Preparatory committee for import expo announced
Vice-Premier Hu Chunhua will head the preparatory committee for the first China International Import Expo, according to a State Council notice released on Thursday.
According to the notice, Hu will be director of the committee. The three deputy directors are Zhong Shan, minister of commerce; Ying Yong, mayor of Shanghai; and Ding Xiangyang, deputy secretary-general of the State Council.
The director of the preparatory committee office will be Fu Ziying, vice-minister of commerce and international trade representative at the Ministry of Commerce. The office’s four deputy directors will be Shanghai Deputy Mayor Zhou Bo, Vice-Minister of Commerce Wang Bingnan, Shanghai Deputy Mayor Wu Qing, and Assistant Foreign Minister Qin Gang, the notice said. and regulations, the government gazette is an official channel for government organs to issue decrees.
However, given some government gazettes are not published punctually, a systematic mechanism should be established to improve government work on gazettes, according to the document.
According to the notice, a three-tier system of gazettes — the central government and provincial and city governments — will be established and these governments should publish documents in accordance with their levels of responsibility. Commercial advertisements will be prohibited. Working mechanisms in relation to reviews, supervision, submissions and liaison should be established as well.
In addition, the State Council also urged governments at all levels to publish online gazettes, giving the public more access. Electronic watermarks and other means should be used to ensure the authenticity of the documents and avoid them being tampered with online.
Governments should also create gazette databases, which should be open to the public, and provide search functions, the notice said.
General offices of local governments are in charge of the work involved with the gazettes and should promote it in a regulated and orderly way, the document added.