Inspection results on govt websites released

The State Council, China’s Cabinet, released the results of checks on governmental websites across the country in the first quarter, according to a notice released on Wednesday.

Results showed that 95 percent of 303 governmental websites, which were inspected by the General Office of the State Council, met standards. Local governments and departments under the State Council checked 11,639 websites under their administrations, and 95 percent of them passed.

In the first quarter, 272 officials were punished for websites which failed to pass checks, including 12 officials being transferred to other posts or removed from office.

Typical problems arising from unqualified websites included ineffective management, inconvenient online services, restricted access for internet users and substandard domain names or logos.

Local governments and departments under the State Council were urged to solve problems disclosed in this check, improve online services, give more access to the public when they submit questions and suggestions, and protect cyber security.

As of March 1, the number of governmental websites in operation hit 23,269. Only half of them were in operation in the first quarter last year, according to the notice. Among them were 1,645 websites run by governments under county level. Only 10 percent were operational in the first quarter in 2017.

Last year, 345 million messages were released on governmental websites, which received 34 million responses and comments from the public, the notice said.