Publicly funded organizations to lose administrative rankings

Publicly funded organizations in China will gradually be removed from the system of administrative rankings that has kept some of the groups on par with higher levels of government, according to a senior official in charge of administrative reform.

"Accelerating the reform of publicly funded organizations will provide better service to the public," Wang Feng, deputy director of the State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform, said on Sunday.

The reform will rectify some tangled relations between the government and publicly funded organizations, speed up the formation of their corporate-governance structures, improve public services and gradually abolish administrative ranks.