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Chinese Mandarin - Interim Regulations on the Examination and Approval of Foreign Investment

Procedures in Shenyang

BIZCHINA / Policies

Interim Regulations on the Examination and Approval of Foreign
Investment Procedures in Shenyang

Updated: 2006-05-10 10:55

Article1. The following regulations are formulated with the aim to
improve working efficiency, simplify procedures, cut off red tape,
standardize examination and improve behaviors, transform the government
functions and perform duties in compliance with the law.

Article2. The examination and approval here refer to the administration
actions taken by relevant government organizations when they execute
examination, approval, registration, accreditation and other management
functions of the same nature (including initial examination and filling,
etc.) upon receiving applications from a certain natural person, legal
entity and /or other social organizations.

Article3. Rules for examination and approval procedures must be set up in
conformity with the law. Governments and relevant organizations at
different level must abide by the law and related rules and regulations
when they execute examination and approval matters must be discussed at
hearings organized by relevant legislative bodies and be announced to the
public.

Article4. The city government will make public announcements in terms or
increasing or reducing examination and approval items before jan.10th
every year.

Article5. The city government has established Administrative Examination
and Approval Service Hall (Hereby referred to as the Service hall) in
Heping District, Shenhe District, Shenhe District, Dadong District,
Dongling District, and Yuhong District, so that governments at both city
and district level could work together in order to facilitate the process
or examination and approval. The Service Halls are co-managed by
governments at both levels.

The Shenyang Administration Examination and Approval Office set up by the
municipal government is relevant affairs in the Service Halls, and
providing guidelines for examination and approval.

The district governments should set up their administration office inside
the Service halls, and be responsible for the daily management and
logistice services.

Article6. All examination and approval matters the are to by examined and
approved by the city government, except those under close-type control by
the development zones or those already entrusted to be taken care of by
the district or county governments, are to be handled in the Service
Halls nearby.

The Shenyang Qipanshan Scenery and Tourism Development Zone and the
Shenyang Agriculture New & Hi-tech Development Zone will handle these
matters in the Service Hall in Dongling District, Xinmin City and
liaozhong County will handle these matters in the Service Hall in Yuhong
District, Kangping County, Faku county and Xinchengzi Dictrict will
handle these matters in the Service Hall in Huanggu District, while
Sujiatun District will handle these matters in the Service Hall in Heping
District.

Article7. The Service Halls will make Public the following Items such as,
law bases for the examination and approval, items to be examined and
approved, examination and approval procedures, documents required, time
promised to finish all the procedures, charge standard and so on.
Applicants could be fully aware of all the examination and approval
details throuth reading the service gouidelines, checking at the rolling
display screen, touching the multi-media PC, asking for a service notice
or visit the website or the governments.

Article8. The Service Halls adopt the following systems in handing
examination and approval cases, such as (1) those that could be completed
on the spot must be done at once; (2) those that could not be completed
in a short while must be guaranteed to have a certain of promise of
time-limit; (3) those that might involve two or more organizations for a
united examination and approval must be designated to one service window
for acceptance and be completed in the shored possible time; (4) those
that might involve a pre-requisite examination and approval form higher
authority must be submitted and reproted by the organization in charge of
the service window to the higher authority and handle the case form the
very beginning to the end ; (5) those that could not meet the requirement
and could not be approved must have a written explanation for the reason
why rejected and be advised that the applicants have the right to ask for
a recheck or go through administrative proceedings and place a lawsuit.

Article9. The Service Halls adopt a system of ��all documents at the
service window��, that is applicants who send their application for
examination and approval, present the documents required and pay the
charges at the service window are entitled to either get documents of
approval at the window, or get a promise of acceptance and get the
documents of approval at the window at a designated time.

Article10. The Service Halls adopt a consolidated charges management
system. All charges are to be in compliance with the Charges Management
Regulations on Charge items by the Examination and Approval Offices.
Whatever kind of charges must be paid at a certain service window and be
under a consolidate control.

Article11. The Service Halls adopt a close-end examination and approval
system, that is those that are no longer required to be examined and
approved should not be examined and approved andy longer, those that
could be examined and approved at the Service Halls should not be
examined and approved at other places.

Article12. The Service Halls adopt a supervision system. There are
complaint windows and informantis hot-line telephones in every Service
Hall. Supervising personnels form both the city and district level are
stationsed in the Service Halls, who are to supervise the behaviors of
various staffs from different organization working at the windows in the
Service Halls. Those who make bold to create examination and approval
items for their own interests, those who don't follow the designated
procedures during the examination and approval process and those who
continue to accept and execute examination and approval at places other
than the designated Service Hall will face penalty or be punished
according to the System of Accountability on Administrative Approval
Improprieties in shenyang and the Honest Administration System for Staffs
Working in the Administrative Examination and Approval Service halls in
Shenyang.

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