On the 16th, the plenary congress entered the second phase.

According to the meeting schedule for previous years, the key task in the second phase is to review the 2017 fiscal budget of the State Council.

When entering the venue, all the delegates received the news that this year's meeting schedule had been adjusted.

At 8:30, Ji Youguo walked onto the podium.

When the head of state of the Union addressed, hundreds of staff members delivered several bound drafts of the law to each representative.

Compared with previous years, Ji Youguo's State of the Union address focused on the difficulties encountered in national development.

Because the State of the Union Address was issued to all representatives two days ago, when listening to the report, most of the representatives were paying attention to the draft law he just obtained.

"... The future of the country and nation depends on everyone, and requires the people of the whole country to work together. For decades, we have been working hard to establish a civilization, democracy, prosperity and strong republic. Whether it is the central government, local government, whether it is the national leader, or ordinary people, we must respect and abide by the law. Only a republic based on the legal system can a strong republic." Ji Youguo's eyes left the speech and submitted to the tens of thousands of representatives present. "Here, I solemnly propose four bills, including the "Government Code of Conduct", the "Government Structure Adjustment Law", the "Administrative Expenditure Review Law" and the "Representative Election Law", and the "Representative Election Law" to the representatives who exercise state power on behalf of the people of the whole country. Please review and vote."

The venue was very quiet and even the breathing sound could be heard.

Before Ji Youguo said his last words, most of the representatives had read the general content of the bill and were already shocked.

The "Government Code of Conduct" fundamentally restricts government behavior and lays the foundation for the reform of state-owned enterprises. The "Government Structure Adjustment Law" is a successor action in the storm of integrity and provides a legal basis for streamlining government personnel. The "Administrative Expenditure Review Law" clearly stipulates that governments at all levels must publish financial expenditure details on time, accept representative review and private supervision, and provide a legal basis for restricting government fiscal control. The "Representative Election Law" explicitly stipulates the proportion of the members of the congress at all levels. It legally limits the proportion of government officials and leaders of state-owned enterprises and institutions occupying a land area in the congress.

Compared with previous local laws, Ji Youguo proposed the local bill and also clarified the punishment clauses in detail.

Take the Administrative Expenditure Review Law as an example. If government expenditure exceeds the budget, the head of the government at the same level must make a reasonable explanation and be recognized by the congress. If rejected, the government at the same level must "fill in the fiscal budget for the following year". The highest administrative official at the same level shall accept administrative penalties in accordance with relevant terms.

The bills have had unprecedented sensation.

The "Government Code of Conduct" has been formulated in the most detailed manner, not only clearly stipulates what the government can do and what it should do, but also clearly stipulates what the government cannot do and what it should not do. The bill also stipulates necessary punitive clauses. That is, if the government violates the law, what methods should be punished? According to regulations, parties where interests are infringed can file civil and administrative litigation with the court, demanding the government to compensate for the infringement; civil groups where the state recognizes, such as trade unions, industry chambers of commerce, natural environmental protection organizations, etc., can file collective administrative litigation. The government is required to cancel relevant administrative orders and compensate the losses of the parties involved; public procuratorates can also file administrative litigation on behalf of the parties involved and the parties involved. The government requires the government to cancel relevant administrative orders and compensate the losses of the parties involved.

The most popular thing is the "Government Structure Adjustment Law". In this bill, it not only clarifies the personnel structure, personnel allocation and scope of power of each government department. It also clearly stipulates the "public power" of each administrative department. The most praised by the people is. The bill clearly stipulates that only national leaders, social public safety departments (police, firefighting, armed police, etc.), and social medical assistance departments (hospitals, nursing homes, etc.) have the right to equip and use public vehicles. All public vehicles can only be used for work and public life.

This alone can save trillions of administrative expenses every year as compensation. National civil servants enjoy public transportation subsidies. In the subsequent local administrative norms proposed by Pang Xinglong, the public transportation subsidies for civil servants at all levels of the State Council were clearly stipulated. Local governments were required to issue corresponding regulations in accordance with the ratio of local prices to Beijing. In addition, the bill also made clear provisions on the scope, nature and specific expenses of public social engagements, public tourism destinations.

The core idea of ​​the Administrative Expenditure Review Law is to strengthen the review and supervision of the government by congresses at all levels, and to clarify the people's power to supervise the government.

In terms of long-term impact, the "Representative Election Law" is the highlight.

In this bill, the proportion of administrative personnel, military and armed police officers and soldiers, state-owned enterprises and institutions and ordinary people in the congress is clearly stipulated. Among them, the proportion of administrative personnel is only 21%, the proportion of military and armed police is 12%, the number of state-owned enterprises and institutions is 16%, and ordinary people account for 51%. Compared with the actual situation, this proportion is obviously biased towards ordinary people. Among all representatives of this session, administrative personnel, soldiers and state-owned enterprises and institutions account for 72% of all representatives, of which administrative personnel are, and ordinary people are only 28%.

Now, everyone

The five words "responsible to the people" mean.

Any law is not what the draft looks like, but the result is what it is.

In the next few days, in addition to Premier Pang Xinglong, who proposed several administrative norms to all representatives, the representative's main job was to debate the four local bills proposed by Ji Youguo, review each regulation in detail, and make some modifications to some regulations.

As a representative, Ji Youguo participated in the debate and deliberation throughout the process.

As major news media reported the bill one after another, the enthusiasm of the domestic people was mobilized.

By February 18, within just two days, the State Council’s petition office had received millions of suggestions and opinions from all over the country. To this end, Pang Xinglong had to seek help from several intelligence departments to allow the intelligence departments to participate in the processing and summary of information, and reduce the burden on the State Council.

Another "big event" happened on February 17.

College students from dozens of universities in the capital, led by Peking University and Tsinghua University, spontaneously debated the specific terms of the case "in order to put pressure on the plenary congress.

The focus of the debate is the "Representative Election Law".

According to the debate results of college students, the share of representatives "distributed" to the people should not be 51%%, at least more than 67%, so as to ensure that ordinary people have a say in state affairs.

On the same day, Renmin University professor Ye Zhisheng published a commentary on "On "Responsible to the People"" in several major newspapers.

Just like the first two comments he made, the comment caused heated discussion as soon as it was published. The focus of the discussion was: what is "responsible to the people" and how can we "responsible to the people".

After Ye Zhisheng made a comment, many sociologists made similar comments one after another.

The key is still one: how to "responsible to the people".

In just one day, "responsible to the people" became the focus of discussion among the people of the whole country.

Driven by public opinion and public opinion, the review and voting work has progressed very "smoothly".

On February 19, the "Government Code of Conduct Law", which was revised in a small scale, was first passed at the plenary congress. 85% of the delegates voted in favor, and less than 1% of the delegates voted against. On February 211, the "Government Structure Adjustment Law", which also made changes to clarify the punishment clause, was passed in the vote, 8 delegates voted in favor, and only 2 delegates voted against. On February 24, the "Administrative Expenditure Review Law" was passed without any amendments, 90% of the delegates voted in favor, and no one voted against. On February 27, the "Delegation Election Law" increased the proportion of ordinary representatives to 63%, the military representatives increased to 15%, the administrative representatives to 15%, and the employee representatives of state-owned enterprises and institutions were reduced to 7%, and 1c0% of the delegates voted in favor.

At this point, all the bills were passed, with clearer content and more "ideal" results.

By this time, the outside world has basically guessed the reason why Ji Youguo asked Pang Xinglong to delay submitting the 20177 fiscal budget report. Because according to the bill just passed, the State Council's fiscal budget for 20177 will definitely be adjusted greatly.

On February 28, Premier Pang Xinglong of the State Council officially submitted the 20177 central fiscal budget to the plenary congress.

The results are exactly the same as outside speculation. In this budget report, which is hundreds of pages thick, compared with the actual expenditure in 20166, in the total central fiscal budget, in addition to the increase of 23% of military expenditure, national medical insurance, national social welfare security, education and research expenditures have all increased significantly, social public infrastructure maintenance and construction costs have been reduced by 23%, infrastructure construction has been reduced by 7%, central government administrative costs have been reduced by 58%, public utilities have been reduced by 16%, state-owned enterprises have been reduced by 72%, and daily administrative additional expenses have been reduced by 88%!

What ordinary people see is Ji Youguo's determination to resolutely crack down on the ** and consolidate the storm of integrity.

What scholars see is the beginning of the transformation of the government from "management" to "service-oriented".

According to the budget submitted by Pang Xinglong, the cost of maintaining government operations accounts for only 18% of the total budget, and most of the fiscal expenditure is used for national welfare protection, national education and infrastructure. Although compared with Western countries, the government operating expenses of 18% are still very high (7% in the United States, 6% in the United Kingdom, 8% in France, 6% in Germany, and 12% in Russia), compared with administrative expenses that account for 35% of the total budget in previous years, it is considered an amazing "progress".

Reducing administrative expenses is an inevitable process of transformation to a "service-oriented government".

After three days of deliberation, the plenary congress finally approved a total of 1 fiscal budget. Among the 120 new budgets, 8 were added to national defense construction and social public maintenance. In the end, the proportion of administrative expenditure in the total budget was only 17%.

At this point, the second phase agenda ends and the final phase agenda is about to come.

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For the third time, rush! (To be continued,)

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