The General Office of the State Council issued the "Administrative Measures for the Construction of National Government Informationization Projects"

Integrating Information Resource Governance "Form Anti-epidemic"

● Since the outbreak prevention and control work began, many grassroots cadres and community workers have been burned by various forms. Repeated and arduous task of filling the form not only consumes a lot of time and energy, but also delays the implementation of the imminent epidemic prevention work, which causes the people's dissatisfaction

● The emergence of the "table anti-epidemic" problem is directly caused by the fact that there is no special information coordination mechanism between various departments, and the fundamental reason is that each department is trapped in its own information data, thus forming a "data island". A malady that plagues China's government information construction

● The "Administrative Measures for the Construction of National Government Informatization Projects" is expected to fundamentally solve the problems of decentralized construction of e-government and data islands, further promote national-level overall planning, integrate information resources of various departments, promote joint construction and sharing of departments, and achieve cross-departmental business Collaboration to comprehensively improve the administrative efficiency of government departments

□ Our reporter Wan Jing

Recently, the General Office of the State Council issued and issued the "Administrative Measures for the Construction of National Government Informatization Projects" (hereinafter referred to as the "Administrative Measures"), which directly refers to the "crime resistance to epidemics" that has been criticized a while ago.

Some places report that since the outbreak prevention and control work began, many grassroots cadres and community workers have been burned by various forms. The repetitive and arduous task of filling out the form not only consumes a lot of time and energy, but also delays the implementation of the imminent epidemic prevention work, which arouses the dissatisfaction of the masses.

In this regard, industry experts have pointed out that the emergence of the "form anti-epidemic" problem is directly caused by the incomplete and unscientific command and coordination system, and no special information coordination mechanism has been formed between various departments, and the fundamental reason is that each department is stuck with its own information. Data, thus forming a "data island", which is also a chronic disease that has plagued China's government information construction for many years.

The "Administrative Measures" requires that adhere to the principles of overall planning, co-construction and sharing, business coordination, and safety and reliability, pointing directly at the key to the current construction of government information. The industry analysts believe that the "Administrative Measures" is expected to fundamentally solve the problems of decentralized construction of e-government and data islands, further promote national-level overall planning, integrate information resources of various departments, promote joint construction and sharing of departments, and achieve cross-department business collaboration. Comprehensively improve the administrative efficiency of government affairs departments.

Form fights rickets

Urgent need to achieve information sharing

According to media reports, the "form anti-epidemic" manifested itself in the fact that many grass-roots cadres and community workers had to fill in more than a dozen forms a day during the epidemic prevention period. These forms were issued by different departments and the content was basically the same, but the format and style were slightly different. With the increase of the epidemic prevention and control, the content of such forms is more and more, and the data statistics are very large. Filling out the forms alone takes a lot of time and energy.

It is understood that the grassroots workers themselves have undertaken a large number of tasks such as prevention and control propaganda, inspections in areas under their jurisdiction, medical consultation and coordination, disinfection, persuasion of residents and material distribution. Although the staff at the grass-roots level is very tight, they have to be arranged to be "cousins" and "cousins", who are specifically responsible for data collection, registration and creation, and reporting of information. Some form filling staff often have to work until early in the morning.

"'Formal Epidemic Prevention' is a bureaucratic style that emphasizes formalism, but it also reflects the problem of information flow between departments in China's government information construction. It is not difficult to solve this problem technically, as long as a unified command is established Coordination system, to achieve data sharing of various departments, can effectively avoid multiple departments to repeatedly assign tasks. "Said Gao Qinwei, a professor at the Law School of Central University of Finance and Economics.

This time, the "Administrative Measures" also clearly proposed that "coordinated planning, co-construction and sharing" as the basic management principles of national government information construction. At the same time, the requirements for information sharing have also been strengthened, and the concept of sharing has been clearly defined throughout the entire life cycle of government information construction projects.

The "Administrative Measures" stipulates that the feasibility study report and preliminary design plan shall include an analysis chapter (chapter) of information resource sharing. The evaluation report of the consulting and evaluation unit shall include the evaluation opinions on the analysis chapter (chapter) of information resource sharing. The approval document of the examining and approving department or the request document submitted to the State Council shall include the opinions on the chapter (chapter) of information resource sharing analysis; the compilation of the information resource catalog is an indispensable condition for examining and approving government informationization projects. The scope and extent of information resource sharing and the state of network security are important basis for determining project construction investment, operation and maintenance funding, and acceptance.

Gao Qinwei believes that the fight against the epidemic is an information war, and various government departments should continuously release accurate and objective information, and try every means to make everyone aware of the relevant information. Only through the establishment of various accessible information transmission channels can relevant government information release reach the public in a timely manner. Therefore, government information sharing should become the new normal of government administration.

Take multiple measures to cure diarrhea

Focus on eliminating data silos

According to Liu Deliang, a professor at the Law School of Beijing Normal University, after years of development, government e-government has built core government affairs systems such as industry and commerce, taxation, finance, transportation, finance, auditing, education, population, and public safety. The core business of most ministries and commissions Both have database support, and the core business database coverage is increasing day by day, forming a considerable scale of government information resources. However, in the construction of government information, the phenomenon of "data islands" is also very serious.

Among them, the most typical problem is that it is difficult to coordinate internal government processes. Local governments and departments at all levels often conduct their own affairs when conducting e-government, with different standards and monotonous duplication of business content, resulting in new duplication of construction; each application system is planned separately, and each system often uses a different data format to run On different platforms, it has brought obstacles to data exchange and collaborative applications between each other.

In order to eliminate the "data island" phenomenon existing in the construction of government affairs information from the system level, the "Administrative Measures" proposed solutions from five aspects.

First, the government informatization project has achieved cross-department co-construction. The inter-department co-construction and sharing of government affairs informatization projects will be conducted by the lead department together with the participating departments in the design of the inter-departmental engineering framework, and a unified framework program will be formed and jointly reported to the National Development and Reform Commission.

Second, the government informatization project realizes the co-construction of the central and local governments. Relevant departments of the State Council need local shared and coordinated government informatization projects, which should be constructed in accordance with the principles of overall planning, hierarchical approval, hierarchical construction, and shared coordination.

Third, build a shared open data directory of government information resources. Based on the business flow, data flow, and system interface of departmental projects and overall engineering, a shared open data directory was initially formed.

Fourth, the content of shared analysis of government information resources is constructed. The feasibility study report and the preliminary design plan shall include the information resource sharing analysis chapter (chapter), the approval document of the examination and approval department or the request document submitted to the State Council shall include the opinions on the shared analysis chapter (chapter).

Fifth, the use of money management forces the sharing of information resources. For the information technology projects already established by the State Council department, which need to be upgraded or newly built, the government information technology projects will only be approved if they can share information as required, and those who cannot share information will not be supported except for special reasons. For information systems that do not share data resources, collect data resources repeatedly, or are not included in the catalog of the National Government Information System, no operation and maintenance expenses are arranged.

In this regard, Gu Bingzhong, chief engineer of the Information Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources, believes that the "Administrative Measures" through the synergy of project construction investment and operation and maintenance funds to further implement information sharing, grasp the key points, and deserve praise. The implementation of the above measures will fundamentally change the old and difficult problem of information sharing, and is conducive to the construction of national big data resource systems and governance capabilities, and to promote the modernization of national governance systems and governance capabilities.

Improve the construction of government information

Departmental building is imperative

The government information system is an important support for the government to perform its duties efficiently, and it is an important carrier to promote the modernization of government governance capabilities based on informatization. In the 1980s, China began to use computers for electronic data processing in government management. After nearly 40 years of development, government informatization has played an active role in improving government office efficiency, supporting government scientific decision-making, and optimizing government services.

According to Xu Chunxue, deputy director of the Office of the National E-Government Extranet Management Center, in recent years, the government's digital transformation has accelerated in an all-round way, breaking the "data island" has entered deep-water areas, and the traditional model of department self-development and self-maintenance has become increasingly difficult to adapt to large-scale information Construction tasks, cloud computing, big data, blockchain and other technology models have triggered changes in construction concepts, and so on. A series of changes forced the government's informatization system to be continuously upgraded and improved to adapt to the new development situation and further liberate the informatization productivity. However, in order to improve the construction of government information in China and crack the "data island" phenomenon between departments, it is impossible to avoid the problem of cross-department co-construction of government information projects.

Multi-sector co-construction is a problem that has been difficult to solve for a long time, especially during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, individual co-construction projects have not progressed satisfactorily. The "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" National Government Informatization Project Construction Plan puts forward the development blueprint of "big platform, big data, big system". However, there has been a lack of clear organizational rules on how multiple departments can jointly build "big projects".

To this end, the "Administrative Measures" proposes that for government information projects involving cross-sector co-construction and sharing, the lead department will jointly develop the cross-sectoral engineering framework design with the participating construction departments to form a unified framework plan and jointly report to the National Development and Reform Commission. The framework plan shall determine the participating departments, construction goals, and main content of the project, clarify the business flow, data flow, and system interface of each department project and the overall project, and initially form a data directory to ensure that the construction content of each department does not overlap and achieve joint construction. And sharing requirements. After the framework scheme was formed, each department applied for the construction of the department's participation in accordance with the project management requirements.

Xu Chunxue believes that the proposal of the above-mentioned framework scheme not only provides a powerful hand for inter-departmental collaboration, but also can replace the original link of each department in preparing and submitting project proposals, greatly improving the efficiency of examination and approval.

Gu Bingzhong also believes that under the unified framework, clear boundaries, clear objectives, and proper responsibilities of participating construction departments can increase the enthusiasm of the department and reduce the phenomenon of blame.

Actively promote the implementation of policies

Comprehensively improve administrative efficiency

After years of exploration and practice, the national e-government extranet is becoming a public infrastructure for China's digital government.

At present, in terms of "network communication", China has achieved comprehensive coverage of the central provinces, cities, and counties, and has formed a network channel of "three integrations and five crosses"; in terms of "data communication", as of the end of January 2020, China ’s national data sharing and exchange platform has opened up to 1,299 real-time data sharing interfaces of 33 State Council departments, provided 946 million query and verification services, and supported 9.57 billion batches of data exchange across departments and regions. In terms of “business communication”, the national data sharing exchange The platform docks with 784 business processing systems in various regions and departments, providing strong support for government departments at all levels to optimize their work processes, streamline their work materials, and promote the implementation of major reform tasks such as business start-up, real estate registration, tax deduction, and separation of licenses.

In this epidemic prevention and control work, the administrative information means of each local government also showed their skills.

For example, Zhejiang Jiaxing uses the "big data + gridding" method to continuously increase the control of personnel entering Jiaxing territory, cooperate online and offline, and give full play to the role of grassroots grids. Through card point rowing, digital rowing, and hotels The hotel industry (farmhouse) rowing, transportation hub rowing, hospital rowing, renting house rowing and other "six row rowing", research and development and implementation of epidemic prevention and control inspection system, comprehensively correlate relevant information, so that the town does not leak villages The village does not leak households, and households do not leak people, all of them implement the "one person, one file" form management.

Liaoning Yingkou launched the Digital Yingkou Management Center, which completed the access to the city's public security video network in only 3 hours, enabling the management center to arbitrarily view key bayonet videos such as highways, railways, stations, and hospitals in the city. Real-time understanding and grasp of key bayonet.

Chongqing Liangjiang New District made full use of big data to escort residents' "vegetable baskets" and "fruit plates", and closely monitored the supply and demand of food, oil, meat, vegetables, fruits, eggs, milk, and refined oil in daily necessities. Broaden the source organization channels and unblock the logistics and distribution of daily necessities.

During the interview, Xu Chunxue analyzed that the "Administrative Measures" is based on building a coordinated and long-term management mechanism for the national government information system, focusing on "how to build" and "how to manage" government information projects, and streamlining approval, intensive construction, and information sharing. The top-level design was put forward in aspects such as online management, and further implemented the overall requirements of unified engineering planning, unified standards and specifications, unified record management, unified audit supervision, and unified evaluation system, and promoted the intensive and efficient development of national government informationization for the next stage. Accelerating the construction of a digital government provides strong institutional momentum.

"But whether government informatization can be effective in the end, whether it can help the government's comprehensive digital transformation, and further support the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, the key is to see whether the various departments can implement the" Management Measures "in place and focus on construction. Be practical. "Xu Chun said.

Gu Bingzhong believes that the promulgation and smooth implementation of the "Administrative Measures" is expected to fundamentally solve the problems of decentralized construction of e-government and "data islands", further promote the overall planning at the national level, integrate the information resources of various departments, and promote the joint construction and sharing of departments. Achieve cross-department business collaboration and comprehensively improve the administrative efficiency of government affairs departments.