Ministry of Supervision
The Ministry of Supervision of the People's Republic of China was a constituent department of the State Council responsible for maintaining an efficient, disciplined, clean and honest government, and educate public servants about their duty and discipline.
In 1949, the People's Supervisory Commission was established. It was renamed to the Ministry of Supervision in 1954. In 1959, the MOS was abolished, later being re-established in 1987. Many of MOS's operations were merged with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Chinese Communist Party in 1993, meaning that the two institutions were effectively combined into a single body with mostly overlapping staff and jurisdiction. On 13 March 2018 it was dissolved and merged into the National Supervisory Commission.
History
The Ministry of Supervision was established as the People's Supervisory Commission in October 1949 after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It took on the name Ministry of Supervision in September 1954. The ministry was abolished in April 1959. The ministry was reestablished in July 1987 by the Sixth National People's Congress. This led to successive local supervisory authorities being created at the provincial and local levels. On May 9, 1997, the Ministry of Supervision was legislated to enforce the Law of the People's Republic of China on Administration Supervision of the government agencies.In March 2018, the Ministry was one of three state agencies which merged with a communist party body the form the National Supervisory Commission as part of the deepening the reform of the Party and state institutions. Like the other merged state agencies, the Ministry of Supervision was dissolved through the process.