Party plans reforms to ensure good governance
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October 18, 2010, Monday
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CHINA is to launch a new round of reforms to ensure good governance as the ruling Communist Party of China plans the country's roadmap for the next five years.
The 17th CPC Central Committee opened its fifth plenary session in Beijing on Friday to discuss the 12th five-year program (2011-2015).
The session, which ends today, will unveil a new round of comprehensive reforms, including economic and political reforms, according to the prominent theorist Yu Keping.
"Only with constant reforms and innovations can China build a good government for good governance," said Yu, deputy director of the Party's Central Compilation and Translation Bureau.
Yu's works include the widely circulated article "Democracy Is A Good Thing," which sparked heated discussion at home and abroad.
By exercising democracy in elections, decision-making, management and supervision and guaranteeing people's rights to be informed, to participate, to be heard and to oversee, the ruling Party and the government are stepping up reform for good governance, Yu said.
Observers believe the 12th five-year program will go beyond plans for economic and social development to involve administrative, political, social and cultural restructuring.
Wang Yukai, a professor at the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Governance, said the country's next five-year program will become a major step on the road to build an effective and accountable government.
"Good governance is a guarantee for the ruling Party to remain in power," Wang said.
Administrative restructuring has been a major task since China embarked on its reform and opening up in 1978.
China launched the restructuring in 1982, which abolished life tenure at leading posts and reduced the number of departments under the State Council from 100 to 61.
In 1984, China began to separate government functions from enterprise management and enterprises were no longer regarded as "workshops" of the government.
Reform of the administrative system remains a pressing task in the long term, and observers believe it would be further reformed in the next five years.
Yu identified the following five priorities for reform:
Building a government under the rule of law;
Building a government answering to the needs of the people;
Building a government providing quality public services;
Building a transparent government to ensure efficiency; and
Building a clean government with harsher punishments for corruption and enhanced supervision.
The 17th CPC Central Committee opened its fifth plenary session in Beijing on Friday to discuss the 12th five-year program (2011-2015).
The session, which ends today, will unveil a new round of comprehensive reforms, including economic and political reforms, according to the prominent theorist Yu Keping.
"Only with constant reforms and innovations can China build a good government for good governance," said Yu, deputy director of the Party's Central Compilation and Translation Bureau.
Yu's works include the widely circulated article "Democracy Is A Good Thing," which sparked heated discussion at home and abroad.
By exercising democracy in elections, decision-making, management and supervision and guaranteeing people's rights to be informed, to participate, to be heard and to oversee, the ruling Party and the government are stepping up reform for good governance, Yu said.
Observers believe the 12th five-year program will go beyond plans for economic and social development to involve administrative, political, social and cultural restructuring.
Wang Yukai, a professor at the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Governance, said the country's next five-year program will become a major step on the road to build an effective and accountable government.
"Good governance is a guarantee for the ruling Party to remain in power," Wang said.
Administrative restructuring has been a major task since China embarked on its reform and opening up in 1978.
China launched the restructuring in 1982, which abolished life tenure at leading posts and reduced the number of departments under the State Council from 100 to 61.
In 1984, China began to separate government functions from enterprise management and enterprises were no longer regarded as "workshops" of the government.
Reform of the administrative system remains a pressing task in the long term, and observers believe it would be further reformed in the next five years.
Yu identified the following five priorities for reform:
Building a government under the rule of law;
Building a government answering to the needs of the people;
Building a government providing quality public services;
Building a transparent government to ensure efficiency; and
Building a clean government with harsher punishments for corruption and enhanced supervision.
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