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5.
The Ministry planned to establish a Civil Service
system at central and provincial levels within 5 years and
to gradually extend it to county and township levels
throughout the country.
6.
In order to meet the needs of reforms in the
economic system, reforms also had to be introduced to the
Government organisations. This reform commenced in 1988
and placed emphasis on the transfer of functions (ie.
Effort was made to separate Government
decentralisation).
from
enterprises; separate Government from the Party; turn
micro control to macro control and to switch from direct to
indirect management.
7.
While
transferring
functions, the
Government
structure was
streamlined and
supervision
was also
strengthened with the establishment of the Ministry of
Supervision, Ministry of Auditing etc.
8.
Every ministry/department formulated the "Three
) which laid down its
Definition Schemes"
(三定方案
functions, structure and size. The size of the department
was
decided by its functions.
Duplication was ironed out
and the number of high posts was reviewed.