(Adopted at the First Session of the Ninth National People's Congress on March 10, 1998)
颁布日期：19980310 　实施日期：19980310 　颁布单位：全国人民代表大会

Having listened to the explanations by State Councillor and Secretary-General of the State Council Luo Gan on the State Council's Institutional Restructuring Plan, and deliberated the State Council's Institutional Restructuring Plan, the First Session of the Ninth National People's Congress decides to approve the State Council's Institutional Restructuring Plan.

APPENDIX: STATE COUNCIL'S INSTITUTIONAL RESTRUCTURING PLAN

In accordant with the requirements of the Fifth National Congress and the Second Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the aims of the State Council's Institutional Restructuring Plan are: to establish a government administrative system which is efficient in work, coordinated in operation and standardized in behavior; to improve the state civil servant system; to build up a contingent of high-quality specialized administrative officials; and to gradually establish a government administrative system with Chinese characteristics and suitable to the socialist market economic system. The principles of the reform are: to change government functions and realize the separation of the responsibilities of the government from those of enterprises in accordance with the requirements of the socialist market economy; to readjust the government organizational structure and practise to reduce the staff and simplify administration in accordance with the principle of simple, unified and efficient administration; to readjust the terms of reference of every government department, define and divide the responsibilities among different departments and improve the administrative operational mechanism in accordance with the principle of power consistent with responsibility; to strengthen the legalization for the administrative system in accordance with the requirement of rule by law and exercising administration by law.

The State Council's Institutional Restructuring Plan is detailed as follows:

1. Fifteen Ministries and Commissions Not to Be Retained:

(1) Ministry of Electric Power Industry of the People's Republic of China

(2) Ministry of Coal Industry of the People's Republic of China

(3) Ministry of Metallurgical Industry of the People's Republic of China

(4) Ministry of Machine-Building Industry of the People's Republic of China

(5) Ministry of Electronics Industry of the People's Republic of China

(6) Ministry of Chemical Industry of the People's Republic of China

(7) Ministry of Internal Trade of the People's Republic of China

(8) Ministry of Post and Telecommunications of the People's Republic of China

(9) Ministry of Labour of the People's Republic of China

(10) Ministry of Radio, Film and Television of the People's Republic of China

(11) Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources of the People's Republic of China

(12) Ministry of Forestry of the People's Republic of China

(13) State Physical Culture and Sports Commission of the People's Republic of China

(14) Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence of the People's Republic of China

(A new Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence will be formed. The functions for management of the national defence industry in the former Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, the functions of the National Defence Department under the State Planning Commission and the government functions undertaken by various military industrial corporations shall be incorporated into the new Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence.)

(15) State Commission for Economic Restructuring of the People's Republic of China

(For the purpose of strengthening the leadership of the State Council over the economic restructuring work, the State Commission for Economic Restructuring will be turned into a top-level think-tank of the State Council headed by the premier and with relevant ministers serving as its members. It will not be included into the series of component departments under the State Council.)

2. Four New Ministries and Commissions to Be Formed:

(1) Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence of the People's Republic of China

(2) Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China

(3) Ministry of Labour and Social Security of the People's Republic of China

(4) Ministry of Land and Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China

3. Three Ministries and Commissions to Be Renamed:

(1) The State Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China will be renamed the State Development Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China.

(2) The Science and Technology Commission of the People's Republic of China will be renamed the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China.

(3) The State Education Commission of the People's Republic of China will be renamed the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.

4. Twenty-Two Ministries, Commissions, the Bank and the Administration to Be Retained:

(1) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

(2) Ministry of National Defence of the People's Republic of China

(3) State Economic and Trade Commission of the People's Republic of China

(4) State Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China

(5) Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China

(6) Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China

(7) Ministry of Supervision of the People's Republic of China

(8) Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China

(9) Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China

(10) Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China

(11) Ministry of Personnel of the People's Republic of China

(12) Ministry of Construction of the People's Republic of China

(13) Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China

(14) Ministry of Communications of the People's Republic of China

(15) Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China

(16) Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China

(17) Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation of the People's Republic of China

(18) Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China

(19) Ministry of Public Health of the People's Republic of China

(20) State Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China

(21) People's Bank of China

(22) Auditing Administration of the People's Republic of China

5. Through Readjustment and Reorganization, There Will Be Totally Twenty-nine Ministries, Commissions, the Bank and the Administration, Not Including the General Office of the State Council, to be Listed in the Series of Component Departments under the State Council.

(1) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

(2) Ministry of National Defence of the People's Republic of China

(3) State Development Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China

(4) State Economic and Trade Commission of the People's Republic of China

(5) Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

(6) Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China

(7) Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence of the People's Republic of China

(8) State Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People's Republic of China

(9) Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China

(10) Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China

(11) Ministry of Supervision of the People's Republic of China

(12) Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China

(13) Ministry of Justice of the People's Republic of China

(14) Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China

(15) Ministry of Personnel of the People's Republic of China

(16) Ministry of Labour and Social Security of the People's Republic of China

(17) Ministry of Land and Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China

(18) Ministry of Construction of the People's Republic of China

(19) Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China

(20) Ministry of Communications of the People's Republic of China

(21) Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China

(22) Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China

(23) Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China

(24) Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation of the People's Republic of China

(25) Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China

(26) Ministry of Public Health of the People's Republic of China

(27) State Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China

(28) People's Bank of China

(29) Auditing Administration of the People's Republic of China