CPC halves Party regulations for better implementation

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has cut the number of Party regulations, bylaws and other regulatory documents by more than half to ensure more effective implementation and enforcement.

According to a decision by the CPC Central Committee which was published on Monday, about 58.7 percent of 1,178 Party regulatory documents issued by the CPC Central Committee will no longer be effective due to problems such as lack of adaptability or consistency.

To date, a total of 322 such documents have been abolished, 369 been declared void and the remaining 487 remain in effect, according to a statement issued by the bureau in charge of Party regulations under the General Office of the CPC Central Committee.

Monday's decision is the second of its kind. The CPC Central Committee nullified a batch of such documents in July last year.

Starting in June 2012, the CPC Central Committee began conducting a two-year scrutiny of all Party documents issued and found that there were over 23,000 documents on various issues since the founding of the New China in 1949, among which 1,178 are Party regulations, bylaws or regulatory documents.

These 1,178 documents are about regulations regarding the Party's organization and activities as well as Party members' conducts, according to the statement.

The documents were classified into three categories.

Regulations and documents which are obviously obsolete or have been replaced by new ones, as well as those that run counter to the Party's Constitution, policies or the country's Constitution and laws, were abolished.

Documents that have expired or have been rendered inexecutable due to a change in the situation were also declared void.

The rest will remain effective. However, the decisions also made it clear that 42 of the 487 documents still in effect need to be amended.

Local government and Party organizations are also required to clean up undesired regulations at local levels accordingly. The local clean-up work is expected to complete by early next year.