11 departments: Focus on rectifying 7 situations, including using official flags to hold "copycat" forums and activities. Standardize | problems | violations | rectification | departments | hosting | forums | activities
Recently, 11 departments including the Central Propaganda Department, the Central Cyberspace Administration, the Central Foreign Affairs Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the State owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly issued a notice on carrying out special cleaning and rectification work for forum activities, deploying nationwide efforts to clean up and rectify the chaos of forum activities.
According to relevant departments, in recent years, some unregistered entities have impersonated official institutions or legitimate organizations to hold "copycat" forum activities, or carried out fraud and wealth collection through forum activities, which has infringed on the legitimate interests of the people and disrupted market order; Some social organizations and enterprises hold forum activities that exhibit chaos such as arbitrarily using high standard titles, false advertising, illegal awards, and illegal fees; The forum activities held by individual party and government agencies and public institutions have problems such as overlapping themes, vague content, and lack of effectiveness, which urgently need to be rectified and standardized.
The Notice clearly states that this special clean-up and rectification work follows the principles of comprehensive clean-up, serious rectification, hierarchical responsibility, and unified norms, adheres to problem orientation and root cause and root cause treatment, deeply addresses the problem of excessive and excessive forum activities, severely crack down on illegal and irregular behaviors in forum activities, focus on solving prominent problems that disrupt market order, affect social security and stability, and infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of the people, establish and improve a long-term management mechanism, promote forum activities to adhere to the correct direction, and achieve standardized, healthy, and orderly development.
The Notice specifies that the scope of this special clean-up and rectification includes various forums, summits, podiums, lectures, annual meetings, reports, seminars and other activities held by party and government organs, enterprises and institutions, social organizations, etc. The focus is on cleaning up and rectifying the following seven situations: various "copycat" forum activities held under the official flag or in the name of legitimate organizations; Activities such as conducting evaluations and commendations in violation of regulations, and forum activities where fees are charged in violation of regulations and opportunities are taken to accumulate wealth; Falsely promoting the attendance of party and government leaders, experts and scholars, and misleading the public in forum activities; Forum activities that casually use words such as "China", "China", "National", "International", "Summit", etc., which do not live up to their name; "Performance style" and "formalism" forum activities that exceed the scope of the organizer's functions, with overlapping themes, vague content, and biased orientation; Forum activities for disguised public fund consumption, tourism, distribution of gifts, gifts, expensive souvenirs, and various securities and payment vouchers; Other illegal and irregular behaviors. The notice also clarifies the specific tasks, division of responsibilities, and schedule arrangement for the cleaning and rectification work.
The relevant departments emphasize that this clean-up work adheres to standardization and legality, cracking down on illegality, supporting various entities to hold forum activities in accordance with laws and regulations, encouraging the holding of high-quality forum activities, and establishing a group of forum activity brands with demonstrative and leading roles. At the same time, relevant departments will resolutely crack down on illegal and irregular behaviors discovered, hold accountable those who have caused adverse effects on forum activities, and report typical cases of illegal and irregular forum activities. The cleaning and rectification work will fully play the role of social supervision, encourage complaints and reports from all sectors of society, and provide clues on illegal and irregular issues.