国内英语资讯:China Focus: Chinas major reforms over past 5 years_时事

国内英语资讯:China Focus: Chinas major reforms over past 5 years

-- Since the 18th CPC National Congress, more than 600 administrative approvals have been abolished or moved to lower-level offices.

In September 2017, the State Council decided to further cut red tape, separating business operation permits from business licenses.

-- The latest round of healthcare reform began in 2009, with "healthcare for all" as its core objective. All public hospitals have joined a program to end 60-year practice of drug price markups. Basic medical insurance now covers 1.35 billion people, 95 percent of the population.

-- In judicial reform, a more specialized and professional judiciary is evolving. Meddling in law enforcement and judicial affairs is now recorded and reported.

-- To establish a national supervision system against corruption, commissions have been set up in 31 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, to supervise those who exercise public power. A draft supervision law was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for a second reading in December 2017.

-- The "five-sphere integrated plan," which stresses coordinated economic, political, cultural, social and ecological advancement, attaches uNPRecedented importance to environmental protection.

Meetings of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau in 2017 approved two documents on environmental protection, introducing systems of natural resource assets ownership, use and compensation, performance evaluation and accountability.