New leaders finalise candidates for top posts, approve restructuring plan
After three-day closed-door meeting, lawmakers are set to rubber-stamp nominations next week
The Communist Party's new leaders finalised the nomination of candidates for top government posts and approved a cabinet- restructuring plan to streamline the bloated bureaucracy.
The list, created at a three-day, closed-door meeting of the party's Central Committee that ended yesterday, is set to be rubber-stamped by lawmakers at next week's annual session of the National People's Congress, the ceremonial legislature.
The move will complete a power transition that began in November when Xi Jinping was installed as the party's general secretary.
The restructure of the State Council, or cabinet, is to create a further "division of power between the government and enterprises, the government and investors, the government and social institutions, and the government and social groups", said a statement issued via state-run Xinhua last night.
"It aims to build a service-oriented government … that is clean and efficient, and which satisfies the people," it said.
It aims to build a service-oriented government … that is clean and efficient, and which satisfies the people
The Central Committee also pledges to deal with problems. "We cannot pretend we don't see the prominent conflicts and problems in the party, evade them or whitewash them. We should make an effort to solve them," it said.