The Regulations of Hunan Province on Optimizing the Business Environment came into effect on January 1, 2025.

To facilitate understanding of the regulations by all interested parties, both domestic and international, and to better promote their effective implementation, the bilingual (Chinese-English) text of the regulations is hereby released for reference and study by all sectors of society.

Regulations of Hunan Province on Optimizing the Business Environment

(Adopted at the 13th Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th Hunan Provincial People's Congress on November 29, 2024)

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1 With a view to improving the quality and efficiency of the services for market entities, strengthening support for factors, securing the legitimate rights and interests of market entities, creating a more fair, transparent, stable, and predictable development environment, stimulating market vitality and social creativity, and promoting the high-quality development of economy, the Regulations are formulated in accordance with the Regulations on Improving the Business Environment issued by the State Council and other laws and administrative regulations, and based on the actual conditions of Hunan Province.

Article 2 To optimize the business environment, it is essential to uphold the principle of unswervingly consolidating and developing the public sector and unswervingly encouraging, supporting, and guiding the development of the non-public sector. The business environment shall be optimized by following a market-oriented, law-based and internationalized approach. The work system shall be implemented based on the leadership of the Party committee, the leading role of the government, overall planning and coordination, and participation by all parties. The service concept of making no unnecessary interventions and being responsive to all requests shall be put into practice. The transformation of government functions shall be the focus, with the needs of market entities at the center, and the satisfaction of market entities as the goal. These efforts are made to create a world-class business environment characterized by trade and investment facilitation, efficient administration, standardized administrative services, and well-established legal system.

Article 3 The people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the organizational leadership of the work on optimizing the business environment, clarify the competent departments and development targets for optimizing the business environment; establish a sound working mechanism for optimizing business environment; enhance the organizational structure and personnel allocation for optimizing the business environment; ensure fiscal guarantee; and promptly coordinate and resolve the significant issues in optimizing the business environment. The primary accountability for optimizing the business environment in their respective administrative regions and departments rests with the chief officials of all levels of people's governments and the relevant departments.

The competent departments for optimizing the business environment of the people's governments at or above the county level are responsible for organizing, coordinating, supervising, guiding, investigating, verifying, and ensuring accountability on the work concerning optimizing the business environment. The competent department of the Hunan Provincial People's Government is responsible for assessing the work on optimizing the business environment around the province.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments, supervisory, judicial, and procuratorial organs, people's organizations, and central government units in Hunan shall duly perform business environment optimization duties.

The people's governments at or above the county level shall establish a collaborative working mechanism for optimizing the business environment with supervisory, judicial, and procuratorial organs, people's organizations, and central government units in Hunan, jointly promoting resource sharing, mutual recognition and interoperability, and efficient collaboration.

Federations of industry and commerce at all levels shall serve as a bridge connecting the private sector with the government, conveying the concerns of private enterprises and assisting in the optimization of the business environment.

Article 4 All regions and departments should be encouraged to take active efforts to explore and innovate reform measures to optimize the business environment based on practical conditions and within the framework of the rule of law. Effective reform measures for optimizing the business environment from both inside and outside the province should be promoted. 

Article 5 Unified positive, negative, and recommended lists governing interactions between governments and businesses shall be formulated at the provincial level. The lists aim to clearly define acceptable conducts between state public officials and operators of market entities and to foster proactive, considerate, and enthusiastic service delivery to operators of market entities by state public officials.

The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall streamline regular communication channels between government and business, establish a mechanism for regular and face-to-face consultations with representatives of market entities and help resolve their difficulties and problems according to law.

Article 6 Market entities' autonomy in operation, property rights, and other legitimate rights and interests, along with the personal and property safety of their operators, shall be protected in accordance with the law.

Market entities shall abide by laws and regulations, observe social morality and business ethics, be honest and trustworthy, engage in fair competition, fulfill their statutory obligations, shoulder their social responsibilities, and jointly promote the optimization of the business environment.

Chapter II Market Environment

Article 7 The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall fully implement the national unified system of negative list for market access and shall not separately develop a negative list in the nature of market access. The policies and rules which may obstruct unified market construction and fair competition shall be cleared up and abolished. The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall not set up market access barriers, directly or in disguise, through such means of filing, registration, annual inspections, accreditation, certification, branch establishment, requirements for performance in designated administrative regions, payment of tax and social insurance in the region, or the formation of consortiums with local business entities; and shall not set up eligibility, capital, shareholding ratio, staffing, or other requirements beyond those mandated by law in terms of market access. All market entities may enter the fields outside the National Negative List for Market Access equally according to law. Management of investment not covered by the Special Administrative Measures (Negative List) for the Access of Foreign Investment shall be implemented in accordance with the principle of consistency between domestic and foreign investment.

The environment for market access to new business forms and new sectors shall be optimized. Phased elimination of market access restrictions should be implemented for service sectors not involving national security or social stability where market competition can effectively improve the quality of supply.

Article 8 The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall, as per the relevant regulations, simplify the procedures required of business entities to follow from setting up to fulfillment of the general operating conditions. Unless laws or administrative regulations stipulate otherwise, matters concerning operating permits for market entities shall not be considered prerequisites for registration, and registration shall not be required to be conducted in designated regions.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall improve business startup services by implementing a system featuring one-time notification, one window processing, and one-stop online government services (One-stop System in short), while exploring the consolidation of multiple licenses required for market entry in a given industry into a single comprehensive industry license.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall establish a coordination mechanism for services related to the relocation of business entities, simplify the procedures for cross-regional relocation, and shall not place obstacles to cross-regional operations or relocation.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall improve a system for deregistering business entities with simplified procedures, optimize the deregistration process, and set up and improve an integrated online platform at the provincial level for deregistering business entities.

Article 9 The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall uphold equal treatment to market entities under all forms of ownership. No discriminatory treatment shall be imposed on market entities in terms of qualification accreditation, tendering and bidding, government procurement, and protection of lawful rights and interests. No restrictions shall be placed on the trading, purchasing, or use of goods and services provided by specific business operators. No examination and approval, prior filing, or other administrative licensing procedures or intermediary services shall be established, unless justified by laws, regulations, or decisions of the State Council. No examination and approval, or filing procedures with the nature of administrative approval, shall be established for business sectors, areas, and operations not included in the negative list for market access. No franchise shall be granted to business operators without fair competition.

The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall ensure the equal participation of various market entities in government procurement, tendering and bidding, and other public resource trading activities. Potential suppliers or bidders shall not be required to establish local branches; neither shall any performance achievements, awards, etc. from specific regions or industries be used as a condition for earning extra marks, nor shall potential participants be excluded or restricted through any other means. The form of bid security shall not be limited, nor shall specific financial institutions, guarantors, or insurers be designated for issuing letters of guarantee (insurance policies).

Article 10 The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments responsible for market supervision and administration shall strengthen enforcement of laws against monopoly and unfair competition in accordance with their statutory duties and powers. Relevant illegal acts shall be promptly investigated and dealt with in accordance with the law.

Business operators with a dominant market position shall not abuse their dominant market position to disrupt the order of fair market competition or harm the lawful rights and interests of other market entities. The provincial people's government and the departments responsible for market supervision and administration shall strengthen supervision of the platform economy and the sharing economy, and establish a sound system and mechanism against monopoly and unfair competition.

Article 11 The financial and pricing authorities of the provincial people's government are responsible for formulating and releasing the catalog of enterprise-related administrative charges. No unit shall arbitrarily establish charging items, raise charging rates, or expand charging scope. Compelling donations and extorting sponsorships shall be prohibited. Market entities shall not be forcibly required to participate in commercial insurance in violation of regulations.

Article 12 The provincial people's government shall regulate policies for attracting investment and strictly prohibit illegal fiscal, tax, land-use, or other preferential policies. Governments at all levels shall comply with relevant policies for attracting investment, refrain from engaging in cost-disregarding cutthroat competition, not violate resource and environmental systems and policy regulations, and avoid incurring illegal debt financing.

The people's governments at all levels may establish their guarantee mechanisms to ensure implementation and services of the investment projects, organizing, coordinating, and supervising relevant departments to jointly promote implementation of the key projects.

Article 13 The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall, according to law, take timely measures including subsidies and reductions or exemptions of taxes and fees to help market entities that face widespread difficulty in production and business operations caused by natural disasters, public health emergencies, or other emergencies.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall intensify relief assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and increase support for government procurement. An emergency loan refinancing mechanism for SMEs is encouraged to be set up. Financial institutions are encouraged to arrange direct loan extensions or renewals to eligible SMEs following market-oriented principles. Local people's governments with adequate fiscal capacity are encouraged to allocate SME relief funds and emergency loan refinancing funds.

Article 14 Industry associations and chambers of commerce shall set up and improve standards for industry self-regulation and professional code of ethics to regulate the conduct of their members, and provide their members with services including information consultation, publicity and training, market expansion, and protection of legitimate rights and interests.

Unless laws and regulations stipulate otherwise, industry associations and chambers of commerce shall not force market entities to join or withdraw from such associations or chambers, nor compel them to participate in evaluations, standardization, training, examinations, or similar activities, nor charge fees for such participation.

Chapter III Guarantee of Factors

Article 15 The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall ensure the supply of public goods such as municipal infrastructure, transportation, energy, information, public security, public services, and emergency rescue, while enhancing service level and quality.

Article 16 The people's governments at or above the county level shall coordinate the new construction land and the existing construction land, and scientifically develop a supply plan for construction land, giving priority to ensuring the reasonable land use needs of effective investment projects.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments may, according to law, supply industrial land in diversified forms such as long-term leases, lease before granting, combination of lease and granting, and flexible-term granting supply, to meet differentiated land use needs of market entities. 

Article 17 The relevant departments of the provincial people's government shall coordinate the building of financing credit service platforms, push forward the integration and unified management of such platforms, establish a cross-departmental and cross-sectoral credit information collection and sharing mechanism, and improve the inclusive financing service system based on credit information in order to improve financing accessibility for market entities.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall enhance the government financing guarantee institution system, improve the financing guarantee risk-sharing compensation mechanism, reduce guarantee fee rates, and increase support for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, science and technology-based enterprises, and innovative enterprises. The guarantee fee rate of a government financing guarantee institution shall not exceed the standards set by the State and the province.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall advance intellectual property (IP) pledge financing; improve risk-sharing and compensation mechanisms; facilitate the entry of IP service providers (covering valuation, trading, agency and legal services) into the financial services market; and incentivize banks to establish special credit lines.

Article 18 The competent departments of human resources and social security of the people's governments at or above the county level shall improve the public employment service platform, gather job recruitment information, and provide employers and workers with services including job posting, resume submission, job search and application support, and career counseling; support enterprises in recruiting talents through flexible methods, such as part-time work and consulting, in accordance with the law; and, guide enterprises to build harmonious labor relations and offer training and guidance to relevant enterprises to prevent employment risks and ensure legal handling of labor disputes.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall provide policy support and service guarantee for talents in the following aspects, including residence and household registration, housing purchase and renting, social security and medical insurance, education for their children, employment of their spouses, project incubation, financial support, and recruitment and promotions of professional rank and title. They shall support market entities in introducing foreign talents and facilitate foreign talents' stay, residency, medical care, multi-entry visa applications, and customs clearance.

Article 19 The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall improve the system for scientific and technological innovation organization and implementation, improve a guarantee system for the elements of scientific and technological innovation, increase support for scientific and technological innovation in key and emerging areas, build trading platforms for scientific and technological elements, promote the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements, strengthen protection of intellectual property rights, and create a social environment that respects and protects scientific and technological innovation.

Article 20 The provincial people's government and the relevant departments shall establish and refine the working mechanisms for energy development, operation, and price control, establish a system featuring diversified energy supply and complete energy reserves, and explore new models for comprehensive energy management. The trading and supply system for water, electricity, coal, gas, and other resource products should be improved, reducing intermediate links between trading and supply to lower water and energy costs.

Article 21 The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall strengthen transport infrastructure construction in such fields as railways, highways, water transport, and aviation, and improve the comprehensive three-dimensional transport system. The development of third-party logistics, specialized logistics, and online freight platforms should be encouraged and supported to optimize transport structures, streamline the logistics network, and reduce logistics costs.

The provincial people's government and the relevant departments shall, taking into consideration the practical conditions of the Hunan section of the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake, Xiangjiang River, Zijiang River, Yuanshui River, Lishui River, and other water areas, formulate waterway transportation development plans, and strengthen navigation infrastructure construction and waterway maintenance and dredging, so as to improve waterway transportation capacity.

The competent provincial department of transportation shall, in collaboration with relevant provincial departments of price, finance, and others, establish a differentiated toll charging mechanism for expressways based on vehicle types, time periods, and road sections.

Article 22 The provincial people's government and the relevant departments shall accelerate construction of data infrastructure; cultivate the data factor market; break down data barriers; facilitate development and utilization of public data resources; improve systems for data property ownership identification, market transactions, rights and interests distribution, interests protection, and safety management, among others; and strengthen the supply of high-quality data as a production factor.

Article 23 The operation entities that supply public services such as water, electricity, gas, and communication networks shall, in accordance with the law, disclose to the public the service scopes, standards, charges, procedures, promised processing time limit and other information. They shall implement a joint application system for water, electricity, gas and communication networks, optimize operational procedures, simplify application processes, reduce processing time limit, and enable online handling of all installation applications through a One-stop System.

Within the scope of planned urban construction land, access projects that connect the construction unit's red line of planned construction land to public pipe networks in compliance with standard specifications, shall be invested and constructed by the operation entities that supply public services such as water, electricity, gas, and communication networks or by the people's governments in accordance with regulations, and the construction unit shall not be required to bear the corresponding construction expenses. No market entity shall be coerced into accepting unreasonable terms and conditions through service delays or other tactics. Design units, construction units, and equipment and material suppliers shall not be designated for projects within the red line of planned construction land. No unreasonable charges or cost shifting shall be permitted under any pretext.

Article 24 The provincial people's government and the relevant departments shall accelerate construction of opening-up platforms and international trade channels. These platforms, including the Pilot Zone for In-depth China-Africa Economic and Trade Cooperation, the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo, the China (Hunan) Pilot Free Trade Zone, cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones, and comprehensive bonded zones, will undergo continuous upgrading to enhance international service capabilities.

The development of national logistics hubs and modern circulation strategic fulcrum (supporting) cities will be accelerated, and channels including international air freight service, international land ports, China-Europe freight trains, China-ASEAN freight trains, river-to-sea intermodal transport service, and Hunan-Guangdong-Africa rail-sea intermodal transport service will be streamlined to facilitate international trade.

Chapter IV Government Services

Article 25 Administrative service management departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall collaborate with relevant departments to formulate and make public a catalogue of local government service items and corresponding service guidelines and carry forward non-discriminatory processing of the same item by the same standards. The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall establish a list-management and regular promotion mechanism for key matters in "Efficient Completion of One Matter", deepen the innovation of government service modes, and improve the quality and efficiency of government services.

Supervision over administrative efficiency will be strengthened and the status of administrative efficiency development will be incorporated into the province's scope of evaluation on optimizing the business environment. Where there are provisions in laws, regulations and rules and in relevant State provisions to govern the time limit for government service items, such items shall be settled within the prescribed time limit. The handling authority is encouraged to set a promised processing time limit which is shorter than the prescribed time limit. Where the application items meet the statutory conditions and are not settled within the prescribed time limit and the promised time limit, behaviors leading to administrative fault will be corrected in a timely manner, the relevant authorities and individuals will be held accountable and dealt with in accordance with laws, disciplines, and regulations. Where no time limit is prescribed, the handling authority shall set a processing time limit according to the principles of reasonableness and efficiency.

Article 26 Except for cases involving State secrets, national security, and other special circumstances, the people's governments at or above the county level shall handle government service items in the administrative area at a comprehensive government service center in a unified manner. Vertically-administered central government departments are encouraged to consolidate their administrative service items at local comprehensive government service centers for centralized processing.

Government service centers shall implement integrated one window processing mode; strengthen standardized management and improve service systems such as one-time notification, first-inquired person in charge, and time-limited processing; improve service modes such as appointment, assistance in handling, and agency services; and set up a backstop service window to promptly coordinate and address difficulties and problems during service processing.

Article 27 Administrative service management departments of the provincial people's government shall take the lead in implementing processing of government services on a One-stop System. Departments at all levels shall integrate various government service systems into and connect them with the provincial integrated government service platform to achieve date sharing.

The cross-provincial business support system of the national integrated government service platform will be leveraged to promote one-stop online handling of matters requiring government services in different places.

Article 28 The relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the law, formulate and disclose to the public a list of government service items that accept application without prerequisite for certain materials, and elaborate on the methods of undertaking service commitments and regulatory rules for commitment-based matters. The models of notification and commitment and acceptance of application without prerequisite for certain materials will be promoted in implementing the approval of government service items where risks are controllable, correction costs are minimal, and effective risk prevention is achieved through in-process and post-process oversight.

Article 29 Market entities' electronic licenses, electronic seals, and electronic archives in compliance with provisions have the same legal effect as paper ones, shall be recognized and shared among departments and across regions, and serve as the legal basis or proofs for a market entity to apply for government service items or obtain related qualifications.

Unless otherwise provided by laws and regulations, electronic licenses issued by the people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall be collected in real time and transferred into the electronic license database of the provincial integrated government service platform. When a market entity applies for relevant matters, if the necessary electronic licenses for business handling may be obtained through the electronic license database, the accepting authority shall not refuse to process the application or require the applicant to provide paper licenses, unless the law mandates the return of the original license.

Article 30 The people's governments at or above the county level shall deepen reform of the approval system for engineering construction projects, organize processing of parallel approval, and promote whole-process online approval of engineering construction projects.

With respect to the development zones and new areas set up in accordance with the law, and other regions endowed with proper conditions, regional assessment shall be conducted as per the relevant regulations of the State and the province, and the people's governments of prefecture-level cities and autonomous prefecture shall organize relevant departments to conduct a unified assessment for matters such as assessments of overlaying important mineral resources, environmental impact evaluations, geological hazards assessments, water resources assessments, soil and water conservation plans, water extraction permits, archaeological investigation and exploration of cultural relics, and major project climate feasibility studies. For specific construction projects in the regions, no separate assessments shall be required or assessment requirements will be simplified according to law. The costs of regional assessment shall not be borne by the market entities.

Article 31 Tax authorities and relevant departments shall optimize tax and fee handling process, simplify applications procedures for preferential tax and fee policies, provide a wider range of payment options, and expand contactless payment services.

Article 32 Real property registration agencies shall, in accordance with relevant regulations issued by the State, cooperate with the departments of public security, taxation, finance, housing and urban-rural development, agriculture and rural affairs, civil affairs, forestry, and market regulation, among others, and implement real property registration, transactions, and tax payments in parallel at one window.

The whole process time limit from completion inspection to initial registration and transfer registration of real property of the construction projects shall be shortened. Joint processing of water, electricity, gas, and other property transfer service matters involved in real property transfer registration shall be promoted.

Article 33 The relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with laws, regulations or decisions of the State Council, formulate and disclose to the public lists of intermediary services for administrative examination and approval in their respective industries and sectors. The specifications shall include the name of the intermediary matter, the statutory basis for administrative examination and approval, qualifications, procedures, time limit, and rates of charges for intermediary services for administrative approval, and the specifications shall be subject to lawful dynamic adjustments.

The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall not make unlisted intermediary services for administrative examination and approval a condition for processing administrative examination and approval. They shall not, in any form, require applicants to entrust an intermediary service agency or provide relevant intermediary service materials for unlisted intermediary services for administrative examination and approval. They shall not use their powers to designate directly or in disguised form intermediary service agencies for applicants. 

The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall simplify procedures of intermediary services for administrative examination and approval. Intermediary services for administrative examination and approval shall be included in the integrated government service platform and a provincial online "intermediary service supermarket". The entire process of intermediary services for administrative examination and approval, such as selection of intermediary service agencies, payment of charges, document submission, and performance evaluation, will be conducted online and open to public supervision.  

With respect to intermediary services for administrative examination and approval, the principles of convenience and accessibility shall be adhered to. Intermediary service agencies are encouraged to provide on-site services. The requirement for off-site assessment, off-site drawing review, and similar intermediary services for administrative examination and approval is generally prohibited, except in cases of major projects involving regional layout or projects with exceptionally complex technological aspects. With respect to intermediary services for administrative examination and approval entrusted by the people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments in accordance with the law, fair competition shall be conducted in the selection of intermediary service agencies, and service fees shall be paid.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall, in accordance with the law, strengthen supervision of intermediary service agencies and shall promptly shall promptly investigate and punish instances of false reporting and other acts in violations of laws or regulations by intermediary service agencies. A mechanism for the evaluation of the quality of intermediary services for administrative examination and approval shall be established and the evaluation results shall be disclosed on the integrated government service platform and other platforms.

Article 34 The provincial people's government shall establish a unified provincial platform for releasing enterprise-related policies. Unless laws and regulations stipulate otherwise or State secrets, national security and other circumstances are involved, the people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall classify and sort out all types of enterprise-benefiting policies and remove obsolete policies in a timely manner. Enterprise-related policies shall be disclosed via the unified platform and policy updates shall be proactively and accurately disseminated and explained to enterprises.

Article 35 The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall establish a sound working mechanism to ensure that qualified enterprises may directly enjoy beneficial policies without going through the application procedure through information sharing, big data analysis, and other means. Where it is necessary for enterprises to apply for enterprise-benefiting policies, the application procedures shall be simplified and processed fully online to secure a rapid implementation of these policies.

Article 36 The people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen service guarantees for the fulfillment and implementation of projects contracted by foreign-invested enterprises, establish a sound system for communication and consultation and an on-site service mechanism, and coordinate to promptly address operational challenges faced by foreign-invested enterprises.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall support market entities to participate in overseas investment, scientific and technological cooperation, and other activities, establish and improve the mechanism for the prevention of foreign-related economic and trade disputes, and strengthen the identification, early-warning and disposal of external economic risks.

Customs authorities, commercial authorities, foreign exchange management authorities, and other relevant departments shall promote the facilitation of cross-border trade and investment. The "advance declaration and customs clearance" for import and export goods shall be expedited. The customs clearance model of "two-step declaration" for imports, and the model of port operations and logistics organization shall be optimized. Port logistics documents shall go paperless. The handling procedures of foreign exchange services shall be simplified. The whole-process digitalization and the efficiency of cross-border capital circulation shall be enhanced.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall improve the working mechanism for foreign-related legal services, strengthen the construction of foreign-related legal service agencies and the cultivation and recruitment of talents in foreign-related legal services, establish a platform for matching supply and demand in foreign-related legal services, and improve the mechanism for the prevention and resolution of foreign-related trade and economic disputes.

Article 37 The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall establish a mechanism for the sharing of public credit information and the mutual recognition of results, and shall collect relevant public credit information as well as the information between the government and the market in a comprehensive, accurate, and timely manner to the provincial public credit information service platform based on relevant provisions issued by the State and the province. Public credit legal and compliance certificates that include information related to market entities and are produced by the provincial public credit information service platform may substitute the legal and compliance certificates issued by relevant departments.

All types of non-government credit information service platforms shall promptly update credit information involving market entities based on the relevant information released by the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System and the provincial public credit information service platform. Where there are inconsistencies in the relevant information, no people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall use any information published by non-government credit platforms as a basis to prevent market entities from participating in relevant market activities. Where information published on non-government credit platforms is not updated timely, incomplete, or inaccurate, market entities may submit a complaint to the competent department of social credit work. Where the complaint is verified to be authentic, the competent department of social credit work shall require the non-government credit platforms to make corrections within a prescribed time period.

Chapter V Legal Safeguards

Article 38 When enacting and amending local regulations that are related to the rights and interests of market entities, the people's congresses and their standing committees with local legislative power shall stipulate the rights and obligations of citizens, legal persons and other organizations, and the power and responsibilities of State organs, and establish administrative permits, administrative penalty, administrative compulsory enforcement, and remedy measures in a scientific and reasonable manner.

Article 39 The formulation of regulations, normative documents, and policies involving market entities shall be reviewed for their scientificity, legitimacy, and fair competition, and shall strengthen the assessment of their consistency with macro-policy orientation in order to ensure that all regulations are aligned and coordinated.

The formulation of regulations, normative documents, and policies involving market entities shall solicit opinions from market entities, federations of industry and commerce, and industry associations and chambers of commerce. Where the legislative actions could increase the costs or affect the normal production and operations of market entities, a transition period of no less than one month shall be given to market entities, except the circumstances concerning national security and public interest, or circumstances where delayed implementation upon promulgation shall hinder the effectiveness of the implementation.

Policies involving market entities shall maintain a reasonable level of stability after implementation, and adjustments shall not be made arbitrarily unless necessary. In case an adjustment is necessary, it shall be announced to the public beforehand, and compensation shall be made in accordance with laws and regulations to any market entities whose legitimate rights and interests are impinged on by the policy change.

Article 40 The provincial people's governments, the people's governments of prefecture-level cities and autonomous prefecture, and the relevant departments shall improve the system of benchmarks for administrative discretion and establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism for such benchmarks. The people's governments at the county level and the relevant departments may, within their statutory authority, reasonably refine the standards, conditions, types, extent, methods, and time limits of administrative discretion benchmarks formulated by higher administrative authorities.

Administrative authorities shall impose administrative penalties in strict adherence to the provisions of laws, regulations, and rules and the fact of violations. Where the objectives of administrative oversight can be achieved by imposing different types or degrees of administrative penalties in accordance with the law, those causing the least detriment to market entities shall be selected. Income from penalties and confiscations shall not be tied to the interests of law enforcement agencies. Profit-driven law enforcement, selective law enforcement, or excessive law enforcement are strictly prohibited.

In administrative law enforcement, non-mandatory means such as persuasion and enlightenment, exhortation and demonstration, and administrative guidance shall be strengthened. It is encouraged to formulate and disclose to the public, in accordance with the law, a list of violations that are not subject to administrative penalties or that may receive mitigated administrative penalties, as well as a list of violations that are not subject to administrative coercive measures.

The supervisory organs of administrative law enforcement shall strengthen the supervision and inspection of administrative law enforcement activities involving market entities, regularly carry out administrative law enforcement appraisals and assessments, and administrative law enforcement case files evaluation in order to safeguard the order of production and operation and the legitimate rights and interests of market entities in accordance with the law.

Article 41 Administrative authorities shall establish a new type of credit-based regulatory mechanism. For market entities that abide by legal obligations or contractual obligations, the frequency of inspections and the ratio of random checks shall be reasonably reduced during routine supervision.

The system of random selection of the inspection targets, random assignment of law enforcement staff, random inspection status, and timely public disclosure of inspection results and enforcement outcomes and exercising off-site law enforcement shall be implemented. Inspection results and other regulatory information shall be shared and mutually recognized to avoid duplicated law enforcement.

With respect to special industries and key fields directly related to public security and people's lives and health, comprehensive and priority supervision shall be implemented in accordance with the law. The inclusive and prudential supervision shall be practiced over new technologies, new industries, new forms of business, new business modes and others.

Article 42 The competent departments of industries or competent departments as prescribed by laws and regulations shall, in collaboration with relevant departments, implement cross-departmental comprehensive supervision over key areas directly involving the safety of people's lives and property and public security, or having huge potential risks and high social risks, and over matters involving multi-departmental supervision in emerging areas. Where two or more competent administrative departments carry out respective separate law enforcement inspections which can be conducted over the same market entity at the same time, the inspection matters shall be integrated and cross-departmental joint inspections or comprehensive inspections shall be implemented.

Except for random inspections over matters stipulated by laws and regulations that directly involve the safety of people's lives and property in such fields as food and drug safety, safety production, public security, and environmental protection, as well as law enforcement inspections temporarily carried out by the State and the provincial people's government, the number of administrative routine supervision and inspections of the same market entity shall be strictly controlled. If the number of inspections exceeds two in one year, the competent departments shall report to the people's government at the same level for approval.

Article 43 A QR code scanning registration system for enterprise-related law enforcement inspection shall be implemented. Before entering an enterprise to carry out law enforcement inspections, administrative law enforcement staff shall scan the Hunan Business Code for inspection registration, record the process, results and other information of the law enforcement inspections, and actively accept evaluations and supervision of the inspected entities. Where laws and regulations specify that there is no need to give prior notice to carry out law enforcement inspections, administrative law enforcement staff shall complete inspection registration after the inspections are carried out. The number of law enforcement inspections and that of cases handled shall not be linked to assessment and evaluation, and quantified targets shall not be allocated in a hierarchical manner.

The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall obtain the consent of enterprises before conducting activities such as learning exchanges, visits, study tours, and research investigations in the enterprises.

Article 44 Campaigns such as cleanup operations and special rectification shall be conducted in strict accordance with the law. Except where otherwise provided by laws and regulations or where national security considerations apply, measures requiring market entities operating in relevant industries and fields to suspend production or business shall not be adopted in the relevant region. Where such measures are deemed necessary, the scope and time limit of implementation shall be reasonably defined, and written or public notice shall be given in advance. The people's government at the corresponding level shall hold an executive meeting and submit a written report to the people's government at the higher level for approval prior to implementation.

Where market entities can carry out rectification while continuing production and operation, administrative authorities shall generally not impose administrative penalties such as suspension of production and operations, or shutdown.

Article 45 The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall enhance integrity in government affairs and improve a mechanism for the governments to keep promises and fulfill commitments. The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall fulfill their policy commitments made to and various contracts and agreements signed with market entities in accordance with the law. They shall not breach or repudiate their commitments or contracts by reason of administrative division adjustment, government reshuffle, institutional or functional adjustment, or the replacement of a relevant responsible person. If it is necessary to change a policy commitment or contractual provisions in order to protect State interests or social and public interests, such changes shall be carried out in accordance with statutory authority and procedures, and the losses incurred to market entities shall be compensated in accordance with the law.

The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall deal with longstanding problems left over in a timely and appropriate manner, adhering to the principles of respecting history, seeking truth from facts, and following relevant laws and regulations. They shall not shirk their responsibilities.

Article 46 The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall strengthen the management of the approval process for government-funded projects and government procurement projects, as well as budgetary management of government investment funds. Where project construction and goods and services procurement are not included in the budget or where the sources of funding have not been secured, construction or procurement shall not commence. Market entities shall not be required, in any form, to provide advance financing for construction or to provide services.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall establish and improve a long-lasting sound mechanism for preventing and defusing default on payments to market entities, and shall intensify their efforts to clear the outstanding payments owed to market entities by State organs, state-owned enterprises, and public institutions.

State organs, state-owned enterprises, and public institutions shall make payments to market entities in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contracts. No entity shall refuse or delay payments to market entities on the grounds of personnel changes, the performance of internal payment processes, or waiting for completion acceptance and approval, and final account audits in the absence of an agreement in the contracts. A repayment plan shall be formulated and strictly implemented for historically accumulated, undisputed outstanding payments and those that have been adjudicated by the judiciary without objection. The people's governments at the same or higher levels shall supervise the implementation of the plan.

Article 47 The people's governments and the people's courts at or above the county level shall establish and improve a government-court joint mechanism for managing enterprise bankruptcy proceedings, and coordinate the resolution of such issues as employee settlement, asset disposal, credit rehabilitation, risk mitigation, deregistration procedures, and tax-related matters arising during these proceedings.

The people's governments at or above the county level are encouraged to establish enterprise bankruptcy assistance funds to solve the problem of initiating and advancing bankruptcy proceedings for enterprises that have no property for liquidation or lack start-up funds. They shall explore the establishment of bankruptcy rescue mechanisms such as reorganization identification and pre-reorganization, to help distressed enterprises with development prospects and worthy of rescue in restructuring.

Article 48 Supervisory organs shall strengthen the supervision of relevant authorities and state public officials in promoting the optimization of the business environment, and shall investigate and punish, in accordance with the law, the unlawful exercises of functions and power that harm the business environment. Relevant entities and individuals who make deviations or mistakes and fail to achieve the expected goals while advancing reforms to optimize the business environment may be granted lenient, mitigated, or exempted liability under applicable laws and regulations, provided they have not violated any mandatory legal provisions, have complied with State and provincial reform directives, have followed prescribed decision-making and implementation procedures, have exercised due diligence and responsible conduct, and have neither sought personal gain nor harmed public interests.

Article 49 Courts shall adjudicate cases involving market entities impartially and efficiently in accordance with the law. They shall establish an expedited mechanism for case filing, hearing, and settling as prescribed, and ensure the timely realization of the rights and interests of market entities in the winning lawsuit in accordance with the law. The people's governments at all levels and relevant departments, people's organizations, and enterprises and public institutions shall strengthen cooperation and collaboration with executive organs to jointly promote the execution.

Procuratorial organs shall prosecute criminal acts infringing upon the legitimate rights and interests of market entities in accordance with the law. They are responsible for exercising legal supervision over administrative law enforcement, investigation, trial, and execution activities involving market entities, thereby ensuring the protection of their legitimate rights and interests in accordance with the law.

Article 50 Judicial organs shall strengthen and regulate the review and assessment of the necessity for detention in enterprise-related cases. Administrative and judicial organs shall not intervene in economic disputes by administrative or criminal means.

Administrative and judicial organs shall, in accordance with the law, prudently apply mandatory measures such as sealing up, seizing, or freezing. They are prohibited from imposing mandatory measures such as sealing up, seizing, or freezing of the property of market entities or the private property of business operators in violation of statutory authority, requirements, or procedures, and beyond prescribed scopes, amounts, or time limits. Where sealing up, seizing, or freezing is legally necessary, efforts should be made to minimize the impact on the normal production and operation of market entities. When conditions permit, necessary liquidity and operating accounts should be reserved for market entities.

Article 51 The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, optimize the coordinated dispute resolution linkage mechanism, and promote the construction of one-stop multiple disputes resolution mechanisms.

Chapter Ⅵ Supervision, Rewards, and Punishments

Article 52 The mechanism for making complaints about and safeguarding rights on the business environment shall be established and improved. Any entity or individual may make complaints or reports concerning the business environment via the Hunan Business Code, the Hunan Business Environment Optimization Network, 12345 government service hotline, the Private Enterprise Service Center, and the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Service Center. The competent authorities in charge of optimizing the business environment of the people's governments at or above the county level shall improve the mechanism for collecting, processing, responding to, and evaluating appeals from market entities.

The people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments shall set up a smooth channel to accept complaints or reports and give feedback, and establish a mechanism for rapid processing of these complaints or reports. Where a resolution cannot be reached, the circumstances shall be promptly communicated and explained.

Article 53 News media shall strengthen publicity of laws, regulations, and policies and measures aimed at improving the business environment, and give full play to the role of public opinion supervision, thus fostering a favorable public opinion climate to facilitate the business environment optimization.

News media shall objectively, truthfully, and impartially report on the production and operational activities of market entities and their fulfillment of social responsibilities, and shall not exaggerate facts or make false reports. Where the news media produce inaccurate reports, they shall bear the responsibilities of eliminating the adverse impact, restoring reputations, making apologies, and compensating for losses in accordance with the law.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall support the news media's public opinion oversight of the business environment, promptly investigate and address behaviors that impair the business environment as reported by the media, and disclose the results of these investigations to the public.

Article 54 The people's governments at or above the county level shall establish a social supervision system for optimizing the business environment and engage industry associations, chambers of commerce, enterprises and business operators as business environment monitoring stations (posts/officers) to observe, experience, and supervise the business environment. They shall take the lead in establishing a mechanism for random inspections and examination of the business environment, and implement a system of red or yellow card warning, time-limited rectifications, and regular reporting.

The competent departments for optimizing business environment of the people's governments at or above the county level may supervise the optimization of the business environment by the following means:

(1) Conduct regulatory oversight with spot checks, and carry out both overt and covert investigations;

(2) Inquire about the situation from relevant entities and individuals, and collect and retrieve evidence;

(3) Hold regulatory talks with the persons in charge of relevant entities;

(4) Put forward suggestions to competent authorities; and

(5) Other supervision means as stipulated by laws, regulations, and rules.

Article 55 The people's governments at or above the county level shall regularly report to the standing committees of the people's congresses at the same level on the work of optimizing the business environment. The local standing committees of the people's congresses at or above the county level may supervise the implementation of various initiatives related to optimizing the business environment by listening to and deliberating work reports, conducting law enforcement inspections, holding special inquiries, organizing representatives to conduct inspections, and managing the filing and review of normative documents.

Article 56 The competent departments of the provincial people's government for business environment, with reference to the international and national business environment indicator systems, formulate the evaluation and monitoring indicator system of the province. They shall organize prefecture-level cities, autonomous prefecture, counties (county-level cities and districts), industrial parks above the provincial level, and relevant provincial departments to engage in evaluation and monitoring of the business environment. The people's governments at or above the county level shall adjust and improve corresponding policies and measures in a timely manner based on the results of evaluation of the business environment.

Evaluation and monitoring of the business environment shall be carried out by listening to the opinions and suggestions of market entities, deputies to the people's congresses, members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference committees, and supervisors of business environment.

Article 57 Where operators in the platform economy or sharing economy abuse their dominant market position and disrupt the order of market competition, the market supervision and regulation administration departments shall order them to cease the illegal acts, confiscate any illegal gains, and impose a fine of no less than 1% and no more than 5% of their sales from the previous year; or if the circumstances are serious, a fine of no less than 5% and no more than 10% of the previous year's sales shall be imposed.

Article 58 The competent departments for social credit of the provincial people's government are responsible for establishing and improving a complaint system for defaults and bad credit, and shall incorporate government defaults and instances of bad credit into the evaluation of the business environment.

For State organs, state-owned enterprises, and public institutions that have breached contract or exhibited bad credit, the competent authorities may take punitive measures such as restricting all kinds of government financial support, limiting the recommendation of various financing projects, restricting the applications for supportive policies, canceling the qualifications for participating in merit-based evaluation, restricting participation in government procurement, and reducing general expenditures and spending on official overseas visits, official vehicles, and official hospitality.

Where public utility enterprises and public institutions, intermediary service agencies, and other market entities illegally conduct public resource trading activities, levy unjustified charges, issue false certificates or reports, manipulate service market prices, violate business norms and professional ethics, and defraud government subsidies to seek illegitimate interests or disrupt market order, the relevant administrative organs shall investigate and punish in accordance with the law. The violations shall be recorded in the credit information notification system and the credit information sharing platform in accordance with relevant national and provincial regulations, and joint punishment will be implemented.

Article 59 State public officials who have made outstanding contributions to the work of optimizing the business environment shall be rewarded in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.

Where state public officials violate the provisions of these Regulations or commit any of the following acts, the competent authorities shall order them to make rectifications. Under serious circumstances, the leaders-in-charge held directly responsible and personnel directly responsible shall be penalized in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. They shall not be given any rewards for that year and shall not be eligible for promotions during the period of administrative sanction:

(1) Unlawfully set up differential treatment for market entities in terms of qualification acquisition, bidding and tendering, government procurement, and protection of rights and interests;

(2) Formulate a separate negative list for market access;

(3) Set entry thresholds in the name of filing, registration, annual inspection, affirmation, certification, setting up branches, performance from a specific administrative area, paying taxes and social security in the region, or forming a consortium with local business entities, or in any other name in disguised form;

(4) Link the number of law enforcement inspections and the number of cases handled to assessment and evaluation;

(5) Link penalty and confiscation revenues to the benefits of administrative law enforcement authorities, or carry out profit-driven law enforcement, selective law enforcement, or excessive law enforcement;

(6) Unwarrantably fail to fulfill policy commitments made to market entities in accordance with the law or the different kinds of contracts concluded in accordance with the law;

(7) Unwarrantably default on payments to market entities for goods, engineering construction, services, or other items, or refuse or delay payments to market entities; and

(8) Other acts in violation of the provisions of these Regulations and with bad negative influences.

Chapter Ⅶ Supplementary Provisions

Article 60 These Regulations shall come into effect on January 1, 2025.

To implement the guiding principles of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the spirit of the document Implementation Opinions on Continuously Creating a “Three-Modernization and First-Class” Business Environment in Hunan Province (Xiang Zheng Fa [2024] No. 7), Hengyang aims to benchmark against advanced standards and strive for excellence. With enterprises’ sense of gain as the primary criterion, the city will adopt the “Five Ones” approach as an entry point, taking concrete actions and demonstrating genuine commitment to fostering a first-class business environment. In light of Hengyang’s specific circumstances, the following implementation opinions are formulated:

I. Strengthening the Foundation

Further reducing costs related to land use, electricity, water, gas, logistics, and financing.

1. Lowering Land Use Costs:

Fully implementing the “Four Immediate” reforms for industrial park projects: Immediate Service upon Negotiation, Immediate Land Supply upon Contract Signing, Immediate Supporting Facilities upon Project Commencement, and Immediate Certification upon Completion.Maximizing the advantages of the “Land Supermarket” platform to revitalize idle and inefficiently used land in industrial parks, ensuring that “land waits for projects.”Establishing a land supply mechanism tailored to the needs of private small and micro enterprises, supporting flexible land supply models such as “Lease First, Transfer Later” and “Flexible Transfer.”

(Lead departments: Municipal Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, relevant county-level governments, and park management committees.)

2. Ensuring Sufficient Industrial Premises:

Providing more affordable, well-equipped, and efficiently concentrated standardized factory buildings for enterprises.(Lead departments: Park management committees.)Supporting the inclusion of essential R&D, design, testing, and pilot production facilities in industrial projects beyond administrative office and living service areas, with a construction area not exceeding 15% of the total project area.

(Lead departments: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau.)

3. Reducing Water, Electricity, and Gas Costs:

Implementing a “zero-investment” policy for enterprises in off-site water, gas, and electricity connection projects. Providing on-site services for key water-consuming enterprises and offering customized water usage plans for industrial, office, and residential needs. Encouraging enterprises to optimize electricity usage, adopt peak-shifting measures, enhance power dispatch capabilities, and promote self-generation with surplus electricity fed into the grid. Standardizing gas pipeline charging criteria for small and micro enterprises, implementing a “one-price quotation” system for gas projects, and encouraging direct price negotiations between gas companies and major gas consumers.

(Lead departments: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, State Grid Hengyang Power Supply Company, Municipal Water Investment Company, Municipal Natural Gas Company, and park management committees.)

4. Lowering Logistics Costs:

Introducing policy measures to support the high-quality development of the logistics industry. Enhancing logistics digitalization, intelligence, informatization, and standardization. Promoting multimodal transport and expanding the capacity of road, rail, water, and air transportation.

(Lead department: Municipal Development and Reform Commission.)

5. Reducing Financing Costs:

Fully utilizing enterprise-supportive financial policies and leveraging the Loan Prime Rate (LPR) reform to reduce financing costs for small and micro enterprises. Enhancing the targeted use of monetary policy tools, guiding banks to optimize low-cost financing through re-lending and rediscounting mechanisms.

(Lead departments: Municipal Government Office, People’s Bank of China Hengyang Branch.)

II. Integrating Policies

Continuously improving policy integration, automatic benefit access, and reward-loan linkages to ensure precise delivery of business-support policies.

1. Advancing Policy Integration:

Unifying business-supportive policies under the “automatic benefit access” system and publishing policy implementation lists for enterprises, and promptly collect and accurately push enterprise-benefiting policies in a targeted manner.

(Lead departments: Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Data Bureau.)

2. Enhancing Smart Subsidy Disbursement:

Shifting from a “business application, department review” model to an “intelligent push, business confirmation” approach, increasing the coverage of automatic benefit access policies.

(Lead departments: Municipal Data Bureau, Municipal Finance Bureau.)

3. Optimizing the “Reward-Loan Linkage” Mechanism:

Mobilizing banking resources and social capital to reduce corporate financing costs and improve capital efficiency.

(Lead departments: Municipal Data Bureau, Municipal Finance Bureau.)

4. Developing Market-Oriented Industrial Funds:

Vigorously introduce market-oriented industrial funds, guide and nurture local industrial funds, establish and improve the framework of guiding funds, and form a cluster of industrial funds including thematic funds and functional funds. Strengthen the integrated development of industry, academia, research, and application, and promote the breakthrough of core industrial technologies and the local industrialization of achievements. (Lead departments: Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Government Office, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Municipal State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, People’s Bank of China Hengyang Branch, Hengyang Financial Regulatory Bureau.)

5. Enhancing Fair Competition and Regulatory Oversight:

Launch the “Year of Improving the Quality of Document Legitimacy and Fair Competition Review” initiative. Conduct third-party evaluations of fair competition reviews, carry out special antitrust enforcement actions in the livelihood sector, clean up and regulate investment promotion policies, and rectify issues related to the unlawful implementation of fiscal and tax incentive policies for investment attraction. (Leading departments: Municipal Administration for Market Regulation, Municipal Bureau of Justice, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Bureau of Finance, and Municipal Taxation Bureau).

III. Establishing a Support System

Enhance innovation efforts in areas such as talent recognition, children’s education, parents’ medical care, special incentives, and enterprise services to create a favorable entrepreneurial growth environment, allowing entrepreneurs to feel valued and supported in Hengyang.

1. The service targets are outstanding entrepreneurs whose enterprises are registered in Hengyang and have paid more than 10 million yuan in taxes in the previous year. A “Heng Youxiang” service card will be issued to eligible entrepreneurs, granting them access to the relevant services specified in this document. (Leading departments: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Taxation Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism, Radio, Television, and Sports). 12. Providing Education Support:

2. Provide school placements for the children of employees in the enterprises of the service recipients, ensuring their educational needs are met. For the children and grandchildren of corporate legal representatives within the city’s enrollment area, placement in public kindergartens, compulsory education schools, and vocational schools can be arranged based on the availability of slots at their preferred schools. (Leading department: Municipal Bureau of Education).

3. Establish a priority medical service channel for entrepreneurs in hospitals at the second-tier level and above within the city. Service recipients, along with their parents, spouses, and children, can use the “Heng Youxiang” service card to access medical escort services and discounted health check-ups. (Leading department: Municipal Health Commission).

4. Provide each service recipient with one free annual tourism pass per year. Additionally, selected recipients and their family members (spouses, children, and parents) will be invited to participate in sports, cultural, and major festive events organized by government departments within the city, helping entrepreneurs integrate better into Hengyang. (Leading department: Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism, Radio, Television, and Sports).

5. Actively promote the resolution of outstanding issues by conducting a special cleanup of overdue payments owed by government departments, public institutions, and state-owned enterprises to businesses. Develop a coordinated plan for resolving these debts and implement targeted measures to address the issue of “new officials ignoring old debts.” (Leading departments: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Bureau of Finance).

6. Strive to establish Hengyang as a “National Model Zone for Social Credit System Development” by advancing the construction of a trustworthy governance system. Establish and improve government credit records and set up a dedicated complaint section for government contract breaches and dishonesty. Support and encourage financial product innovation, expand the scope of intellectual property pledge collateral, and increase financing limits. (Leading departments: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Administration for Market Regulation, Hengyang Financial Regulatory Bureau).

7. Strengthen enterprise support services by conducting regular research visits and exchanges to gain in-depth insights into businesses’ needs, concerns, and expectations. Provide “face-to-face” assistance to help enterprises resolve difficulties and foster a close yet transparent government-business relationship.

IV. Focus on a Single Goal

  Enforce strict performance evaluations with rewards and penalties. Centering on the goal of becoming a provincial leader and a national benchmark, make every effort to excel in national and provincial assessments. Strengthen the application of feedback from evaluation results to drive improvements and excellence. Municipal-level departments, counties, districts, and provincial-level industrial parks that achieve top rankings in the province will be commended by the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. Those ranking lower (within the “Good” category) will have their main officials interviewed by the responsible municipal leaders. If a major work error severely impacts the evaluation, the relevant department will be held accountable.

V. Extend a batch of brands.

Continue advancing signature programs such as the enterprise “Code Assignment” protection mechanism, further standardizing law enforcement inspections to ensure a truly business-friendly approach—“no unnecessary disturbances, but prompt responses when needed.”

1. Deepen the implementation of the enterprise “Code Assignment” protection mechanism and upgrade it to an enhanced version. (Leading departments: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Management Committees of Various Industrial Parks).

2. Fully implement Hengyang’s “14th Five-Year Plan” Talent Development Initiative, vigorously carry out the “Ten Thousand Talents to Hengyang” Recruitment Program, and continue promoting the “PhD Action” collaboration between the city, universities, and enterprises. Strengthen the talent chain around industrial development, assisting enterprises in attracting, developing, and retaining talent. (Leading departments: Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, Municipal Party Committee Talent Office, Municipal Talent Group).

3. Strictly enforce the “Nine Prohibitions” for optimizing the business environment and implement the “Three Lists” for inclusive and prudent regulatory enforcement (List of Exemptions from Administrative Penalties, List of Lenient Administrative Penalties, and List of Reduced Administrative Penalties). Firmly investigate and expose issues such as excessive bureaucracy, rent-seeking behavior, collusion, extortion, favoritism, inaction, misconduct, and inefficiency in administrative approvals, regulatory enforcement, and services for market entities.

In order to earnestly implement the spirit of documents such as the "Reply of the State Council on Approving the Establishment of Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zones in 33 Cities and Regions including Langfang" (Official Letter of the State Council [2022] No. 126), the "Implementation Plan of the China (Hengyang) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone", the "Notice of the Hengyang Municipal People's Government Office on Issuing the 'Several Policy Measures on Taking the Initiative to Drive Economic Growth and Accelerating the Development of a Regional Economic Hub'"(Hengyang Government Office [2023] No. 7), and the “Notice of the Hunan Provincial People's Government Office on Issuing the ‘Several Measures on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Cross-Border E-Commerce’”(Hunan Government Office [2023] No. 9), and steadily promote the construction of the China (Hengyang) Cross-border E-commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zone (hereinafter referred to as the Hengyang Comprehensive Pilot Zone), the following measures are formulated in combination with the actual situation of Hengyang.

I. Scope of Support

Enterprises, supporting service providers, industrial parks, relevant public service institutions (organizations), and government-approved support institutions engaged in cross-border e-commerce in Hengyang City that are legally registered, pay taxes, possess independent legal person qualifications, have cross-border e-commerce import and export performance, and are included in the cross-border trade e-commerce statistical system of Hengyang Customs.

II. Support Directions and Contents

(1) Support for Cross-Border E-Commerce Industrial Parks and Incubation Systems

1. Support the construction of cross-border e-commerce industrial parks. For cross-border e-commerce industrial parks recognized by national, provincial, and municipal commerce departments, or provincial-level e-commerce demonstration bases and provincial-level digital commerce agglomeration areas that have been evaluated, if there are more than 10 newly settled enterprises with cross-border e-commerce performance in the current year and the total import and export volume of cross-border e-commerce reaches 20 million US dollars, the park construction unit will be given a one-time reward of up to 500,000 yuan at most. If there are more than 20 newly settled enterprises with cross-border e-commerce performance in the current year and the total import and export volume of cross-border e-commerce reaches 50 million US dollars, the park construction unit will be given a one-time reward of up to 1 million yuan at most. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance, Administrative Committee of Hengyang High-Tech Industrial Development Zone)

2. Support the construction of cross-border e-commerce incubation centers. Encourage the construction of cross-border e-commerce incubation centers (comprehensive service centers). For the operation entities of incubation centers (comprehensive service centers) that integrate cross-border e-commerce incubation coaching, practical training, business pilot, market development and other functions, and successfully incubate more than 10 cross-border e-commerce enterprises in the same year, a maximum one-time reward of 500000 yuan will be given. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance, Administrative Committee of Hengyang High-Tech Industrial Development Zone)

(2) Support for Cross-Border E-Commerce Platform Development

3. Support the construction of online integrated service platforms for the Hengyang Comprehensive Pilot Zone, local cross-border e-commerce online trading platforms, and offline park supporting infrastructure. Provide appropriate support for expenses including hardware procurement for platform development, acquisition of general-purpose platform software, development and maintenance of integrated service platforms, and supporting infrastructure construction of industrial parks. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance, Hengyang Comprehensive Bonded Zone Administrative Committee)

4. Support the construction of cross-border e-commerce regulatory venues. A subsidy equivalent to 50% of actual expenditures shall be granted for eligible projects implemented within the current fiscal year, including cross-border e-commerce inspection equipment procurement, auxiliary facility acquisition, management information systems, global quality traceability systems, and software system development. The maximum subsidy amount shall not exceed 500,000 yuan. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance, Hengyang Comprehensive Bonded Zone Administrative Committee)

(3) Vigorously Cultivate and Introduce Cross-border E-commerce Business Entities

5. Support cross-border e-commerce business pilot projects and encourage Hengyang products to go global. For enterprises whose total cross-border e-commerce export volume breaks through zero in the current year, a one-time reward of up to 20,000 yuan will be given at most. If it exceeds 500,000 US dollars, a one-time reward of up to 100,000 yuan will be given at most; If it exceeds 1 million US dollars, a one-time reward of up to 500,000 yuan will be given at most. At the same time, they can enjoy the relevant customs and tax preferential policies of the Hengyang Comprehensive Pilot Zone. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance, Hengyang Municipal Taxation Bureau, Hengyang Customs)

6. Support the promotion of cross-border e-commerce platform business. For enterprises that carry out cross-border e-commerce business pilot projects using third-party trading platforms such as Alibaba International Station, AliExpress, Amazon, eBay, wish, Facebook, and Shopee, a subsidy of 50% of the annual promotion expenses of the trading platform they settle in will be provided. For enterprises that newly register stores on third-party platforms, a subsidy of 50% of the annual platform settlement fee will be provided. The maximum amount of the above two subsidies for a single enterprise shall not exceed 200,000 yuan. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance)

7. Support the development of small, medium, and micro-sized enterprises (SMEs) in cross-border e-commerce. For cross-border e-commerce enterprises (including wholly-owned subsidiaries) newly settled in cross-border e-commerce industrial parks recognized by provincial or municipal commerce departments or in provincial-level e-commerce demonstration bases and provincial-level digital commerce agglomeration areas that have been evaluated, if the actual leased area (office, warehouse and other premises) is more than 100 square meters and the total import and export volume of cross-border e-commerce reaches 100,000 US dollars in the current year, a rent subsidy of 30% will be given to each enterprise, with a maximum of no more than 100,000 yuan. At the same time, a one-time start-up cost subsidy of up to 50,000 yuan will be given at most, and they can enjoy the relevant customs and tax preferential policies of the Hengyang Comprehensive Pilot Zone. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance, Hengyang Municipal Taxation Bureau, Hengyang Customs)

8. Encourage the introduction of leading cross-border e-commerce enterprises. For cross-border e-commerce enterprises with a total import and export volume of more than 50 million US dollars introduced in the current year, a one-time reward of up to 500,000 yuan will be given to each enterprise at most. If the total import and export volume is more than 100 million US dollars, a one-time reward of up to 1 million yuan will be given to each enterprise at most. And at the same time, they can enjoy the relevant customs and tax preferential policies of the Hengyang Comprehensive Pilot Zone. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance, Hengyang Municipal Taxation Bureau, Hengyang Customs)

(4) Support Cross-border E-commerce Retail Import

  Support the construction of domestic cross-border commodity O2O offline experience stores. Cross-border e-commerce O2O offline experience stores in Hengyang City with business areas over 500, 1000, or 2000 square meters are eligible for one-time subsidies of up to 100000, 200000, or 300000 yuan respectively. Community cross-border e-commerce O2O experience stores are eligible for a one-time subsidy of RMB 50,000 per new store, with an annual cap of 400,000 yuan per enterprise. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance)

(5) Support the Construction of Cross-border E-commerce Overseas Warehouses

  Encourage cross-border e-commerce enterprises to build or transform and upgrade public overseas warehouses. Enterprises officially recognized as Provincial-Level Public Overseas Warehouses (with required registration at Hengyang Customs) shall be granted a one-time financial subsidy of up to 200,000 yuan, in addition to existing provincial-level support policies. Enterprises leasing overseas warehouses exceeding 1,000 square meters shall be granted a subsidy covering 50% of the actual leasing costs, with an annual one-time reward capped at 200,000 yuan per warehouse. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance)

(6) Support the Construction of Cross-border E-commerce Support Service Systems

1. Support eligible enterprises and industry associations in providing services to cross-border e-commerce businesses, including product cultural and creative design, product promotion, exhibition marketing, research projects, as well as industry summits and forums. Cross-border e-commerce support services and specialized events approved by the Municipal Commerce Bureau shall be eligible for appropriate government support. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance)

2. Increase financial support for cross-border e-commerce. Financial institutions are urged to innovate financing and investment services tailored for cross-border e-commerce enterprises by leveraging supply chain logistics, capital flows, export data, and related information to develop financial instruments such as accounts receivable financing, confirmed warehouse financing, and integrated warehouse financing, thereby alleviating enterprise financing constraints. According to the current export credit insurance support policy of our province, for small and micro enterprises engaged in cross-border e-commerce business, the provincial finance will fully support the export credit insurance premiums insured through the "China International Trade Single Window". Support will be given to the premiums of general enterprises and the financing discount interest under export credit insurance. Among them, the premium subsidy shall not exceed 50%, and the subsidy for loan interest shall not exceed 20% of the loan market quoted interest rate. The maximum amount for a single enterprise per year shall not exceed 300,000 yuan. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance and Hengyang Branch of the People's Bank of China)

(7) Support the Cultivation of Cross-border E-commerce Talents

1. Encourage traditional foreign trade enterprises to organize cross-border e-commerce business training for their employees, with eligible annual training expenses subsidized by up to 50,000 yuan. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance)

2. Support the cultivation of cross-border e-commerce talents. Vocational colleges and training institutions meeting prescribed qualifications may be designated as "Hengyang Cross-Border E-Commerce Talent Development Bases" upon certification by the Municipal Commerce Department, with a one-time subsidy of up to 200,000 yuan allocated based on documented infrastructure development and operational expenditure costs. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance and vocational colleges in Hengyang)

3. Strengthen professional cross-border e-commerce training. Encourage vocational training entities with accredited qualifications, including private vocational colleges, technical institutes, non-governmental training institutions, and cross-border e-commerce enterprises, to conduct professional cross-border e-commerce training programs. Enterprises, industry associations, and social organizations are further encouraged to organize cross-border e-commerce industry training activities. Training entities providing subsidized professional cross-border e-commerce training must submit program registration to the local human resources and social security authorities prior to implementation, with subsidy claims processed by said authorities in accordance with vocational skills training policies. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance and Hengyang Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau)

4. Provide a subsidy of 10% of the total social security expenses paid by cross-border e-commerce enterprises in a year. The support funds for a single enterprise shall not exceed 100,000 yuan per year. (Responsible unit: Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance and Hengyang Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau)

III. Organization and Implementation

The aforementioned support and incentive funds shall be sourced from provincial-level cross-border e-commerce special funds and municipal-level cross-border e-commerce matching funds. These funds shall be administered by Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance through project application procedures, with disbursement subject to approval by the Municipal People’s Government prior to disbursement. Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Hengyang Municipal Bureau of Finance shall carry out performance evaluation of special funds to ensure their guiding role. Each county, city, district, and park may refer to this measure to introduce corresponding support policies.

In case of overlap between the above measures and other relevant reward and subsidy policies of this city, the principle of providing support to the better ones and avoiding duplication shall be followed.

These policy measures shall come into effect as of the date of issuance and be valid for two years.

Order No. 307 of the Hunan Provincial People’s Government, issued on November 26, 2021

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1 To continuously optimize the business environment, implement the “Three Hubs and Four New Missions” Strategy, promote high-quality development, and accelerate the building of a modern new Hunan, the Provisions are formulated in the light of the local conditions of Hunan province, and in accordance with the Regulation on Optimizing the Business Environment issued by the State Council and other laws and administrative regulations.

Article 2 For optimizing the business environment, the principles of marketization, rule of law, and internationalization shall be adhered to, the needs of market participants shall be centered around, the profound transformation of government functions shall be the core, and the “One-step Approval Process” shall be thoroughly implemented. The service concept of “being responsive to requests and without making any unnecessary intervention” shall be put into practice. Benchmarking the advanced international and domestic level, a first-class business environment will be created to achieve trade and investment facilitation, fair participation in market competition, high administrative efficiency, and advanced legal system. All these efforts are made to create a stable, fair, transparent, and predictable sound environment for various market participants to invest and prosper business.

Article 3 The people's governments at all levels shall strengthen the organizational leadership of the work on optimizing the business environment, establish and improve the working mechanism for optimizing business environment; enhance the allocation of human resources and fiscal guarantee; improve policies and measures to optimize the business environment; promptly coordinate and resolve the significant issues in optimizing the business environment; and, take the results of work into the government performance evaluation. The main person in charge of the local government is the first person that is accountable for optimizing the business environment.

The development and reform department of the Hunan Provincial People’s Government is the competent department for optimizing the business environment within the province's administrative areas. It is responsible for organizing, coordinating, guiding, supervising, investigating, verifying, overseeing, and inspecting the work concerning optimizing the business environment. In addition, local governments at the municipal or county level shall designate the departments responsible for the work related to optimizing the business environment.

Other relevant departments shall effectively conduct the work related to optimizing the business environment within their respective scopes of functions and duties.

Article 4 All regions and departments should learn from advanced experience and vigorously explore and innovate concrete measures to optimize the business environment. The relevant entities and individuals who make mistakes or deviate in their exploratory work, but make and implement decisions in accordance with the relevant regulation of the State and the provisions of this province in a diligent and responsible attitude, without making any private gains may be exempted from or relieved of their liabilities according to the law. The units and individuals that have made outstanding achievements in optimizing the business environment will be commended and rewarded in accordance with the relevant rules of the country and the province.

China (Hunan) Pilot Free Trade Zone, Xiangjiang New Area, national industrial parks, and other regions, should play a leading role in piloting various reform measures conducive to optimizing the business environment.

Article 5 Vigorous measures will be taken to connect with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, integrate into the Yangtze River Economic Belt development, and enhance exchanges and cooperation in optimizing the business environment with other provinces and municipalities.

The integration of the business environment in Changsha, Zhuzhou, and Xiangtan will be advanced. Critical breakthroughs in such areas as integrated administrative service, integrated property rights protection, joint market supervision, and public legal service will be made, to promote barrier-free communication and sharing of innovative resources, public services, talents and funds, information, and logistics.

Article 6 The development and reform department of the Hunan Provincial People’s Government should formulate the assessment indicators that are suitable for Hunan province together with relevant departments and in accordance with the national business environment assessment system; entrust third-party institutions to conduct evaluations of the business environment of all regions; propose lists of problems and suggestions for improvement; and, submit them to the provincial government for approval before notifying the regions participating in the assessment.  

The regions participating in the assessment should promptly adjust and improve the policies and measures to optimize the business environment based on the problems discovered in the evaluation.

The people’s governments at the municipal, prefectural or county level are not allowed to organize business environment assessments.

Article 7 The people’s governments at all levels and relevant departments should encourage, support, and guide the development of the non-public economy, and protect various market participants in equal use of public service resources, production factors, and equal applicable policies, and fair participation in market competition.  

The people’s governments at all levels and relevant departments should support sound development of private economy; publish the list of top 100 private enterprises in Hunan province; commend contributions to building a new Hunan; strengthen the construction of the provincial service institution for private enterprises; compile manuals of policies and measures supporting private enterprises; strengthen the deliberative and coordinating mechanism of the province for optimizing the business environment; and, improve the platforms for the commercialization and application of advances in science and technology and regional equity markets.

The people’s governments at all levels and relevant departments should encourage and promote foreign investment; construct and improve the foreign investment service system; put into effect pre-establishment national treatment and negative list system; advance trade and investment facilitation; and, protect legitimate rights and interests of foreign investors.

Article 8 A market participant shall abide by the law and regulations; observe social morality and business ethics; be honest and trustworthy; engage in fair competition; fulfill its statutory obligations in all aspects including safety, quality, energy conservation and carbon emission reduction, protection of the ecological environment, protection and economical and intensive use of land resources, protection of laborers’ rights and interests, and protection of consumers’ rights and interests; respect internationally accepted rules in international economic and trade activities; shoulder its social responsibilities; and, contribute to optimizing the business environment.

Chapter II Market Environment

Article 9 The people’s governments at all levels and relevant departments shall strictly implement a national unified system of negative lists for market access and shall not separately develop a negative list in the nature of market access. Furthermore, the people’s governments at or above the county level shall investigate, identify, and clear up various obvious and hidden barriers, and unblock feedback channels and mechanisms for handling and responding to market participants’ comments on market access barriers.

Article 10 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall optimize enterprise startup services, advance the normalization and standardization of enterprise startup, and realize “one place, one-time notification, all-in-one window service, one category of application forms, one-time information collection, all-in-one website service, and one-time delivery”.

Promoting integration of enterprise startup service items into one service, including establishment and registration, business seals, invoice application (including tax-control facilities), insurance registration, payment registration of enterprise housing provident fund, and appointment for bank account opening. And the whole process can be handled online and finished at one time.  

The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall implement the measures including “separating permits from the business license”, and explore integrating multiple permits involved in one industry access into a comprehensive industry permit, so as to facilitate enterprises in conducting related business activities after obtaining a business license.

Article 11 The people’s governments at or above the county level shall complete the policy system for government financing guarantee support, improve the risk compensation and insurance premium subsidies mechanism, and provide various credit enhancement services for the financing of private enterprises, and small and medium-sized enterprises; promote bank-enterprise financing connection, bank-guarantee institution risk sharing, and bank-tax authority information sharing; and, encourage financing institutions to support private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises to apply for guaranteed financing against chattels and rights such as the assignment of receivables, production equipment, products, vehicles, ships, and intellectual property.  

Financial institutions shall increase credit extensions to private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises in accordance with the specifications of the state, reasonably build up the support of medium and long-term loans and credit loans, and ensure better access to loans; shall not raise financing costs in a disguised form such as converting loans into deposits, linking deposits with loans, changing interest into fees, and tying other financial products to loans when issuing loans; shall not require enterprises to pay related fees when introducing external data, information or ratings for the credit assessment.

The people’s governments at or above the county level should encourage venture capital investment and angel investment to support innovation-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises by equity investment and other means. In the areas where conditions permit, relevant fees arising from going public, listing, and issuing bonds, among others, may be covered by subsidies.

Article 12 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall strengthen vocational education and training; deepen school-enterprise cooperation; advance industry-education integration; promote labor supply-demand matching; improve support living services for the workers and staff members in industrial parks; and, help firms navigate employment challenges.    

The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall strengthen talent services and provide policy support and service guarantee in the following aspects, including residence and household registration, housing purchase and renting, social security and medical insurance, education for their children, employment of their spouses, project incubation, financial support, recruitment and promotions of professional rank and title.

The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments should provide convenience for overseas talents in multi-entry visa application and customs clearance and carry out “One-step Approval Process” for the government affairs service items, including application for stay or residence and identity authentication of foreign professionals and students returning from overseas.

Article 13 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments should encourage and support market participants to promote innovation in product development, technology, business model, and management, implement favorable tax policy for scientific and technological innovations, and improve enterprises’ capacities of independent innovation and scientific and technological achievement transformation; develop professional maker spaces and incubators for scientific and technical enterprises, and strengthen small and medium-sized scientific and technical enterprises; and, support enterprises to establish various technological innovation platforms and alliances, and enhance collaborative innovation of the upstream, midstream and downstream of the industrial chain and the large, medium, and small-sized enterprises.

Article 14 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall reorganize, and release and update a list of policies benefiting enterprises; specify all factors including implementing departments, policy basis, policy duration, conditions for application, application materials, processing procedures, time limits for processing, consulting methods, implementation forms, and oversight ways; and, voluntarily and precisely share policy updates and give advice to enterprises.

Information sharing among government departments, big data analysis, and other means are encouraged to ensure that qualified enterprises directly enjoy beneficial policies without making any application. For policies benefiting enterprises that require enterprises to apply, application conditions shall be reasonably established, and the application procedures shall be simplified.

Article 15 A list-based management system on enterprise-related charges shall be strictly implemented. No entity shall establish arbitrarily charging items, raise charging rates, or expand charging scope. Extorting support, compelling donation, or any form of contribution shall be prohibited. It is forbidden and in violation of provisions to force a market participant to pay for commercial insurance. 

The substitution of financial institution letters of guarantee and guarantee insurances for cash in paying enterprise-related security deposits is promoted. Restrictions shall not be imposed on enterprises making independent choice of the way of paying security deposits in accordance with the relevant provisions. The security deposits shall be refunded within the prescribed time limit according to prescribed procedures after guaranteeing items have been handled or guaranteeing reasons have ceased.

Article 16 Industry associations and chambers of commerce are encouraged to establish complete standards for industry self-regulation and professional code of ethics to regulate the conduct of their membership.

Unless otherwise provided by any of the laws and regulations, no industry association or chamber of commerce shall compel a market participant to join or withdraw from it and to participate in an appraisal, compliance, training, evaluation, or any other activity and charge fees. No industry association or chamber of commerce shall continue to implement canceled administrative licenses directly or in disguise.

Article 17 Utility enterprises or public institutions providing public utilities such as water supply, electric supply, gas supply, drainage and sewage treatment, communication, radio and television should co-locate at a government affairs service hall; optimize the procedure for applying for a connection; and, disclose service standards, fee rates, processing time limits, and other information. The interconnection between government service platforms and self-built operation systems of utility enterprises or public institutions is promoted to achieve data sharing and joint processing.

Utility enterprises and public institutions shall not commit any of the following actions:

(1) Create, in violation of provisions, directly or in disguise, processing links, application materials, and preconditions in relation to application for a connection;

(2) Charge fees in violation of provisions for engineering construction, access to the connection, examination and acceptance and opening, facility maintenance, alternative supply, and any other link; or,

(3) Force, directly or in disguise, a market participant to receive designated services regarding construction and equipment procurement. 

Article 18 Online bid tendering, bid opening, and remote bid evaluation are promoted to gradually achieve the entire process of electronic bidding.

A market participant shall be treated lawfully and equally in bid tendering and government procurement. Any of the following circumstances shall not occur:

(1) Set any unnecessary conditions concerning qualification and eligibility, properties, and scales beyond procurement or tender purpose;   

(2) Require bidders to register and establish subsidiaries, branches, branch offices in the local area, or possess a certain area of office accommodation and pay social insurance in the local area;  

（3）Use the performance and awards from a specific administrative area or a specific industry as bidding conditions, conditions for scoring points, or conditions for successful bids for projects that must be tendered in accordance with the law; and,

（4）Set other unreasonable conditions to exclude or restrict potential suppliers or bidders.

Article 19 The people's governments at all levels and relevant departments shall honor policy undertakings make to market participants and the contracts concluded with the market participants in accordance with law, and comply with the following provisions:

(1) Formulate and implement preferential policies on investment promotion under the statutory authority;

(2) Strengthen government contract management, keep up with contract performance, and take timely measures to prevent and respond to contract risks;

(3) Do not breach or repudiate any contract by reason of adjustment of an administrative division, government reshuffle, institutional or functional adjustment, and replacement of related responsible persons;

(4) Any change in a policy undertaking or contract entailed by the state interest or public interest shall be made in accordance with the statutory authority and procedures, with fair, reasonable, and timely compensation made for any loss caused thereby to the market participant; and,

(5) Do not default on the payments of goods, projects, and services owed to market participants.

Article 20 Local government agencies should improve the facilitation of enterprise deregistration; strengthen the joint processing of tax affairs, social insurance, finance, and market supervision; and, improve the online service zone for enterprise deregistration.  

Where an enterprise has no creditor's rights or debts or has settled creditor's rights or debts; or liquidation expenses, employees' wages, social insurance premiums, statutory compensation, and tax payable (overdue fees and fines) do not occur or have been settled; and, all the investors undertake to assume legal liability for the veracity of the aforesaid situation in writing, the enterprise may withdraw from the market according to law after undergoing simple deregistration procedures.

Article 21 The people's governments at or above the county level should in collaboration with the people's courts as needed, establish and improve a coordination mechanism for enterprise bankruptcy work and coordinate the resolution of such issues as starting a bankruptcy proceeding, making settlement arrangements for the employees, handling tax-related items, disposing of assets, repairing credit, and reorganizing bankrupt enterprises.

The people's governments at or above the county level will support a bankruptcy administrator to carry out bankrupt liquidation and reorganization. When the bankruptcy administrator enquires about the information on registration materials, contribution of social insurance premiums, bank account deposit status, real estate, vehicles, and intellectual properties of the bankrupt enterprise in accordance with the law, relevant departments and financial institutions shall cooperate.

Chapter III Government Services

Article 22 The administrative management service department of the provincial people’s government and relevant departments prepare and disclose a unified catalogue of government service items and service guidelines in accordance with the requirements for reducing links, materials, time limits, and fees; uniformly specify the processing conditions, procedures, time limits, and materials of the same item at provincial, city, county, township, and village levels; advance the nondiscriminatory acceptance of the same item by the same standards in the whole province; and, promote province-wide and cross-province availability of government services.

The service guidelines' handling situations and required materials shall not contain "other", "related", or other equivocal and catch-all requirements. Relevant departments shall not require applicants to provide application materials other than those specified in the guidelines. Except as otherwise provided by laws, administrative rules, and regulations, applicants shall not be required to provide any information which can be checked and verified on an e-government service platform.  

Article 23 The people's governments at all levels and relevant departments should expand the application scope of “One-step Approval Process” in government affairs service items. For items included in the “One-step Approval Process”, the principle of “one-time notification, one category of application forms, one-time joint processing, and one-time delivery” is carried out through optimizing processing procedures, simplifying materials, achieving online and offline integration, and strengthening departmental coordination.

Article 24 With the exception of cases involving confidentiality and security, the people's governments at or above the county level should process government affairs service items in the administrative area at a comprehensive government affairs service hall in a unified manner. The government affairs service items implemented by vertical administrative departments of the central government are encouraged to be integrated at the local comprehensive government affairs service hall.

Government affairs service halls should, in accordance with the work model of “comprehensive acceptance by the front desk, categorized examination and approval by the background, and issuance of permits by comprehensive windows”, implement “all-in-one window” to integrate services; strengthen standardization administration; improve such service rules as one-time notification, first-inquired person in charge, receipt vouchers, and time-limited processing; and, improve such service modes as appointment, assistance in handling, agency services, and staggered and extended services.

 Administrative agencies that have settled in the government affairs service hall shall grant corresponding power of administrative approval to service windows, and strengthen service personnel allocation and professional training.

Article 25 Government affairs services will be promoted to be processed on an “all-in-one website”. The government affairs management service department of the provincial people’s government and the administration for the construction of the provincial integrated online government affairs service platform will take the initiative to promote the people’s government at all levels and departments to achieve connection and data sharing between various government affairs service systems and the provincial integrated online government affairs service platform, to avoid second-time data entry and multi-system processing. The power of data use will be delegated to cities and counties by classification, region, and authority, to satisfy the processing needs of grassroots-level government affairs service items. Construction of both the mobile and self-service platforms will be promoted to improve online and self-service processing efficiency. Service measures for special groups including the senior will be improved.

An applicant is entitled to choose government affairs service channels, and shall not be denied of adopting offline processing method in the name of the fact that the online processing channel has opened.

Article 26 The people's governments at or above the county level shall delegate power of administrative approval in accordance with the law. Administrative agencies that have delegated power of approval items should strengthen technical support, professional guidance, and supervision and inspection for the undertaking authority.

The electronic administrative efficiency supervision system of the provincial integrated online government affairs service platform will be adopted to carry out real-time monitoring, early warning of corrections, and efficiency assessment of the whole process of various government affairs services.

A government affairs service evaluation system is improved to support enterprises and individuals in judging whether the service is up to scratch. A mechanism for verification, supervision, rectification, and feedback of negative comments and complaints is established. The results of evaluation are analyzed in a comprehensive way and applied in a more effective way, and the supervision and assessment mechanism is enhanced, so as to improve the quality of government affairs services.

Article 27 Electronic licenses, electronic seals, and enterprise electronic archives in compliance with provisions have the same legal effect as paper ones, be recognized and shared among departments and across regions, and serve as the legal basis or proofs for a market participant to apply for government affairs service items or obtain related qualifications.

Except as otherwise provided by laws, administrative rules and regulations, and department regulations, electronic licenses issued by the people’s government at all levels and relevant departments shall be collected in real time and transferred into the electronic license database. Where the organization responsible for handling the service may obtain the electronic license required for business processing through the electronic license database when an applicant applies for relevant matters, the organization shall not refuse to process or require the applicant to provide the paper license, except for the situation where the original license shall be revoked pursuant to the law.

Article 28 The provincial departments of housing and urban-rural development, natural resources, transportation, water conservancy and energy shall continue to take the lead in promoting the reform of the approval system for engineering construction projects in their respective sectors. Service guidelines, application forms, lists of application materials, and approval procedures, etc. shall be standardized according to the nature of the projects, the scale of investment, the risk level, and others.

The provincial engineering construction project approval and management system will be improved and comprehensively utilized, so that administrative licensing, filing, technical review, municipal public services, and other items involved at all stages including project approval, land use, planning, construction, acceptance inspection, and accessibility of municipal public facilities can be processed on an “all-in-one website”.

Industrial parks, development zones, and other areas with relevant conditions should explore and reform “the land list and the notification and commitment system”. Prior to land allocation or transfer, a unified list of requirements for construction land will be compiled based on regional general surveys or regional assessments. After an enterprise obtains the construction land, the notification and commitment system may be applied to approval items that are subject to regional assessments and meet the applicable conditions.

 The reform of the planning and approval system for construction projects will be advanced. A list of items for review will be compiled. Efforts will be made to explore the separation of technical review and administrative approval. The province should have clear and unified lists of projects that can be processed through the notification and commitment system and that can be exempted from review in the process of applying for a construction project planning license.

Article 29 The regional assessment results will be widely applied, and should be shared among new construction projects in industrial parks at or above the provincial level. No separate assessment requirements shall be renewed for market participants in the assessed regions. The expense of regional assessment shall not be borne by a market participant.

Technical standards and rules of surveying and mapping will be standardized, and the system of the surveying and mapping results will be established for sharing at all stages including project approval, land use, planning, construction, acceptance inspection, and real property registration so as to avoid repetitive surveying and mapping.

The online, contactless, and cost-free review of construction drawings will be implemented, and the application of building information modeling technology in the review of construction drawings will be promoted.

Article 30 Real property registration agencies shall, in accordance with relevant regulations issued by the state, strengthen cooperation with the departments of housing and urban-rural development, agriculture and rural affairs, forestry, taxation, and finance, among others, and implement “all-in-one window” and multi-track processing of real property transactions, tax payments, and registration.

Relevant departments shall also shorten the whole process time limit for the construction projects from acceptance inspection to real estate first-time registration, and transfer registration, and gradually enable purchasers of newly-built commercial housing to apply for real estate ownership certificates upon the delivery of the housing.

The qualified regions shall achieve the joint handling of water, electricity, gas, maintenance funds, and other matters involved in real estate transfer registration.

Article 31 The people’s governments at the provincial, municipal and prefectural levels and their relevant departments shall review and regulate intermediary services for administrative approval, implement a standardized list-based management system, and make dynamic adjustments.

Where technical services that shall be provided by intermediaries under the authorization of administrative agencies in accordance with the regulations for administrative approval are included in the procedures and overall timing plan of administrative approval, administrative agencies shall authorize intermediaries to provide technical services, and bear service expenses on its own, instead of transferring them to a market participant. Administrative agencies and their staff shall not use their powers to designate intermediaries to provide services, nor shall they restrict the number of intermediaries through quota management.

For intermediary service projects using fiscal funds, the entrusting party shall select intermediaries from online “intermediary supermarkets”, except that public bidding or government procurement is required to choose intermediaries in accordance with laws, regulations and rules.

The competent industry department shall strengthen supervision over intermediaries.

Article 32 When certification materials are required by administrative agencies or organizations authorized by laws and regulations to manage public affairs in the application for administrative service items, the notification and commitment system for certification items shall be implemented for the convenience and benefit of the people. However, the notification and commitment system shall not be applicable to certification items that may cause relatively large risks, high costs in error correction, and irreversible losses.

The applicant will make a commitment that the requirements for licensing have been met when applying for an enterprise-related business licensing item, and the notification and commitment system can be implemented for activities that fail to meet the requirements can be corrected and risks can be effectively prevented through interim and ex post supervision.

If an applicant has a seriously bad credit record or has made a false commitment, the notification and commitment system shall not be applied before the applicant’s credit is restored. If a commitment is identified untrue, administrative agencies shall terminate the processing procedures according to law, order the applicant to make corrections within a specified time limit, cancel the administrative decision or impose an administrative penalty by operation of law, and include into the credit record.

Article 33 Cross-border trade facilitation will be promoted. The expansion of the functions of the “all-in-one window” for international trade from port customs clearance enforcement to port logistics and trade services as an entire chain, will be advanced. The “advance declaration and customs clearance” of import and export goods will be advanced. The customs clearance model of “two-step declaration” for imports, and the model of port operations and logistics organization will be optimized. Port logistics documents will go paperless, and the whole-process electronization will be enhanced.

The system of publicizing the list of charging items at ports will be implemented. Fee collection entities should make public their charging items, scope of charging, fee rates, and pricing methods through the “all-in-one window” for international trade, so as to achieve online public disclosure and online inquiry for fee rates of port, shipping agency, tidy goods, etc. Compliance costs occurred in various links of imports and exports will be reduced by means of market guidance and industry norms.

Article 34 Tax agencies shall continuously optimize tax services, promote the combined declaration and payment of relevant taxes and fees, make full use of existing and sharing information resources, simplify taxation materials and procedures, shorten the time of tax-processing, develop contactless tax and fee payment services, promote the use of electronic invoices, and remind market participants of tax payment and risk.

Article 35 The “12345” hotline of government service set up by the people’s governments at or above the county level should provide round-the-clock manual service, and improve the working mechanism that involves “one unified hotline, collection of demands, classification-based handling, unified coordination, joint efforts by departments, limited handling time, and evaluation and assessment”.

The “12345” hotline of government service at all levels shall arrange “special seats” of servicing for enterprises and optimizing business environment to intensively accept and separately process relevant claims from enterprises.

Chapter Ⅳ Regulation and Enforcement Actions

Article 36 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall, in accordance with the law, compile a list of regulatory items; clarify regulatory boundaries; specify regulators, supervisees, regulatory measures, designating basis and handling methods, among others; incorporate above items into the province’s online regulatory platform for unified management. The list of regulatory items shall be dynamically adjusted and disclosed to the public.

Article 37 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall implement a credit-based regulatory system covering different levels and categories, adopt differentiated regulatory measures for market participants based on their credit status and risk level, optimize the frequency of inspections for market participants with good credit records and low risk, and increase the frequency of inspections for those with records of violating law, bad credit and high risk.

Article 38 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments should exercise accommodative and prudential regulations on new technologies, new industries, new business forms, and new models, and explore new regulatory mechanisms such as “triggered regulation” to provide them with a relaxed environment for development while setting a regulatory bottom line. In case that regulatory measures need to be taken according to law, relevant legal procedures should be followed, regulatory methods should be adapted to the characteristics of regulatory items, and the regulatory intensity should match the existing risks.

Article 39 Except for special industries and critical areas as stipulated by the state, an administrative inspection conducted through the random selection of both inspectors and inspection targets and the prompt release of results shall be implemented in the field of market regulation. A unified provincial catalogue of items subject to random inspection in this field shall be compiled. An annual work plan for joint reviews by relevant departments shall be formulated to avoid overlapping or duplicate checks by different departments. Except for the circumstances that are not suitable for disclosure according to law, the relevant departments should make public the results of random inspection and examination within 20 working days after the completion of random inspection.

Full coverage of key supervision shall be achieved on food and drug safety, safe production, and other special industries and critical areas directly affecting public security and people’s lives and health according to law, the number of vital regulatory items shall be limited, and crucial regulatory procedures shall be standardized.

Article 40 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall, in reliance on the provincial online regulatory system, strengthen the collection, sharing, correlation, and integration of regulatory information, implement off-site regulation characterized by remote monitoring, mobile regulation, early warning, and prevention and control, and reduce on-site inspection.

Article 41 An administrative law enforcement agency shall conduct administrative law enforcement in strict accordance with the law. It shall not interfere with the normal production and operation activities of market participants, extort or accept money and goods, or seek illegitimate benefits. When conducting an on-site inspection, an administrative law enforcement agency shall not require the persons in charge of enterprises to accompany it if unnecessary.

The people’s governments at or above the county level shall strengthen supervision and inspection on enterprise-related administrative law enforcement actions; regularly assess and examine the performance of administrative law enforcement; review the administrative law enforcement case files; and, standardize implementation of enterprise-related administrative law enforcement.

Article 42 Relevant departments of the provincial people’s government shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions issued by the state, establish their own administrative law enforcement discretion benchmarks for administrative punishment and license; reasonably determine the scope, type, and extent of discretion; and, regulate the exercise of discretion in administrative law enforcement actions, so as to prevent arbitrary law enforcement. The benchmarks shall be disclosed to the public and be adjusted timely in accordance with the revision of laws, regulations, and rules

When relevant departments of the provincial people’s government establish their own administrative punishment discretion benchmarks, the relevant departments shall specify the standards of giving no administrative punishments on trivial illegal acts and lighter or mitigated administrative punishments on general enterprise-related violations of law. In addition, a list of items to specify the circumstances under which the administrative penalty may be lightened, mitigated or exempted shall be drawn up to provide clear guidelines for the administrative law enforcement agencies at lower levels when conducting administrative law enforcement action.

Article 43 The people’s governments at all levels and their departments shall neither require market participants in relevant industries and sectors or relevant regions of general shutdown, nor illegally take the measure of stopping the supply of public services such as water supply, power supply, gas supply, and network service, against the market participants.

Chapter V Legal Safeguard

Article 44 When an administrative normative document, policy, or measure relating to the rights and obligations of market participants is formulated, legality review shall be conducted.

Fair competition review shall be conducted in the course of formulating rules, normative documents, other policy documents, and case-by-case specific measures related to the market participants in economic activities, such as market access and exit, industry development, investment promotion, bidding and tendering, government procurement, standards of operations, and qualification standards, among others, to prevent excluding or restricting market competition.

Where a market participant believes that the above regulations, documents, particular policies, or standards have obstructed fair market competition, the market participant may be entitled to reporting to the formulating authorities, their superior authorities, or the market regulation administration of the people’s government at the same level or above. Where the report is handled in written form and with a relevant factual basis, the aforementioned authority, or administration, shall handle the report promptly, and provide feedback results.

Article 45 The operating autonomy, property rights, and other legitimate rights and interests of market participants and the personal and property safety of enterprise operators shall be protected in accordance with the law.

The seizure, freezing, and detainment on the property of a market participant or the personal property of a business operator beyond the statutory authority, prescribed scope, sum, and time limits shall be strictly prohibited. Electronic seizure and other modern scientific and technological approaches are encouraged to minimize the adverse impact on normal production and operation activities of a market participant involved in the case.

The public security authorities and other relevant departments shall safeguard the construction, production, and operation order of market participants in accordance with the law, and promptly investigate and punish illegal acts such as soliciting projects in a forced way, maliciously stopping people from working, forcing to buy and sell, and causing a nuisance and disturbance.

Article 46 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall strengthen protection of intellectual property rights for market participants; establish a punitive damages system for infringement; improve mechanisms for unified coordination of intellectual property administrative law enforcement at provincial, municipal, and county levels, cross-regional law enforcement cooperation, and case guidance on intellectual property rights protection through administrative means; promote the cohesive mechanism in between administrative and judicial protection; explore the implementation of administrative adjudication of patent infringement disputes; and, push forward judicial confirmation of administrative mediation agreements for intellectual property disputes.

The people’s governments at the provincial, municipal, and prefectural level and their relevant departments shall establish and improve the intellectual property rights public service system, the assistance mechanism for enforcement of intellectual property rights, and the early warning and analysis mechanism for intellectual property rights; promote the establishment of a comprehensive intellectual property service work mechanism in major industrial parks and zones; and, provide one-stop services for intellectual property rights agency, information and consultation, rights and interests protection, and other affairs.

Article 47 The building of a public legal service system is advanced, the content, form, and supply mode of general legal services are innovated, the public legal service resources such as lawyers, notaries, judicial appraisal, mediation and arbitration are integrated, and the quality and level of public legal services are improved with the means of public legal service centers and public legal service hotlines.

The construction of legal advisers’ team for administrative agencies and government lawyers is strengthened. In addition, lawyers are encouraged to innovate the legal service model; help market participants effectively prevent legal risks through professional legal services; and, resolve various disputes in a timely and efficient manner.

The enterprise-related notary services are optimized, the list-based system for proof materials of high-frequency notary matters is carried out, the system of notification at one time is implemented, the implementation of the system of notification and commitment is explored, and the notary proof materials is regulated and streamlined. Furthermore, under the premise of strict procedures, the notary agencies are advocated to shorten time limits. For notarization matters with simple legal relationships, clear facts, and sufficient supporting materials, the notarization is issued on the same day.

Article 48 The competent departments for optimizing the business environment of the people’s governments at or above the county level shall establish a social supervisor system for optimizing the business environment and engage industry associations, chambers of commerce, enterprises and business operators as supervisors to supervise the business environment. The people’s governments at all levels and their relevant departments shall accept the supervision and address the verified problems promptly.

Article 49 The competent departments for optimizing the business environment of the people’s governments at or above the county level may supervise the optimization of the business environment by the following means:

(1) Carry out supervision and inspection, and open and unannounced visits as planned;

(2) Learn about the situation from relevant entities and individuals, and collect and retrieve evidence;

(3) Hold regulatory talks with the persons in charge of relevant entities;

(4) Put forward suggestions to competent authorities; and,

(5) Other supervision means as stipulated under laws, regulations, and rules.

Article 50 The competent departments for optimizing the business environment of the people’s governments at or above the county level shall establish a system to accept complaints of and violation reports about impairing the business environment; implement a whole-process management mechanism of setting up a file for problems, recording problems processing, and writing off when cases are closed; give timely feedback on the results of the handling; and, accept evaluations by those who made complaints or tip-offs on handling procedures and results.

Article 51 A joint mechanism is established integrating optimizing the business environment with disciplinary inspection and supervision, auditing, and supervision, to share clues to the problems that impair the business environment.

When the competent departments for optimizing business environment of the people’s governments at or above the county level receive or discover problem clues impairing the business environment, a preliminary investigation shall be conducted. After preliminary investigation, those administrative agencies or public officials involved in discipline and law violations shall be transferred to disciplinary inspection and supervision authorities.

Article 52 The people’s governments at all levels, their departments, and any of their working staff that fail to perform their duties in accordance with the Provisions, or infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of any enterprise; and utility enterprises or public institutions, industry associations, chambers of commerce, and intermediaries in violation of the Provisions or impairing the business environment, shall be held accountable in accordance with the laws and regulations.

Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions

Article 53 The Provisions come into force as of January 1, 2022.

 “Three Hubs”: a hub of advanced manufacturing industry of national importance, a hub of technological innovation with core competitiveness, and a hub of reform and opening up in inland regions.

“Four New Missions”: to break new ground in promoting high-quality development, make progress in building a new development paradigm, demonstrate a renewed sense of responsibility in promoting the rise of central China and the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and play Hunan’s part in the adherence and development of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.

Opinions of Hengyang Municipal People`s Government on supporting enterprises` technological transformation
(Promulgated by Decree No. 16 of Hengyang Municipal People`s Government on June 19, 2009)
To people`s governments at county, city or district level, departments under the city`s direct leadship, units of the state or Hunan province in Hengyang and all the enterprises:
 
Technical reformation enjoys salient characteristics such as new technology, less investment, short duration, quick effective response and preferable benefit, which make it an effective means to cope with crisis, improve input effect and promote stable and quick development of economy. The following suggestions are proposed to support the city`s technological transformation:

1. Whole-process commission shall be carried out for administrative approval of enterprise`s transformation projects. A commission system shall be established for enterprise`s technological transformation projects to carry out whole-process commission on administrative approvals of environmental protection, land, planning and other related matters for the investment projects of technological reformation.
After the acceptance of project application of technological reformation, the Government Affairs Center should appoint particular agency sectors to organize departments of environmental protection, land, planning, water conservancy and forestry etc. to conduct projects examination  and implement "one-site" examination or approval for project land use, planning, and environmental impact assessment.
    
2. Enterprises` investment autonomy in technological transformation shall be implemented. Technological transformation projects constructed without investment from government funds should be approved and registered by Municipal Economic Committee according to particular circumstances.
        
3. Enterprises are allowed to deduct the VAT contained in the newly acquired equipments, and the VAT rates of small-scale taxpayers is reduced to 3%.
   
4. Implement additional deduction policy on research and development expenses. For research and development expenses which is counted in current profit and loss but has not been transformed into intangible assets yet, apart from the deduction in accordance with particular provisions, 50% of the actual cost value is allowed to be deducted directly from the payable tax of that year. If the research and development costs have been transformed into intangible assets, a pre-tax amortization of 150% of the intangible assets costs will be conducted.
   
5. Implement the policy of accelerated depreciation of fixed assets and pre-tax deduction of fixed assets overhaul expenses. For those enterprises accelerated depreciation is required because of progress in technology and fast product replacement, they are allowed to shorten the depreciation year or adapt accelerated depreciation method.
If the repair expenses of fixed assets amount to 50% of the tax base in the time the fixed assets was purchased, and its service life is extended more than two years after the repair, the taxable income can be amortized in accordance with the remaining service life of the fixed assets.
   
6. Carry out tax credit policy on the purchase of environmental protection or energy saving equipments. If a enterprise has purchased and actually used particular equipments specified by the state for environmental protection, energy and water saving and safe production etc, 10% of its investment will be offsetted from the payable tax amount of the current year. If the payable tax of the current year is not sufficient, the offset can be transmitted to the next 5 tax years.

7. carry out the policy of tax reduction and exemption for technological transformation on energy saving and greenhouse gas emissions reducing. For incomes that enterprises earned in environmental protection as well as energy and water saving projects, since the tax year that the project earns the first operation income, its income tax can be exempted from the first year to the third year, and half levied from the forth year to the sixth year.

8. Increase reduction or exemption amount of stipulated fees for technological transformation. For municipal key technological transformation projects, according to the spirit in "Notification of Hengyang Municipal People`s Government on Printing and distributing <Relief Methods for Hengyang city-level administrative fees and government funds>", city-level stipulated fees will be exempted upon approval of the municipal government.

9. actualize loan discount incentive program for key technological transformation projects. For technological transformation projects that invested over 5 million yuan in fixed assets, and started construction after January 1, 2009, their interests occurred due to corporate loans from financial institutions which is used in the investment of technological transformation equipments can be discounted proportionally by government finance after the project implementation is audited by the municipal economic committee, municipal financial and auditing departments and approved by the municipal government.  
Downtown enterprises can get 100% discount of the actual interest in the current year from the municipal finance, county enterprises can get 30% discount of the actual interest in the current year from the municipal finance, and70% discount of that from the county finance. The discount period is based on the actual loan time, and it can not exceed more than one year. The maximum discount amount of one project is 1 million yuan.

10. Give prior guarantee to land for enterprises` technological transformation projects. Land departments must ensure construction lands for major transformation projects; for those projects whose land needs cannot be satisfied, agricultural land,conversion quota reserved by provincial government can be applied for. Vigorously promote land saving and encourage construction of multi-story standard factory buildings; encourage technological transformation with existing sites and revitalization of stock industrial land with measures like plant conversion; and promote intensive land use through technological transformation.

11. Lay stress on special declaration of national or provincial enterprises` technological transformation. Strengthen the convergence reports with national and provincial departments concerned and strive for special financial assistance for national and provincial technological transformation projects.
   
12. Strengthen the organization and leading of enterprises` technological transformation. Set up the city`s leading group of technological transformation, research and solve as a whole major problems in enterprises` technological transformation, examine and approve the government`s discount amount for loan of the technological transformation, and supervise and urge the implementation of related policies.

13. These opinions will goes into effect as of the date of promulgation.

    Hengyang will make continuing efforts to build a clean, neat and orderly urban environment this year, starting from the following aspects. First, continue to increase efforts to carry out the six battles and further strengthen the work done on six points including setting up stalls, sediment transportation, outdoor advertising and etc. . Second, pay close attention to the two projects, greening and lighting, to make Hengyang greener, its night brighter, and the pavements cleaner. The third is to promote the marketized reforms of the greenbelt management, sanitation and scenery belt maintenance, calling for all sectors of the society to participate in the city administration. The fourth is to propel the city administration to be segmented, elaborate, long-term and normalized, fostering an overall rise of the level of city administration.

    I. Nobody is allowed to charge the approved parking spaces on the sidewalks.

    There is a basic requirement for parking on the sidewalks:  the width of sidewalks should be at least 7 meters. With the bureau having not delimited stop lines on the sidewalks, most of the existing stop lines, at present, are designated personally by self-employed households. We will check all the stop lines of the city, and those that do not meet the parking conditions will be eradicated.

    Since last year, the city has conducted a massive rectification of traffic order which prohibits parking randomly an disorderly on roads so that there are many cars parked on the sidewalk. Currently, the parking spaces in urban areas are limited. As to the existing parking spaces on sidewalks which are 7 meters wide or above, we acquiesce in their parking, but we will not allow anyone to charge the parking. The parking spaces that are designated personally by self-employed households and that  do not meet the parking requirements will be considered as a violation. The Civil Administrative Police Detachment will give them punishment according to related law. Learning from the practice of other cities, we have presented a proposal of parking management on sidewalks which has been  reported to the municipal government for approval. If it is implemented as scheduled, probably more than 3,000 parking spaces will be increased in urban areas.

    II.Current sanitation of the city has greatly improved.

    At present, the sanitation of Hengyang is administrated through the contracted responsibility system with section as the shortest responsibility segment which means each section has a responsible contractor, being responsible for the cleaning work of the entire section. For some communities and special sections, market-oriented reforms will be implemented, for instance, the alleys and communities of Shigu and Zhengxiang district, have implemented the market-oriented bidding, employing professional cleaning companies to do the sweeping and cleaning. In addition, we have also strengthened supervision, reformed the sweeping and cleaning mode: 32 sprinklers working from 11 pm to 5 am each night sprinklers; cleaning vehicles, washing and sweeping vehicles as well as cleaning vehicles with manual labor cooperating with each other;  electric washing vehicles doing spot cleaning to somewhere particularly dirty.

    Now, both manual cleaning and mechanical operating account for 50% of the cleaning work. Sweeping and cleaning is dominated by manual cleaning. Mechanical operating is basically realized on the sweeping of main roads, highways and bridges. All of the roads cleaning are mechanically operating.

    III. The administrative police will only lock the vehicles of illegal parking, but not withhold the driver’s license of the driver when the parking rule has been found violated.

    When the parking rule has been found violated, the administrative police will not withhold driving license and driver's license, but only lock the vehicles. The next step in the reform program is to take the illegal parking on sidewalks into the management platform of traffic police and write down their license number. When dealing with the illegal vehicles of sediment transportation, the driver will be required to stop the violation, but the licenses will not be withheld.

    IV. The charges of booths in each district will be abolished.

    It is not allowed to set up stalls at main roads. The flowing stalls can only go into the community to ease the traffic. The entrance of the medical school which belongs to the main road, Chuanshan Avenue, where setting up stalls is not allowed  either. If there are stalls set up illegally, they will be punished according to the law. But it is strongly prohibited to acquiesce in setting up stalls by charging a certain amount of money per month, for it turns out to fine instead of administration. In the last six battles, each district has made it clear to abolish all forms of charging at booths. Don’t have to bother about those charges with no charging basis, permits and invoice.

    V. The city administration and civilized law enforcement should be more ingeniously combined.

    The ultimate purpose of city administration is to serve the public. The law enforcement should be conducted in a civilized manner according to the law, requiring not only to maintain the amenity and order of this city, to take care of the interests of vulnerable groups. The people violating city administration law will be persuaded rationally and the law enforcement methods will be applied, namely educating first and no punishment for the first time violation, instead of confiscation and damaging.

    VI. Citizens can help supervise the sanitation workers on burning trash.

    The phenomenon of burning garbage can be found in our investigation work too. Therefore, we have printed the Standard of  Sanitation Operation and issued a notice--- no burning of garbage, and delivered these to each sanitation worker. And specialized training has been completed which clearly prohibits burning garbage and sweeping the garbage into green belt. With specially-assigned person responsible for inspecting, once there is a violation, it will be punished right away. With high mobility of sanitation workers, it is quite difficult to put an end to the phenomenon of burning garbage. Citizens can give assistance to supervise. As long as there is a report, we will rush to the scene to stop this behavior within 15 minutes.

    VII. The situation of withered green belts by the roadside will be improved.

    Since last year, the quality of urban greening has been improved with many newly planted seedlings. According to the  contract of greening construction, the construction side have to be responsible for the survival of these seedlings, and it cannot be checked and approved until all the dead are replaced by the survived seedlings. The green belt on the way to Chejiang was planted by the unified organization of municipal government in the project--- greening at “three sides”  (roadside, water side, railroad side) in last year. Last year met a once-in-a-century drought, which made the trees along the highway dry out and die. The construction side is responsible for the maintenance within a year, and now the deadline has not yet come and the project has not been checked and approved. There is a special leading group from the city in charge of this matter.

    VIII. The sediment management will be standardized.

    Sediment management is one of the items on which the city government put special emphasis. We will take a series of measures to make effective breakthroughs: First, before the end of March this year, the work of registering sediment vehicles will be basically completed. And from April, any unlicensed sediment transporting vehicles will not be allowed to run in the city, which has been conducted by the city traffic police detachment. The second is to install GPS in the sediment transporting vehicles and video surveillance system at the sediment sites, linking the management of the sediment transporting vehicles with the digital platform of city administration and incorporated it into the monitoring range of digital city management. Third, implement franchise management on sediment transportation. Vehicles from non-professional sediment transportation companies are not expected to get licenses of sediment vehicles and permissions for sediment transportation. Fourth, build washing platforms at construction sites, with unified standards and standardized management, to ensure the car washing. Fifth, the law enforcement efforts should be made more on sediment management, providing guarantee for the smooth implementation of the above works, at the meantime, strengthening the management of sediment holding venue, to avoid a secondary pollution.

    IX. The auction about the right of use of outdoor advertising space will be standardized.

    The auction about the right of use of outdoor advertising space is organized by the municipal government which has been held in 2003 and 2009. At present, we are preparing the third auction of outdoor advertising space. The specific procedures are as follows: The administrative department of urban and rural planning present a special set of outdoor advertising plan, to be discussed and adopted by the City Planning Commission, and then the auction will be organized by municipal government and the relevant departments. Last year, the major punishment for the illegal ads space using was to remove them. And this year, this work will be strengthened. Industrial and commercial buildings at the city center, Fuan Building and buildings around Hengyang Railway Station will be included in the scope of key remediation. In accordance with the government's request, after the removal of a large number of illegal advertisement, we will proceed with the norms and quality improvement of outdoor advertising, promoting the use of LED panels, trivision and other high-tech advertising media. The Industrial and Commercial Department is responsible for the audit of advertising lines and logos. We will cooperate with the departments concerned, and introduce the specialized outdoor advertising regulatory measures, to make preparations for the third auction of outdoor advertising space.

    X. The classified collection and transportation of food wastes will be conducted.

    Currently, the city's food waste is disposed with solid waste in city life. This year, we will continue to increase the construction and investment of sanitation infrastructure. Recycling and safe disposal center of kitchen waste is under construction and the kitchen waste will soon achieve classified collection and transportation. To protect the ecological environment and develop new energy sources, we are carrying out closure transformation of Ji Xing landfill and ecological restoration projects. The project, garbage incineration for electricity generation, will also be started within this year.

Article 1 In order to strengthen the supervision over the key construction projects of the state, the province and the city, guarantee construction quality and ensure fund safety, and increase the investment efficiency, these measures are formulated in accordance with the No.54 [2000] by the General Office of the State Council and No.39 [2001] by the General Office of the Government of Hunan Province.

Article 2 Special inspectors are to take charge of the supervision over key construction projects. They are appointed by Municipal Development Planning Commission and are responsible for the supervision over the development and management of the key construction projects of the state, the province and the city.

Article 3 The key construction projects mentioned in these measures include construction projects funded by the state, the province and the city, large and medium sized construction projects listed on the schedule of investment in fixed assets by the state, the province and the city, as well as construction projects financed by various special policy funds.
The final list of the city`s key construction projects which are to be under the supervision of special inspectors will be decided by concerned departments of the Municipal Development Planning Commission or the county government.
 
Article 4 The Municipal Development Planning Commission sets up the special inspectors` office of key construction projects of Hengyang City, taking charge of organizing and managing the supervision over the city`s key projects. takes charge of the inspection of the key construction projects. It`s main responsibilities include:
 (1) To make supervision plans and organize to carry out special supervision, combined and usual supervision, as well as audit, submit and transmit supervision report;
 (2) To supervise and inspect the inviting and submitting bids activities during the constructing process of key construction projects;
 (3) To take charge of the day-to-day management and training of the special inspectors and their assistants;
 (4) To enact supervision rules and regulations and relevant policies and fulfill other tasks assigned by hierarchy.

Article 5 The special inspector system is implemented to carry out the supervision over the city`s key construct projects.

Article 6 The public servants above section-level are able to serve as special inspectors, one equipped with one or two assistants helping with their work.
The special inspectors do not participate in or interfere with the operation and management of the supervised.
The special inspectors and their assistants must meet the following requirements:
 (1) Be well acquainted with and able to fulfill and enforce the relevant laws, rules, regulations and policies;
 (2) Stick to the inspection principles and perform their duties on the basis of being clean, honest, self- disciplined, and secret-keeping;
 (3) Sufficient professional knowledge on financial accounting, auditing, engineering technology and so on, as well as adequate ability of overall analysis and judgment.
 (4) Having fully received professional training.

Article 7 The special inspectors` duties include:
 (1) To supervise and inspect the implementation of relevant laws, rules and regulations, and policies of the state by the inspected units and determine whether their decisions on construction projects comply with permissions and procedures regulated by rules and regulations;
 (2) To supervise and inspect the construction projects` inviting and submitting bits events, construction quality, project progress and final acceptance of key construction projects.
 (3) To supervise and inspect the inspected units` financial accounting data and other concerned documents, supervise the truthfulness and lawfulness with regard to fund uses and budgetary estimate control.
 (4) To make evaluation on the principal responsible persons` management and suggest rewards or punishments.

Article 8 On average, one special inspector is responsible for 2 to 5 construction projects and carries out at least twice on-site inspections each year on each project.

Article 9 The special inspectors may adopt the following methods with reagard to their supervision:
 (1) To attend and convene meetings related to inspection affairs at the inspected unit, listen to report on the construction project given by the principal responsible person of the inspected unit;
 (2) To review the inspected unit`s financial accounting data and other relevant data of the construction projects, such as the final report, accounting documents and accounting books and son on;
 (3) To carry out on-site inspection to investigate and verify the facts concerned.
 (4) To inquire of the staff members the inspected unit`s financial situation and require the principal responsible person of the inspected unit to explain, if necessary;
 (5) To inquire of financial, auditing, construction administrative and other relevant departments about the use of funds and the quality of key construction project undertaken by the inspected unit. Whenever necessary, the Municipal Development and Planning Commission can organize the special inspectors to perform supervision with members from finical, auditing, construction, and supervising department, and invite professional and technical personnel for the inspection.

Article 10 The inspection of key construction projects shall comply with the principle of being law-based, objective, fair, practical and realistic.

Article 11 The inspected unit shall accept the legal inspection by the special inspectors. The inspected unit shall faithfully and regularly provide the inspectors with the documents or materials related to the key construction project, report the major events in the process of construction and management, and shall not delay, reject, conceal or fabricate the documents or materials concerned.

Article 12 The city`s relevant departments and the people`s government of relevant county (or city) and district shall support and cooperate with the inspection over key construction projects, and supply to the inspectors the information and materials about the inspected unit.
The Municipal Development and Planning Commission shall strengthen the mutual contact with the financial, auditing, supervising and other departments as well as the banking institutions, inform each other of the information concerned.

Article 13 Where any problem is found by the special inspectors at inspection, they should verify the facts at the inspected unit and listen to the opinions thereof. When the inspected unit demurs, the inspectors can report to the special inspectors` office.
Where any serious problems about engineering quality, ecological environment and funds safety, or any other emergencies have been found by the inspection team in the key construction project, the inspection team shall take necessary measures without delay and report specially to the special inspectors` office and other departments concerned, and the departments concerned shall take relevant actions according to law.

Article 14 Every time the special inspector finishes the inspection over construction project, he should submit the inspection report on time.
The content of an inspection report include: whether the construction projects comply with the examination and approval procedures; the fund uses and analysis and evaluation of budgetary estimate control; analysis and evaluation on the inviting and submitting bid events and the progress of the project; analysis and evaluation on the management of the principal responsible person of the inspected units; existing problems in the construction and suggestions on solutions and other items required by the Development Planning Commission and by the special inspector.

Article 15 The Municipal Development Planning Commission takes charge of the approval and examination of the inspection report, reporting material matters to Hengynag Municipal People`s Government by the Commission.

Article 16 Where any serious problems that are likely to endanger the engineering safety, or to cause loss of state assets and infringe on the owner`s equity of state assets, or any other emergencies found by the special inspector in his inspection, special report should be written and submitted to the Commission without delay.

Article 17 The inspection on the construction projects by the special inspector and his assistants practices a rotation system, and the duration of their inspection over the same project is no more than 3 years.

Article 18 The challenge system shall be adopted while appointing special inspectors, so that inspectors will not be sent to inspect the construction project which they themselves ever managed or worked for, or where their close relatives are acting as the high-ranking managerial staffs of the inspected units therein.

Article 19 At the inspection, the inspectors and their assistants shall not disclose the commercial secrets of the inspected unit.

Article 20 At the inspection, the inspectors and their assistants shall not accept any gift, remuneration or welfare benefits from the inspected unit; they shall not ask for reimbursement of any expenses in the inspected unit; they shall not attend or participate in any banquet, entertainment, tour, visit at abroad and other activities arranged, organized or financially sponsored by the inspected unit; nor shall they try to obtain profit for themselves, their relatives, friends or other people.

Article 21 Special inspectors and their assistants who has made outstanding achievements in the inspection and made great contributions to maintain national interests shall be rewarded.

Article 22 In case of one of the following circumstances on the part of the special inspectors and their assistants, disciplinary punishment or organizational sanction will be given according to the seriousness of the case. For those who violate the criminal law, they shall be handed over to the law and be prosecuted for criminal responsibility according to the law:
 (1) Conceal and not to report the major problems of the inspected project or to seriously neglect their duties;
 (2) Collaborate with the inspected unit to fabricate a false inspection report;
 (3) Interfere in the normal construction activities of the inspected unit, causing to encroach its legal rights and interests;
 (4) Disclose the state secrets or commercial secrets of the inspected unit;
 (5) Violate relevant regulations on the clean and honest execution of state personnel.

Article 23 In case that the inspected unit violates relevant state laws or regulations about the management of the construction project, the Municipal Development Planning Commission has the authority to make the following settlement according to the seriousness of the case:
 (1) To issue the rectification and reform notice, ordering a rectification within specified time;
 (2) To circulate a notice of criticism;
 (3) To suggest the financial department or relevant departments a delaying supply of funds;
 (4) To suspend the construction;
 (5) To hold the approval of new projects of the same kind by relevant departments; (6) To propose to relevant functional departments a capture of illegal funds and an auction of illegal luxury goods and other items. The captured funds and incomes from the auction will be turned over to the State Treasury.
Issues over the duties and authorities among the city’s relevant departments and people`s governments of the county (city) and district will be handed over to relevant departments and people`s governments. Their investigation results should be fed back to the Inspectors’ Office in time.
Major decisions should be reported to and approved by the Municipal People’s Government.

Article 24 After the rectification notice having been issued by the Municipal Development Planning Commission, the Special Inspectors` Office should track and monitor the progress of rectification, and organize timely review, until the rectification aim is achieved.
Relevant counties (cities) or districts, departments and construction units should carefully carry out rectification according to the requirements of the rectification notice.
 
Article 25 In case of one of the following circumstances on the part of the inspected unit, the departments concerned shall take disciplinary sanction against the persons in charge who bear the direct or leading responsibility. And if the case is serious enough, members involved shall be removed from their posts. For those who violate the criminal law, they will be transferred to judicial institutions and be prosecuted for criminal responsibility according to the law:
 (1)Activities violating the law and discipline are found in project inspection;
 (2)Refuse the inspection or prevent inspectors from performing their duties;
 (3)Refuse to provide or deliberately postpone supplying the information and materials concerned to the inspection;
 (4) Conceal or falsify the documents and materials concerned;
 (5) Other behaviors preventing the special inspector from performing their duties.

Article 26 The expenditure required each year by the inspection of the Inspectors` Office and the special inspectors is listed in the municipal special budget with reference to the methods of the state or province.
 
Article 27 These measures shall come into effect upon promulgation.

key words: planning, construction, inspection, methods, notice
 

The Program for Expansion of the Coverage of Old-age Insurance in Hengyang City  

In order to meet the requirement of increasing the coverage rate of social old-age insurance to 80% with a growth of 10 percents, as is proposed in the city`s labor and social security work conference, and promote the expansion work to a full length, the following program is formulated.  

1. Guiding principles  

We shall take the spirits of the 17th NCCPC as the guide, the Deng Xiaoping Theory, "The Three Representatives" and the scientific development concept as the instruction, concern ourselves about the people`s livelihood, base our work upon the people`s ultimate interest, carry out the Central Party Committee`s requirements of "full coverage, guaranteeing fundamentals, multi-level and sustainable", and focus on issues of old-age insurance, which is most practical, most concerned and is most directly related to their life.   

2. Objectives  

There shall be an expansion of 76,000 people in the coverage of old-age insurance in Hengyang City.  

3. Procedures  

1) Promotion and arousing phase (from April to May).  

Promotional materials shall be delivered, and propaganda work shall be conducted with radio, television, press, news media, etc. Meanwhile, the city`s social security system shall be organized in May to undertake a major publicity campaign, in which, with means of putting up posters, hanging banners, opening up publicity columns, carrying out trainings and advisory activities on policies and regulations, etc., focus will be placed on propaganda of the guideline of "making uninsured enterprises insured, uninsured individuals insured, insured enterprises fully insured, and the bankrupt but restructured enterprises renew insurance". By launching the propaganda on a grand scale, a transition from "want me to insure" to "I want to insure" shall be achieved for coverage extension and consequently, the old-age insurance work shall be greatly promoted.  

2). Special operations phase (Jun. 1st - Dec.31)  

Unified organization shall be made for special operations in the whole city and close corporation shall be provided by departments at all levels, The operations, which are supposed to be a citywide special extension of coverage of old-age insurance, shall be taken by stages, in groups, in a planed way with their focus prominent.  

During the first special operation for extension of coverage (from June.1 to July. 30), attention shall be paid to uninsured personal like uncompiled staffs from departments, public institutions and social organizations as well as faculty, staffs and medical workers from private non-enterprise units; all public institutions, social organizations, education departments, civil affaires departments and health department are supposed to be cooperative.  

During the second special operation (Aug.1- Sep.15), attention shall be paid to uninsured units like hotels, teahouses for entertainment and health care and net bars; related departments are supposed to provide corporation  

The third special operation (from Sep. 15 to Nov. 30)  

special operation shall be made for uninsured personal in such fields as securities industry, logistics management industry, supermarket industry, building materials industry, rental transportation, coal industry, etc., and related departments are supposed to provide corporation.  

3). Summary and commendation phase (from Dec. 1 to Mar. 30).  

Departments and units at all levels shall, with reference to coverage extension objectives, summarize, sum up, inspect, evaluate, and give commendation for their operations. The departments or units which have not completed the given tasks will be unqualified to be selected as advanced or outstanding ones in the annual assessment of the government, and the departments which have made great contributions to completion of the tasks shall be praised and awarded.   

4. Specific measures  

1)  Leadership shall be strengthened to form resultant force for coverage expansion. Municipal government shall set up a leading team, with Duan Zhigang, a Standing Committee Member of CPC and vice mayor, as the team leader, minister of Municipal Bureau of Labor and Social Security and minister of Municipal Bureau of Finance as vice team leaders, ministers of Bureaus of tax, business, education, civil, construction engineering, culture, public security, association of self-employed etc. as team members. Departments of labor and social security at all levels shall be the leading departments, which are supposed to strengthen organization and leadership earnestly and concern themselves about the specific work. Corresponding organizations should be established in Counties and urban areas and their responsibilities and tasks should be specified.   

2) The work shall be intensified and measures for coverage expansion shall be consolidated. Functional departments at all levels and social security management agencies should actively strive to handle foreign-funded enterprises, private enterprises as well as private non-enterprise units’ insurance participation and payment. Departments of labor and social security should strengthen supervision and especially, conduct special monitoring over non-insured, non-payment enterprises and order them to correct it. For those enterprises which still refuse to participate the insurance, they may be exposed by the news media and be forced to pay for the insurance as is proposed by departments of labor security or the tax authorities.   

3)  Supervision shall be strengthened and, vigor of coverage expansion work shall be stimulated. Foreign-funded companies, private enterprises and private non-enterprise units are supposed to pay the old-age insurance as it has been specified in laws to be their obligations.. For those who fail to pay the insurance as required in the regulations, governments at all levels should strengthen their supervision, select capable personnel and have them enter enterprises to implement supervision. The management agencies and the relevant departments shall make timely follow-up supervision for the development and prompt reports to stimulate the vigor of coverage expansion work.  

4) Assessment efforts shall be strengthened and competitiveness of expansion work shall be promoted. Governments at all levels should attach great importance to the coverage extension work and firmly hold such ideas as "the extension work is a livelihood project and it is closely related to social stability". Meanwhile, governments should integrate the expansion work into their target management assessment, build strict goal assessment mechanism and incentive mechanism, conduct regular inspections, and fulfill objectives for coverage extension.  

5. Some requests   

1) Coverage expansion insurance for the old-age shall be included into key agenda for both party committees and governments and be regarded as "a project in the charge of the head". All departments and units (administrative offices) should integrate the expansion work into the range of departments` target management assessment, increase index of tasks and sign the responsibility shape with responsible units. Meanwhile, particular personal shall be appointed to do the practical work, including establishment of Liaison mechanism, monthly collection of imformation, compiling the total data as well as regular report of the coverage expansion to the labor and social security departments.  

2) Desirable cooperation and coordination should be achieved among departments at all levels to improve coverage expansion. Financial departments shall expand financial input; tax departments shall strengthen their delegated collection work; education, home affairs departments shall be responsible for the collection in private non-enterprise units; public security departments shall be responsible for entry-exit personnel`s insurance payment; construction engineering departments shall be responsible for the collection in construction services companies; culture departments shall be responsible for the entertainment places; association of self-employed shall be responsible for the individual businesses; administrative departments of industry and commerce shall check social security registration and payment certificate when handling enterprises` business license and annual inspection, and for those who fails to, they shall urge them to do so before handling corresponding procedures.  

3) Elaborate organization shall be undertaken for the implementation by social security handling agencies of the Labor Security Department. They shall select and establish a coverage expansion team which is young, hardworking, professional, pragmatically innovational, responsible, of high-quality, and not afraid of difficulties. This team shall be safeguarded in its manpower, meterials, the financial support. Moreover, its internal and external`s synchromesh shall be strengthened to fully activate various aspects to ensure the fulfillment of coverage expansion tasks.

 

What laws and regulations should tourists abide by in traveling?
In order to maintain traveling order and protect legal rights of tourists, tourists should conscientiously abide by relevant laws, rules and regulations formulated by corresponding departments and all sight-seeing sites.
（1）In traveling transportation. In order to insure safety in traveling transportation, tourists should conscientiously abide by relevant laws and regulations on aviation, railway, highway, waterway and cable transportation, such as "Civil Aviation Law". "Regulations on International Passenger Transport of CAAC", "Law on Railway Transportation", "Provisional Regulations on Management of Highway Transportation", and "Regulations on Management of Waterway Transportation"
（2）Traveling accommodation. Tourists should abide by all specific regulations of hotels, restaurants, guest-houses, and sanatoriums as well as hostels, so as to guarantee personal and property security and a sound environment for a good rest.
（3）Sight-seeing. Tourist should abide by such laws and regulations as "Provisional Regulations on Management of Scenic Spots", "Law on Environmental Protection", "Law on Cultural Relics Protection", and "Law on Wild Animal Protection", so as to protect traveling environment and resources.
（4）On tourist entering and leaving the country. If Chinese citizens have out-bound traveling, according to "Law on Management of Chinese Citizens Entering and Leaving China" and its detailed implementation rules, the citizens should file in an application to their local public security organs on municipal or county level where is the place for their permanent residence registry, submit their household register or other certificate on permanent residence for examination, fill out the application form on leaving the country, submit opinions from the working place of the applicants, and produce corresponding certificates on reasons for leaving the country.
（5）On management of foreign exchange for traveling. According to regulations from "Provisional Methods on Foreign Exchange for Traveling", travel agencies engaged in traveling services for foreigners, overseas Chinese, compatriots of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to come to China traveling, the agencies must charge their overseas counterparts and travelers in foreign exchange. Chinese citizens going abroad traveling should use foreign exchange in accordance with "Methods on Chinese Citizens Exchanging Foreign Currencies for Personal Purpose" and "Regulations on Chinese Citizens Remitting Abroad Foreign Exchange Savings".

What is "government procurement"?
According to the applied provisions in the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Government Procurement, "government procurement" refers to all of the purchasing activities conducted with fiscal funds by state administrative departments at all levels, institutions and social organizations when goods, construction and services concerned are listed in the Centralized Procurement Catalogue (CPC) published by the government procuring regulatory authority (GPRA) or value of which exceeds the respective Prescribed Procurement Thresholds (PPT) for goods, construction or services as applicable. 
The terms of "Procurement", "Goods" and "Construction" are specifically defined as follows. 
"Procurement" refers to activities conducted by means of contract and by which goods, construction or services are acquired for consideration, including but not limited to purchase, lease, entrustment and employment.  "Goods" refers to objects of every kind or form, including but not limited to raw materials, fuel, equipment, and products.
"Construction" refers to all work associated with construction, reconstruction, extension, decoration, demolition and repair or renovation of a building or structure. 

What Chinese laws and regulations should be abided by, regarding foreign exchange trading? 
As stipulated in the Regulations on Foreign Exchange Control of the People’s Republic of China, foreign exchange trading must comply with the principle of being open, fair, impartial, and honest.
Banks designated to handle foreign exchange and other financial institutions designated to handle foreign exchange businesses shall fix the prices of the foreign exchange traded between their clients and handle foreign exchange transactions according to the exchange rates published by the People’s Bank of China and the floating range specified accordingly. 

Notice of Hengyang Municipal People`s Government on further promotion of real estate consumption
(Promulgated by Decree No. 14 of Hengyang Municipal People`s Government on June 19, 2009)

To people`s governments of county, city or district level, departments under the city`s direct leadship:

According to spirit of the document "Opinions on promoting stable and healthy development of real estate market from office of Hunan provincial CPC committee and office of Hunan Provincial Government" (Hunan politics to issue NO. 18 of 2008), in order to further boost the city`s real estate consumption, promote the development of related industries, and realize the targets of domestic demand expansion and growth ensurement, based on research, the Municipal Government now made the following notice:

    1. Adjust the Deed Tax Policy
1) For purchased houses of more than 144 square meters (including second-hand housing, regardless of first purchase or not), as long as the property certificate is handled before December 31, 2010, the deed tax shall be levied at 2%.
2) For purchased houses of less than 144 square meters (including second-hand housing, regardless of first purchase or not), as long as the property certificate is handled before December 31, 2010, the deed tax shall be levied at 1%.
3) For purchased non-residential houses (including second-hand housing), as long as the property certificate is handled before December 31, 2010, the deed tax shall be levied at 3%.
4) For those re-settlors` purchase of houses, the portion of the purchase price which is equivalent to the relocation compensation shall be exempted from the deed tax of transaction.
5) For those purchasers who want to improve living conditions by "exchanging old houses for new ones, and small ones for big ones", when handling new property certificates, they are allowed to offset the payable deed tax by the amount of the purchase deed tax in the original invoice.

    2. Adjust the Business Tax Policy
Individuals who sell out the purchased residential houses can be exempted from the business tax. For those who sell out the purchased nonresidential, houses, the business tax will be levied at the balance between the sales income and the original purchase price of the house.

    3. Adjust the housing rental tax
Owners are encouraged to lease houses and revitalize stock assets. The housing rental tax shall be simply levied by the composite tax rate. For private rental housing, the tax shall be levied by a composite tax of 6.6725% regardless of its usage.

    4. Carry out house-purchasing subsidies for low-income families
According to the housing subsidy policy specified in The document of "Notice of printing and distributing <Opinions on Promoting Healthy Development of the City`s Real Estate> of Hengyang People`s Government", 1,200 subjects with affordable housing will be provided with housing subsidy within three years ,the quotas which were previously assumed to be distributed annually shall be distributed in accordance with new regulations-as long as the buyer purchase the house and handle the property certificate before December 31, 2010, the buyer can enjoy 30,000  yuan`s housing subsidy when handling the property certificate.
   
5. Give full play to housing accumulation fund loans. Vigorously develop personal housing accumulation fund loans, and relax restrictions for loan of housing accumulation fund.  
1) For the new employees who`d like to loan the accumulation fund to buy houses, as long as their units has paid the housing accumulation fund as required, they will not be constrained by their depositing years.
2) Actively promote housing fund mortgage loans. For all development projects, various existing houses, and second-hand houses which meet the pre-sale conditions, housing fund mortgage loans can be granted.
3) Actively carry out the transfer of commercial loans to housing accumulation fund
4) Allow loans after pre-occupation and carry out hedging repayment services. Purchasers who have already had loans will be allowed to offset the loan principal with the housing accumulation fund of himself or herself, his or her spouse or his or her direct relatives, and conduct monthly hedging repayment. For new creditors of housing accumulation fund, they are allowed to withdraw in advance the deposit balance of his or her, his or her spouse`s or his or her direct relatives` housing accumulation fund; and monthly hedging repayment is feasible.
5) For those who use housing fund loans to purchase houses (including second-hand houses), their first payment ratio can be reduced to a minimum of 20%; a maximum loan amount up to 40 million can be debited, and the loan duration can be extended to as long as 30 years (the term of repayment is within the legal retirement age stipulated by the state.)
6) Strictly implement the loan rate principle of People`s Bank of China, and decrease the loan rate of individual housing accumulation fund on time.
 
6. Personal housing consumption loans shall be developed positively.
Financial institutions should vigorously support residents in their purchase of houses on loan; the lower limit of the interest rate can be increased to 0.7 times of the basic interest rate, and the minimum first payment ratio is reduced to 20%. Support shall also be provided for migrant workers who have long-term stable employment in the city and is economically capable for purchase of houses on loans.

    7. Carry out policies about purchasing houses and settling
For people who have purchased dwelling houses larger than 65 square meters or shops with the cost more than 300,000 yuan in urban areas, after their application with the deed tax invoices and property ownership certificate, household registrations of the house owner and his immediate family members can be settled in Hengyang city. In the transferring procedures of the household registration, only card issuing fees will be charged. Their children can enjoy the equal townsfolk treatment with respect to school, employment, and social security etc.

    8. Postpone the charge of fees
The payment of the buyer`s housing maintenance fund can be deferred to the time of handling property ownership certificate. For those which have already got the pre-selling license before the issue of this document, the account opening fees of water, electricity, gas, cable television, and telecommunications etc shall be charged in accordance with previous provisions. The charge standard must be publicly notified by relative departments on television, newspapers, or advance sale sites of residential houses; random charge of real estate developers or related departments will be investigated and strictly punished. For those projects which handle the pre-selling licenses after the issue of this document, their fees must be incorporated into the development cost, and any additional charge is prohibited.
 
9. Strengthen the market`s monitoring, control, supervision and guidance
Regular real estate joint meetings shall be held, the government`s macro-control on the real estate market shall be strengthened, and the supply scale of the land market shall be properly determined. Strengthen the monitoring and analysis of the market, release the market information accurately and timely, reinforce positive propaganda and boost confidence for the market and promote healthy and stable development for the housing market.

    10. Rectify the market order completely.
Strictly crack down irregularity actions such as understatement in house construction, irregular lease and house selling, false advertisement etc, and focus shall be placed on reorganization of distorted cooperation housing and "small property right houses" (houses on the collective-owned lands which villagers themselves do not live in). Those who conducted distorted cooperation housing are required to make up the difference of value on the incomes from its’ granting of land rights and related regular fees which are not market-based. Small property rights houses are prohibited and serious investigation shall be conducted to ensure the healthy and orderly development of the city`s real estate market.

  At the fourth session of the 14th People's Congress in Hengyang, on February 5th, 2015:

  Xie Hongzhi, deputy director and Party secretary of the standing committee of Hengyang municipal people's congress 　　  

  Dear Fellow delegates:
 
  I was entrusted by the standing committee of the municipal people's congress to report to you the work since the third session of the 14th municipal people's congress and the primary tasks for 2015 for your deliberation and approval. And I expect all delegates present to bring forward your opinions freely. 

  1. Main Work in 2014 
  
  In 2014, under the leadership of the municipal committee of the Communist Party of China, the standing committee of the People's Congress in Hengyang carefully implemented the spirit of the 18th Third and Fourth Plenary session and a series of important speech given by Xi Jinping, the general secretary, centered strictly on the overall situation of the work citywide, stay closely with the members of people's congress, fully performed their duties and strive hard to make positive contribution to the economic society, democracy and legal system construction in Hengyang. Over the past year, we have held 7 standing committee meetings, 9 director meetings, listened and deliberated on 15 special work reports from “One Government, Two Departments” (people's government, people's court and people's procuratorate), raised 10 pieces of suggestions with careful deliberation, and made 1 resolution. We have also appointed and dismissed people working for State organs for 61 times.

  (1) Insist on correct political direction to build a new structure for the work of people's congress.

  2014 is a rather extraordinary year in the history of the Standing Committee of Municipal People's Congress, with all sectors in our society paying high attention to us. Faced with a complex situation, the Standing Committee considered the situation carefully and responded in an easy way with no power misused to turn its state of being passive into active, from being negative into positive and start a new situation for the work of people's congress.

  Scheme a new plan for development. The leading group of the new standing committee, together with its members should shoulder the great mission entrusted by history and people during this special period. Over the past year, through studying the briefing of some relevant situation about the case of “the ruin of election” and a series of important speech given by president Xi Jinping, implementing the meeting spirit of the 60th anniversary celebration of the central committee, provincial committee, and municipal committee for the establishment of people's congress, learning the guiding report with regard to the insistence on the socialism with Chinese characteristics and its perfection, and promoting basic education of political system, they have gained clearer ideas about the work orientation of local people's congress: the work of people's congress can only ensure the political direction correctness with the insist on Party leadership ; we can only ensure an endless power source for our career when we are always ready to protect the fundamental interests of the mass; and we can ensure a smooth promotion for different works running within legal system when we keep handling affairs with a sensitive legal awareness. At the beginning of the year, the standing committee passed the general requirement of “working vigorously in high spirit with joint efforts” , raised a general thought of “making decisions with a view to fundamental elements, aiming at weak points to conduct supervision, reinforcing quality with the fulfillment of duties guaranteed, and set up new images by improving work style”, through making careful judgments about current situation, checking our status cautiously, and thinking of correspondent solutions, which plays a vital role in the work planning for the standing committee in this new historical context, and shows the new pattern and vision of the our work.
 
  Set up new images of the government. To show the new vitality of the work of people's congress in our city and the new look of the members and workers of the people's congress, to let people citywide feel the respect for their will, care for their actual conditions, and protection for their rights from people's congress at all levels and its standing committees, the standing committee decided to launch practical activities with the theme of “fulfilling duties with hearts staying close with mass” with the main content of “3 Connections, 3 Aids, and 3 Assessments” and establish a “Serving People Day” and a “Director Reception Day” with the date fixed on June 25th (The opening date for the first session of the 1st People's Congress in Hengyang was on June 25th, 1954.). And people in charge of the standing committee take the lead in meeting with the mass, visiting representatives, and penetrating into grassroots, which greatly arouses the passion of members and workers of people's congress to serve our people. Many livelihood practical work linked closely with people's lives have got done, such as urban water logging, the launch of environmental-friendly buses, food security and etc.. A large number of courageous, selfless and responsible members have lived up to their solemn promises that “I will do whatever people really need without failing their trusts”. The deeds of the outstanding members were highly praised at the speech contest within the system of the municipal people's congress, and it has become a stream of great power to push forward the work for people's congress. It has been proved through practices that the members and workers of our municipal people's congress is a trustworthy team equipped with brilliant fighting capacity, high spirit and full vigor.

  Strive for new accomplishments. At the early period for the new leading group of the standing committee to fulfill their duties, they devoted themselves to building Hengyang characteristics, forming unique Hengyang brand, and creating Hengyang mode for the innovation of the work of local people's congress. Taking the implementation of the “perfection of system for representatives to connect with people ” raised at the 18th National People's Congress as a breakthrough, the standing committee has built 232 work stations for members to connect with the mass within the institutions on levels of city, county, and township, paved a new path for representatives to fulfill their duties, and set up a bridge that allows people's appeals to walk through. Since the establishment of the station, over 2,000 representatives has come to the work stations to meet with our people for over 150,000 times, collected and reported over 2,200 pieces of suggestions, and solved 1016 problems. Some mainstream media, like People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Hunan Daily and etc. has also given detailed accounts about it. The standing committee of provincial sprovincial promotion meeting for the work of members of people's congress connecting with the mass to introduce and promote the “Hengyang Experience” to the whole province.

  (2)Exercise the supervision right legally to generate power for a comprehensive construction of the well-off society in Hengyang.

  The standing committee should conduct effective supervision holding fast to matters that draws attention of the Party Committee, care of the mass, and concern of the society to push forward the improvement work of the “One Government and Two Institutes” (people's government, people's court, and people's procuratorate).  

  Promote a steady development in economy. The first thing is that we should pay more attention on the construction of key projects. The standing committee persist in regular scheduling and supervising to those key projects it connects, and organize part of the members to conduct investigation and inspection, learn about the difficulties and problems existing during the construction, and find out solutions to them in time. The director meeting of the standing committee listened to the report on the construction status of Hengshan Science & Technology City, organized some members to go to other places in China to study, and came up with some very important suggestions with regard to the planning, financing, industries layout and etc.. To release some pressure of financial funds, they have agreed that people's government can get their funds from financial institutes to invest in the development and construction of New Binjiang District and Chuanshan Road. The second is to reinforce the double-check of financial planning. The standing committee suggested that municipal people's government should carefully judge the current situation and work positively at changing mode, adjusting structure, and thriving the projects with focus on the reality that the economy in our city is suffering from a downturn with great pressure, which positively promoted the accomplishment of the targets throughout the year. When checking financial budget and final accounts, they demand that people's government should grasp opportunities to cultivate revenue sources, strengthen the management with finance and tax collection, optimize expenditure structure, and deepen the finance and tax reform, and attach great importance to the management of special fund, department budgets, and livelihood budgets. To make sure that problems pointed out in the auditing report are properly settled, the standing committee surveyed the reform and implementation status of the marine bureau and some other units, and supervised and urged the relevant units to strictly deal with people who have misbehaved during their work. The third is to promote the modern agriculture development. The standing committee organized and launched investigation about the  land transferring work and the development situation of the business entity of new agriculture. And with regard to the problems existing in aspects like the procedure, service, environment, financing, and etc. of the rural land transferring in our city, they demand municipal people's government to correctly direct, standardize, and supervise the land transferring work. On the basis of a successful pilot, municipal people's government promote the work “1 transferring and 5 services” citywide. To develop the business entity of new agriculture, they also demand the government to optimize their services, reinforce the power of financial and credit support, and strengthen the team building for talents to make various business entities of new agriculture in our city keep growing stronger and stronger. 
 
  Spare no effort to promote the better-off of the livelihood of people in Hengyang. The first thing is to pay high attention to food security and drug security. The standing committee organized the law enforcement group to inspected 41 corporations of food and drug production, procession, sale, and catering in total, and demand municipal government to speed up the food and drug detection center construction and the promotion of institutional and systematic reform of food and drug, strengthen the supervision power, and reinforce the security awareness of all our citizens. The second is to highly focus on the education work. The standing committee listened to and deliberated on the report about the status of the professional teaching work citywide, and investigated and learned the experience that how other places in China develop their professional teaching. With regard to the relevant problems existing in the professional teaching in our city, they demand the people's government to  make careful plans and designs, strengthen the power in overall planning, increase the investment, deepen the cooperation between schools and corporations, and reinforce the policy protection. The standing committee also conducted a special survey about the layout and planning situation of middle and primary schools from 2014-2020 within the urban area of Hengyang, and demand the people's government to implement the education plans strictly, fully protect the education area, strengthen the school construction force, and decide whether to dispose of or integrate school education resources reasonably.
 
  The third is to pay great attention to the cure and prevention of air pollution. Under the guidance of the standing committee of the provincial people's congress, our standing committee inspected the implementation situation of the Air Pollution Prevention Act with legal means. They demanded that the people's government should raise the standard for the admittance of industries and environment strictly, step up canceling those with low capacity, promote clean energy, lay emphasis on the treatment of industrial flue gas pollution, vehicle exhaust pollution, construction dust pollution and etc., and reinforce the construction of 3 abilities, including supervision ability, law enforcement and supervision ability, and emergency response capacity. Municipal people's government printed and distributed the Embodiment for Air Pollution Prevention Action Plan In Hengyang. 6 automatic air quality detection centers within urban area have already been in service. And in order to purify air and reduce pollution, the standing committee specially made a decision with regard to the fireworks prohibition in our city area, and urged the government to officially put it into effect from January 1st, 2015. The fourth is to show deep concern for social vulnerable group. They have organized 12 standing committees of the people's congress on city, district, and county levels to connect exact points with the overall situation through the combination of the way of crossing key investigations and that of the deputies' duty fulfillment investigation and self check and correction, conduct comprehensive survey about the work of rural minimum security citywide, raised suggestions toward the government with regard to relevant problems, and supervised and urged them to correct and solve these problems in limited time. They also launched the program to "support poor family to recover children's hearing” , and has helped 20 poor deaf children to regain their hearing and language abilities by giving them cohear implant operations and rehabilitation training.
 
  Keep pushing forward the rule the municipality according to law in Hengyang. The first thing is to promote the implementation and exercise of law by law enforcement survey. The standing committee exercised regular supervision on the implementation situation of the Urban and Rural Planning Law, and pointed out during the annual consideration and deliberation on urban and rural planning that to consummate the urban and rural planning system, harden the planning enforcement, and strengthen the force of publicity of planning. The revision of the overall urban planning has passed the examine at the joint review meeting among departments. The formation of controllable detailed planning and special planning has got strengthened. And the force in controlling the demolition of illegal construction has also been increased. During the special survey about the implementation of “Urban Greening Act” and “Implementation Ways of ‘Urban Greening Act’ In Hunan”, the standing committee came up with the implementation of plan control and restriction of green area in Hengyang, to improve the maintenance level for greening, and step up to live up to suggestions, such as constructing a national garden city, and etc.. According to the unified arrangements for the standing committee of people's congress at higher level, they have carried out law enforcement inspection and survey toward laws and regulations, such as Law of Protection Minors, Tourism Law, Patent Law, Law on Protection of Consumer Rights, Law on Protection of Taiwan Compatriots' Investments, and etc.. The second is to protect justice by judicial supervision. According to changes in situation and policies, they revised and consummated the temporary methods for judicial supervision, and selected and hired 20 law enforcement supervisors from deputies of the municipal people's government to be sent to municipal judicial office together. They organized and conducted survey about the implementation situation of Civil Procedure Law, and demand municipal intermediate people's court to make every effort to crack difficulties in case filing and enforcement. To prevent unjust cases from happening, they conducted a special survey about the investigating and supervision work information of the procuratorial organs and demand them to properly implement the Suggestions (Implementation Measures) on Work Connection Between Administrative Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice issued by the State Council (Hunan province), reinforce the connection with public security organs, establish a platform to share criminal case information, and strengthen the supervision of case filing and investigation events. The third is to promote a harmonious society by reading petition letters. Sticking to the principle of “people should always go back home, while problems should always get solved”, they send the problems included in those petition letters to relevant units to solve, debriefed work status to upper levels, and tracked their outcome and urged those relevant units to report their achievements to the leaders to make sure each affair can both get solved and replied. And as to some cases involving lawsuits, they guided both parties to report their problems to judicial organs according to the new petition letter work policy. There are 4181 times of visits in the form of petitions letters from the mass accepted by deputies of people's congress in 2014 with a drop of  11% over the same period of the previous year.
 
  Besides, they also carefully reviewed 32 standard documents and managed to protect the unification of law and regulation. The work experience and methods of our city got promoted at the provincial work review forum about the standard documents records within people's congress system. They also established a training class for the new Budget Law to promote the standardization, systematization and legalization of the financial budget work citywide.

  (3)Enhance work basis to create and secure a positive environment for duty fulfillment of deputies.
 
  The standing committee always organize the deputy work with focus as basic work, keep consummating service security mechanism, innovate work carrier, and play the leading role of deputies well. 

  Attach importance to training for the improvement of deputies' duty fulfilling ability. The standing committee took the work of training members of he people's congress very seriously, and has submitted the Suggestions to Reinforcing Deputies' Learning and Training Work by CPC Group of Standing Committee of Municipal People's Congress in Hengyang (trial version) to the municipal committee for repost. The organization has given training to newly-appointed deputies who attended the provincial people's congress, and also trained members from provincial people' congress and the whole municipal members about the duties required by convening videophone meeting. At the mean time, they also managed to upgrade the duty fulfillment ability of those members in forms of having them attend session of the standing committee, supervise the implementation of measures proposed, take part in the inspection of law enforcement and survey and etc..

  Launch activities on a frequent basis to widen the channels for the members to participate in political affairs. They organized national and provincial delegation in Hengyang and part of municipal people' s congress members to situations of development of economy transition, food and drug safety, standardization of cooperation between agriculture and machines, the construction of agriculture industrialization, key projects of urban infrastructure, and facilities for sewage treatment, and etc.. Delegations of the leading organization in Hengyang surveyed and inspected the rural power supply and transforming situation of rural power network in Hengyang, and advised government at different levels to increase the investment in the project of upgrading and transforming rural power network to make sure that no village remained in need of transformation. They also organized part of the people's congress members to join an advise-seek TV program, “Let People Talk”, to encourage the members to talk real matters and tell truth, and promote the improvement work of our government.

  Pay attention to platform construction to strengthen duty fulfillment responsibility of the members. To support and secure a close connection between the members of people's congress and the mass, the standing committee established a grid management system for the members' duty fulfillment situation. Based on the homepage of the standing committee of our people's congress, they also opened a management system for the personal information of the members and a handling system for the members to give suggestions with a view to conducting online acceptance, job deliver, and reply toward suggestions raised during inter-sessional period, achieving the gridding, informatization, and systematization of members' duty fulfillment management, and purring the members to pay more attention to the development, livelihood issues and social hot spots. They have also started columns in the mainstream media of our city to increase the promotion reports about the duty fulfillment activity of the members and create a positive environment for the society to trust members, respect members, and depend on members.
 
  Strengthen supervision to implement suggestions proposed by the members. During the 3rd session of the 14th municipal people's congress, members in our city have raise 1 proposal and 202 pieces of advise and criticism. During the inter-sessional period, they have received 11 suggestions for out members. When supervising the implementation of the Proposal for Further Strengthening Comprehensive Remediation of Rural Environment & Sanitation, the standing committee organized and led the members divided into 6 groups to go to different counties and urban districts separately to conduct on-site supervision. A special research has already been conducted, suggestions to strengthening remediation work have been issued to intensify the force for remediation at the municipal standing committee meeting and executive meeting of people's government. At the time, they also supervised the implementation with focus of 12 suggestions, such as tackling parking difficulties in the downtown, increasing investment for rural power network transformation, developing the industrialization of financial-supported agriculture, solving problems of over large-sized classes in primary and middle schools, accelerating the protection and development of Yumu mountain, and etc.. And all 203 suggestions of our members have got implemented and realized.

  (4) We made a solid implementation in mass line campaign, and raised the “positive energy” among representatives of CPC.

  With the opportunity of mass line campaign, the leading party group of Hengyang municipal standing committee gave weight to solve some prominent problems during the process of development with the goals of Hengyang, making a solid foundation in ideology, politics and institution to rebuild a good image of Hengyang and promote righteousness.

  We valued the combination of the development of ideology and work style. Education in outlook on life, world view and values for officials was strengthened though party lectures, awareness videos and party members’ educational bases. Hot issues that the public shows their concern most, like too many meetings, using public cars for private purposes, excessive office area, have been solved with the principle of modeling, problem-oriented, truth and strictness, publicly rectifying, and the rectification plans were open to the public. The officials and Party members consciously fought against “four winds”, which are formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, extravagance, and other unhealthy trends, and formed new and good atmospheres like atmosphere of learning, investigation, frugality and being people-friendly.

  We valued the combination of specific and overall rectifications. While dealing with “four winds”, issues that matter people’s interests and reaching the last kilometer to the services for people, we laid more stress on rectifying the case where some officials cheated on selection. In order to learn lessons from that case, find out the root of the  problem and explore the fundamental solution of the problem, the standing committee made specific rectification plan on those exposed problems and carried out some activities, like”six questions” discussion, so that officials can introspect deeply and realize the harm and seriousness of that case. We also made joint effort with other departments concerned on regulating the process of election, improving the system of nominating and recommending representatives of CPC and the inspection and examination system and improving representatives’ quality, providing institutional guarantee that prevents that kind of cases from happening.

  We valued the combination of improving work style, strengthening discipline, and radical reform. Sticking on discipline of seeking truth from facts, the standing committee discovered problems instead of hiding them, faced problems instead of avoiding them, solved problems instead of backlogging them and implemented earnest criticism and self-criticism. We collected 64 suggestions to leaders of leading party group and 173 suggestions to members of leading party group which were offered by public general and themselves, pointed out by superiors and each other. According to the problem list, we distributed 41 main rectification tasks in six aspects to specific responsible persons and departments and made clear time limits. The immediate action toward those problems responded the issues people most concerned, and won people’s trust. While improving work style and strengthening disciplines, we also focused on radical regulation and control to tackle the problems as well as their deep causes. We cleared up 72 regulations and revised 39 specific regulations, like practicing strict economy and against waste, regulating business trips, etc., making strong bases and smooth operation on internal management and external connecting.

  In the past year, without the right leadership of Hengyang Municipal Committee of CPC, guidance of Standing Committee of Hunan Provincial Committee of NPC, complete cooperation of Hengyang Municipal Government, People’s Court and People’s procuratorate, hard work of standing committee and members of NPC at all levels in the city, full support of people and all walks of life, we wound not have done our job well. On behalf of the Standing Committee of Hengyang Municipal Committee of NPC, I would like to express our highest respect and sincere thanks to departments at all levels and our people.
  
  While recognizing our achievements, we must realize that there is still a gap between our work and requirements of Party Committee and people’s expectation. In the area of  major matters’ decision-making, the prospectiveness and normalization of decision are still to be improved; in the area of exercising supervision right, the relevance and effectiveness of supervision still need to be enhanced; in the area of appointment and dismissal, understanding of officials before serving and supervision in work should be strengthened; in the area of members, members’ quality should be improved and and their duties should be fully carried out; in the area of self-improvement, officials’ work style and institution should be improved and perfected. We will improve ourselves and fix those problems mentioned above in the future.

  2. Major tasks in 2015
 
  Fellow deputies, this coming year will be crucial for comprehensively deepening reform, the first year for fully advancing the law-based governance of the country and final year for accomplishing the 12th “five-year-plan”.The overall requirements for standing committee’s work are to fully implement comprehensively implement the guiding principles of the 18th National Party Congress, the third and fourth plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee and major speeches from General Secretary Xi Jinping, to adapt to new normal in economic development, to keep new requirements in mind, to seek new growth, to achieve continuous and sound economic and social development, to earnestly perform all kinds of duties given by laws and constitution, to highlight key points, characteristics and results and to provide a strong foundation for building a overall moderately prosperous city. The major tasks of the standing committee are as follows:
 
（1）Adapt to the new normal and boost economic development. In order to promote the transition from new normal and new requirement to new advantages and new impetus, we should stick to the main tasks and analyze the situations of Hengyang in a dialectical way. In doing so, firstly we must scientifically make important decisions. We should assimilate the good methods and experiences of the NPC and its standing committee from other places to make improvements on making important decisions of our own. In the cases of the major decision-making, major personnel appointment and removal, major projects’ arrangements and large use of money, we need to know the whole situation promptly, give advise and strengthen the supervision. Besides deep investigation, we must make decisions actively, timely and scientifically on such issues that people of most concern and influence the strategy and overall long-term development of Hengyang. Secondly, we must actively promote reforms. We should listen to the reports of municipal government about the reforms related to the vital interests of people, like reform in restructure of government departments and public utilities, administrative approval system, collective forestry property rights system, financial system etc...,and make reasonable suggestions to make full use of the reform dividends. Thirdly, we must step up economy transition. We should pay much attention to the qualities and benefits of economic growth to transit the economy from investment-driven and factor-driven into a innovation-driven one and spare no efforts in realizing the project goal successfully. While making fiscal plans and supervising the work routine, we should help municipal government in line with the twelfth five-year plan to outline the next five-year plan for the economy and social development in Hengyang, and also deliberate the reports of municipal government about the non-governmental financial situation and its potential risks. Fourthly, we must promote social harmony and stability. We should protect and improve people's livelihood like a common task, and listen to the municipal government report on the medical health care at grass root level, private schools and thorough implementation of soil and water conservation law and the prevention and control of geological disaster regulation. Focusing on the vital and practical major issues that people most concern about, we should advocate to tackle the practical problems by carrying out the activities including activities of cross-Hengyang environmental protection, inspection of agricultural products’ quality in Hunan, activities of caring about farmers’ health condition, and national unity action.

（2）Strengthen law concept and promote the law-based governance of the city. Fully advancing the law-based governance of the country is a strategic deployment made in the forth plenary session of 18th CPC Central Committee. NPC and its standing committee at all levels should take actions and play a big role on fully promoting law-based governance of the country. The standing committee will earnestly implement the detailed regulations made by Hengyang Municipal Committee of CPC to practice the “Decisions” made in the forth plenary session, continuously advancing the law-based governance in Hengyang. Firstly, maintain authority of the constitution. The “Decisions” pointed out that state officials who are selected or appointed by NPC and its standing committee should openly pledge to constitution before in office, which is a brand new topic for local NPC and its standing committee. The standing committee will try their best to improve the process, rituals and content of making a vow, and guide its members and appointed officials of government, people’s court and people’s procuratorate to follow the spirits of the constitution, making the constitution-based governance of the country and Party become conscious action. We will also carry out education of constitution in society at large and push forward the boom of learning, publicizing and implementing constitution. Secondly, enhance popularization of the law. We will vigorously advocate learning the law, abiding by the law and uphold the law, forming law-respecting atmosphere. Officials should learn relevant rules and regulations before they do their jobs, like law enforcement, investigation and meeting reviewing. We will listen to and approve the report of the sixth “five-year-plan” for law popularization given by the government and urge all departments at all levels in the city to perform their duties well abiding by the law to welcome the exam of law popularization work at provincial level. Thirdly, strengthen legal surveillance. We will ensure relevant laws to be implemented mainly in the form of inspecting law enforcement. We will inspect law enforcement in some laws, like Tobacco Monopoly Law, Agriculture Law and Sports Law to discover problems in time and then rectify them. We will carry out the methods given by the Standing Committee of Hengyang Municipal Committee of CPC on strengthening judicial supervision and enhance supervision for work of People’s Court and People’s Procuratorate to promote justice. Forth, ensure unification of legal system. Strictly following the workflow, we will strengthen the recording and inspection of normalizative documents and raise the efficiency and quality on recording and inspection. According to the stipulations of Legislative Law, we will build organizations on recording and inspecting normalization documents and some relevant systems. We will enhance the instruction on work of recording and inspecting normalization documents in the city.
 
  (3) Find the key point to strengthen the supervision of government, people’s court and people’s procutarorate. We will stick to place support in supervision and regard supervision as support, so as to push the work of government, people’s court and people’s procuratorate forward. To finish that task, firstly we must complete supervision system. We will enact some systems according to relevant laws, like regulations on inspecting and supervising government’s full-covered budget and final accounts and interim regulations on supervising environmental protection. We will step up checking on the rectification and try to establish a system that audit departments and departments under auditing report their rectification simultaneously. We will take the way Hunan Provincial Standing Committee of CPC did as a reference, and enact a system that information of appointed officials from people’s court and people’s procuratorate should be publicized before they take office. We will strengthen the supervision of supervisors themselves and complete the system that members of NPC at provincial and municipal level should report their work to their former election district regularly. Secondly, we must choose the right way of supervision. We will carry out work evaluation, special inspection and investigation and persistently supervise on people’s pressing concerns and hot but challenging issues. While carrying on a question part in standing committee meeting, we actively set question part in report meetings and symposiums during the inspection of law enforcement, work investigation and inspection by deputies. Members of standing committee and NPC will ask persons in charge of relevant departments of government some hot but challenging issues in supervision items, making the question part become a normal. Thirdly, we must innovate ways of supervision. We will take various forms to supervise some specific supervision targets, items and processes, like combination of open and secret investigation, combination of field research and questionaire survey, combination of collecting people’s advise through Internet and phone calls, combination of file and photo material and video material, shaping a multi-faceted supervision form. We will take zero tolerance to weaknesses and negative stuffs and strictly expose and rectify them. Fourthly, we must monitoring the supervised items. We will monitor and urge government, people’s court and people’s procuratorate to fully implement rectification of the problems pointed out by the standing committee during the supervision. We will resolutely prevent the phenomenon of making proposals but taking no action from happening and try our best to make the proposals become reality and meet people’s satisfaction.

  (4) Heighten aim awareness and deeply push forward the practical activity with the theme of caring about people and performing duties for people. We will take the  improvement of work performance as a priority to improve the abilities of members and stuffs from Hengyang Municipal Committee of NPC to serve the overall interests, the public general and the grass root. Based on last year’s situation, we will further enrich the activities and ensure quality and good results of the activities. To complete the task, firstly we must implement “three contact”-- strengthen contact between offices and grass roots, contact between members of standing committee and members of Hengyang Municipal Committee of NPC, contact between members and people. We will push forward the construction of the work stations of members contacting people and complete a series systems, like duty system, opinions dealing system, feedback system and evaluation system. We will encourage officials of Hengyang Municipal Committee of NPC to go on duty in the work station, making the work of Hengyang Municipal Committee of NPC more close to people. Besides promote the activities of members of standing committee visiting members of Hengyang Municipal Committee of NPC, we will take full use of grid-based parallel management platform for members contacting people and try to develop new service platforms, like mobile apps and internet clients. Though modern mass media and service terminal, we can promptly release the work trends of standing committee and  collect people’s suggestions and comments, accomplishing the real-time interaction among members of Hengyang Municipal Committee of NPC, people and standing committee and promoting the convenience and effectiveness of work performance. Secondly, we must carry out “three help” in a more detailed way. We will help people clear up their confusions and encourage members to publicize law, policies, current affairs, science, etc. in various ways and to give experience on production, entrepreneurship, housekeeping and good neighnourliness. We will help people speak out their opinions, and guide members to report people’s voice, hope and expectation. We will help people in a practical way that encourage members take advantages of information, policies, contacts and finance to solve some non-profit and basic problems for people. Thirdly, we must do well in “three evaluations”. We must carry out the members’ evaluation by voter comprehensively in the area of meeting attendance, participation in politics, representation for people, proposals-making, disciplines observation and actions on people’s affairs. We will carry it out with trials and then promote it though out the city. We must carry out evaluation of members from standing committee by members from Hengyang Municipal Committee of NPC comprehensively in the area of comments, speeches and investigations. We must carry out evaluation of members of standing committee handling proposals by members from Hengyang Municipal Committee of NPC. For those departments which have not so good attitude toward work, poor effectiveness and undesirable results, we will call the advise offers and people involved together to evaluate those departments and publicize the appraisal results. We will also commend some officials for their excellent work performance and some departments for their excellent work in handling proposals. Carrying out practical theme activities will further arouse members’ enthusiasm and wisdom of representing people’s voice, protecting people’s rights and benefiting people, increase innovation and influence of their work, heighten force of supervision and promotion of local authorities and enhance people’s confidence in ways, theories and systems.
 
  Fellow deputies, looking back in last year, we feel delighted about our achievements. Looking forward to this coming year, we are confident with the changes that are about to happen. Let’s hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics,  rally closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as General Secretary, under the excellent leadership of Hengyang Municipal Committee of CPC, work together to break new grand and thrive for a moderately prosperous Hengyang!