The State Council, the Central People’s
Government, is the highest state administrative body. The
State Council carries out the laws enacted and decisions
adopted by the NPC and its Standing Committee. The State
Council is responsible to the NPC and its Standing
Committee, and reports to them on its work. The State
Council exercises the following functions and powers: in
accordance with the Constitution and statutes, formulates
administrative measures, enacts administrative regulations,
promulgates decisions and orders; exercises unified
leadership over the work of the ministries and commissions
and the work of other organizations under its jurisdiction;
exercises unified leadership over the work of local state
administrative bodies at different levels throughout the
country; draws up and implements national economic and
social development plans, and the state budget; directs and
administers economic work, urban and rural development, and
work in education, science, culture, public health, physical
culture and family planning; directs and administers civil
affairs, public security, judicial administration and
supervision, as well as national defense construction;
manages foreign affairs and concludes treaties and
agreements with foreign states; and in accordance with the
law, appoints, removes and trains administrative officers,
appraises their work, and rewards or penalizes them. The
State Council is composed of the premier, vice-premiers,
state councillors, the heads of the various ministries and
commissions, the auditor-general and the secretary-general.
The organizational structure of the current State Council is
as follows:
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