——At the first session of the 14th National People's Congress on March 7, 2023, State Councilor and Secretary-General of the State Council Xiao Jie, representatives of the State Council, said: I am entrusted by the State Council to explain the State Council's institutional reform plan to the General Assembly for its consideration in accordance with the "Party and State Institutional Reform Plan" adopted at the second plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. The 20th CPC National Congress made important arrangements for deepening the reform of the Party and state institutions, and the Second Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee deliberated and adopted the Reform Plan of the Party and State Institutions. Adapting to the need to build a new pattern of development and promote high-quality development, we should adhere to the problem-oriented approach, coordinate the central and local organs of the Party, the National People's Congress, the State Council, and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, deepen institutional reform in key areas, and promote the Party's leadership in the construction of socialist modernization to be more scientific in institutional settings, more optimized in the allocation of functions, and more perfect in institutional mechanisms More efficient in operation management. The institutional reform of the State Council, as an important task of the Party and state institutional reform, focuses on strengthening the optimization and adjustment of institutional responsibilities in key areas such as science and technology, financial supervision, data management, rural revitalization, intellectual property, and aging work, transforming government functions, and accelerating the establishment of a government ruled by law. The specific contents of this institutional reform of the State Council are as follows. 1、 The Ministry of Science and Technology was reorganized. Scientific and technological innovation is at the core of China's modernization drive. Facing the severe situation of international scientific and technological competition and external containment and suppression, we must further straighten out the scientific and technological leadership and management system, better coordinate scientific and technological forces to overcome difficulties in key core technologies, and accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. This reform of the Party and state institutions will strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee on scientific and technological work, and establish the Central Science and Technology Commission. The responsibilities of the administrative body of the Central Science and Technology Commission will be assumed by the restructured Ministry of Science and Technology as a whole. In accordance with the spirit of the Party and State Institutional Reform Plan, the Ministry of Science and Technology should strengthen its macro-management responsibilities such as strategic planning, institutional reform, resource planning, comprehensive coordination, policies and regulations, supervision and inspection, and promote the improvement of the new nationwide system, optimize the management of the whole chain of scientific and technological innovation, promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and promote the integration of science and technology and economic and social development. Transfer the specific management responsibilities of the Science and Technology Department. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs is responsible for organizing the formulation of plans and policies for science and technology to promote agricultural and rural development, and guiding the progress of rural science and technology. The responsibility for organizing the formulation of science and technology to promote social development plans and policies was assigned to the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Ecological Environment, the National Health Commission and other departments. Organize the formulation of high-tech development and industrialization plans and policies, guide the construction of national independent innovation demonstration zones, national high-tech industrial development zones and other science and technology parks, and guide the science and technology service industry, technology market, and science and technology intermediary groups