Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Serving the

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Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Serving the “Six Stability” and “Six Guarantees” to further improve the work related to the reform of “decentralization, management and service” Guobanfa [2021] No. 10 People's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, various ministries and commissions of the State Council, and various agencies directly under the State Council:

Deepening the reform of "delegating control, delegating management, and serving the service" and creating a market-oriented legalized international business environment is an important starting point for doing a good job in the "six stability" and implementing the "six guarantees" task. In recent years, the "decentralization, regulation, and service" reform has been intensified, which has effectively stimulated the vitality of market players and social creativity. However, there are still some outstanding issues that are highly concerned by companies and the public and need to be resolved urgently. In order to further deepen the reform of "delegation, management, and service", do a good job in the "six stability" and "six guarantees", and promote high-quality development, with the approval of the State Council, the following opinions are hereby put forward.

1. General requirements

(1) Guiding ideology. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Plenary Sessions of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, earnestly implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and stand on the new development stage. Implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern, focus on the "six stability" and "six guarantees", accelerate the transformation of government functions, deepen the reform of "decentralization, management and service", promote efficient allocation of factor resources, effectively maintain fair competition, and build a world-class business Environment, promote the modernization of the government's governance system and governance capabilities, and promote the sustained and healthy development of the economy and society.

(2) Basic principles.

Adhere to goal-oriented and comprehensive policy implementation. Focusing on key areas such as stabilizing and expanding employment, cultivating market players, expanding effective investment, promoting consumption, stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment, and ensuring basic people’s livelihood, with pragmatic and effective policies and reform measures to enhance the sense of gain for enterprises and the public.

Adhere to problem orientation and seek practical results. Focusing on the difficulties and obstacles of enterprises and the masses in business and entrepreneurship, continue to "bite hard bones", adhere to the combination of decentralization and management, and focus on clearing up unreasonable restrictions on market entities, implement more effective supervision, continue to optimize government services, and continue to increase the amount of reform.

Insist on system integration and coordinated advancement. Adhere to the system concept, strengthen the organic connection and overall planning of reforms in various fields, promote the linkage between the central and local governments, strengthen coordination and cooperation between departments, promote reforms based on the entire life cycle and the entire industry chain, improve supporting policies, and expand integration Effect and enhance the endogenous power of development.

2. Further promote the optimization of the employment environment

(3) Promote lowering the employment threshold. Further sort out and reduce the number of vocational qualifications for admission, cancel vocational qualifications such as rural veterinarians, survey and design registered oil and gas engineers, promote socialized vocational skill level recognition, and continue to dynamically optimize the national vocational qualification catalog. Reasonably reduce or abolish the working life requirements of some vocational qualification examinations for admission. Further regulate the access of small and micro e-commerce, and scientifically define the standards of "convenient labor activities" and "sporadic small-value transaction activities" in the "E-commerce Law of the People's Republic of China". (The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the State Administration of Market Supervision and other relevant departments of the State Council and each region are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(4) Support the promotion of vocational skills. Establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism for vocational skills training subsidy standards, and determine the training subsidy standards scientifically and reasonably. Broaden the use of vocational skills training funds. Extend the implementation period of the work-for-training policy and simplify the materials for enterprises to apply for work-for-training subsidies. Strengthen the vocational skills training for employees in the housekeeping, pension and other industries, and comprehensively improve their employability. Innovatively carry out "industry-industry cooperation", encourage industry associations, cross-enterprise training centers and other organizations to organize small, medium and micro enterprises to carry out apprenticeship training, and encourage various regions to explore various forms of training such as project-based training. Adopt methods such as optimizing examination and approval services and exploring the implementation of the notification and commitment system to facilitate the establishment of various vocational training institutions. (The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance and other relevant departments of the State Council and each region are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(5) Support and standardize the development of new forms of employment. Efforts will be made to promote the elimination of hidden barriers that restrict the development of new industries and new formats, and continue to expand employment fields and channels. Strengthen the supervision and guidance of platform companies, promote fair and orderly competition, promote platform companies to improve service agreements and transaction rules in accordance with laws and regulations, set reasonable charging standards, improve management services, and support the healthy development of new employment forms. Implement and improve fiscal, taxation, and financial support policies, give full play to the leading role of the dual innovation demonstration base, and support key groups such as college graduates, veterans, and returning migrant workers to start businesses and find jobs. Improve social security policies and measures for flexible employees, promote the liberalization of household registration restrictions on participating in social insurance in places of employment, accelerate the promotion of occupational injury protection trials, expand the coverage of work injury insurance, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of flexible employees. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Veterans, the People’s Bank of China, the State Administration of Taxation, the State Administration of Market Supervision, the National Medical Insurance Bureau, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission and other relevant departments of the State Council and various regions Division of Responsibilities)

3. Further promote the reduction of the burden on market entities

(6) Improve the service mechanism for benefiting enterprises. Promote effective methods of direct fiscal funds, and study the inclusion of qualified and favorable enterprise funds into the direct mechanism. Optimize the tax rebate review procedures for the treasury, and gradually realize intelligent and automated processing. Promote the realization of "cross-provincial payment" in all areas of non-tax revenue. Streamline the procedures and procedures for enjoying preferential tax and fee policies, and continue to expand the scope of "self-discrimination, self-declaration, and subsequent supervision". Integrate property and behavior tax 10 tax return, and integrate additional tax return such as value-added tax, consumption tax and urban maintenance and construction tax. Vigorously develop market-oriented credit investigation agencies, build and improve the "Xinyidai" platform, promote the collection and sharing of credit information such as utilities, taxation, and social security, and rely on modern information technologies such as big data to accurately "portrait" enterprises and effectively increase credit. Improve the coverage, accuracy and effectiveness of preferential enterprise policies such as finance and social security. Continue to standardize the charges for water, electricity, heating and other industries to ensure that policy dividends are transmitted to end users. Promote enterprises to establish and improve a compliant operation system, investigate and punish monopoly behaviors in accordance with the law, and severely crack down on price collusion and price bidding. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the National Medical Insurance Administration, the People's Bank of China, the State Administration of Taxation, the State Administration of Market Supervision, the China Banking Regulatory Commission and other relevant departments of the State Council and each region are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(7) Standardize and improve intermediary services. Strictly investigate and deal with violations such as the establishment of hidden barriers for specific intermediary agencies’ monopoly services by administrative agencies or the transfer of their own administrative examination and approval intermediary service fees to enterprises. Strictly regulate the intermediary service items set by the departments of the State Council and local governments. Lower the barriers to entry for intermediary services in accordance with the law, break down industry barriers, break local protections, introduce competition mechanisms, promote the improvement of the quality of intermediary services, and establish a reasonable pricing mechanism. Strengthen the supervision of intermediary agencies, promote the disclosure of service conditions, procedures, time limits, and charging standards for intermediary agencies, and resolutely investigate and deal with arbitrary charges and price increases in disguise. (The General Office of the State Council, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the National Development and Reform Commission and other relevant departments of the State Council and all regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(8) Standardize and improve certification services. Promote the transformation of certification agencies into enterprises, decouple from government departments, increase market openness, and promote fair and orderly competition. Strengthen the supervision of certification agencies, urge certification agencies to disclose charging standards, publish certification information in a timely manner, and improve service quality. Clean up norms involving the evaluation system of certification, and promote the transformation to a unified national certification system. Improve the multi-level certification and acceptance mechanism of the government, industry, and society, and promote the mutual recognition of certification results among different departments, levels and regions. (Relevant departments of the State Council such as the State Administration for Market Regulation and various regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(9) Optimize examination and approval services related to enterprises. Clean up and standardize administrative approval pre-conditions and approval standards by industry and field, clarify administrative filing materials and procedures, rely on the national integrated government service platform, promote more online handling of enterprise-related matters, simplify and optimize the commercial service process, and vigorously promote the reduction of links, Reduce materials, time limits, and expenses, and reduce institutional transaction costs. Streamline and optimize management measures involving electronic and electrical products, and explore the implementation of enterprise self-inspection and self-certification and product family management. Accelerate the electronicization of the entire process of trademark and patent registration applications, classify and reduce the period of trademark opposition, change, transfer, renewal and patent authorization announcement period, establish and improve the rapid rejection mechanism of trademarks with significant adverse effects, and severely crack down on malicious registration of trademarks and abnormal patent applications, etc. behavior. (The General Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the State Intellectual Property Office and other relevant departments of the State Council and each region are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

4. Further promote the expansion of effective investment

(10) Continue to improve the efficiency of investment approval. Further deepen the reform of the investment approval system, simplify and integrate the application procedures for investment projects, promote the implementation of the enterprise investment project commitment system, and optimize the approval process for major investment projects in transportation, water conservancy, energy and other fields. Encourage all regions to promote the reform of "standard land" transfer, scientifically construct a "standard land" transfer indicator system, simplify and optimize the land supply process of industrial projects, reduce the time for land supply, and reduce the operating cost of investment projects. Promote the interconnection and data sharing between the online approval and supervision platform for investment projects and the relevant approval systems to avoid repeated filing by enterprises and repeated verification by departments. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Resources, the National Energy Administration and other relevant departments of the State Council and various regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(11) Optimize the approval of construction projects. Continue to deepen the reform of the approval system for engineering construction projects, and improve the nationwide unified approval and management system for engineering construction projects. Further streamline the administrative licensing, technical review, intermediary services, municipal public services and other matters involved in the whole process of integrated construction projects. Support all regions to increase the limit of construction permits for construction projects based on actual conditions, and implement "list system + informed commitment system" for simple and low-risk construction projects. Study and formulate institutional documents for the approval and management of the whole process of construction projects, establish and improve the approval and supervision and management mechanism of construction projects, strengthen the approval behavior and time management of the whole process, standardize pre-examination, construction drawing review and other links to prevent extracorporeal circulation. (Relevant departments of the State Council such as the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the National Development and Reform Commission and various regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

Fifth, further promote the stimulation of consumption potential

(12) Remove hidden barriers to consumption. Efforts to break industry monopoly and local protection, open up economic cycle blocking points, and promote the formation of a unified domestic market with high efficiency, regulation and fair competition. Orderly cancel some administrative restrictions on consumer purchases to release consumption potential. Accelerate the revision of the "Measures for the Administration of the Circulation of Second-hand Vehicles", push all regions to thoroughly clean up restrictions on the movement of second-hand vehicles set up in violation of regulations, and relax the operating conditions for second-hand vehicles. Standardize the qualification certification of scrapped motor vehicle recycling and dismantling enterprises, support qualified enterprises to enter the recycling and dismantling market, and investigate and deal with illegal dismantling behaviors in accordance with the law. Encourage all regions to appropriately relax market access for tourist homestays and promote the implementation of industry standards for tourist homestays. Develop guidelines for approval procedures for cross-regional tour performances, optimize the approval process, and provide convenience for performance business units to conduct business across regions. (National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Culture and Tourism and other relevant departments of the State Council and all regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(13) Facilitate market access for new products. For new technologies and new products that are urgently needed by the market and high consumer demand, the national standards shall be applied first to formulate fast procedures, simplify the process of standard formulation and revision, and shorten the release cycle. Before the promulgation of relevant national standards, social organizations are encouraged to formulate and publish group standards that meet the needs of the market and innovation, and enterprises are encouraged to formulate competitive corporate standards and self-declare to the public, so as to promote the rapid entry of new technologies and products into the market. Accelerate the unification of regulations on technological processes and circulation rules for export commodities and domestic trade commodities, promote the "same line, same standard and same quality" of domestic and foreign trade products, and remove systemic obstacles that restrict the transfer of export commodities to domestic sales. Continue to expand the scope of pilot cities for cross-border e-commerce retail imports, and adjust and expand the list of cross-border e-commerce retail imports. (Market Supervision, Ministry of Commerce, General Administration of Customs, Ministry of Finance and other relevant departments of the State Council and each region are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

6. Further promote the stabilization of foreign trade and foreign investment

(14) Continue to optimize the foreign investment environment. Improve the national treatment plus negative list management system before foreign investment access to ensure that foreign-funded enterprises enjoy equal support policies. Support foreign-funded enterprises to better participate in the formulation of national and industry standards. Optimize the foreign investment information reporting system, improve the functions of the corporate registration system and corporate credit information publicity system, strengthen reporting guidance, and reduce the reporting burden of enterprises. (National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Commerce, State Administration for Market Regulation and other relevant departments of the State Council and various regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(15) Continue to promote the facilitation of customs clearance. Promote the "single window" of international trade to connect with information platforms such as ports, railways, and civil aviation, as well as banks, insurance and other institutions. Optimize customs risk control rules, promote scientific random control, improve the accuracy of manual analysis and control, and reduce the inspection rate of law-abiding and compliant enterprises and low-risk commodities. Deepen the reform of the inspection and supervision model of import and export commodities, and actively promote the institutionalization of the acceptance of third-party inspection results. Encourage operators such as tally, tugboats, and commissioned inspections to enter the market to promote fair competition. (General Administration of Customs, Ministry of Transport, China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, National Railway Administration, Civil Aviation Administration of China and other relevant departments of the State Council and various regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(16) Clean up and standardize port charges. Speed up the revision of the "Port Charge and Billing Measures", further improve the port charge policy, reduce and merge port charge items. Directional reduction of the pilotage fee standards of coastal ports will further expand the scope of ships for which the shipowners independently decide whether to use tugboats. Improve the service rules for container cleaning and repair, and clean up and standardize the fees for container cleaning and repairing outside the port and railway transportation closing fees. Implement a list system of port charge items, so that there are no charges outside the list. Conduct cost supervision and review or cost surveys for government-priced charging items based on cost, and adjust charging standards in a timely manner; for charging items subject to market-adjusted prices and corresponding charging entities, conduct typical cost surveys to provide a basis for reasonable and standardized charging. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the General Administration of Customs, the General Administration of Market Supervision and other relevant departments of the State Council and each region are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

Seven, further promote the optimization of people's livelihood services

(17) Innovate the supply of elderly care and medical services. Promote the reform of publicly-owned and privately-run public pension institutions, introduce social capital and professional management service agencies, revitalize idle bed resources, and open to other disabled, demented, and senior citizens based on the centralized support of disabled and semi-disabled people . Promote the cancellation of clinic setting approval, and promote the change of clinic practice registration from approval to filing. Promote the cancellation of the qualification classification of occupational health technical service institutions to facilitate market access. On the premise of ensuring the authenticity and reliability of the source of electronic prescriptions, online sales of prescription drugs other than those under special state management are allowed. (Ministry of Civil Affairs, National Health Commission, State Drug Administration and other relevant departments of the State Council and various regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(18) Improve the accuracy of social assistance. Support all regions to promote the sharing of relevant data of civil affairs, human resources and social security, disabled people’s federations, medical insurance, rural revitalization and other departments and units, and use modern information technology such as big data to establish an active discovery mechanism and dynamic adjustment mechanism for people in need, optimize service procedures, and shorten processing The time limit is to realize early detection and early intervention of problems in the field of people's livelihood protection, to ensure that eligible people in difficulties receive timely assistance, and to prevent problems such as illegal collars and rent-seeking. (Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, National Medical Insurance Administration, National Rural Revitalization Bureau, China Disabled Persons’ Federation and other relevant departments and units and various Regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(19) Improve the level of convenience services. Establish and improve government data sharing and coordination mechanisms, strengthen information sharing and mutual recognition of certification, and promote the reduction of various certification items by improving credit supervision and fully implementing the notification and commitment system. Implement a management system for the list of certification items, and no certification should be requested from the enterprise and the public outside the list. If it is really necessary to provide a certificate, the name, purpose, basis, requesting unit, issuing unit and other information of the certificate shall be notified. Focusing on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, we will promote more "trans-provincial services". Adhere to the parallel of traditional service methods and intelligent service innovation, and effectively solve the outstanding difficulties encountered by special groups such as the elderly in the use of intelligent technology. (The General Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Justice and other relevant departments of the State Council and all regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

8. Further strengthen supervision during and after the event

(20) Strengthen the supervision of cancellation and decentralization matters. Adhere to the combination of decentralization and management, and take effective supervision as a necessary guarantee for streamlining administration and decentralization, and promote government management to engage in pre-approval and shift more to mid-event and post-event supervision. The cancellation and decentralization of administrative licensing matters shall be formulated by the competent department in conjunction with relevant departments. In-process and after-the-fact supervision measures, clarify the level of supervision, supervision departments, and supervision methods, and improve supervision rules and standards. Further sort out the supervisory responsibilities of the supervisory department, strengthen the connection with local supervisory law enforcement, and establish an efficient supervisory mechanism of mutual cooperation and joint management to ensure clear responsibilities and well-regulated supervision. (The General Office of the State Council takes the lead, and the relevant departments of the State Council and various regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(21) Improve the effectiveness of supervision during and after the event. All regions and departments should improve the "double random, one open" supervision, credit supervision, and "Internet + supervision" methods to implement more precise and effective supervision. Sort out the key supervision matters within the scope of responsibility, focus on managing "one thing" and implement comprehensive supervision. Strengthen the risk assessment of daily supervision matters, implement hierarchical and classified supervision, and strengthen supervision of high-risk links. It is necessary to strictly supervise the lives and health of the people and public safety, and resolutely maintain the bottom line of safety. To implement inclusive and prudent supervision of new industries and new formats, guide and regulate their healthy development. Improve the national integrated online supervision platform, promote the sharing of supervision information, accelerate the formation of unified supervision big data, strengthen the comprehensive application of supervision information, and improve the quality and efficiency of supervision. (The General Office of the State Council takes the lead, and the relevant departments of the State Council and various regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

(22) Strictly regulate administrative law enforcement. Formulate and issue guidelines for further standardizing the benchmark system of administrative discretion, urge all regions and departments to clarify the types and extent of administrative discretion, standardize application procedures, and correct irregularities in administrative law enforcement such as penalties. Encourage all regions to establish flexible law enforcement checklist management systems in accordance with laws and regulations, and use administrative coercive measures with caution and less use of minor violations to prevent them from being shut down and managed by fines. (The Ministry of Justice takes the lead, and the relevant departments of the State Council and various regions are responsible according to the division of responsibilities)

Nine, safeguard measures

(23) Improve the evaluation mechanism of enterprises and the masses. Adhere to the perception and satisfaction of enterprises and the public as the criteria for judging the effectiveness of reforms, and rely on the national integrated government service platform and China Government Network to establish a normalized mechanism for enterprises and the public to evaluate reform measures at the national level. Timely publicize the evaluation results, strengthen the rectification of bad reviews, and form a closed loop of work that integrates evaluation, feedback, and rectification, so as to achieve mass participation, social evaluation, and market recognition. All regions should establish a social evaluation mechanism for reform initiatives at the local level.

(Twenty-four) Strengthen organization and implementation. All regions and departments must attach great importance to timely study and solve new situations and new problems arising in the reform of "delegation, management, and service", and earnestly achieve vitality, fairness, and efficiency of service. It is necessary to formulate implementation plans in accordance with laws and regulations based on actual conditions, introduce specific policies and measures, and implement them item by item. The General Office of the State Council should strengthen supervision and guidance to ensure the implementation of reform measures.

 April 7, 2021