Sunshine is the best preservative in the world, and information disclosure is the key foundation to ensure the government's administration according to law. On May 15, the newly revised Regulations on Government Information Disclosure in People's Republic of China (PRC) was officially implemented, which effectively responded to the people's real demand for information disclosure. The Regulation on the Openness of Government Information has been implemented since May 2008, which has promoted government departments at all levels to establish information disclosure procedures and played an important role in social supervision, citizen accountability and anti-corruption. However, the changes in information technology and economic and social development have put forward new requirements for the disclosure of government information. The Regulations on the Disclosure of Government Information1/kloc-0 years ago can no longer adapt to the changes in the situation.
In the field of government information disclosure, many major changes have taken place since 10, and these changes are more or less reflected in the revised regulations. The "Regulations" have made great changes in the principles, scope, methods and supervision of government information disclosure, and have better answered questions such as why government information is disclosed, what is disclosed, how to disclose it, and what to do if it is not.
More and more people of insight realize the significance and value of government information disclosure. The revised "Regulations" pointed out that government information should be "open as the norm and not open as the exception", which reflected the legal value of government information disclosure. At the same time, the disclosure of government information is increasingly moving towards the disclosure of government data. The government has a large amount of raw data, and the revision of the regulations has made it possible to adapt to the information disclosure and data opening in the era of big data.
The "Regulations" standardize the scope of government information disclosure, put forward the principles of information disclosure that were in a vague area in the past, clarified the scope of information that should not be disclosed, and provided a basis for government departments at all levels to disclose according to law. The regulations add operational measures to the internal and dispatched offices of government departments and the disclosure of information involving multiple departments. The "Regulations" require dynamic management of government information disclosure, and adjust the scope of disclosure according to changes in the situation, so that information disclosure can constantly adapt to new needs.
The Regulations also clarify the scope and procedures of information disclosure of public enterprises and institutions. In the field of public services, more and more enterprises and non-profit organizations have become direct providers of public services. The information of these enterprises and institutions is related to the public interest and should be included in the scope of government information disclosure, so as to form a closed loop between government information disclosure and social supervision.
In terms of publicity, the "Regulations" have added other channels such as Internet government media to adapt to the current new media pattern. The Regulations also require local governments to establish an information disclosure platform to provide information retrieval, access and download functions, which adapts to the new trend of government data disclosure, that is, to provide support for business and social innovation through government information disclosure.
The "Regulations" specially added a chapter on disclosure by application, which stipulated the ways and remedies for citizens to disclose by application. The relationship between voluntary disclosure and application disclosure reflects the matching problem between government information supply and demand. The more information the government voluntarily discloses, the higher the quality, the more convenient it is to obtain, and the less necessary it is for citizens to disclose according to their applications, thus safeguarding and strengthening citizens' right to know.
The Regulations strengthen the supervision of government information disclosure and clarify the accountability measures that government departments can take when they cannot disclose it according to law. At present, some regions and departments still have some problems, such as pseudo-openness, semi-openness, slow openness, selective openness, and too vague disclosure content. Strengthening supervision and accountability is conducive to improving the performance of information disclosure.
The revision of the "Regulations" provides a legal guarantee for promoting the deepening of government information disclosure. Focusing on the future, government information disclosure needs to be further improved.
The scope of government information disclosure can be further relaxed, and all localities and departments can expand their capacity in light of the actual situation. For procedural information related to the internal work flow of the government, the regulations stipulate that it will not be made public, which may affect the implementation of accountability. Government transparency is generally divided into three aspects: decision-making process, policy information and policy results, among which decision-making transparency is the most important. At present, most of the information is about the policy itself, but the decision-making process and policy results lack enough information, which makes it difficult for citizens to be accountable and social supervision to be effective.
According to the application, publicity reflects the individual needs of citizens. At present, the response rate of government departments is high and the response speed is fast, but the response satisfaction is not high. This shows that the disclosure of government information needs to meet the needs of people's right to know and enterprises' innovation and entrepreneurship, and promote the customization and personalized disclosure of government information as much as possible. For example, government departments should disclose information through the Internet and two micro-terminals as much as possible, which is convenient for administrative counterparts to search, query and download.
It is necessary to form a breakthrough in key areas, from point to area. The "Regulations" adapt to the reform of government institutions and the transformation of functions, and increase information disclosure in several fields. Governments at all levels should increase information disclosure in key areas that people are generally concerned about, such as ecological environment, food safety, education, health, energy and crisis management, so as to promote information disclosure in other fields.
Legal basis:
Regulations of People's Republic of China (PRC) Municipality on Information Disclosure
Article 4 People's governments at all levels and people's government departments at or above the county level shall establish and improve the working system of government information disclosure of their administrative organs, and the designated institutions (hereinafter referred to as the working institutions of government information disclosure) shall be responsible for the daily work of government information disclosure of their administrative organs.
The specific functions of government information disclosure institutions are:
(a) for the administrative organs of government information disclosure;
(two) to maintain and update the government information disclosed by this administrative organ;
(three) to organize the preparation of the administrative organ's guide to government information disclosure, the catalogue of government information disclosure and the annual report on government information disclosure;
(four) to organize the review of government information to be disclosed;
(five) other functions related to the disclosure of government information as prescribed by this administrative organ.
Article 5 When disclosing government information, administrative organs shall adhere to the principles of fairness, justice, legality and convenience, with disclosure as the norm and non-disclosure as the exception.
Article 6 Administrative organs shall disclose government information in a timely and accurate manner.
If an administrative organ finds false or incomplete information that affects or may affect social stability and disrupt the order of social and economic management, it shall issue accurate government information for clarification.
Seventh people's governments at all levels should actively promote the disclosure of government information, and gradually increase the content of government information disclosure.
Article 8 People's governments at all levels shall strengthen the standardization and informatization management of government information resources, strengthen the construction of online government information disclosure platform, promote the integration of government information disclosure platform and government service platform, and improve the online processing level of government information disclosure.
Article 9 Citizens, legal persons and other organizations have the right to supervise the disclosure of government information by administrative organs and make criticisms and suggestions.