China News Agency, Beijing, March 8th, title: China's institutional reforms in key areas are brewing "efficiency-improving offensive"
China News Agency reporter Wang Enbo
The institutional reform plan of the State Council of China was submitted to the First Session of the 14th National People's Congress for deliberation on the 7th.
Focusing on multiple key areas, this plan tries to solve those difficult issues of great concern to the society through a reform "offensive" to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of governance.
On March 7, the first session of the 14th National People's Congress held its second plenary session in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Entrusted by the State Council, Xiao Jie, State Councilor and Secretary-General of the State Council, made a statement on the institutional reform plan of the State Council.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng
——Science and Technology: Optimizing the Innovation Engine
Innovation plays a central role in China's overall modernization drive, and this institutional reform is dedicated to making this "number one driving force" more powerful.
The program intends to re-establish the Ministry of Science and Technology, and its specific management responsibilities will be transferred.
At the same time as the adjustment, a series of macro-management responsibilities such as strategic planning and system reform of the Ministry of Science and Technology have been strengthened, and will promote the improvement of a new national system, optimize the management of the entire chain of scientific and technological innovation, promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and promote the combination of scientific and technological and economic and social development.
At present, China is facing the severe situation of international scientific and technological competition and external containment and suppression. Better coordination of scientific and technological forces to overcome difficulties in key core technologies and accelerating the realization of high-level technological self-reliance will help optimize the key engine of innovation.
——Financial supervision: adhere to the bottom line of risk
Under the circumstances that financial mixed operation has become a trend, new forms of business emerge in an endless stream, and the cross-industry and cross-market contagion of financial risks has increased significantly, the reform of the financial regulatory system that has attracted much attention has gone further.
The plan plans to establish the State Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau, which will be responsible for the supervision of the financial industry other than the securities industry, further solve the problems of unclear regulatory responsibilities, cross-supervision and regulatory gaps, and bring all types of financial activities into supervision according to law.
In addition, measures such as adjusting the China Securities Regulatory Commission to an institution directly under the State Council and deepening the reform of the local financial supervision system are also on the way.
Regardless of the establishment of "new institutions" or the adjustment of "old institutions", they all reveal the same signal: resolutely hold the bottom line of preventing systemic financial risks.
——Data management: promote efficient circulation
The role of the digital economy has been well explained in the response to the epidemic.
The efficient allocation of data elements is a key part of promoting its development.
In response to this change, the plan plans to establish a National Data Bureau to strengthen the management, development and utilization of data in a targeted manner.
There are actually traces of this move.
In recent years, China's decision-makers have paid more and more attention to data, and have identified it as one of the five major production factors.
The blockbuster document "Twenty Measures on Data" issued at the end of last year focused on "promoting the compliance and efficient circulation and use of data and empowering the real economy" as the main line.
After this reform, the National Data Bureau plans to "take over" some of the responsibilities of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and the National Development and Reform Commission, and coordinate the promotion of digital China, digital economy, and digital society planning and construction.
The further rationalization of these relationships and functions will help break the "data islands" and fully realize the safe and smooth flow of data elements.
——Rural revitalization: Consolidating the achievements of tackling difficulties
After historically solving the problem of absolute poverty, the task of continuing to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation is still not light.
The plan intends to assign the responsibility of the National Rural Revitalization Bureau to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, but the related work will not be weakened.
After optimizing its responsibilities, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs must continue to increase its assistance to poverty-stricken areas and people. During the transition period after the completion of the national poverty-stricken task, relevant assistance policies, financial support, and project arrangements will remain generally stable.
This adjustment means that China will do a better job in all aspects of the "three rural areas" with the focus on rural revitalization in a more coordinated manner. In the process of accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural country, it will promote the overall upgrading of agriculture, the overall progress of rural areas, and the overall development of farmers.
——Intellectual Property: "Upgrade" to Respond to Concerns
Strengthening the protection of intellectual property rights is an inherent need to promote the construction of an innovative country, promote high-quality development, and expand high-level opening up to the outside world. Various enterprises have been concerned for a long time.
In response to this, the reform plan intends to "upgrade" the State Intellectual Property Office from a national bureau managed by the State Administration for Market Regulation to an institution directly under the State Council.
This is considered to be another piece of the "puzzle" to improve the intellectual property management system.
In the process of accelerating the construction of an intellectual property power, China is expected to continue to make efforts to comprehensively improve the level of intellectual property creation, application, protection, management and service.
——Work for the Elderly: Find out more answers to "care for the elderly"
When aging has become the basic national condition of China, providing for the elderly has also become a problem of people's livelihood that needs to be solved.
Focusing on the implementation of the national strategy of actively responding to population aging, better development of the elderly care industry and the elderly care industry, and the promotion of the realization of basic elderly care services for all elderly people, a series of arrangements have been made in the plan.
Including planning to assign the responsibility of the National Health and Medical Commission to formulate and coordinate the implementation of policies and measures to deal with population aging, and undertake the specific work of the National Working Committee on Aging to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
People expect that the continuous improvement of the aging work system can effectively solve the contradiction between the supply and demand of China's elderly care, solve more answers to "care for the elderly", and make "happy sunset red" within reach.
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