Minister Han Changfu Presides over an Executive Meeting of the Ministry of Agriculture

Source: MOA Press Office

On Sept. 7, Han Changfu, Minister of Agriculture, presided over an executive meeting of the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), at which key elements of the National Meeting on Law-based Administration were communicated and the arrangements on law-based agricultural administration made. Han Changfu noted that the National Meeting on Law-based Administration was important as the Outline for Promoting Law-based Administration in an All-around Way had been applied for 6 years and the efforts in law-based government administration had evolved into a key stage. Agricultural authorities at all levels should seriously learn, grasp and put into practice key elements of the Meeting so as to ensure effectiveness of all the work on law-based administration and continuously improve the level of law-based administration.

The specific results were as follows: constantly improved agricultural legislation and established legal systems for the work on agriculture and rural economy; increasingly improved scientific and democratic decision making mechanism and preliminary realization of law-based, scientific and democratic decision making; comprehensive progress in integrated administrative examination and approval, integrated agricultural law enforcement and the reform of veterinary and seed management mechanisms, and remarkably enhanced law enforcement level and capacity; and evidently increased awareness of law-based administration of the officials in the agricultural authorities and increasingly regulated agricultural management practices.

However, considering the requirements of the central government, the needs of agricultural and rural economic development, and the anticipations of hundreds of millions of farmers, it was necessary to see that more efforts were needed to improve the law-based agricultural administration and continuously make achievements in this regard.

Six items of requirements for the next steps were clearly identified at the meeting:

1. Continuously raise the awareness.

2. Continue to improve the agricultural legislation.

3. Adhere to scientific and democratic decision making.

4. Actively push forward comprehensive agricultural law enforcement.

5. Promote the reform of administrative examination and approval system and transparency in government affairs.

6. Intensify publicity and education on the legal systems.