanations by State Councillor and
Secretary-General of the State Council Luo Gan on the State Council's
Institutional Restructuring Plan, and deliberated the State Council's
Institutional Restructuring Plan, the First Session of the Ninth National
People's Congress decides to approve the State Council's Institutional
Restructuring Plan.

APPENDIX: STATE COUNCIL'S INSTITUTIONAL RESTRUCTURING PLAN

    In accordant with the requirements of the Fifth National Congress and the
Second Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist
Party, the aims of the State Council's Institutional Restructuring Plan are:
to establish a government administrative system which is efficient in work,
coordinated in operation and standardized in behavior; to improve the state
civil servant system; to build up a contingent of high-quality specialized
administrative officials; and to gradually establish a government
administrative system with Chinese characteristics and suitable to the
socialist market economic system. The principles of the reform are: to change
government functions and realize the separation of the responsibilities of the
government from those of enterprises in accordance with the requirements of
the socialist market economy; to readjust the government organizational
structure and practise to reduce the staff and simplify administration in
accordance with the principle of simple, unified and efficient administration;
to readjust the terms of reference of every government department, define and
divide the responsibilities among different departments and improve the
administrative operational mechanism in accordance with the principle of power
consistent with responsibility; to strengthen the legalization for the
administrative system in accordance with the requirement of rule by law and
exercising administration by law.

    The State Council's Institutional Restructuring Plan is detailed as
follows:

    1. Fifteen Ministries and Commissions Not to Be Retained:

    (1) Ministry of Electric Power Industry of the People's Republic of China

    (2) Ministry of Coal Industry of the People's Republic of China

    (3) Ministry of Metallurgical Industry of the People's Republic of China

    (4) Ministry of Machine-Building Industry of the People's Republic of
China

    (5) Ministry of Electronics Industry of the People's Republic of China

    (6) Ministry of Chemical Industry of the People's Republic of China

    (7) Ministry of Internal Trade of the People's Republic of China

    (8) Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of the People's Republic of
China

    (9) Ministry of Labour of the People's Republic of China

    (10) Ministry of Radio, Film and Television of the People's Republic of
China

    (11) Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources of the People's Republic of
China

    (12) Ministry of Forestry of the People's Republic of China

    (13) State Physical Culture and Sports Commission of the People's Republic
of China

    (14) Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence
of the People's Republic of China

    (A new Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence
will be formed. The functions for management of the national defence industry
in the former Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National
Defence, the functions of the National Defence Department under the State
Planning Commission and the government functions undertaken by various
military industrial corporations shall be incorporated into the new Commission
of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence.)

    (15) State Commission for Economic Restructuring of the People's Republic
of China

    (For the purpose of strengthening the leadership of the State Council over
the economic restructuring work, the State Commission for Economic
Restructuring will be turned into a top-level think-tank of the State Council
headed by the premier and with relevant ministers serving as its members. It
will not be included into the series of component departments under the State
Council.)

    2. Four New Ministries and Commissions to Be Formed:

    (1) Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence of
the People's Republic of China

    (2) Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China

    (3) Ministry of Labour and Social Security of the People's Republic of
China

    (4) Ministry of Land and Natural Resources of the People's Republic of
China

    3. Three Ministries and Commissions to Be Renamed:

    (1) The State Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China will
be renamed the State Development Planning Commission of the People's Republic
of China.

    (2) The Science and Technology Commission of the People's Republic of
China will be renamed the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's
Republic of China.

    (3) The State Education Commission of the People's Republic of China will
be renamed the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.

    4. Twenty-Two Ministries, Commissions, the Bank and the Administration to
Be Retained:

    (1) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

    (2) Ministry of National Defence of the People's Republic of China

    (3) State Economic and Trade Commission of the People's Republic of China

    (4) State Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China

    (5) Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China

    (6) Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China

    (7) Ministry of Supervision of the People's Republic of China

    (8) Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China

    (9) Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China

    (10) Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China

    (11) Ministry of Personnel of the People's Republic of China

    (12) Ministry of Construction of the People's Republic of China

    (13) Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China

    (14) Ministry of Communications of the People's Republic of China

    (15) Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China

    (16) Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China

    (17) Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation of the
People's Republic of China

    (18) Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China

    (19) Ministry of Public Health of the People's Republic of China

    (20) State Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China

    (21) People's Bank of China

    (22) Auditing Administration of the People's Republic of China

    5. Through Readjustment and Reorganization, There Will Be Totally
Twenty-nine Ministries, Commissions, the Bank and the Administration, Not
Including the General Office of the State Council, to be Listed in the Series
of Component Departments under the State Council.

    (1) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

    (2) Ministry of National Defence of the People's Republic of China

    (3) State Development Planning Commission of the People's Republic of
China

    (4) State Economic and Trade Commission of the People's Republic of China

    (5) Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

    (6) Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China

    (7) Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence
of the People's Republic of China

    (8) State Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China

    (9) Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China

    (10) Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China

    (11) Ministry of Supervision of the People's Republic of China

    (12) Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China

    (13) Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China

    (14) Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China

    (15) Ministry of Personnel of the People's Republic of China

    (16) Ministry of Labour and Social Security of the People's Republic of
China

    (17) Ministry of Land and Natural Resources of the People's Republic of
China

    (18) Ministry of Construction of the People's Republic of China

    (19) Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China

    (20) Ministry of Communications of the People's Republic of China

    (21) Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China

    (22) Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China

    (23) Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China

    (24) Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation of the
People's Republic of China

    (25) Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China

    (26) Ministry of Public Health of the People's Republic of China

    (27) State Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China

    (28) People's Bank of China

    (29) Auditing Administration of the People's Republic of China



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