CCTV News:Recently, the General Office of the State Council announced the fourth national government website spot check in 2016. So far, hundreds of unqualified government websites have been notified, but few officials have been held accountable. However, just a few days ago, Dong Haifeng, director and party secretary of Danzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce in Hainan Province, was sentenced to administrative demerit and warning within the party for "dereliction of duty caused the website of the bureau not to be updated for a long time".The reporter inquired about the public report and found that this is the first case in China that was held accountable for failing to fulfill the responsibility of information disclosure.
At present, the original website of Danzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce in Hainan has been permanently shut down, and the relevant content has been moved to the government information disclosure column of the provincial government portal.
The website has not been updated for a long time, and the director has been put on file for review.
On November 2, 2016, Danzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce was notified as an unqualified government website by the Secretariat Bureau of the General Office of the State Council because of the outstanding problem of "the front page has not been updated for a long time", which is the only website notified in Hainan Province. After that, Liu Cigui, governor of Hainan Province, instructed that it should be dealt with seriously. Recently, the Danzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection also reported this case as a typical case of "no official, no responsibility", and the Danzhou Municipal Committee put Dong Haifeng on file for review.
According to "Hainan Daily" reported on February 6, the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Danzhou City, Hainan Province reported five typical cases of not being an officer and not taking responsibility, including "Dong Haifeng, director and party secretary of Danzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hainan Province, was notified by the Secretariat of the General Office of the State Council that the website of the bureau was not updated for a long time due to dereliction of duty.”。
According to the circular, Dong Haifeng, as the main person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, has important leadership responsibilities, and his behavior has violated work discipline. On December 6, 2016, the municipal party Committee decided to file a case review of Dong Haifeng’s disciplinary behavior. Now, two months have passed, and the reporter recently learned exclusively that Dong Haifeng was given administrative demerits and warnings within the party respectively.
Why is this punishment? Party discipline and regulations have a basis.
Wang Zhengjie, director of the Information Disclosure Division of the General Office of the Hainan Provincial Government, said that the punishment of Dong Haifeng by the Danzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government is well-founded in party discipline and regulations.
Wang Zhengjie said that official website, the Danzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce, failed to update for a long time, which was "inaction" and was notified by the General Office of the State Council. Therefore, Danzhou City imposed administrative demerits on him according to the first and second items of Article 35 of the Regulations on the Openness of Government Information. Among them, the first case is "not fulfilling the obligation of government information disclosure according to law", and the second case is "not updating the open government information content, government information disclosure guide and government information disclosure catalogue in time".
According to the relevant regulations of the party, Danzhou Municipal Committee gave Dong Haifeng a warning within the party for failing to perform his duties.
Some websites have doubts. In the second national government website spot check report published by the State Council in 2016, the official website of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County of Hainan Province also appeared on the notification list because "many columns were blank". Why didn’t the relevant person in charge be punished at that time? Wang Zhengjie said that many columns of Baoting Housing and Construction Bureau in official website were blank because the website was in the revision period and there were information and contents in the database. According to the situation at that time, the instructions of the leaders were not so strict.
Expert: I hope this case can open the precedent of accountability system for information disclosure in China.
According to the information released by the State Council a few days ago, at present, 84% of provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in China have established an accountability mechanism for problematic websites. At the provincial level, except for Xizang, Guangdong, Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Shanxi, other provinces in China have established accountability mechanisms for problematic websites. Although accountability mechanisms for problematic websites have been established in various places, in practice, there are few news that the main person in charge of administrative units is held accountable for poor information disclosure.
Scholars expressed the hope that this case can open a precedent for the accountability system of information disclosure in China and enable governments at all levels to perform their duties of information disclosure through various measures.
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