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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.