China cleans out civil service, police ranks to raise efficiency
BEIJING, : China is cracking down on ineffective government officials and police, laying off thousands in a bid to streamline bureaucracy and build a more efficient civil service.
According to figures issued by the ministry of personnel, some 10,800 civil servants nationwide were penalized for breaking rules in 2002, while 156,000 received punishments between 1993 and 2002, Xinhua news agency said.
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And in a stark contrast to a former system of lifetime employment, some 17,850 civil servants were laid off between 1996 and 2002, it said, while 28,626 people resigned from public service jobs during the period.
In the first 11 months of 2003, some 33,700 people in China's police force were laid off following a nationwide "rectification" of the ranks, the Beijing News reported in a separate report.
Another 10,900 police force workers went into early retirement or were determined to be unfit for duty during the period, it said.
China has been reforming the civil service since 1993 with the number of civil servants currently around five million, Xinhua said.
There are some 1.6 million police officers in China, but it was not immediately clear how many other staff were employed by the police.
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