The formulation of the rules and regulations on the theme activity of “innovation and excellence, quality and efficiency increases” was launched from late March. With emphasis on improving the responsibility system, strengthening responsibility supervision, tightening accountability and intensifying performance assessment, the systems of responsibility, commitment, publicity, cancellation, judgment, supervision and accountability were further enhanced and fulfilled, and the rules and regulations on the building of efficiency and executive ability of the government were established and improved. “We should strive to fulfill ‘innovation and excellence, quality and efficiency increases’, vigorously carry out work and steadily advance the construction of a famous international trading city with superior government efficiency and executive ability!” The speech of Huang Zhiping, secretary of the CPC municipal committee at the rally for the theme activity aroused a strong consensus among cadres and the masses in the city. With the elapse of a month, the people and tens of thousands of merchants have obviously felt that the work style of government departments had been bettered, work efficiency had been increased, services for the convenience of the people had been added constantly and the served people had been more satisfied. A wave of efficiency is keeping pushing forward Yiwu’s governmental functional departments. Yiwu is in a critical period of accelerating transformation and upgrading and focusing on new development after the financial crisis, and pilot work such as the comprehensive reform of international trade and the integrated reform of the city and the countryside is inspiring Yiwu to seize the preemptive opportunity to recreate a new edge in development. In terms of style, the leading group office of the theme activity frequently organized staff to carry out “mediocrity and indolence” inspections on the work disciplines of in-service workers of the city’s 50 government departmentsin an extensive and random manner, and administrated acts of omission such as “tardiness” and “nonfeasance”. In terms of efficiency, all the governmental functional departments self-motivated and constantly strengthened the building of efficiency and executive ability of the government. For example, the department of industry and commerce optimized the process and compressed time: a business license that had originally been issued at least 10 days after application was issued in only five days; the department of public security introduced the “ten measures for the convenience of the people” such as visiting to handle the applications of the elderly aged 60 or above for second-generation identity cards and opening 24-hour entry & exit service hotline; the national taxation bureau launched online tax copying and reporting service, which freed 3,000 people from going to the bureau personally for taxation formalities every month alone… We launched the actions of establishing and improving the supervisory system and tightening accountability immediately after the prompt acts of style and efficiency enhancement. To date, we have successively released 10documents such as the Measures for Accountability for “Innovation and Excellence, Quality and Efficiency Increases”, Measures for Assessment and Evaluation of “Innovation and Excellence, Quality and Efficiency Increases” and Interim Measures for “Tardiness” Administration to escort the in-depth and effective development of the theme activity. The people’s comments are the only touchstone for the effect of the theme activity. Citizen Zhang Yongshou said, “I know from TV and newspaper every day that ‘innovation and excellence, quality and efficiency increases’ is not an empty talk, ‘tardiness’ and ‘nonfeasance’ administration is to make the government capable.” At the service window of the Shangcheng branch of the national taxation bureau, it took few minutes for three foreign merchants and a dealer to get invoices, and the dealer was satisfied with the work efficiency and quality of the tax department, saying, “Such high-efficiency services win more business opportunities for us dealers.”
