The key tasks laid out at the 10th national teleconference on deepening reforms to streamline administrative approval, delegate power to lower levels and improve regulations and services have been approved and assigned to relevant authorities, according to a notice released by the State Council on Oct 26.

According to the task assignment plan, reform and opening-up will help tap the potential of economic growth. Cultivating market entities will be given priority in the administrative reform. All market entities’ property rights and legitimate interests will be safeguarded equally. This is assigned to the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments and localities.

The key projects incorporated into the 14th Five-Year Plan and provincial plans will be accelerated with improved approval efficiency, which is to be carried out by the National Development and Reform Commission along with the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and other departments and localities.

Administrative services for market entities and the people will also be improved.

The list of administrative licensing items should be further improved to streamline administrative procedures. Authorities at the province, city, and county levels should accomplish administrative licensing item lists and service guides by the end of 2022. This will be headed by the General Office of the State Council.

Government departments should enhance their supervision responsibility, cracking down on behaviors like the manufacturing and marketing of counterfeit and substandard goods and infringement of intellectual property rights, and innovate supervising approaches compatible with the target industries.

Policies that have been rolled out need efficient implementation. Governments at all levels should tighten their belts, pool funds for preferential policies that benefit enterprises and the people, and ensure government expenditures for people’s basic livelihood and wage payouts. The Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments and localities concerned will take charge of this field.

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments and localities should further stabilize employment, expand the marketized and socialized forces as the main employment channel and ensure sound implementation of the policies that help ease enterprises' burden and keep their posts stable.