Let’s talk about the departments in charge of people, the Ministry of Personnel is in charge of cadres, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security is in charge of labor, the Committee in charge of birth and the Ministry of Civil Affairs is in charge of charitable welfare. This setting is very planned and economic, and can be merged together. It can be given a more formal name, such as the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the Ministry of Population Development, which is responsible for China’s population strategy and policy issues.

There are also departments in charge of cadres. The Ministry of Human Resources and Affairs in the ministries and commissions are in charge of transfers, and the Ministry of Supervision is in charge of supervision. There is a bureau of prevention and control of the anti-corruption bureau in the Supreme People's Procuratorate. Is this setting too repetitive?

The largest department of the State Council now is not the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which ranks first, but the National Development and Reform Commission.

This department is the old foundation of the original State Planning Commission and is a typical base for planned economy. It first merged many of the original industry management departments, such as the Ministry of Metallurgy, the Ministry of Textiles, the Ministry of Coal, and the Ministry of Light Industry. Later, it merged the State Sports Reform Commission, which is the largest department in history and can be regarded as a small country-related affairs institute.

The National Development and Reform Commission now manages three things: one is the macro economy, the second is industry policies, and the third is state-owned enterprises. Of course, it also manages economic reform, but it has too much control over reform.

The National Development and Reform Commission is a super department. The telecommunications industry does not care about it, but the Ministry of Information Industry will manage it, and the Internet is also managed. Now there are high expectations for the development of the Internet, so some people suggest that the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Information Industry be put together to become the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. But this is like an elephant and an ant side by side, and the difference is too great. No wonder some people sarcastic about it...

In addition, there is a large territory under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture. According to the regulations of the State Council, the Ministry of Agriculture is in charge of agriculture and rural economic development. That is to say, the Ministry of Agriculture is in charge of "agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, deputy, fishing" in addition to "forest". Who is the management of this "forest"? It is under a deputy ministerial-level unit: the Forestry Bureau.

The Forestry Bureau was originally a department, which was in charge of planting trees and cutting trees, but the work of cutting trees was better than planting trunks. Later, the policy of closing mountains and raising forests was implemented, and the Ministry of Forestry only had the work of planting trees, so it was changed to the Forestry Bureau.

In fact, now that the mountains are left to farmers to plant trees, why should we set up another Forestry Bureau? It is directly combined to the Ministry of Agriculture for unified management, which can be collectively called the Ministry of Rural Affairs. China calls rural issues the "three rural issues" issues, which makes sense. "three rural issues" refer to agriculture, farmers, and rural areas. These three aspects should be integrated into one department and managed in a unified manner to manage them well.

Of course, there are some departments that seem rather weird now, such as the Foreign Experts Bureau.

"In the past, foreign experts were very important, and they were diplomatic work. Now these foreigners are nothing more than foreign workers. To put it simply, foreign migrant workers are just working for their bosses. Why set up special institutions for them?" Jiang Feng was shocked when he heard that there was such an independent department and expressed great dissatisfaction. "Whether it is a large ministries or a small ministries, the organizational setting of the State Council must adapt to the current national conditions, and at the same time it must be forward-looking. It should not be set up based on people, nor should it be abolished by people."

"The main thing is to say, it is better to arrange your own people if you have too many positions. Otherwise, if the emperor and the ministers are on the other hand, who would want to retreat? Once you retreat behind the scenes, your words will not work and your relationships will not be able to take care of. This selfishness is the key reason for the bloated organization and the overlying people." Premier Wen said incisively, "Now the new leadership has held several meetings to discuss this matter. Everyone has a consensus, that is, each ministries and commissions need to carry out a relatively large merger to save resources and improve efficiency."

"It should have been like this long ago." Jiang Feng nodded in agreement, and he was still looking forward to the new leadership.

In fact, this is true. The dislocation and intersection of administrative functions not only cause many disputes between departments, low administrative efficiency, and excessive economic resources are consumed by administrative agencies themselves; more importantly, it cannot perform macroeconomic management, market supervision, social management and other functions, and cannot provide qualified public services and social security to the public.

Therefore, it is necessary to effectively integrate existing institutions, change the phenomenon of numerous institutions and intersecting functions, and reduce coordination difficulties of various departments by reducing the number of institutions, making the operation more efficient and more in line with the role positioning of macro-management and public services of the market economy. Instead of simply promoting "separation of government and enterprise, separation of government and capital, separation of government and business, separation of intermediary organizations," as in the past, although these are the most basic tasks in institutional reform.

In other words, the implementation of the main system also means that the function must be responsible for providing public products and public services, so that the power of the country can be regulated and returned to public services.

If the reform of the department cannot achieve the effect of transforming functions, then it will fall into the vicious circle of "simplification-expansion-re-simplification-re-inflation" like previous institutional reforms.

This possibility exists because the direct purpose of the large-ministerial system is to break the existing departmental interests, but as people are worried, if several departments merge into a super department, with great power, it may be more difficult to supervise it. Therefore, if an effective power constraint mechanism is not established, under the large-ministerial system, the original "ministerial" is downgraded to "Secretary" and the "King of Hell" becomes a "little ghost", but the power in the hands has not changed and the power of the past "ministerial" is still exercised, then the reform of the large-ministerial system may accumulate the interests of the past scattered department into concentrated departmental interests.

To solve this problem, we must truly change the functions.

It is precisely for this reason that the senior management is very cautious about this matter, believing that the majority-minister system is an inevitable choice for the outstanding service function and the weakening of administrative colors in the social transformation. At the same time, they are worried that the majority-minister system will cause a situation where the majority-minister system will not be able to balance the actual power of a ministry and commission with great power at that time.

"I hope this time the reform will be successful. I am quite optimistic about you." Jiang Feng patted Premier Wen's shoulder sitting on the sofa and laughed loudly.

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With the progress of the Two Sessions, the domestic attention to food safety has not decreased, but has paid more and more attention. This issue has even become one of the most concerned issues of the Two Sessions.

Why? Because as the food safety inspection deepens, another big news broke out: poisonous milk powder!

March 8, Women's Day, this is a festival for women across the country, but one thing exposed on March 8 this year made thousands of female compatriots worried. On this day, the media such as the "Lanzhou Morning Post" of Longhai Province first exposed the toxic milk powder incident under the name of "a milk powder brand".

Because of the recent gutter oil incident, the whole country is paying close attention to food safety issues. As soon as such news was exposed, and now it is the Internet era, it naturally attracted widespread attention immediately.

Since the report's information about the brand name of the milk powder has been hidden, netizens have also launched a human search on the milk powder and called for the brand name of the milk powder to find out the suspected disease-causing milk powder to avoid more innocent babies being victimized.

As the initiator of the poisonous milk powder, Sanlu was exposed by Xinhuanet, which caused an uproar in society. At the same time, the parents of seven children jointly wrote down an application letter and wrote to the Longhai Provincial Health Department, requiring a thorough investigation of the cause of the disease.

As soon as the news was exposed, Sanlu Group publicly responded through People's Daily: Sanlu is a brand product in the milk powder industry, produced strictly in accordance with national standards, and the product quality is qualified. There is currently no evidence that these babies are caused by eating Sanlu milk powder. If there is really such a problem, I believe the quality inspection department will find out the truth.

At the same time, Sanlu Group also stated that their company has commissioned the authoritative quality inspection department of Longhai to inspect Sanlu milk powder, and the results show that the quality is qualified. Sanlu Group believes that the causes of infant kidney stones are multifaceted, and feeding children requires multifaceted knowledge cultivation.

"We can say with certainty that all our products are fine!" It has become the unified response caliber of all parties to the incident.

However, a few hours later, the Ministry of Health of China issued a message: After investigation, it is highly suspected that the Sanlu brand infant formula produced by Sanlu Group Co., Ltd. is contaminated by melamine. Melamine can cause stones in the human urinary system.

In response to the news from the Ministry of Health, Sanlu Group Co., Ltd. issued a product recall statement, saying that after the company's self-inspection, it was found that some batches of Sanlu infant milk powder that were shipped before March 6, 2008 were contaminated by melamine, with about 700 tons on the market.

Just a few hours after Sanlu Group announced the recall of contaminated milk powder, the media revealed that melamine is generally derived from packaging materials for counting milk powder, such as iron cans and flexible packaging. This incident should be screened from the raw materials, environment, production technology, etc. Under certain conditions, such as the baby's weight is small and drinking less water, it will also lead to the formation of calcium phosphate and deposited in the kidneys.

Industry favoritism is self-evident in this statement.

However, the people who are highly concerned about food safety due to the gutter oil incident are not that easy to fool. The online discussion about toxic milk powder is very hot and has become the headlines of major media.
Chapter completed!