Shanghai will dissolve two of its most corruption-troubled government agencies as part of a sweeping institutional reform that will reduce the number of departments from 56 to 44, local media reported.
The government will scrap the Shanghai Labour and Social Security Bureau, which was at the centre of a 2006 scandal involving the misuse of pension funds.
The former head of the bureau, Zhu Junyi , was jailed for 18 years and more than 20 government and state company officials were implicated, including the city's former Communist Party chief, Chen Liangyu .
The bureau will be replaced by a new body, the Shanghai Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, through a merger with the Shanghai Personnel Bureau.
Another troubled body, the Shanghai Housing, Land and Resource Administration, will be replaced by the Shanghai Housing Guarantee and Housing Management Administration.
However, the responsibility for land-related matters will fall to the new Shanghai Urban Planning, Land and Resource Administration, which the city will create from the old Shanghai Urban Planning Administration.
