"Well, this is certain. Now there are many officials studying in universities in Beijing. It seems that everyone is a little worried and is going to prepare for the future." Jiang Feng nodded in agreement.

Generally speaking, under this situation, officials who have worked for 30 years can retire early, and those who are diverted from other positions can go to prestigious universities for further study, and the tuition fee will be paid by the state. After these people graduate from colleges and universities in a few years, if some people who are older than the school will retire and have some positions vacant, they can re-enter the school and be appointed.

Of course, there are many people who have different choices, such as after further study, they have a new place to go, some go to industry associations, some go to enterprises, and some go to public institutions, it depends on what everyone chooses.

There are also precedents to follow this point. During the institutional reform in 1998, the State Council's agency had more than 10,000 personnel transferred to the State Council, and almost half of them were laid off. The General Office of the State Council forwarded the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Education's notice on the implementation plan for the diversion of personnel in various departments of the State Council, stipulating that all diversion personnel with high school graduation and above can be registered, and admitted without examination, and participated in targeted professional training organized by the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Education, pursuing master's degree, postgraduate course training classes, and postgraduate academic education. The training time is two to two and a half years, and the training capacity is about 13,000 people.

At that time, the Shouda University, Qunda University, Huaxia and other schools organized targeted professional training to pursue undergraduate degree and master's degree. Among them, in the national master's and doctoral degree enrollment plan in 1999, the country set a separate plan for diversion personnel, and about 2,000 people implemented the school and major.

In addition, various ministries and commissions also provide bachelor's degree education for diversion personnel, postgraduate education for majors other than the annexes, and job and vocational skills training in various forms, based on the needs of industry management and career development of their departments and systems, which has improved the quality of some civil servants.

This kind of increasing number of civil servants is also common in advanced management training courses at Huaxia University and some of the first-time emba course classes. The senior personnel training classes jointly organized by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and other departments with Huaxia are also full of staff. Most of the students are officials and corporate leaders from the central and local state-owned assets systems. They are very motivated to learn and have high levels. There are few department-level officials, most of which are above the department level.

In fact, these students are not worried about future prospects. The reason is that they can attack and retreat after learning. If the department can be broken down and merged, high education will be conducive to individual promotion and promotion in the changes. If they are diverted, they can also go to the enterprise and go to the market to achieve great success with academic qualifications like Emba.

"In fact, if you want to properly solve this matter, it is still what I said. First, you must solve the problem of administrative approval." Jiang Feng said.

In fact, the people have long had a lot of opinions. Is it okay to have less political axes?

The large number of government ministries and commissions is obviously not what government officials want. In fact, this demand has been clearly expressed after several years.

There is no more reasonable explanation, and everyone can only think that there are too many things to manage in the government. If these departments are not established, the government will not be able to manage it.

Therefore, the following characteristics were developed: high degree of specialization, detailed division of labor, and many functions, thus downplaying the public service function of the government and axe.

Some ministries and commissions have concentrated too much decision-making power and also implemented power, which not only reduces the administrative efficiency of government and axe, but also strengthens departmental interests, which is easy to become one of the factors that generate mechanisms [***].

Some scholars have long proposed that the correct order of reform of the political system should be to first carry out administrative management model reform, return power to market entities and to society, and significantly reduce the unnecessary power exercised by the political system.

After Zhengfu adjusted his functions, it was natural to abolish, reorganize, and merge ministries.

However, this reasonable sequence process is difficult and slow under the obstruction of department, group and individual interests.

"One of the central government's key tasks is to reduce the intervention of government and axe in the economy," said Jiang Feng. "For example, the cancellation of some administrative approval projects of enterprises will smash some rules and regulations under the planned economic system that should have been cancelled long ago."

"If you do it according to your opinion, you will encounter greater resistance." Ding Yongjun replied.

Ding Yongjun is very clear about the current situation. There have been examples of this point. For example, many of the central government’s proposals, such as strengthening environmental protection and expanding social services, have been difficult to implement due to conflicts between the central and local departments and conflicts between departments with different work priorities.

Although this institutional reform is sharpened, the cadres who are slaughtered are basically those who are not strong in the back office. Those officials who are truly deeply ingrained in central ministries and commissions can be said with certainty that they will not be affected.

But no matter what, this is a job that offends people.

If you do what Jiang Feng said, you will offend the entire bureaucratic class, because Jiang Feng will directly take away part of the power in their hands, which is something that everyone cannot tolerate, and is far more difficult than offending a small number of people.

Jiang Feng shook his head and said, "The difference seems to offend more people, but it is what I said. It is precisely because there are too many lice and not bite people, so it will not offend specific people. But I believe that such a change is what is needed most in the country and is also the most popular among the people. As long as this plan is put forward, countless grassroots people will immediately support it. No matter what the result is, they already have a broad mass base and the so-called people's hearts. Of course, at present, this plan will probably be delayed for various reasons."

After hearing this, Ding Yongjun understood Jiang Feng's intention. He wanted to use the method of directly pointing to the root of the problem, to advance as a retreat, and to put the offending matter on the ground.

Since you all want to be good people, I also have my own way. In short, if a crow falls on the pig's back, no one should think of anyone as bad.

Ding Yongjun said with some emotion: "Xiaofeng, if Comrade Kunqi had heard you earlier, he would probably not have had such a headache recently."

Jiang Feng smiled and said, "Uncle Ding, don't say it. Standing Committee Member Lu just led my army in the afternoon."

Ding Yongjun was curious and asked, "What's going on?"

Jiang Feng told everyone what happened at the cocktail party. When Ding Haoguo and the others heard this, they shook their heads. Ding Haoguo even pointed at Jiang Feng and cursed: "You kid, you are really a little fox!"

Jiang Feng said, "There is nothing to do about this. If I am not a little fox, I will offend a lot of people. I can give some advice on such a thing in private, but it is absolutely impossible to say it on the surface. I am small and not strong, so I can't bear such a lot of pressure."

Jiang Feng knew that Lu Kunqi was pushed out by Premier Wen to put the ball in this matter, because Premier Wen will not retreat in this term and will continue to do it for another term. Under such circumstances, major matters such as the restructuring of the majority of the department should be presided over by Premier Wen himself. After all, although Lu Kunqi has been appointed as the executive vice premier, he has not officially started to perform this work after all, and must be approved at this Two Sessions.

Premier Wen also has a bit of bullying newcomers when he does this. But there is no way. Who says that such things are too easy to offend people?

In fact, Lu Kunqi's countermeasures to deal with this major reform are similar to what Jiang Feng said. After all, who is not a human elite at his level? Especially Lu Kunqi, who can enter the Standing Committee at the age of 52, is even more a human elite among human elites. As long as his eyes turn, he can find a compromise point that everyone can accept, so that things can be implemented smoothly.

In fact, every new policy is often the best time to carry out administrative system reform. Since 1983, the central government has made some adjustments to the political and axe departments at every stage. A brief review will not be difficult to find that this is a difficult and long road to reform.

Why implement a large-department system?

Data can be used to illustrate how many political departments in China are.

Before the reform in 1982, the number of ministries and commissions of the State Council once reached 100.

Afterwards, Zhengfu carried out many administrative system reforms, and the content of each reform was mainly to streamline institutions and reduce personnel.

In 1983, thirty-nine departments were streamlined at once, and in 1998, a large-scale institutional reform was restructured again. The 40 components of the State Council of China were laid off, leaving only twenty-nine, and most of the departments that directly manage industries were abolished.

This kind of institutional reform is incredible. The continuous major operations on political institutions are undoubtedly reflecting that the administrative system was extremely abnormal at that time.

However, the focus of the past reforms was basically to adhere to the principles of streamlining, unification and efficiency, and it was difficult to fundamentally solve the shortcomings of the existing administrative organization. After each reform, there will be another trend of institutional expansion. Institutional reform has been described as a digital game, and the path of streamlining-expansion-re-simplifying-re-inflation-re-inflation.

To this day, in addition to the General Office of the State Council, the State Council still has 28 departments, one special agency, one directly affiliated agencies, four office agencies, ten national bureaus managed by ministries and commissions, four directly affiliated institutions, and more than one hundred deliberative and coordination agencies.

Compared with mature market economies alone, China's political and axe departments have shown too many settings.

There is a folk song that describes the scene of a crowded meeting in a political axe: "The minister sat in an auditorium, the director stood in a corridor, and the director squeezed in a square."

When the cabinet meeting was held, the ministers sat all over the room. How did they discuss matters? Who should listen to? (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!