Capital reduces licensing items
(China Daily)
Updated: 2004-04-08 00:49

The Beijing municipal government said on Tuesday it plans to eliminate 174 local administrative licensing items -- more than 50 per cent of the items that currently require government approval.

Topping the list is cancellation of the employment identification card for people from areas outside the capital who are seeking a job in Beijing, according to a Xinhua report.

The move is in accordance with the Law on Administrative Licensing, which takes effect on July 1.

As well, former farmers no longer need official permission to change from rural to non-rural residence registration when they are hired by a company based in urban Beijing.

The Beijing municipal government began to clear unnecessary administrative licensing items last August when the Law on Administrative Licensing was adopted by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

Departments of the local government have reported 2,037 administrative items in total that need to be cleared and 1,663 are confirmed to be within the range of the administrative licensing items according to law.

Of that number, 19 per cent are set by the Beijing municipal government and the rest are set by the central government.

Of the 308 local administrative licensing items, 174 have been cancelled, 98 will be maintained,30 items have been combined with others and six have been altered to temporarily require permission.

The cancelled items that are free from administrative licensing are mainly those that can be regulated by the market or decided by enterprises.

Mayor Wang Qishan has ordered all departments and government at the district or county level to revise working procedures that are not in accordance with the Law on Administrative Licensing.

The law aims to regulate the establishment and implementation of administrative licensing, as well as ensuring legal interests of residents and organizations.

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