始□本刊记者童楫加强部门统计工作科学分工密切协作于１９９８年的机构改革是国务院领导体制的重大变革，是上层建筑适应经济基础的必然过程，也是改革开放取得实质性进展的标志。这次机构改革的重要原则是，部门实行政企分开，主要行使政府职能，以主要精力研究政策、制定规 Beginning □ Our Journalist Tong 楫 Strengthening Statistical Work in Sectors Closely Cooperating in Scientific Division of Labor Institutional restructuring in 1998 was a major change in the leadership system of the State Council and an inevitable process for superstructure to adapt to the economic foundation and a sign of substantive progress made in reform and opening up. The important principle of this institutional reform is that the departments implement the separation of government from enterprises and the government functions mainly in order to study policies and make regulations