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	CIRCULAR OF THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE ON ENTRUSTING THE ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE AT THE PROVINCIAL LEVEL TO EXAMINE AND ADMINISTER THE FOREIGN-FUNDED PRINTING ENTERPRISES

	(No. 91 [2005] of the Ministry of Commerce, January 22, 2006)


SUBJECT : PRINTING ENTERPRISES; FOREIGN-FUNDED
ISSUING DEPARTMENT : MINISTRY OF COMMERCE OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
ISSUE DATE : 01/22/2006
IMPLEMENT DATE : 03/31/2006
LENGTH : 585 words
TEXT :

According to the requirements of the State Council for simplifying the administrative examination and approval system and in order to simplify the procedures for examining the contracts and constitutions of foreign-funded enterprises, improve the efficiency and accelerate the absorption of foreign investment within the sector of service trade, we hereby notify the relevant issues as follows on entrusting the administrative departments of commerce of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and the cities under separate state planning as well as the Administrative Department of Commerce of Sinkiang Production and Construction Corps. (hereinafter referred to as the provincial administrative departments of commerce) and the administrative commissions of national economic and technical development zones to examine and administer the foreign-funded printing enterprises:

I. The provincial administrative departments of commerce and the administrative commissions of national economic and technical development zones are entrusted to examine and administer the foreign-funded printing enterprises.

II. All the entrusted departments and institutions shall, according to the Interim Provisions on the Establishment of Foreign-funded Printing Enterprises (No. 16 [2002] of the General Administration of Press and Publication and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation) as well as other relevant laws and regulations on foreign investment, strictly enforce the relevant standards for the qualification of foreign-funded enterprises, earnestly carry out the relevant examination on the application for the establishment or alteration of a foreign-funded printing enterprise and handle the relevant matters after an applicant obtains, upon requirement, an approval from the administrative department of press and publication according to the procedures and requirements as prescribed in the aforesaid provisions. The entrusted departments and institutions shall report the problems arising in the process of examination and approval, if any, to the Ministry of Commerce in a timely manner. In the case of any rule-breaking examination and approval in the duration of entrustment, the Ministry of Commerce shall, in light of the real situation, circulate a notice of criticism or even withdraw its entrustment.

III. All the entrusted departments and institutions shall be capable of getting connected to the Ministry of Commerce through the network so as to jointly issue the Approval Certificate for Foreign-funded Enterprises thereon, carrying out an online annual examination as well as doing a good job in the examination and approval, archival filing and statistical undertaking through the network-based certificate issuance system for foreign-funded enterprises. The relevant statistical data shall meet the relevant requirements so as to facilitate the Ministry of Commerce to keep informed of the relevant situation and intensify its supervision. The Ministry of Commerce will, in the near future, carry out trainings on the local administrative departments of commerce as well as the administrative commissions of national economic and technical development zones so as to clarify the specific issues in the process of examination and approval.

IV. The entrusted administrative commissions of national economic and technical development zones shall, according to the Circular of the General Office of the State Council on Forwarding Several Opinions of the Ministry of Commerce and Other Departments on Promoting the Further Development of National Economic and Technical Development Zones (No. 15 [2005] of the General Office of the State Council), adopt a simple and efficient administration system. After the national economic and technical development zones go through the archival filing of administrative system, personnel trainings and networking inspection and acceptance, the Ministry of Commerce will separately handle the relevant formalities for entrustment batch by batch.

V. The present Entrustment shall take effect as of March 31, 2006.