China's Ministry of Personnel on Sunday published a training
plan for the country's civil servants, aiming to improve their
overall capability.
The training focuses on "improving civil servants' governance
ability and working efficiency" in order to build a capable
government that can well serve the public.
It covers subjects like public administration, science, culture,
history, psychology, computer skills, putonghua, or standard
Chinese, and foreign languages.
More government workers will be selected to study overseas, it
said.
But the plan did not specify the amount of budget allocated to
the training program.
Statistics show China has about 6.5 million civil servants, and
government posts have become a top choice for the country's job
seekers in recent years.
Earlier this month, Gan Yisheng, spokesman of the Communist
Party of China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
called for government employees to receive ethics education after a
series of corruption cases were exposed.
(Xinhua News Agency February 26, 2007)