On June 5, at the 18th session of the 5th Standing Committee of Chongqing Municipal People's Congress, the report of Chongqing Municipal People's Government on the building of a law-based government was deliberated. So far, 138 of the 186 specific tasks specified in the Implementation Plan of Chongqing's Law-based Government Building (2016-2020) have been completed, and the remaining 48 have been normalized and continuously followed up.
In terms of the institutional system, Chongqing has improved the mechanism for drafting, demonstrating, coordinating, and deliberating government regulations, and introduced third-party evaluation for more controversial matters. Chongqing has continuously enhanced its government information disclosure mechanism. In 2019, Chongqing's administrative organs at all levels took the initiative to disclose 1.336 million pieces of government information following the law.
On the part of functions, Chongqing has continuously improved the list of powers, responsibilities, and public services, and promoted the work of reducing the burden and increasing efficiency in basic-level communities.
Regarding administrative law enforcement, Chongqing has strengthened law enforcement in critical areas affecting the immediate interests of the people, such as food and drug safety, labor security, environmental protection, production safety, and consumer rights protection. In 2019, Chongqing investigated and prosecuted 3,864 cases of environmental violations, and 4,907 cases of anti-monopoly, anti-unfair competition, product quality, food, and drug safety.
Community environmental volunteers play with the children and teach them garbage sorting
In respect of social governance, Chongqing has innovated mechanisms and methods for resolving conflicts and disputes and established 328 handling organizations to visit mediation, police mediation, and lawsuit mediation. In the fight against COVID-19, Chongqing Municipal People's Government and relevant departments issued in time regulations such as Implementation Plan for COVID-19 Prevention and Control with District-based and Graded Measures and Decision on the Total Prohibition of Illegal Trade and Consumption of Wild Animals. At the same time, Chongqing carried out prevention and control work in transportation, market management, environmental sanitation, community management, maintenance of medical order, and social mobilization in an all-round way following the law to adequately safeguard people's life and health and public health safety.
In the aspect of legal capacity, Chongqing has actively encouraged the heads of administrative organs to appear in court. The rate of appearing in court has increased year by year, and the awareness of law-based administration, acceptance of supervision, rectification, and correction has been further strengthened.
According to a recent public opinion survey on social conditions, 88.5% out of all quarters of the society surveyed rated the overall evaluation on the measures, efforts, and results of Chongqing Municipal People's Government and its working departments in advancing the building of a law-based government as "good" and "rather good," the highest figure in this regard for the past few years, indicates the report.