Notice of the General Office of the State Council on printing and distributing the main points of government affairs disclosure in 2020

General Office of the State Council on Printing and Distributing

Notice on the main points of government affairs disclosure in 2020

Guo Ban Fa [2020] No.17

People’s governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, ministries and commissions and institutions directly under the State Council:

"2020 Government Affairs Openness Work Points" has been agreed by the State Council, and is hereby printed and distributed to you. Please conscientiously implement it according to the actual situation.

the General Office of the State Council

June 21, 2020

(This piece is publicly released)

Key points of making government affairs public in 2020

To do a good job in making government affairs public this year, we should take Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era as a guide, fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second, Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 19th National Congress, adhere to the people-centered development thought, conscientiously implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on the work of making government affairs public, and accurately implement the newly revised Regulations on Government Information Disclosure in People’s Republic of China (PRC). Promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity with higher quality publicity, focus on the "six stabilities" and the "six guarantees" tasks, focus on deepening the "streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services" reform and optimizing the business environment, promote implementation, standardization and service in an open manner, and provide strong support for achieving the goals and tasks of economic and social development this year.

First, strengthen the publicity of the right to use around the implementation of the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee.

(a) based on the list of powers and responsibilities, strengthen the disclosure of power allocation information.It is necessary to comprehensively sort out the administrative powers exercised by this organ according to law and the public service responsibilities undertaken according to law, update and improve the list of powers and responsibilities, and make it public as required. Local government departments in charge of information disclosure at all levels should, according to their authority, urge administrative organs to disclose information such as work functions and institutional settings according to law, and on this basis, organize the compilation of a catalogue of institutional functions of government administrative organs at the corresponding level and make it public, so as to fully show the power allocation of government institutions.

(2) Taking the standardization of grassroots government affairs as the starting point, we will strengthen the information disclosure in the process of power operation.Pay close attention to the construction of public participation mechanism in grass-roots administrative decision-making, and all major administrative decisions directly related to the rights and interests of the relative parties should listen to the opinions of stakeholders and the public in an appropriate way. Guided by the disclosure of the right to use, we will focus on the key links and positions in the operation of power, and compile and complete the standard catalogue of grassroots government affairs disclosure by the end of 2020 in accordance with the requirements of relevant documents, so as to ensure that publicity and supervision will extend wherever the power runs.

(three) to focus on administrative regulations and normative documents, strengthen the management of government information.The competent department of judicial administration in the State Council should centralize and unify the existing effective administrative regulations before the end of 2020, and provide online consulting, retrieval, downloading and other services. Government departments at all levels should systematically sort out the regulations and normative documents issued by their own organs, promptly reform and abolish them in accordance with the requirements of the "streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services" reform, make them centralized, unified and open to the public and dynamically update them, and initially solve the problems of unclear base and imperfect system before the end of 2020. All government departments in charge of information disclosure should strengthen overall guidance, gradually organize and form a compilation of documents of the government at the corresponding level and the system, and make them public in a centralized and unified way to serve the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.

Second, strengthen the interpretation of policy release around "six stabilities" and "six guarantees"

(a) to help do a good job of "six stability".Focusing on the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and the requirements of the Government Work Report, we will intensify policy interpretation, strengthen the guidance of public opinion, comprehensively explain various policy measures and their effects to stabilize employment, finance, foreign trade, foreign investment and expectations, actively respond to hot economic and social issues, release more positive signals, and create a good public opinion environment for effectively overcoming the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic and striving to achieve this year’s economic and social development goals and tasks. Broaden distribution channels, enrich content forms, enhance the influence of communication, fully explain the overall stable, steady and progressive economic operation, and effectively boost market confidence.

(two) to help implement the "six guarantees" task.Real-time release of relevant policy information on ensuring residents’ employment, basic livelihood, market players, food and energy security, stable supply chain of industrial chain, and grass-roots operation. Closely around the efforts to stabilize enterprises to protect employment, enhance new development momentum, implement the strategy of expanding domestic demand, ensure the realization of the goal of poverty alleviation, stabilize the basic disk of foreign trade and foreign investment, and ensure and improve people’s livelihood, we will interpret relevant policies and measures, implementation and work results. In particular, it is necessary to increase the publicity of large-scale policies to bail out and stimulate market vitality, ensure the open and transparent flow and use of policy funds, and let policy funds go directly to the grassroots level of cities and counties, directly benefiting enterprises and the people.

Third, strengthen the disclosure of government information around optimizing the business environment

(1) Improve the publicity quality of market supervision rules and standards.Implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on deepening the "streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services" reform and optimizing the business environment, and fully disclose the market supervision rules and standards to market participants, so as to ensure the fairness of market supervision with the certainty of supervision rules and standards. Market supervision departments at all levels should strengthen window services and provide more accurate and convenient policy advice for market participants.

(two) improve the transparency and convenience of government services.Comprehensively optimize the process of handling affairs, let the handlers dynamically grasp the progress of handling affairs through technical means such as the Internet, and maximize the networking and transparency of handling affairs. According to the "streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services" reform process, timely update and open information such as working methods and working conditions. Strengthen the disclosure of comprehensive service information such as "one thing" and "one kind of thing" to further enhance the convenience of handling affairs.

(3) Improve the pertinence and accuracy of economic policy release and interpretation.Improve the quality of economic policy release, pay attention to policy interpretation and training for grass-roots front-line policy implementers, and ensure that various economic policies such as tax reduction and fee reduction are not missed or distorted in actual implementation, and benefit market players in a comprehensive and timely manner. Pay attention to improving the authority of economic policy interpretation and response channels and enhance the actual effect of interpretation and response.

Fourth, strengthen public health information disclosure around emergency response

(a) timely and accurate release of epidemic information.Adhere to the release of epidemic information under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, and be timely, accurate, open and transparent according to law, so that the public can know the latest epidemic situation and the progress of response and disposal in real time. Integrate all kinds of information release channels, effectively use press conferences, government websites, new government media and all kinds of news media, and comprehensively interpret the major decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council and the important work measures of the region and the department, so as to provide strong support for the epidemic prevention and control work. Pay close attention to the public opinion dynamics related to the epidemic situation, and respond quickly and positively to relevant public opinion hot issues. The principal responsible persons of relevant localities and departments should take the lead in speaking out and guide public opinion with authoritative information.

(two) to strengthen the publicity of emergency plans at all levels and the popularization of public health knowledge.Strictly implement the requirements of the regulations on the disclosure of government information on the voluntary disclosure of emergency plans for public emergencies, strengthen publicity and training in a targeted manner, enhance the awareness and ability of the public, especially those who implement emergency plans, and give full play to the practical effectiveness of emergency plans. Vigorously strengthen the daily popularization of public health knowledge, especially the good habits and practices developed by the public in the process of epidemic prevention and control in COVID-19, and strengthen publicity and promotion through popular science works and other forms, so as to improve the public’s awareness and ability to cope with infectious diseases.

(3) Protect all legal rights in strict accordance with the law.Properly handle the application for disclosure of government information involving public health events, and provide relevant information to the applicant to the maximum extent, except that disclosure will harm public interests and infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of others, so as to better satisfy the people’s right to know and safeguard the government’s credibility. Strengthen the protection of personal information, and strictly implement the relevant provisions on the protection of personal information for the prevention and control of epidemic situation in COVID-19, and take effective measures to keep and properly handle it.

Five, strengthen the implementation of the system around the implementation of the newly revised regulations on the disclosure of government information.

(a) to implement the new requirements of government information disclosure.Correctly implement the new regulations on voluntary disclosure, rely on the government information disclosure platform, promote the disclosure content to further focus on key government information, and make the disclosure method more unified and standardized. By the end of 2020, governments at all levels and their departments will complete the construction of government information disclosure platforms, and all the statutory voluntary disclosure contents will be made public.

(two) standardize the application for government information disclosure.Focusing on improving the internal system and standardizing the format of reply documents, we will comprehensively improve the quality of government information disclosure applications and protect the public’s reasonable information needs according to law. Accurately apply the provisions of disclosure according to the application, strictly grasp the scope of non-disclosure, adhere to the principle of minimizing the application of statutory non-disclosure clauses, and earnestly make disclosure the norm and non-disclosure the exception.

(3) Strengthen the construction of government websites and new media for government affairs.Strengthen the content guarantee of government websites and new media for government affairs, release more authoritative, accurate, easy to understand, diverse and easy-to-spread policy interpretation products, and continuously improve policy awareness. Do a good job in the intensive pilot work of government websites, promote data integration, service integration and application integration of government websites, new government media and online government service platforms, and improve the ability of big data analysis, decision-making assistance, overall voice ability and service to the public. Strengthen the responsibility of network security and do a good job in the security protection of government websites and political new media. By the end of 2020, all provincial and municipal government portals will support Internet Protocol Version 6.

(four) to establish and improve the information disclosure system of public enterprises and institutions.The relevant authorities in the State Council should, according to the requirements and authorization of the regulations on the disclosure of government information, and in accordance with the unified arrangement of the competent authorities of the national government information disclosure work, start to study, formulate or revise the special provisions on information disclosure of enterprises and institutions in the fields of education, health, water supply, power supply, gas supply, heat supply, environmental protection and public transportation, and accelerate the construction of the information disclosure system of public enterprises and institutions with China characteristics. By promoting the information disclosure of public enterprises and institutions, it will help improve the efficiency of supervision.

Six, strengthen the security measures to do a good job in government affairs.

(a) clear leadership responsibilities.Government departments at all levels should determine a responsible comrade in accordance with the law, perform the leadership duties of the government information disclosure work of this organ, and report to the competent department of government information disclosure work at the same level for the record. The government departments that implement vertical management should file with the competent department of government information disclosure work at the higher level. All government departments in charge of information disclosure should strengthen daily guidance and supervision, help solve practical problems, and correct misconduct in time. The competent department of government information disclosure at a higher level should strengthen the business guidance to the competent department of government information disclosure at a lower level, and fully perform their duties according to law.

(2) Strengthen the construction of institutional teams.Local governments at or above the county level should strictly implement the requirements of the regulations on the disclosure of government information, and make it clear that the government office (room) is the competent department of government information disclosure in this region. The working mechanism of government information disclosure of administrative organs shall, in principle, be designated in the internal organs of this organ, and be fully equipped with strong working force.

(3) Strengthen training.It is necessary to regard the regulations on the disclosure of government information as an important part of implementing the system of learning law for leading cadres, and include them in the compulsory course of initial training for civil servants, so as to steadily improve the awareness and ability of government staff in the disclosure of government affairs. The competent departments of government information disclosure should effectively improve the training work, enhance the pertinence and systematization of training, scientifically set up training courses, and enhance the training effect.

(4) Standardize the assessment.Local government information disclosure departments at all levels should carefully sort out the indicators of government affairs disclosure in the government performance appraisal system at the corresponding level and adjust and improve them according to the new situation and new requirements. Optimize the third-party evaluation, clean up and standardize the participation in various public evaluation and award-winning activities in the name of administrative organs.

All localities and departments to implement the main points, should be included in the annual report of the government information disclosure work to be open, accept social supervision.