A staff member serves a customer at an enterprise service center in Pudong New Area, Shanghai, Aug 28, 2018. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/chinadaily.com.cn]

The decoupling reform was first advanced in July 2015 after the general plan was issued. In three pilot programs over the following three years, 422 national associations and 5,318 provincial industrial associations were decoupled from administrative organs, which account for more than 50 percent of the overall industrial associations.

脱钩改革总体方案于2015年7月提出，在之后的三年中推出了三批试点，共有422家全国性协会和5318家省级协会实现与行政机关脱钩，均超过应脱钩协会总数的50%。

【单词讲解】

这里的decouple是前缀de-加couple一词构成的，我们都知道couple表示“夫妻、情侣、配偶、一对”或者“连接、结合”等意思，社交媒体上的流行词CP就是来源于coupling，意思是真人明星或者虚拟人物的粉丝将两个人物配对成恋爱关系或其他亲密关系的行为。前缀de-一般表示“否定、相反、除去”等意思，所以，decouple就是“使...脱离关系”的意思，常用的搭配的decouple...from...。

同时，uncouple也有“脱离关系”的意思，二者的区别在哪里呢?简单来说，uncouple表示客观上解除二者之间的关系，比如，夫妻或情侣分手，可以用they are going through the process of uncoupling表示，之后，二者之间就没有关系了。或者， uncouple the two railroad cars(使两节火车车厢分离)。而decouple表达的意思要更复杂一些，就像这里提到的，使行业协会与行政机关脱钩，这里的脱钩不是简单脱离关系那么简单，还涉及到各种复杂的事务流程。

实施意见指出，脱钩的主体是各级行政机关(administrative organs at various levels)与其主办、主管、联系、挂靠的行业协会商会( industrial associations and chambers of commerce that are organized, administered, have contact with or attached to the administrative organs)。

同时具有以下特征的行业协会商会纳入脱钩范围：会员主体为从事相同性质经济活动的单位、同业人员，或同地域的经济组织;名称以“行业协会(industrial association)”、“协会(association/society)”、“商会(chamber of commerce)”、“同业公会(guild)”、“联合会(league)”、“促进会(association for promotion)”等字样为后缀;在民政部门登记为社会团体法人。

According to the document, all the qualified industrial associations and chambers of commerce should be completely decoupled from the related administrative organs in terms of organization, function, personnel, finance, property Party building and publicity.

改革的具体任务主要包括机构分离、职能分离、资产财务分离、人员管理分离、党建外事等事项分离等。

According to the timetable for the reform, decoupling should be completed in an all-round way by the end of 2020.

根据实施意见的时间安排，全面实施行业协会商会脱钩改革，2020年底前基本完成。

【相关词汇】

机构改革 institutional reform

简政放权 streamline administration and delegate powers

互联网+政务服务 the Internet Plus government services model