今年3月,全国人大常委会根据国务院的提请,作出了决定:免去林汉雄建设部部长、钱永昌交通部部长的职务。原因是他们分别犯了违反纪律和以权谋私的错误。政府的两个部长同时因犯错误,由人大常委会作了撤职的决定,这在共和国历史上还是少见的。记得在十一届三中全会以后的十几年之间,只有两个部长因严重失职而被撤职,他们都给国家和人民的生命财产造成了重大损失,引起过公愤。一个是1979年渤海二号勘探船翻沉事件发生时任石油部部长的宋振明,另一个是1987年5月大兴安岭火灾时任林业部部长的杨钟。 In March this year, the NPC Standing Committee, on the request of the State Council, took the decision: It is to eliminate the post of Minister of Construction Lin Xiaoxiong and Minister of Communications of Qian Yongchang. The reason is that they made the mistake of breaking the discipline and using their power for personal gain. In the meantime, the two ministers of the government made the decision of dismissal by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress for making mistakes at the same time. This is rare in the history of the Republic. I remember only two ministers who were dismissed for serious dereliction of duty after more than a decade during the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese People’s Congress, all of whom caused heavy losses to the lives and property of the country and its people and caused public outrage. One was Song Zhenming, minister of the Ministry of Oil, when the sinking of Bohai 2 exploration vessel occurred in 1979 and the other was Yang Zhong, minister of forestry when the Great Xingan Mountains was hit in a fire in May 1987.