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On the topic of large ministries. In fact, I have been mentioning it for a long time, but it was just remembered by everyone at this time.

According to the formulation of experts in the industry, in order to promote the comprehensive management and coordination of government affairs, the government departments are merged according to the comprehensive management functions of the government to form a super government organization system.

It is characterized by expanding the scope of business managed by one ministry and entrusting a variety of affairs related to each other to the jurisdiction of one ministry, so as to avoid to the greatest extent the overlapping of government functions, multiple government departments, and multiple management, thereby improving administrative efficiency and reducing administrative costs.

"The Sudan Red incident that appeared this time has once again made people shift their attention to the system of large ministries and commissions." Fan Heng said to his son Fan Wuxi, "The overlap of functions will only reduce administrative efficiency, as you said that there are too many lice and do not bite, so the top management is also using their brains to streamline the organization, but it will probably not be decided until next year's government change, but obviously, this is another power game." ”

Fan Wuxian nodded and said, "It's easy to understand, in fact, every reform is a redistribution of interests. ”

Since the government will change in a few months, a topic related to the personnel of the change has also been heating up recently. It is the issue of the adjustment of ministries and commissions, and it is said that it is necessary to build large ministries and commissions.

The current State Council was called the Government Council at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, but it was renamed the State Council in 1954. The current State Council says that there are 28 ministries and commissions, but in fact there are 78 agencies, which is certainly not the largest in history, but it is indeed enough.

From 1961 to 1964, the State Council streamlined its organization and liquidated 810,000 people, which shows the huge number of people at that time. By 1981, the number of State Council agencies had reached 100, and in 1982 it began to be streamlined again.

In any case, the organs of the State Council are constantly adding, subtracting, expanding, streamlining, and streamlining.

However, things have changed, but the old foundation of the Soviet model has not changed. Now that the market economy is in place, great changes have taken place in the economic situation and social conditions and people's feelings, and then we use these old foundations to manage things, and we don't talk about spending money, but we are afraid that things will not be done well.

The major ministries and commissions are the constituent organs of the State Council, and if you look at them from a foreigner's point of view, the ministers are considered cabinet members, not to mention their subordinate organs, and there should be rules for the establishment of ministries and commissions. The principle of administration is too complicated to say, to put it simply, there should be two principles for the establishment of ministries and commissions, one is that the scale is roughly the same, that is, the field of management should be about the same; The second is that a thing should be managed by one department, and should not be split into too many departments, which is similar to the principle of managing a company.

"For example, the Ministry of Finance manages government spending, but it doesn't care about state-owned assets, what about state-owned assets? Now a special agency called the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission has been set up to manage it, but this agency only manages assets, regardless of enterprises, and enterprises are managed by the newly established National Development and Reform Commission, right? A matter is cut into several sections, each with different departments in charge. Fan Heng gave an example to his son, "Also, there is a Ministry of Railways in China that manages railways, and a Ministry of Communications that manages highways and water transportation, but it is a Civil Aviation Administration at the vice-ministerial level that manages aviation, which is asymmetrical." Cutting one thing into several paragraphs, is it possible to set up a department to manage water, land and air transportation? This makes it possible to manage traffic throughout the country in a coordinated manner. It is the appearance of strategic management. ”

There are many other examples of this, such as the Ministry of Construction, which is responsible for building houses, but regardless of the land, the land is the responsibility of the Ministry of Land and Resources. It's no wonder that these two ministries don't fight, one wants to use land, and the other wants to hold agricultural land, and no matter how they coordinate, they can't get along.

In addition, the Ministry of Personnel is in charge of cadres, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security is in charge of labor, the Family Planning Commission is in charge of childbirth, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs is in charge of charity and welfare.

There is also a department in charge of cadres, a ministry of personnel in the ministry to manage the transfer, and then a ministry of supervision to supervise it, a prevention bureau in the directly subordinate agency, and an anti-corruption bureau in the Supreme Procuratorate to arrest people, is this setting too repetitive?

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

This department was the old foundation of the former State Development Planning Commission and the base camp of a typical planned economy, and it first merged many of the original industrial management departments, such as the Ministry of Metallurgy, the Ministry of Textiles, the Ministry of Coal, and the Ministry of Light Industry, and later merged with the State Commission for the Reform of the State System.

At present, the National Development and Reform Commission is in charge of three things, one is the macroeconomy, the second is industrial policy, and the third is state-owned enterprises. Of course. It is also in charge of economic reform, but it is too much in charge and too busy in reform.

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is a super ministry, and it doesn't care about the telecommunications industry, but the Ministry of Information Industry is in charge of it, and by the way, it also manages the Internet. 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 should be put together and become the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, but this is like an elephant and an ant side by side, the difference is too big, no wonder some people are cynical about it.

In addition, there is another ministry that has a large territory, that is, the Ministry of Agriculture, which, in accordance with the regulations of the State Council, is in charge of agriculture and rural economic development, that is, the Ministry of Agriculture is in charge of "agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline products, and fisheries" in addition to "forestry". Who is in charge of this "forest"? It is under the management of a deputy ministerial-level unit: the Forestry Administration.

Originally, the Forestry Bureau was also a department, which was in charge of planting trees and cutting down trees, but the work of cutting trees was better than planting tree trunks. Later, the policy of closing mountains for afforestation was implemented, and the Ministry of Forestry was left with only the work of planting trees, so it was changed to the Forestry Bureau.

In fact, now that the mountains have been handed over to farmers to plant trees, why bother setting up a separate forestry bureau. It is directly under the unified management of the Ministry of Agriculture, and can be collectively referred to as the Ministry of Rural Affairs. It makes sense for China to call the rural problem the "three rural" issues, because the "three rural" issues refer to agriculture, peasants, and rural areas, and these three aspects should be integrated into one department and managed in a unified manner, so that they can be managed well.

Of course, there are also departments that seem rather bizarre now, such as the Bureau of Foreign Experts.

"In the past, foreign experts were important, it was at the diplomatic level. Now these foreigners are nothing more than foreign workers, to put it simply, they are foreign migrant workers, they all work for the boss, why set up a special agency for them? When Fan Wuxian heard that there was such a maverick department, he couldn't help but be shocked and expressed great dissatisfaction, "Whether it is a large ministry or a small ministry, the institutional setup of the State Council should adapt to the current national conditions, and at the same time, it must have a certain forward-looking. ”

"The main thing is one sentence, only when there are more positions can you arrange your own people, otherwise, once a son of heaven and a courtier, who wants to retreat? Once you retreat into the background, talking will not be very effective, and there is no way to take care of your own relationships, and this selfishness is the key reason for the bloated organization and the floating of people. "The new leadership has met several times to discuss this matter, and everyone is quite unanimous in their opinion, that is, the ministries need to carry out a relatively large merger to save resources and improve efficiency." ”

"It's long overdue." Fan Wuxian nodded in agreement, and he was still looking forward to the new leadership.

In fact, it is true that the dislocation and overlap of administrative functions have not only caused many disputes between departments, but also low administrative efficiency, and excessive economic resources have been consumed by the administrative agencies themselves; More importantly, it is unable to perform functions such as macroeconomic management, market supervision, and social management, and is unable to provide qualified public services and social security to the people.

Therefore, it is necessary to effectively integrate the existing government agencies, change the phenomenon of multiple government agencies and overlapping functions, and reduce the difficulty of coordination among various departments by reducing the number of agencies. It will make government operations more efficient and more in line with the role positioning of macro management and public services of the market economy. It is not just a matter of simply promoting the "separation of government from enterprises, government from capital, government from affairs, and government from intermediary organizations" as in the past, although these are the most basic tasks in the reform of government institutions.

In other words, the implementation of the majority ministry system also means that the government must take the provision of public goods and services as its own responsibility, so that the government power can be regulated and returned to public services.

If the reform of the ministerial system fails to achieve the effect of transforming government functions, then, like the previous reforms of government institutions, it will fall into a vicious circle of "streamlining, expanding, streamlining, and re-expanding."

This possibility exists, because a direct purpose of the large ministry system is to break the existing departmental interests, but as people fear, if several ministries merge into a super ministry, the power is very large, and it may be more difficult to supervise it, therefore, if an effective power restraint mechanism is not established, under the large ministry system, the original "ministry" is downgraded to a "division", and the "king of Hades" has become a "little ghost", but the power in his hands has not changed, and he still exercises the functions and powers of the past "ministry". The reform of the ministerial system may accumulate the interests of departments that were scattered in the past into concentrated departmental interests.

The only way to solve this dilemma is to truly transform the functions of government.

It is precisely because of this reason that the high-level leaders are also very cautious about this matter, believing that the majority ministry system is an inevitable choice for the government to guarantee the service function of the government in the great social transformation and the dilution of the administrative color, and at the same time, it is also worried that the majority of the ministry system will cause a situation in which the tail cannot be dropped, and the actual power of the leadership of a ministry with great power will be difficult to check and balance even the prime minister and vice premier.

"I hope the reform can be successful this time, I'm still more optimistic about you." Fan Wuxi patted his father Fan Heng on the shoulder who was sitting on the sofa and laughed with a grin.

"You kid, there's a kind of you going to pat those two on the shoulder and say it again." Fan Heng felt angry and funny, and couldn't help but ridicule his son.

"Hehe, I don't have the guts, everyone is not familiar with it!" Fan Wuxian shook his head and smiled.

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