Since the comprehensive administrative law enforcement reform in Chongqing’s towns and subdistricts began, related complaints and reports involving administrative law enforcement have decreased by over 30%.
The comprehensive administrative law enforcement reform in Chongqing’s towns and subdistricts was fully implemented in January 2024, introducing a new model of “statutory law enforcement + empowered law enforcement + delegated law enforcement.” The reform focuses on three key areas: precise empowerment, strengthening teams, and digital enablement, comprehensively enhancing the administrative law enforcement capabilities of towns and subdistricts.
To address the bottleneck of “seeing but not managing, managing but not seeing,” Chongqing has precisely defined grassroots administrative law enforcement authority and promoted dynamic management of law enforcement matters with both delegation and recovery. Since the reform, Chongqing has empowered towns and subdistricts with 107 law enforcement items urgently needed at the grassroots level, such as damaged residential fire equipment, while simultaneously recovering 70 specialized law enforcement items like hazardous materials disposal to relevant district-level law enforcement departments. This has achieved precise empowerment of town and subdistrict administrative law enforcement and clarified their authority and responsibility boundaries.
Before the reform, towns and subdistricts only had the power to advise and dissuade behaviors such as vendors occupying roads, debris blocking fire exits, and illegal fishing along riverbanks, without administrative penalty authority. After the reform, towns and subdistricts can directly implement administrative penalties for such violations when persuasion proves ineffective, significantly improving grassroots governance efficiency.
To solve the problem of “small, scattered, and weak” law enforcement capabilities in towns and subdistricts, Chongqing became the first nationwide to introduce provincial-level measures for “one team managing law enforcement” in towns and subdistricts. This promoted the comprehensive establishment of town and subdistrict comprehensive law enforcement teams across all 1,031 towns and subdistricts, while also deploying over 4,500 district and county-level law enforcement personnel to towns and subdistricts to fully strengthen grassroots law enforcement capabilities. During this process, Chongqing also implemented a new law enforcement operation mechanism of “towns/subdistricts whistle, departments respond,” achieving comprehensive coordination between district/county law enforcement and town/subdistrict law enforcement.
Nowadays, whether it’s environmental issues like dirt and disorder or concerns like blocked passageways that trouble residents, people can directly approach their town/subdistrict comprehensive law enforcement team to resolve related problems without needing to visit multiple departments or file complaints everywhere.
To address issues like irregular grassroots administrative law enforcement and inconsistent enforcement standards, Chongqing has developed an “AI-assisted law enforcement” function specifically for town and subdistrict comprehensive law enforcement through the city’s unified “law enforcement + supervision” digital platform. This function can intelligently identify relevant violations, automatically match relevant discretion benchmarks, and set up electronic fences for behaviors like multiple inspections and arbitrary fines in grassroots law enforcement, providing full-process warning prompts. This has effectively streamlined 40% of case handling procedures, saved 50% of case handling time, and reduced multiple inspections by over 40%, making grassroots administrative law enforcement more standardized and giving residents greater peace of mind.
