Research On The Status Quo Of Food Safety Supervision System Reform In Yunnan Province

Food safety is regarding the health and safety of the people, as well as the image and credibility of the Party and the government. In recent years, Chinese government continuously improve the food safety regulatory system, and has processed many reforms. The most important one was the super ministry system reform in 2013, which changed the situation that food safety was supervised by many departments. It indicates that China's food safety regulatory reform has made a huge progress, and also shows that Chinese government has put much emphasis on the major livelihood issue-food safety, and shows the government's determination and strength to supervise the food safety strictly.According to the Guidance of improving food and drug regulatory system reform from State Department, Yunnan Province integrates the functions and responsibilities of food safety supervision which were dispersed in many departments including Quality Supervision Department, Industrial and Commercial Administration, Food and Drug administration, and reorganizes the provincial Food and Drug Administration and the food safety Commission office of Yunnan Provincial people's Government. Besides, Yunnan Provincial people's Government also integrates the functions of Quality Supervision Department, Industrial and Commercial Administration, Food and Drug administration in counties and districts, and establishes the unified and comprehensive market regulatory departments. However, viewing from the operating effects after the reform, we can come to the conclusion that we still confront many problems. Firstly, there is a lack of functional transformation, and secondly the regulatory duties have not been effectively integrated. Thirdly, the regulatory effect is not obvious. Besides, the primary regulatory power is weak, and meanwhile the organizations are not optimized, etc. All of the problems need further research.This paper will focus on the major line of the super ministry system reform, integrated with a new round of institutional reform and transformation of governmental functions. Meanwhile, it will use many methodologies including literature analysis, case studies, field research, so as to deeply analyze the present situation and existing problems of food safety regulatory reform in Yunnan province, give suggestions on further improving and deepening the system reform.