The General Office of the Central Committee of the CPC the State Council general office
On the full implementation of township government organs throughout the country
Notice of the open system of government affairs
No.25 [2000] of the Central Office of the Communist Party of China
Party committees and people’s governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, ministries and commissions of the central and state organs, the General Political Department of the Military Commission, and people’s organizations:
In order to implement the spirit of the 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on expanding democracy at the grass-roots level, ensuring the people to exercise their democratic rights directly, promoting the process of governing the country according to law, strengthening the supervision over the operation of administrative power, and keeping the party and government in close contact with the people, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council decided to fully implement the system of making government affairs public in township organs and stations stationed in townships throughout the country. The relevant issues are hereby notified as follows:
I. Guiding ideology, basic principles and basic requirements
Township organs of political power are the grass-roots organizations of state organs of political power, and the stationed stations are the working institutions of the relevant government departments stationed in towns and villages. The full implementation of the open government system in township government organs and stationed stations is conducive to strengthening the construction of grass-roots political power, party organizations and cadres in rural areas, improving the level of administration according to law in township government organs, enhancing the transparency of power operation, promoting the construction of a clean and diligent government, and promoting the implementation of the party’s policies in rural areas. Party committees and governments at all levels should, in accordance with Comrade Jiang Zemin’s requirements on the "Theory of Three Represents", fully understand the great significance of fully implementing the open system of government affairs in township government organs and stationed stations, and earnestly do a good job in this work.
The guiding ideology of implementing the open system of government affairs is: guided by the basic line of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Party and the spirit of the 15th National Congress, centering on strengthening grassroots democratic political construction and administration according to law, taking justice, convenience, honesty and diligence as the basic requirements, earnestly strengthening the supervision of administrative power, further strengthening the relationship between the party and the masses, and promoting rural reform, development and stability.
The basic principles of carrying out the open system of government affairs are as follows: (1) Open according to law. The openness of government affairs of township government organs and stationed stations shall be carried out in accordance with national laws, regulations and relevant policies. (2) Truth and justice. The contents disclosed should be true and credible, and the results of handling affairs should be fair and just. (3) Pay attention to practical results. Proceed from reality, highlight key points, step by step, stress practical results, and do not engage in formalism. (4) favorable supervision. It is necessary to facilitate the masses to do things and to be informed, which is conducive to the people’s exercise of supervision.
The basic requirements for carrying out the open system of government affairs are: (1) to improve work efficiency and facilitate the masses, enterprises and institutions to handle affairs. (2) improve the level of administration according to law and strictly manage according to law. (3) Strengthen the supervision over the operation of administrative power and effectively curb negative corruption. (4) further implement the democratic decision-making, democratic management and democratic supervision system.
Through solid work and unremitting efforts, the open system of government affairs should become a basic working system of township government organs and stationed stations.
Second, the main content and working methods
The openness of township government affairs should start with the practical problems that the people are generally concerned about and involve the vital interests of the people, and the major issues that the people reflect strongly, are prone to unfairness, injustice and even corruption, and the major issues of the township’s economic and social development should be made public. Among them, the focus is on financial disclosure. Openness of government affairs includes openness to the masses, enterprises and institutions and openness to cadres and workers of this organ.
The main contents disclosed to the masses, enterprises and institutions are:
1 township government administrative management and economic management activities. It mainly includes: the annual work objectives and implementation of township governments and relevant departments; The annual budget of villages and towns and its implementation; The special funds allocated by the superior government or government departments and their use; Creditor’s rights and debts of villages and towns; Township collective enterprises and other economic entities contracting, leasing, auction and so on; Bidding for township engineering projects and the construction of social welfare undertakings, etc.
2. Matters corresponding to the openness of village affairs. It mainly includes: the collection and use of taxes and fees in townships and villages; Family planning situation; Distribution and use of land requisition, land compensation fees and resettlement subsidies; Examination and approval of homestead in each village; Distribution, preferential treatment and pension of disaster relief funds and materials; Collection of utilities, etc.
3. Matters disclosed by various departments of the township government and accredited stations. Mainly including: job responsibilities, basis, conditions, procedures, discipline, time limit, supervision methods and results; Fees, fine standards and collection of the departments in charge of collecting and executing fines; Other matters that must be disclosed as explicitly required by the superior competent department.
The main contents disclosed to the cadres and workers of this organ are: the honesty and self-discipline of leading cadres; Internal financial revenue and expenditure of the organ; The use of hospitality and travel expenses; The exchange of cadres, assessment, rewards and punishments, and other important matters of concern to cadres and workers.
Openness should take corresponding forms. All towns and stationed stations must set up a fixed public affairs column for the masses to watch, and publish the contents that should be made public in time. According to the actual situation, all localities can also make it public through meetings, radio, television, convenience manuals, electronic touch screens and other effective forms.
The time of disclosure should be adapted to the content of disclosure. Regular work is made public on a regular basis, phased work is made public paragraph by paragraph, and temporary work is made public at any time.
For important matters involving the vital interests of the masses, we should listen carefully to the opinions of the masses after each publicity. Reasonable suggestions put forward by the masses should be actively adopted; Problems reflected by the masses should be solved in time, and explanations should be done if they cannot be solved temporarily.
Third, the supervision and guarantee system
The core of carrying out the system of open government affairs is to strengthen supervision. It is necessary to establish and improve the internal supervision system of township government organs and stationed stations to ensure the authenticity of the public content. It is necessary to combine the publicity of work results with democratic decision-making and democratic supervision before and during the event, and combine internal supervision with external supervision to establish a convenient, effective and binding supervision and restriction mechanism.
Township people’s governments should consciously accept the supervision of township people’s congresses. The important content of open government affairs should be reported to the National People’s Congress. The economic and social development plan, financial budget and final accounts of the township in that year should be made public after being examined and approved by the township people’s congress.
It is necessary to implement a system of collective discussion and decision on major issues. Major decisions, the appointment and removal of important cadres, the arrangement of important projects and the use of large amounts of funds must be made public on the basis of extensive consultation and after collective discussion by township party committees and governments.
It is necessary to implement a pre-disclosure system. When township organs and stationed stations decide or handle important matters closely related to the interests of the masses, they shall announce the plan before making a formal decision or handling. After fully listening to the opinions of the masses and making adjustments and revisions, it will be officially announced.
A regular audit system should be implemented. County (city) level government audit institutions should conduct audit supervision according to law on the implementation and final accounts of township financial budgets and the income and expenditure of various funds and funds managed by government departments and entrusted by government social organizations, and make the audit results public.
Villages and towns should set up an open supervision team for government affairs, which is composed of people from township people’s congresses, discipline inspection committees, village party branches, villagers’ committees, enterprises and institutions, and the chairman of township people’s congresses or the secretary of the discipline inspection commission is the leader. The supervision team should regularly or irregularly carry out democratic appraisal activities, listen to the opinions and demands of the masses, and put forward work suggestions in a timely manner.
It is necessary to carefully collect the opinions of the masses through the establishment of reporting telephones, government supervision mailboxes and other channels, encourage cadres and the masses to actively participate in supervision, and promptly investigate and deal with problems reported by the masses.
We should give full play to the role of public opinion supervision. The successful experience of township government affairs publicity should be widely publicized and reported, and the typical cases of passive resistance and fraud should be exposed.
While adhering to the above system, all localities should proceed from reality, actively explore and boldly practice, and constantly improve the supervision and restriction mechanism.
Fourth, organizational leadership
The openness of township government affairs has a strong policy, involves many departments and has a wide range of open contents, so it is necessary to strengthen leadership. The publicity of township government affairs is under the unified leadership of the Party committee, with the government taking the lead and the National People’s Congress supervising the implementation. Discipline inspection and supervision organs should assist the government to strengthen supervision and inspection, and the government office (room) should strengthen organization and coordination.
Party committees and governments at all levels should take the implementation of the open government affairs system in towns and villages as a major event in rural work, put it on the important work agenda, and earnestly strengthen leadership. It is necessary to clarify the lead department and conscientiously implement the responsibility system. Party committees and governments at the county (city) level play a vital role in promoting the open system of township government affairs, and it is necessary to strengthen organizational leadership and specific guidance and pay close attention to implementation. Township Party committees and governments are responsible for organizing and implementing the work of making government affairs public in their townships. All towns and villages should set up a leading group for making government affairs public with the township (town) head as the first responsible person, and earnestly implement this work according to the principle of who is in charge and who is responsible.
All localities should incorporate the openness of government affairs in the stationed stations into the overall situation of the openness of government affairs in their townships, and the stationed stations should consciously accept the unified leadership of the township party committees and governments. At the same time, the higher authorities should put forward requirements for the openness of government affairs in grass-roots stations and institutes, formulate relevant norms according to the actual business work of this department, and strengthen supervision and guidance.
To promote the openness of township government affairs, it is necessary to combine with the party building, political power building and village affairs openness in townships, with the basic management work, and comprehensively manage and promote it as a whole. It is necessary to find and deal with tendentiousness and incipient problems in time to ensure the smooth implementation of the open government system and social stability.
It is necessary to make government affairs public as an important part of the responsibility system for building a clean and honest government and the annual work assessment of party and government leading cadres, and take the assessment results as an important basis for cadres’ rewards and punishments. Leading cadres who are ineffective or incompetent in the implementation of the open government system should be criticized and educated, and their posts should be adjusted or removed from their posts if the circumstances are serious; For cadres who refuse to implement the system of making government affairs public or who commit fraud, take revenge, infringe upon the democratic rights of the masses, the discipline inspection and supervision organs shall hold them accountable for party discipline and discipline.
When carrying out the open system of government affairs, we must strengthen ideological and political work and publicity and education work. It is necessary to educate the broad masses of cadres, especially grassroots cadres, to enhance their democratic awareness, establish the concept of the masses, and consciously safeguard the democratic rights and legitimate rights and interests of the people. At the same time, we should educate and guide the broad masses of people to exercise their democratic rights according to law and safeguard the fundamental interests of the country.
City street offices should refer to the provisions of this notice and do a good job in making government affairs public.
While promoting the openness of township government affairs, government organs at or above the county (city) level should also actively explore effective ways to implement the openness of government affairs and gradually implement the system of openness of government affairs.
All provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government and relevant departments of the central and state organs shall, in accordance with the spirit of this notice and in light of the actual situation, formulate specific implementation measures.
December 6, 2000