In March 2023, the "Plan for the Reform of Party and State Institutions" was announced, which will be basically completed by the end of the year. At present, more than 20 provinces, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Tianjin, and Guangdong, as well as provincial capitals and sub-provincial cities such as Xi'an, Nanjing, and Xiamen, have announced their institutional reform plans.
For this round of institutional reform, what everyone is most concerned about is how to change it, and whether the establishment has been reduced? After all, in the past few years, local fiscal revenues have decreased, and some public services have been affected.
Judging from the plans announced in various places, there are several main points. First, adjust and optimize the institutional setup and responsibility allocation in key areas, mainly functional institutions in the fields of finance, science and technology, social work, agriculture and rural areas, data management, and work on the elderly.
At the national level, the State Administration of Financial Supervision has been established on the basis of the original China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, and local financial regulators have also been established, such as the Jiangsu Provincial Local Financial Administration. However, the local financial supervision bureaus that have been established in prefecture-level cities and districts and counties will no longer be retained, and this may be able to reduce the number of financial supervision bureaus by a considerable extent.
In addition, many places have set up science and technology innovation commissions, data bureaus, social work departments and other departments to align with **. Of course, there are also new institutions set up in some places, such as Guangxi to set up industrial park management agencies and energy management agencies.
Second, it is necessary to implement the requirements for streamlining the establishment and standardizing the number of leadership positions. Previously, the staffing of ** and various departments of state organs was uniformly reduced according to the proportion of 5%, and the recovered establishment was mainly used to strengthen key areas and important work, which has been completed.
The work of streamlining the staffing of local party and government organs shall be determined by the study of various localities in the light of actual conditions. There are no requirements for streamlining at the county and township levels. Therefore, there is no requirement for whether or not the local establishment should be streamlined, and how much it should be reduced.
At present, in the plans of Beijing, Gansu, Hubei, and Guangdong, it is mentioned that efforts should be made to reduce the number of personnel and standardize the number of department leaders. This means that these provinces will reduce their staffing.
Third, it is right to readjust and improve the system for setting up and managing township (street) organs, and it is right not to make a requirement for streamlining the establishment of townships and towns; the grassroots personnel at the township and town level are the most miserable and have the lowest incomes, so it is indeed possible to consider sinking more resources for the establishment of townships and towns into the townships and towns.
In fact, the most important thing to reform is at the county level, especially poor counties and counties with small populations. Last year, the official media "Half Moon Talk" published an article entitled "Worrisome, Worthy of Vigilance - The salary expenditure of the financial support personnel of County A in Wumeng Mountain District exceeded the county's tax revenue by nearly 5 times!" article.
The salaries of the county's financial supporters amounted to 26300 million yuan, but the tax revenue is only 4400 million yuan. Among them, there are 15,580 employees, and the total salary expenditure is 2 billion yuan. There are 28,806 temporary employees, and the salary expenditure is 4600 million yuan.
1 formal establishment with 1The 8 temporary workers, whether there is really so much work to do, or whether the establishment does not work, are all handed over to the temporary workers, I think everyone knows. At the county level, it is not that the staffing is insufficient, but that the staffing rate is very high. There are 2,475 health systems in County A, with 2,065 people and 410 empty staff, with a vacancy rate of 166%。
Starting from 2020, Shanxi, Hunan, Qinghai, Anhui and other provinces have started the institutional reform of counties with small populations, proposing to reduce the pressure on financial support and streamline institutions and establishments. For example, Hequ County has reduced the number of party and government organs from 36 to 22, and the number of leading positions has been reduced from 135 to 114. The 186 public institutions were consolidated into 40, and the number of public institutions was reduced from 1,964 to 659.
For these counties, which have little fiscal revenue and too many people to support them, whether they are staffed or hired temporarily, they should be gradually standardized and waste should be reduced. Otherwise, not to mention the low work efficiency, it will also cause a heavy burden on the finances.