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Beijingers evaluate government work online
By Liu Chang (China Daily)
Updated: 2004-11-25 23:50

Administrative licensing requirements posted in official Beijing websites are not transparent enough, according to the latest online survey.

Over 62 per cent of people surveyed online, a total of 66 as of yesterday, said online publicity of local administrative licensing requirements is merely a formality in Beijing.

Nearly 20 per cent of the online voters said online publicity needs further improvement.

Another 18 per cent said effective steps have been taken in the city to abide by the Administrative Licensing Law, which kicked off on July 1.

Together with the survey, the Beijing municipal government began to solicit public opinions and complaints over online publicity of local administrative licensing in the capital.

"According to the Administrative Licensing Law, official websites should make public items of administrative licensing," a notice on the official website of the Beijing municipal government said.

The government welcomes complaints and advice on the type of information local residents need.

A total of 43 municipal government departments have published their administrative licensing items online by yesterday to make the public aware of what items require government authorization.

Residents are able to put forward advice and complaints to every government department on the website.

Meanwhile, the Beijing municipal government began to solicit opinions from the public on the work of 64 government departments in 2004.

The call for public opinion was adopted by the Beijing municipal government in recent years to improve transparency of government affairs.

Li Xuan, a 28-year-old Beijing resident, yesterday praised the local government's actions to make administrative licensing and other government affairs more transparent.

"But I have no idea what kind of role my comments played in appraising government work," he said yesterday.

"For example, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning attracted most negative comments in last year's appraisal. But I have not seen any signal that the commission was admonished for this or has made any improvement," Li said.



 
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