Around 85 percent of 746 government websites surveyed by the State Council are up to standard, while 112 still lag behind, the cabinet said in a statement Monday.
The State Council released the results of its second annual government website census on Monday.
The State Council inspected the websites of governments at all levels across China, checking to see if they met the standards set during last year's census. The survey found that overall the websites had improved, with some provincial-level regions such as Beijing and Liaoning Province getting a 100 percent pass rate and the websites of 98.5 percent of State Council departments being found up to scratch.
However, problems such as failing to update information in a timely manner and not replying to enquiries, as well as serious mistakes in content were found on some government websites, mostly those set up by governments at the county level or lower.
Governments in North China's Shanxi Province and Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, saw relatively high rates of failure for the second year in a row, with Shanxi's websites in particular being singled out in the State Council's statement for having a failure rate of 14.3 percent.
The central government has vowed to improve its management and supervision of websites, and called on governments to take measures such as making regular inspections, releasing the results of the inspections online, inviting the public to monitor and allowing them to make suggestions.
