１９９８年是中国政治体制改革大踏步前进的一年。新年伊始，全国人大九届一次会议通过了国务院机构改革方案，国务院组成机构将从４０个减到２９个，人员精简一半左右。半年多来，随着新一轮机构改革的序幕缓缓拉开，国务院各部委分流的公务员正按照“带职分流，定向培训... Year 1998 marks a major step forward in the reform of China’s political system. At the beginning of the new year, the first session of the Ninth National People’s Congress passed the State Council’s institutional reform plan, reducing the number of State Council agencies from 40 to 29 and reducing its staff by about half. In the past six months, as the prelude to the new round of institutional reforms slowly opened up, civil servants diverted by the ministries and commissions of the State Council are now following the principle of "diversion of employment with orientation training ...