Podcast

    Top-heavy local govt slammed


    Updated: 2009-12-04 13:12

    Get Flash Player

    Changes should be made to the Government Organization Act so the roles of government officials are better regulated, experts said yesterday after it emerged that the small city of Dexing, Jiangxi province, had a staggering 10 vice-mayors.

    The 10 vice-mayors were on the payroll of the county-level city despite the fact that it has a population of only 310,000.

    The top-heavy bureaucracy was exposed online by outraged netizens who said the local government was wasting taxpayers' money.

    Nine vice-mayors were still listed on the website yesterday. Two of them were classified as being temporary positions. Local officials told China Daily yesterday another vice-mayor has just finished a training program and left the position last month.

    "Obviously, the city government did not perform its role to provide clear information about officials," said Liu Chun, vice-president of the graduate school at the Party School of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China (CPC).

    "The public has a right to know who government officials are and what they do," said Liu.

    "The underperformance in notifying citizens about top officials' identities will probably lead to misunderstanding or even anger among the public."

    Liu said a city government typically should have one mayor and four vice-mayors. But officials at the Dexing municipality said they usually have six vice-mayors.

    For consistency, the Government Organization Act should be updated to clearly stipulate how many vice directors should be allowed in various departments, he said.

    In 2007, 30 top leaders were illegally appointed and subsequently dismissed in the municipality after the central government verified reports from residents.

    Last October, 10 deputy heads in Pingjiang county government were also exposed.

    The city is well known for its copper industry and had a GDP of 7 billion yuan ($1.06 billion) in 2008.

    Locals said the government in Dexing ought not to have so many vice-mayors and called on the government to be more streamlined.

    "As long as the government uses money appropriately in areas such as education and industrial development, the tax we pay will not be wasted," said one anonymous 46-year-old.

    Top-heavy local govt slammed

    About the broadcaster:

    Top-heavy local govt slammed

    Guanny Liu is a freelance journalist from New Zealand. Born in North-Eastern China, she moved to Auckland with her family at the age of eight. Guanny has a Bachelor of Communications Studies from the Auckland University of Technology, majoring in journalism. Before coming to the China Daily website, Guanny was a journalist for the New Zealand state broadcaster, Radio New Zealand. She is in Beijing on an Asia New Zealand grant working as a copy editor for the English news department.

    中文字幕日韩欧美一区二区| 亚洲一区二区三区无码中文字幕| 中文人妻无码一区二区三区| 狠狠躁狠狠爱免费视频无码| 国产成人精品无码片区在线观看| 无码人妻少妇久久中文字幕蜜桃| 亚洲Av无码精品色午夜| 午夜无码中文字幕在线播放 | 无码专区永久免费AV网站| 五月婷婷无码观看| 人妻少妇精品中文字幕av蜜桃| 最近完整中文字幕2019电影 | 国产精品中文字幕在线观看| 中文字幕精品一区二区三区视频| 亚洲无码高清在线观看| 色综合久久中文字幕综合网 | 久久精品中文字幕无码绿巨人 | 色偷偷一区二区无码视频| 日韩AV无码不卡网站| 国产精品无码AV一区二区三区| 亚洲精品无码成人片久久| 亚洲av无码国产精品色在线看不卡| 少妇无码一区二区二三区| 亚洲中文字幕久久精品无码APP| 亚洲欧美日韩中文字幕一区二区三区| 中文字幕丰满乱孑伦无码专区| 日本无码小泬粉嫩精品图| 国产精品无码素人福利| 国产免费无码一区二区| 久久水蜜桃亚洲av无码精品麻豆| 日本久久久久久中文字幕| 亚洲AV无码专区在线播放中文| 中文字幕理伦午夜福利片| 无码人妻一区二区三区免费看 | 国产aⅴ无码专区亚洲av麻豆| 乱人伦中文字幕在线看| 最新中文字幕在线观看| 亚洲国产综合精品中文字幕 | 亚洲午夜国产精品无码| 亚洲人成无码网站在线观看| 亚洲AV永久青草无码精品|