Delegates of the Communist Party of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) leave after the opening ceremony of the National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall in Beijing, March 5, 2023. (NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)
[The Epoch Times, Mawrth 10, 2023](Comprehensive report by Epoch Times reporter Ning Haizhong) For a long time, the National People’s Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference have been regarded as rubber stamps. (10th) The vote was passed in the morning, with a total of 2,951 votes in favour, 1 vote against, and no abstentions. Many questions have been raised about the many contents that make up the programme.
According to the plan presented to the National People’s Congress by Xiao Jie, State Councilor and General Secretary of the State Council on the 7th, the “Party and State Institutional Reform Plan” passed by the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee The Chinese Communist Party includes the establishment of the Central Science and Technology Commission to strengthen the so-called “Party Central Committee supervision of scientific and technological work.” Central and unified leadership”, the Ministry of reorganization takes responsibility for the office. Science and Technology in general.
In this regard, Cheng-Bing Cheng, a finance professor at Taiwan’s Yunlin University of Science and Technology, told The Epoch Times on the 7th that the CCP’s control over science and technology and other administrative units is becoming stronger and stronger. “This is definitely a bad practice for the development of science and technology that emphasizes freedom, openness and competition to create good results. It also indicates that the good times of China’s technological development are coming to an end.”
The institutional reform of the State Council also includes the establishment of the State Financial Supervision Administration. The official media of the Communist Party of China interpreted that it can strengthen institutional supervision, conduct supervision, functional supervision, insightful supervision, and continuous supervision.
Song Guocheng, a senior researcher at the International Relations Research Center of National Taiwan Chengchi University, told The Epoch Times on the 7th that the behavior of the entire CCP is to monitor, control and control, which is a very serious ideological problem. This kind of interference and destruction of the free economic market itself does not conform to the global trend at all.
The CCP will also form a new “National Data Bureau”. Taiwanese scholar Song Guocheng told The Epoch Times on the 7th that the CCP’s construction of the national database itself is a manifestation of digital totalitarianism. The political purpose far outweighs its economic significance.
Officials also adapted the State Letters and Calls Office to an agency directly under the Council of State. Cheng-Bing Cheng, a professor in the Department of Finance at Taiwan’s Yunlin University of Science and Technology, told The Epoch Times that the CCP’s upgrade of the State Correspondence and Call Bureau appears to be preparing to strengthen the suppression of more popular protests.
Hong Kong’s “Ming Pao” previously revealed that the CCP may establish a new agency called the “Central Internal Affairs Committee” to integrate the functions of public security, immigration, household registration, transportation, anti-terrorism, and counter-espionage from under it.
However, the party’s organizational adjustment plan is expected to be officially announced after the conclusion of the National People’s Congress.
Many foreign media analyzed the CCP’s institutional reform as a method of “strengthening the party and weakening the government.”
Responsible editor: Li Muen#
