Law to enhance transparency

The State Council, China's Cabinet, recently published a plan for the government's legislative work in 2017, which includes revising the existing government information disclosure regulation.

Since promulgated in early 2007 in a move to improve the transparency of government work and promote governance in accordance with the law, the regulation on government information disclosure has played a positive role in promoting greater government openness.

That more and more people have requested government departments to disclose information in recent years, even resorting to legal means in some instances, is a reflection of the huge influence the information disclosure regulation has had on the public's way of thinking and modernized the country's governance.