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(1) The State Council's General Office has issued a guiding opinion on establishing and improving the long-term mechanism for regulating corporate charges. This move aims to reduce the operating costs of enterprises, optimize the business environment, and promote high-quality economic and social development. To implement the decisions of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the following guidelines are proposed.
(2) The overall requirement is to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress and the 2nd and 3rd Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, and focus on government departments and their subsidiaries, administrative approval intermediary service institutions, industry associations, and businesses operating in natural monopoly sectors that charge corporate fees. The goal is to optimize the business environment, improve the corporate charge regulation system, increase the intensity of regulation of irregular corporate charges, strengthen whole-process regulation and collaborative regulation, and build a highly efficient long-term regulation mechanism.
(3) Key tasks include:
(4) 1. Establishing and improving the directory catalog system for corporate charges. Administrative fees, government funds, corporate guarantee deposits, and government-priced service charges shall be subject to directory catalog management. The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Finance shall jointly formulate and publicly release the directory catalog. Industry regulatory departments shall formulate comprehensive directory catalogs for their departments and subsidiaries, covering administrative fees, government funds, corporate guarantee deposits, and service charges. Each department shall ensure that its corporate charges are listed in a directory catalog.
(5) 2. Improving the evaluation and review mechanism for corporate charge policies. The Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Justice, and the State Administration for Market Regulation shall conduct macro-policy orientation assessments, legality reviews, and fair competition reviews in accordance with regulations. Industry regulatory departments and their subsidiaries, administrative approval intermediary service institutions, and industry associations shall strengthen evaluation and argumentation for corporate charge projects, and shall not illegally establish new corporate charge projects. The State Administration for Market Regulation shall, in conjunction with relevant departments, research and formulate guidelines for evaluating and reviewing corporate charge policies and projects, and shall clarify responsibilities, bases, scope, standards, and rules. The administration shall also launch a special rectification campaign to clean up irregular corporate charge policies and projects, and shall cancel any irregular projects.
(6) 3. Strengthening the promotion of corporate charge policies. Industry regulatory departments shall update and publish corporate charge policies in their respective fields, and shall increase the promotion of policies through expert interpretations, etc. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shall play a leading role in promoting the work of reducing corporate burdens, and shall organize policy promotion weeks, regularly compile and publish policies to reduce corporate burdens, and shall encourage regions and relevant departments to use big data and other means to push relevant directories and explanatory materials to enterprises in a timely and accurate manner.
(7) 4. Establishing and improving the monitoring system for corporate charges. Regions and relevant departments shall strengthen monitoring of corporate charge situations in their respective areas and fields, and shall make full use of media, industry associations, and other channels to understand the implementation of corporate charge policies and the opinions and suggestions of enterprises, and shall promote the resolution of issues concerning enterprises. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shall establish and improve the monitoring and statistical investigation system for key enterprises, and shall regularly publish reports on the investigation and evaluation of corporate burdens. The State Administration for Market Regulation and other departments shall establish monitoring points for corporate charges, and shall improve relevant systems.
(8) 5. Establishing and improving the mechanism for collecting and handling corporate charge complaint and suggestion information. Regions and relevant departments shall, through the establishment of complaint and suggestion columns on government portals, public complaint and report hotlines, and other means, collect corporate charge complaint and suggestion information in a regular and normalized manner. They shall establish and improve the regulations and procedures for handling complaint and suggestion information, and shall specify the procedures for registration, acceptance, transfer, handling, and feedback. They shall comprehensively utilize market regulation, industry regulation, credit regulation, and other means to strictly punish corporate charge offenders, and shall transfer major cases of violation of discipline and law to the discipline inspection and supervision departments and the procuratorates.
(9) 6. Strengthening the regulation of fees in related fields. Regions and relevant departments shall further clean up and eliminate intermediary services that are not based on laws and regulations or decisions of the State Council, and shall not illegally establish new intermediary services or convert administrative service items into intermediary services. Delegated services that belong to the management responsibilities of governments shall be paid for by the administrative approval management departments, and shall not be transferred to enterprises. They shall clear up unreasonable market access restrictions on intermediary services and shall support and cultivate more operating entities to enter the market, and shall promote fair competition.
(10) 7. Establishing and improving relevant legal and regulatory systems. Regions and relevant departments shall, based on the needs of corporate charge regulation, accelerate the development and revision of relevant laws and regulations, and shall lawfully strengthen regulation of the collection of charges by administrative approval intermediary service institutions, industry associations, and enterprises operating in natural monopoly sectors. They shall promote the revision of the Price Law, research and formulate regulations and guidelines for handling violations of corporate charge laws and regulations, and shall improve systems for managing fees of social organizations, etc.
(11) To strengthen organizational guarantees, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, and the State Administration for Market Regulation shall, based on their respective working mechanisms, work together to analyze and judge the situation of corporate charges, and to promote the resolution of major issues, and to strengthen the coordination of corporate charge policy formulation and supervision. Regions and relevant departments shall, in accordance with their responsibilities, continue to improve corporate charge-related directory catalogs, and shall strengthen the normalized monitoring of corporate charges, and shall increase the punishment of irregular behavior. Industry regulatory departments shall, in accordance with the principle of "who approves, who regulates; who manages, who regulates", strictly implement their corporate charge regulation responsibilities. Regions and relevant departments shall strengthen the promotion of corporate charge regulation measures and their effectiveness, and shall create a good atmosphere of social participation and collaborative governance.