60% of provincial gov'ts fail to meet open info standards

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60% of provincial gov'ts fail to meet open info standards

16:38, September 29, 2010      

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Roughly 60 percent of China's 30 provincial-level administrative governments have failed to meet open information standards and only two units under the State Council have met the standards, according to the "China Government Transparency Watch Report 2009" released by the Center for Public Participation Studies and Support (CPPSS) under Peking University and the China Law Center under Yale Law School on Sept. 29.

The report covered 43 units under the State Council and 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities except for Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Tibet. The report also covered all of the 97 municipal-level administrative governments in six typical provinces and municipalities of Beijing, Jilin, Shandong, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Sichuan.

The report consists of two parts. One part focuses on local government units and the other part on units under the State Council.

The surveyors collected the required information by means such as searching online, reading government announcements, looking through open information annual reports released by governments and communicating with government officials.

The survey focused on the five factors of organizational support, institutional support, proactive open information, open information in response to applications and relief effort supervision. To realistically reflect the impact of open information on urban residents, the indicators which bore the most weight were whether open information is available and the relief effort supervision.

Wang Xixin, director of the CPPSS and vice president of Peking University Law School, explained that this system of indicators is the "minimum requirement" for China's current situation. This project seeks to promote the transformation of the "right to know" from a concept that looks good on the surface to a type of realistic social life.

The overall rankings table of the report show that Beijing, Tianjin, Guangdong, Shanghai and Shanxi rank in the first five positions, and the last five positions belonged to Gansu, Shandong, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, with Ningxia ranking last with a score of only 35 points.

Only 12 provincial-level administrative government units of the total 30 were qualified (obtaining 60 points or above), and the passing rate stood at 40 percent. In other words, 60 percent of provincial-level administrative government units failed in the current administrative transparency evaluation. As much as 90 percent of the total 30 formulated standards of opening government information to varying degrees. However, only less than half of the provinces are qualified in regards to the implementation situation of the standards.

The report shows that only the China Banking Regulatory Commission and Ministry of Commerce reached the 60-point passing mark with difficulty among the total 43 evaluated subsidiary bodies of the State Council.

The Ministry of Supervision and Ministry of Railways ranked last and second last with scores of only 12 points and 24 points respectively. Scores of other ministries and commissions including the Ministry of Land and Resources and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission were all less than 60 points. The passing rate of the subsidiary bodies of the State Council only stood at nearly 5 percent.

The report provided a panoramic view of information disclosure to society and the government, regardless of the accuracy of the report's data, evaluation point of view and score distribution. The survey results also reflect that government information disclosure is still in the development phase and has a broad developing space, according to Ying Songnian, lifetime professor of China University of Political Science and Law, and Chinese chief of the Sino-French Public Law Research Center.

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