BEIJING -- Nine Chinese government departments, including the National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Labor and Social Security, will hold regular press conferences from January 2007.

"They will hold press conferences at a fixed time and place every month or quarter," said Cai Wu, director of the Information Office of the State Council, at a press conference here on Thursday.

The seven other departments are the Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Commerce, State Forestry Administration, State Intellectual Property Office, China Meteorological Administration and China Insurance Regulatory Commission.

From the beginning of 2006, the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Health began to hold press conferences on a regular basis.

Spokespersons of the CPC departments

Spokespersons for Government Departments under State Council

Ministries & Departments	Spokesperson	Title	Telephone
Foreign Ministry	Liu Jianchao	Director of the Information Department	65963342
	Qin Gang	Deputy Director of the Information Department
	Jiang Yu	Deputy Director of the Information Department
National Development and Reform Commission	Han Yongwen	Secretary-general	68501425
	Li Pumin	Director of the Office of Policy Studies
Ministry of Education	Wang Xuming	Deputy director of the General Office, Director of the Information Office	66097225
Ministry of Science and Technology	Shang Yong	Deputy minister	58881862
Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense	Huang Qiang	Secretary-general	88581590
	Li Jinduo	Director of the Information Center
State Ethnic Affairs Commission	Wu Cuiying	Director of the General Office	66508826
Ministry of Public Security	Wu Heping	Deputy Director of the General Office	66262549
	Shan Huimin	Director of Publicity Department
Ministry of Supervision	Li Yufu	Deputy minister	59595320
Ministry of Civil Affairs	Chen Chuanshu	Director of the General Office	58123032
	Yu Jianliang	Deputy Director of the General Office
Ministry of Justice	Wang Lixian	Director of the General Office	65206706
	Zha Qingjiu	Deputy Director of the General Office
Ministry of Finance	Zhang Tong	Director of the General Office	68551512
Ministry of Personnel	Kong Changsheng	Director of the Department of Policy and Laws	84214808
Ministry of Labor and Social Security	Xin  Changxing	Director of the General Office	84207636
Ministry of Land and Resources	Lv Guoping	Director of the General Office	66558043
Ministry of Construction	Li Bingren	Director of the General Office	58933970
Ministry of Railway	Wang Yongping	Director of the Political and Publicity Department	51841979
Ministry of Communications	Zhu Yongguang	Director of the Department of Restructuring, Laws and Regulations	65292608
Ministry of Information Industry	Liu Lihua	Director of the General Office	66015650
Ministry of Water Resources	Gu Hao	Director of the General Office	63202637
Ministry of Agriculture	Xue Liang	Chief Economist, Director of the General Office	64192389
	Wang Fujie	Director of the General Office
Ministry of  Commerce	To be appointed		65198502
Ministry of Culture	Huang Zhenchun	Director of the General Office	59881429
Ministry of Health	Mao Qunan	Deputy Director of the General Office	68792088
National Population and Family Planning Commission	Zhang Jian	Director of the Department of Publicity and Education	82504733
	Cui Li	Director of the General Office
	Yu Xuejun	Director of the Department of Policy and Laws
	Hao Linna	Director of the Department of International Cooperation
People's  Bank of China	Li Chao	Director of the General Office	66194181
National Audit Office	Deng Dazhu	Director of the General Office	68301627
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council	Du Yuanquan	Director of the Publicity  Department	63193501
General Administration of Customs	Liu Guangping	Director of the General Office	65195587
State Administration of Taxation	Li Linjun	Director of the General Office	63959412
		Director of the General Office	88651309
General Administration of Quality Supervision,  Inspection, and Quarantine	Xiang Yuzhang	Director of the General Office	82262164
	Liu Deping	Deputy Director of the General Office
State Environmental Protection Administration	Pan Yue	Deputy minister	66556051
General Administration of Civil Aviation of China	Liu Yanbin	Director of the General Office	64092209
	Zhang Zengming	Director of the Party Committee Office
State Administration of Radio, Film and Television	Zhu Hong	Director of the General Office	86093743
General Administration of Press and Publication	Wang Ziqiang	Director of the Copyright Administration Department of the State Copyright Administration	65212801
	Li Baozhong	Executive Deputy Director of the National Office of Crackdown on Pornographic and Illegal Publications
General Administration of Sport	Zhang Haifeng	Director of the Publicity Department	87182478
National Bureau of Statistics	Li Xiaochao	Director of the National Accounts	68576370
State Forestry Administration	Cao Qingyao	Director of the Publicity Office	84238928
State Food and Drug Administration	Zhang Yixiang	Deputy inspector of the Department of Policy and Regulations	88331408
State Administration of Work Safety	Huang Yi	Director of the Department of Policy and Legislation	64463024

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