Outline of the Plan for the Reform and Development of the Pearl River Delta |
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X. Creation of New System and Mechanism Advantages The Pearl River Delta, especially the Special Economic Zones in the region, will continue to serve as an "experimental field" and demonstration area, deepen the reform of the economic system and social administration system starting from the reform of the administrative system, advance the development of democracy and the rule of law, conduct unprecedented experiments at critical links and in vital fields, take the lead in establishing a complete and sound system of socialist market economy, and provide massive force for its scientific development. 1. Innovate Administrative System - In accordance with the general requirement of building a socialist administrative system with Chinese characteristics, in line with the basic positioning of the administration as economic adjustment, market regulation, social management, and public service, following the reform direction of simplification, unity, and efficiency, the region will energetically transform the functions, smooth the relations and optimize the structure of government administration, fully tap the basic role of the market in resource configuration, and strive to build governments of service, responsibility, law, and integrity. And it will separate government from enterprises, investment, social undertaking, and market intermediaries. All the matters that the market can adjust will be decisively trusted to the market; all the matters that should be decided independently by enterprises will be return to enterprises; all the matters that social organizations are capable of resolving will be transfer to social organization; and any responsibility that should be born by the government will be solidly fulfilled. The government will focus its attention on implementing the policies and measures for national macro adjustment and control, improving the environment for development, advancing economic development, boosting employment and social insurance, enhancing market regulation, normalizing market order, accelerating the development of social undertakings, and substantially protecting ecological environment. The region will strengthen its abilities to deal with emergent public events and to conduct integral management of public security. It will scientifically provide financial strengths for all levels of local governments according to the principle of matching financial appropriation with authority, and boost the abilities of the city and county governments to provide public services. It will further smooth and clarify the relationship between the departments subject to vertical administration and related local governments. And it will stipulate various accessory measures, and perfect the systems for assessing, auditing and tracing the main responsibilities of all levels of governments. - Further optimize the organizational structure and operational mechanism of government. Shenzhen and other places will be encouraged to take the lead in exploring the "giant department" system in governmental structure following the requirement that the decisive, executive and supervising authorities will constrain and coordinate each other. When the condition gets mature, the system will be spread to the Pearl River Delta and the whole province. Some eligible places will be selected to experiment the scientific, standard, and legalized management of organizational establishment and to experiment the mechanism for the coordination and constraint between organizational establishment on one side and financial budget and personnel management on the other so as to achieve reasonable organizational and personnel establishment for the administrative concern. To meet the needs of economic development, eligible places will be selected for rational adjustment of administrative division. The system of direct provincial administration of counties will be experimented, and the authority of the county governments in economic and social administration will be further expanded. The organizational reform of the towns and townships will be actively implemented. Following the principle of increasing the authority of towns, the central towns with a certain population scale and economic strength will be assigned part of the county-level authority for social and economic administration; the towns intimately related to the seat of the county government, when the condition matures, will be reformed into agencies of the county government; the super towns with a large scale and a high urbanization level will be consolidated into districts of prefecture-level cities. The system for the administration of the social undertaking stations and offices of towns will be innovated, and a new system of socialized agricultural services will be created. - Improve the administration and service methods of government. The reform of the administrative review and approval system will be deepened, the reexamination and adjustment of the approval items will be continued, and the administrative review and approval will be further reduced and standardized. Zhongshan will be supported to undertake the reform trial with innovative review and approval patterns. The way of enterprise registration will be improved, and informing and pledging method will be experimented. The Pearl River Delta will conduct the reform of administrative undertaking fees, reduce the categories of fees, and take the lead in adopting the "zero-fee" review and approval system. It will establish and perfect the trans-department and interrelated e-government platform, and actively exercise online office and online processing of government affairs. It will improve the administrative supervision system, and expedite the networking of the electronic supervision systems of the provincial, city, county, and town levels. It will facilitate the transparency of government work, improve the system of publicizing government information, and bring into full play the role of government information in guiding social and economic activities and the production, living, and services of the masses. It will enhance administrative planning and guidance, expand the commissioned and purchased services and contractual management, implement modern administration, lower administrative costs, and raise working efficiency. And it will fundamentally reform the ways of government administration so that it can be standardized, orderly, open, transparent, accessible, and efficient. - The region, following the requirement for union of responsibility, right, and benefit, will formulate an urban management system with relatively centralized management of specific sectors and rather localized general management. It will consolidate the resources of administrative law enforcement, institute an integral system for it, reduce its layers, and avoid overlapping operations by different departments. It will introduce the mechanisms for information sharing and joint action among related sectors of the government. It will complete the dispute and coordination mechanism for administrative law enforcement, and perfect the systems of responsibility, assessment and examination, and responsibility tracing concerning administrative law enforcement. It will further the reform of urban utility undertakings, establish diversified investment mechanisms and standard and efficient operational mechanisms, and gradually open up the market of building and running utilities. And it will innovate the regulatory mode for utility undertakings, and frame a regulation and evaluation system jointly participated by three organically combined parties, namely, the government, the public, and the society. 2. Deepen Reform of Economic System - The reform of rural economic system. The region will stabilize and complete the basic economic system of countryside, stabilize and sustain the existing land contract system, and formulate relevant accessory policies. It will foster new types of peasant cooperatives, vigorously develop specialized peasant cooperatives, and construct diversified systems of socialized agricultural services. It will actively carry out the reform of the collective forest ownership system, and establish the status of peasants as market players. It will enthusiastically foster and develop the market of the rights of contracting rural land, and support eligible places to develop diversified scale economy. It will spare no effort in executing the work of confirming and certifying the rights of rural land, administer the collection, reexamination, sharing and assembly of various registration materials of rural land, and provide the inquiry services about rural land registration results. It will continue deepening the reform of land expropriation system, gradually narrow the scope for land expropriation, perfect the compensation mechanism for land expropriation, abide by the laws in acquiring the collectively owned rural land, grant reasonable indemnities to the rural collectives and peasants following the principle of the same price for the same land, in a timely manner, and in full amount, and provide employment, housing, and social insurance for peasants whose land has been expropriated. It will speed the circulation and transfer of the use rights of the construction land of rural collectives, gradually unify the price of such land with that of state-owned land, and develop a unified land market for urban and rural areas; It will innovate the system for housing lot management, tighten the control of housing lots, and assure the usufructuary rights of the housing lots of rural households. It will experiment linking the increase of urban construction land and the decrease of rural construction land, and optimize the structure and layout of land use. It will complete the system of ensuring agricultural investment. It will establish a new mechanism for constructing village-level public utilities under government guidance and with multi-channel investments, and formulate the "one decision for one issue" methods of granting awards and subsidies to the construction of village-level public utilities. And it will recast the foundation of rural credit, and create new roads of rural financial services. Huizhou, Foshan, and Zhongshan will be supported to undertake the trial of the comprehensive reform for integrated urban and rural development. - The reform of financial and investment systems. The region, according to the requirements imposed by the equality of basic public services and the construction of the major functional region, will complete and perfect its public finance system. It will explore building a financial management system by which budget compilation, budget implementation, and budget supervision and review constrain and coordinate with each other. It will complete the system of matching financial power and administrative authority, and smooth the income distribution relations among different levels of public finance. It will adjust the structure of government expenditures, and favor the sectors that can help to boost the equality of basic public services. It will add the factors that can increase the features of the major functional region, and complete the transfer payment methods. It will reform the methods of distributing public finance funds, and establish and improve the mechanism of obtaining public finance funds in a systematically sound, open and transparent way. It will improve the management of investment projects, and expand local authority for project review and approval. And it will ameliorate the system for government investment management, standardize the investing behaviors of government, and conduct the trial of publicizing government investment projects. - The reform and innovation of finance. The region will be allowed to conduct unprecedented experiments with financial reform and innovation, and establish a comprehensive experimental area for these purposes. The region will support the eligible enterprises to issue corporate bonds, and foster equity investment institutions. It will establish pilot fund for venture capital, and develop the venture capital sector. It will innovate the financing modes for medium and small firms, actively set up credit guarantee funds for medium and small enterprises and regional re-guarantee institutions, and develop small-sum lending companies and equity companies investing in small and medium firms. It will steadily carry out the trial with the integral operation in the financial industry. It will safely undertake and innovate the transactions of RMB-denominated foreign exchange derivatives, and facilitate the foreign exchange risk management of various economic entities. It will research the opening of the short-term export credit insurance market, expand the coverage of export credit insurance, and support the development and expansion of the enterprises oriented toward foreign markets. Under the framework of the reform of national foreign exchange administration, the region will further reform the foreign exchange administration for foreign investment, and select appropriate enterprises to experiment RMB-denominated international settlement. And it will complete the mechanisms for internal control and risk prevention, stiffen financial regulation, and prevent and resolve financial risks. - The reform of enterprise system. The region will learn the experiences of advanced countries for state-owned enterprise management, and innovate the modes of state-assets operation and supervision. It will perfect the mechanism for the rational entry, exit and flow of state capital, speed up the adjustment of the layout and structure of state-owned economy, actively promote the reform of state-owned enterprises into joint-stock companies, energetically develop the economy of mixed ownership, boost the systematic reform and public listing of whole state-owned enterprises, and further enhance the dynamic, control and influence of state-owned enterprises. It will facilitate the concentration of state-owned assets in critical sectors, pillar industries, and pioneering industries. It will establish the modern enterprise system, and improve the legal person governance structure. It will reform and improve the talent selection and appointment system for the operation and management of state-owned enterprises, and establish a market of professional managers. It will put in place a risk management system for nationwide state-owned enterprises. It will explore developing multiple forms of new-type collective economy. It will carry out the reform of collective enterprise through capital transfer, equity structure adjustment, enterprise consolidation, and other effective way. It will arduously develop private economy, broaden the sectors and reduce the limits for the investment by non-state-owned enterprises, and rationally guide private investment into financial services, public utilities, and infrastructure construction. And it will encourage the reform of non-state-owned enterprises and establish a modern legal person governance structure to attain development and expansion. - Perfection of market environment. The region will speed up the reform of the prices of resource products and factors including electricity, oil, natural, gas, water and mineral, and establish a price formation mechanism that reflects supply-demand status, rarity degree of resources, and environmental costs.。It will reform the land supply system, perfect the bidding, auction, and listing systems of business land, and underpin the fundamental role of market in configuring land resources. It will further break administrative monopoly and regional blockade, and advance market integration. It will facilitate the reform of the water administration system. It will perfect the market regulation system combining administrative law enforcement, self-disciplining of industries, media supervision, and public participation. It will innovate the market regulation mode, and improve the regulatory mechanism linking administrative law enforcement with judicial administration. It will normalize the market order, and improve the mechanism for product quality regulation. It will expedite the construction of the social credit system, and establish and improve the real name credit information system based on organizational codes and identification card codes. It will set up and complete the warning, penalty, and early warning mechanisms of enterprise credit, and create a social atmosphere of honesty and credit. It will explore opening up the credit market to an appropriate degree. And it will reexamine and perfect the existing policies and regulations, regulate the economic order of the market, and create a stable and regular policy and legal environment. 3. Advance Reform of Social Management - Improve the social management system, and innovate the social management mode. The region will borrow the advanced experiences from advanced countries and regions, and continuously improve the structure of public management. It will carry on the reform of grassroots social management system, and straighten the relationship between government and urban rural autonomous governance organizations. It will consolidate social management resources, and strengthen the functions of grassroots autonomous management. It will improve community management system, and institute the mechanism of public resources sharing and the mechanism of integral management. It will create innovative modes that combine public security management with urban management, market regulation, and industrial administration. It will first accomplish the classification and reform of social undertaking institutions. It will form a multiple-channel mode of supplying public services, by which they may be provided directly or purchased by government or provided by social organizations as commissioned by the government. It will encourage social organizations and enterprises to participate in the provision of public services, and increase the capabilities and efficiency of public services. It will actively foster volunteer teams. It will simplify the registration procedures for social organizations. And it will support Zhuhai and other cities to undertake the trial of the comprehensive reform of social management. - Adjust income distribution. The region will adjust the structure of national income distribution, gradually increase the proportion of the incomes of resident, and increase the share of salaries in the primary distribution. It will introduce the mechanism that adapts the minimum salary standard to economic growth and price rise. It will set up and improve the systems of collective salary bargaining, minimum salary, salary payment assurance, guiding salary levels, and enterprise salaries survey, energetically raise the salary levels of low-income laborers, and gradually elevate the income levels of retirees. It will increase the financial and transfer-payment incomes of urban and, especially, rural residents. It will establish and improve a long-term effective mechanism for ensuring the sustainable growth of peasant incomes. And it will strengthen the adjustment of income distribution, and gradually narrow the income gaps among different social stratums. - Advance the reform of household registration system. The region will practice uniform household registration and administration of urban and rural residents. It will reform and adjust the household relocation system, and gradually include the migrant population in the local social management. It will promote the innovation of the system of migrant population service and management, relax the conditions for gaining a household registration in medium and small cities, and orderly transform the peasants working and living regularly in cities into urban residents. It will adapt to the needs of industry transformation and upgrade, and perfect the policy on granting household registration to migrant employees with a medium and higher level of professional qualification. It will explore and perfect the accumulative performance assessment of migrant population, and guide them to assimilate into the cities where they work and live. It will universally adopt the system of residence certificate and "all-purpose certificate", and strengthen the service to and management of migrant population. And it will perfect the system for the registration and management of foreigners and overseas Chinese living in Guangdong. 4. Advance Construction of Democratic and Legal Systems - Arduously forge legalized government. The government will govern according to law, standardize its law enforcement behavior, strictly conform to the statutory authority and procedures, and safeguard the authoritativeness of law. It will cultivate the legal notions of power and responsibility interdependence, supervision of power application, compensation for infringing of rights, and investigation of legal violation, enhance the senses of public servants of law and responsibilities, and widely implement the responsibility system for administrative law enforcement. And it will quicken the implementation of government work transparency, advance the law enforcement functions, intensify supervision of law enforcement, and explore establishing a scientific and precise system for the evaluation of rule of law. The region will promote judicial transparency, assure judicial fairness, and strengthen judicial relief and legal assistance. It will explore improving the legislative methods, establish a system of drafting laws and regulations in diverse channels, and explore effective ways of systematically perfecting the procedures of legislation drafting, consulting, and commenting. It will set up the systems and mechanisms, such as legislation hearing, that expand the orderly civil participation into politics. And it will establish the systems for post-legislation evaluations and the periodic reexamination of existing laws and regulations. - Promote scientific and democratic decision making. The region will improve the rules and procedures for making major decisions. It will perfect the systems of collective decision on major issues, expert consultation, public participation, and decision making evaluation. It will establish the feedback and correction systems and the responsibility tracing system for decision making. It will perfect the systems on the political supervision, participation and evaluation by the people's representatives and CPPCC members and their liaison with the voters. It will complete, and systemize and standardize, the rules and procedures on soliciting for the opinions of the democratic parties and the personages without partisan affiliation. It will expand orderly civil participation into politics, and guide citizens to exercise their rights and perform their duties according to law. It will tighten media and propaganda supervision, and fully tap the role of the Internet in supervision; It will enhance the research and formulation of scientific procedures of decision making, and assure the legal rights of the citizens as to political information, expression, participation, and supervision. And it will complete and develop grassroots democracy, and assure wider and more substantial democratic rights for urban and rural residents. 5. Fully Exert Pioneering Role of Special Economic Zones in Reform and Opening Up The special economic zones are a banner of the national reform and opening-up effort. In this new historic era, the special economic zones will carry forward the brave spirit of pioneering, exploration, reform, and innovation, bravely act as the vanguard in deepening the reform and opening-up work and creating new system and mechanism advantages, play a role as the window, experimental field, model, and leading force in advancing the reform and opening-up campaign in the Pearl River Delta and nationwide, and lead the country in ideological liberation, reform and opening up, exercise of the scientific outlook on development, and construction of socialist harmonious society. The special economic zones, specially Shenzhen Overall Reform Pilot Zone, will formulate general plans for the overall reform, gradually implement the reform, be allowed to undertake experiments in tackling the hard problems of the reform, and first make breakthroughs in certain key areas and critical links. |