The topic about most ministries and commissions has actually been mentioned for a long time, but it was just that everyone was thinking about it once.

The so-called large-ministerial system is the large-department system. According to the proposals of industry experts, in order to promote the comprehensive management and coordination of government affairs, government departments are merged according to the comprehensive government management functions to form a super-major government organization system.

The feature is to expand the business scope managed by a department and hand over the affairs related to multiple contents to the jurisdiction of a department, so as to maximize the cross-border government functions, multiple government departments, and multiple management, thereby improving administrative efficiency and reducing administrative costs.

"The Sudan Red incident this time once again made people turn their attention to the system of the majority of ministries and commissions." Fan Heng said to his son Fan Wubing, "The cross-functional function will only reduce administrative efficiency. As you said, there are too many lice and do not bite people, so the senior management is also thinking about it and planning to streamline the organization. However, it will probably not be decided until next year's government change, but it is obvious that this is another power game."

Fan Wubing nodded and said, "This is easy to understand. In fact, every reform is a redistribution of interests."

Because the government will be re-elected in a few months, a topic related to the personnel change has become popular recently. It is the issue of adjustments to ministries and commissions, saying that it is necessary to build a large number of ministries and commissions.

The current State Council was called the State Council when it was founded. It was only renamed the State Council in 1954. The organizational structure imitated the Soviet Union and was in opposition to the Big Brother. The current State Council says that there are 28 ministries and commissions, and actually 78 institutions. Of course, it is not the largest in history, but it is indeed enough.

From 1961 to 1964, the State Council streamlined its institutions and cleaned up 810,000 people, which shows how large the number of people was. By 1981, the number of the State Council reached 100, so it began to streamline it again in 1982.

Anyway, the institutions of the State Council are constantly adding and decreasing, expanding and simplifying, and simplifying and swelling.

However, after all the changes, the old foundation of the Soviet model has not changed. Now the market economy, the economic situation and social conditions have changed a lot. If you use these old foundations to manage things, you will not talk about spending money, but you are afraid that things will not be done well.

Major ministries and commissions are composed of the State Council. If we look at it from the perspective of foreigners, ministers are all members of the cabinet. Not to mention their subordinate institutions, there should be rules for the establishment of ministries and commissions. The principle of administration is too complicated. Simply put, there should be two principles for the establishment of ministries and commissions. One is that the scale is roughly the same, that is, the areas in charge of affairs should be much different; the other is that one thing should be managed by one department and should not be broken into too many departments. This principle is similar to managing a company.

"For example, the Ministry of Finance manages government expenditures, but regardless of state-owned assets, what should we do if state-owned assets are not concerned? Now a special agency is established to manage the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, but this agency only manages assets, regardless of enterprises, and enterprises are managed by the newly established Development and Reform Commission. Isn't it strange? One thing is cut into several sections, and different departments are managed." Fan Heng gave an example to his son, "Also, the Ministry of Railways manages railways, and the Ministry of Transport manages highways and water transportation in China, but the person in charge of aviation is a deputy ministerial-level Civil Aviation Administration. This is asymmetric. Another thing is cut into several sections. Can a department that manages water, land and air transportation? This can coordinate the management of national transportation and have strategic management."

There are many such examples, such as the Ministry of Construction is responsible for building houses, but regardless of land, the land is responsible for the Ministry of Land and Resources. It would be strange if these two departments do not fight. One needs to use land and the other needs to protect agricultural land. No matter how you coordinate, it will not be able to get along.

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 Corruption Prevention Bureau in the direct agency to fight corruption, and the Supreme Procuratorate has a Anti-Corruption Bureau in charge of arresting people. 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 State Council.

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 are 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 "forest" under the jurisdiction? It is under the jurisdiction of 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?" Fan Wubing 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 because of 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." Fan Heng pointed out incisively, "Now the new leadership has held several meetings to discuss this matter, and everyone's opinions are quite consistent, 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." Fan Wubing nodded in agreement, and 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 government agencies, change the phenomenon of numerous government agencies and intersecting functions, and reduce the coordination difficulties of various departments by reducing the number of institutions, making government operations 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 affairs, separation of government and intermediary organizations," as in the past, although these are the most basic tasks in government organization reform.

In other words, the implementation of the large-scale system also means that government functions must take it as their responsibility to provide public products and public services, so that government power can be regulated and returned to public services.

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

It is precisely for this reason that the senior management is very cautious about this matter, believing that the majority department system is an inevitable choice for the government to guarantee service functions and weaken administrative colors in the social transformation. At the same time, they are worried that the majority department system will cause a situation where the majority department system will not be able to lose its final result. At that time, a ministry with great power will probably be in a position to be able to balance the actual power of its leaders even the Prime Minister and the Vice Premier.

"I hope this time the reform will be successful. I am quite optimistic about you." Fan Wubing patted his father Fan Heng's shoulder sitting on the sofa and laughed with laughter.

"You guy, you have a good time, pat the two people on the shoulders and say this again." Fan Heng felt angry and funny, and couldn't help but ridicule his son.
Chapter completed!