(Adopted by the Standing Committee of the 15th Beijing Municipal People’s Congress at its 20th meeting on March 27, 2020, amended for the first time in accordance with the Decision on Amending the Regulation of Beijing Municipality on Optimizing the Business Environment adopted by the Standing Committee of the 15th Beijing Municipal People’s Congress at its 42nd meeting on August 29, 2022, and revised for the first time by the Standing Committee of the 16th Beijing Municipal People’s Congress at its 13th meeting on November 29, 2024)

Table of Contents

Chapter I General Provisions

Chapter II Market Environment

Chapter III Government Services

Chapter IV Regulation and Law Enforcement

Chapter V Legal Safeguards

Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions

Chapter I General Provisions

　　Article 1 The Regulation is formulated in accordance with laws and administrative regulations, such as the Regulation on Optimizing the Business Environment promulgated by the State Council, and in light of the reality of Beijing, with a view to continuously improving the business environment, modernizing the capital’s governance systems and capabilities, and promoting high-quality development.

　　Article 2 The business environment shall be improved by following a market-oriented, law-based approach and benchmarking against international best practices and focusing on the needs of business entities and the core objective of transforming government functions. Efforts shall be made to establish an approval system based on applicants’ pledges of compliance, a credit-based oversight system, a standardized government service system, a data-sharing and business collaboration system leveraging new-generation information technologies, and a law-based policy support system, for the purposes of effectively reducing government-imposed transaction costs, energizing business entities, giving full play to the market’s decisive role in resource allocation, establishing “Beijing Services”, and building a world-class business environment featuring stability, fairness, transparency and predictability.

　　The municipality is to expand the institutional opening-up of rules, regulations, management, and standards, leveraging the Integrated National Demonstration Zone for Increased Opening in the Service Sector and the China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone and aligning with high-standard international economic and trade rules.

　　Article 3 All business entities shall enjoy equal rights, have equal access to opportunities and be subjected to the same rules in market and economic activities. They shall have the right to independently determine their business forms and models in accordance with the law, the right to have their personal and property rights protected, the right to be informed about laws, policies, regulations and services, the right to autonomously join or withdraw from social organizations, and the right to supervise the work related to improving the business environment.

Business entities shall comply with laws and regulations, uphold social and business ethics, act with honesty and integrity, compete fairly, and fulfill statutory obligations in areas such as safety, quality, environmental protection, labor rights protection, and consumer rights protection. In international economic and trade activities, they shall adhere to internationally accepted rules.

　　Article 4 The municipality shall establish and improve a consultation and coordination mechanism for optimizing the business environment, set up an expert advisory committee, improve relevant policies and measures, promptly address major issues through coordination, and advance the work on business environment improvement and supervise the implementation of measures for this purpose.

　　The people’s governments at the municipal and district levels shall strengthen their organization and coordination efforts in optimizing the business environment, with the heads of these governments being primarily responsible for this work.

　　The development and reform departments at the municipal and district levels shall be responsible for optimizing the business environment within their respective administrative areas, organizing, directing and coordinating routine tasks. Other relevant government departments shall fulfill their share of responsibilities in accordance with their functions and duties.

　　Article 5 The municipality encourages the government and relevant departments to actively explore original and differentiated measures for optimizing the business environment, within the framework of the rule of law and based on local conditions. In cases where errors or deviations occur during the exploration process, liability may be exempted or reduced if the prescribed conditions are met.

　　Article 6 The municipality shall improve the business environment monitoring and evaluation system. Guided by the satisfaction of business entities and the general public, the municipal development and reform department shall, in collaboration with other relevant departments, conduct the digital monitoring of the business environment in the municipality.

　　Article 7 The people’s government at the municipal or district levels shall report annually to the standing committee of the people’s congress at the corresponding level on its work to optimize the business environment. The standing committee may supervise the work through methods such as hearing special reports, conducting law enforcement inspections, making inquiries, questioning officials or organizing inspections by people’s deputies.

　　Article 8 The municipality shall establish a public supervisors’ system, engaging enterprise managers and relevant public figures, to find out problems in the business environment and provide timely feedback and recommendations. The government and relevant departments shall accept public supervisors’ supervision and promptly rectify verified issues.

　　Article 9 The municipality shall collaborate with Tianjin and Hebei Province to jointly advance the business environment, aiming for the standardization of government services, mutual recognition of qualifications and seamless access to government services. This collaboration will facilitate the free flow and optimal allocation of production factors across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

Chapter II Market Environment

　　Article 10 In line with the needs of business entities, the municipality shall innovate its systems and mechanisms, and create a world-class business environment for the growth of business entities engaged in production and operational activities.

　　Article 11 Business entities under all forms of ownership shall be equally protected by law. All types of business entities shall have equal access to capital, technology, human resources, land use right, data and other production factors and public service resources in accordance with the law. They shall equally benefit from national and municipal development support policies in accordance with the law, and receive fair treatment in public resource transactions, such as government procurement and tendering.

　　It is prohibited to impose administrative compulsory measures, such as sealing, seizing or freezing the assets of business entities or the personal assets of enterprise owners in ways that do not comply with the statutory authority, conditions or procedures. It is prohibited to require business entities to contribute financial, material, or human resources beyond what is specified by laws and regulations.

　　If the government needs to take measures such as expropriation, modification or revocation of a valid administrative license or commitment in the interest of the state or public, compensation shall be provided in accordance with the law.

　　Article 12 In accordance with the Beijing’s Master Plan approved by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, as well as national requirements, the municipality shall formulate industrial development policies and a catalog of prohibited and restricted new industries, compatible with its functional position as the national capital. The catalog shall be formulated by the municipal development and reform department in collaboration with other relevant government departments, approved by the municipal people’s government, and then published to the public.

　　Other government departments and district-level people’s governments shall not develop their own catalogs of prohibited and restricted new industries.

　　Business entities may legally enter any sector not included in the National Negative List for Market Access or the municipal catalog of prohibited and restricted new industries.

　　Article 13 Relevant government departments shall take the following measures to simplify the registration procedures for business entities, unless otherwise stipulated by laws or administrative regulations:

　　(1) Concerning applications for the registration of establishment of a business entity or for modification of registration, if the applicant affirms that the submitted articles of association, agreements, resolutions, and proof of domicile use are authentic, legal, and valid, the market regulation department shall conduct a formal examination of the submitted documents;

　　(2) Concerning applications for the establishment of general business projects, once the required documents are submitted in full, the application shall be processed promptly and the applicant shall be provided, in a single batch, with the business license, official seal, and other necessary instruments for production and operation. If   immediate processing is not possible, it must be completed within one working day;

　　(3) Multiple business entities shall be allowed to register the same address as their domicile;

　　(4) The standardized registration of domiciles shall be promoted, and for this purpose, cross-departmental data sharing shall be used to intelligently match and verify the domicile information submitted by applicants. If the verification passes, the applicant will not need to submit a written proof of domicile;

　　(5) A business entity shall be allowed to carry out production and operational activities at locations other than its registered domicile. However, it must publicly disclose the address or contact information of its actual production and operation site via the Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System;

　　(6) A business entity that establishes a branch may apply to have the branch’s domicile recorded on its business license without the need for a separate business license.

　　The specific measures for simplifying the registration procedures shall be formulated and promulgated by the municipal market regulation department.

　　The commercial entity registration and confirmation reform will be piloted in the China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone, fully respecting the independent operation and management of business entities.

　　Article 14 The registered domicile or any other address publicly disclosed by a business entity on the Beijing “e-Window” Service Platform for Enterprise Registration shall be used as the address for service of legal documents in paper format. If the business entity agrees to receive legal documents electronically, its email address, fax number, mobile instant messaging account, or other contact details provided on the Beijing “e-Window” Service Platform for Enterprise Registration shall be deemed as the address for receiving legal documents in electronic form, unless otherwise stipulated by laws and regulations.

　　Article 15 The municipality shall promote the development of key technological industries. Business entities may use the existing resources of the National Innovation Demonstration Zone and the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area to establish incubators for technological businesses. Lawfully registered collectively-owned rural construction land for commercial use that conforms to the municipality’s spatial planning may be used for projects such as incubation of technological businesses and technology commercialization, and industrial project implementation.

　　The establishment of international technological organizations, alliances, international intellectual property organizations, or their branches within the municipality shall be supported.

　　Article 16 The intellectual property and other relevant departments shall improve the platforms for reporting, complaints, rights protection and assistance related to intellectual property. They shall enhance the systems for case transfers and clue notifications among administrative organs and between administrative and judicial organs.

　　The municipal intellectual property department shall encourage and guide enterprises to enhance their intellectual property protection and utilization capabilities, establish a patent early warning system, and support industry associations and intellectual property intermediaries in providing enterprises with IP early warnings and strategic analysis services for target markets.

　　The municipal intellectual property department shall establish a mechanism for responding to overseas intellectual property disputes, providing guidance and rights protection assistance. It shall guide businesses and industry associations in formulating contingency plans for major overseas intellectual property cases, and support the industry associations and intellectual property intermediaries in providing emergency assistance in handling overseas intellectual property disputes, conflicts and urgent situations.

　　Article 17 The municipal human resources and social security department shall establish a sound human resources service system, foster international and specialized human resource service providers, and facilitate the rational flow and optimal allocation of human resources. It shall ensure open channels for workers’ rights protection, improve mediation mechanisms, step up supervision and law enforcement, and protect the lawful rights and interests of workers in accordance with the law. The vocational qualifications based on skill level evaluations shall be abolished as stipulated by applicable national regulations, and be replaced by vocational skill level certification provided by non-government entities.

　　Article 18 The municipality encourages financial institutions to, provided risks are controlled, provide credit loans, loan rollover, revolving loans and other financial services to small and medium-sized enterprises, increasing the scale and proportion of loans granted to them.

　　The municipal local financial administration departments shall organize and coordinate relevant financial institutions in providing business entities with first-time loans, loan renewals and other financial services.

　　The municipality shall, on the premise of ensuring trade secrets and personal privacy protection, promote the sharing of information by government departments such as real estate registration, taxation, market regulation, and civil affairs with financial institutions.

　　Article 19 The municipality shall use the People’s Bank of China Movables Financing Registration System to register movables as collateral in a unified manner, excluding aircraft, ships, motor vehicles and IP. A business entity may provide a general description of the movable property while registering it as collateral.

　　The parties to the collateral agreement may stipulate that the security interest shall cover the collateral itself and any future products, earnings, substitutes, or other assets derived from it. The municipal local financial administration departments shall promote the establishment of a collateral disposition platform to facilitate the realization of creditors’ security interests.

　　Article 20 The municipality explores the establishment of a registration mechanism, along with the relevant supporting mechanisms, for trust property, such as immovables and equities, on the premise of controllable risk.

　Article 21 The municipality promotes well-regulated and healthy development of the regional equity market, supports the Beijing Equity Trading Center in improving the custody and registration mechanism for the shareholder registers, and expands the scale of direct equity financing for micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises.

　　Article 22 The municipality encourages financial institutions to regularly issue environmental information disclosure reports to publicly share the environmental information related to their investment and financing activities.

　　Financial institutions are supported in optimizing and innovating products and services, such as green credit, green insurance and green financial bonds, and in incorporating environmental, social and governance factors into investment decisions to drive investees to improve their environmental performance.

　　Article 23 The government and relevant departments shall strictly implement all national policies on tax and fee reductions. They shall promptly address specific issues arising during the implementation of these policies to ensure that the benefits reach business entities fully and in a timely manner.

　　Article 24 In the event of an emergency, the people’s governments at the municipal and district levels shall develop and implement measures such as relief, compensation, subsidies, fee reductions or exemptions, consolation, pensions, and resettlement, based on the losses suffered by business entities and the emergency measures already taken.

　　Article 25 In public resource trading activities such as government procurement and tendering, the following behaviors that restrict or exclude potential suppliers or bidders shall be prohibited:

　　(1) Illegally limiting the ownership or organizational form of potential suppliers or bidders;

　　(2) Illegally requiring potential suppliers or bidders to establish branches;

　　(3) Using performance or awards in specific administrative regions or industries as scoring criteria;

　　(4) Restricting or designating specific patents, trademarks, brands, places of origin or suppliers;

　　(5) Any other actions that restrict or exclude potential suppliers or bidders.

　　Article 26 The municipal development and reform department promotes the establishment and improvement of a sound municipality-wide public resource trading platform, adopts catalog-based management of such trading, and discloses information such as rules, procedures, results, supervision, and credit details of public resource trading in accordance with the law. Efforts shall be made to digitalize and enhance intelligence in the entire public resource trading process, achieving one-form application, universal electronic certificate and one-stop online service.

　　The use of electronic letters of guarantee for bid bonds, performance bonds and construction quality bonds is promoted to reduce transaction costs and improve efficiency.

　　Article 27 Governments and relevant departments shall fulfill the policy commitments made in accordance with the law and honor legally binding contracts. They shall not violate or terminate contracts on grounds such as administrative division adjustments, changes of government officials, institutional or functional adjustments, or the replacement of responsible persons. Nor shall they extend the payment deadlines without the genuine consent of business entities. If policy commitments or contractual terms need to be adjusted due to national or public interests, such adjustments must be made in accordance with statutory authority and procedures, and any losses incurred shall be compensated as prescribed by law.

　　When a business entity applies for secured financing through accounts receivable and makes a request for validation of claims from debtors such as state organs, public institutions, or enterprises, the debtor shall promptly confirm the creditor-debtor relationship.

　　Article 28 Where any of the following circumstances applies, the market regulation department shall process the deregistration of an enterprise:

　　(1) An enterprise, after obtaining its business license, has not engaged in production or operational activities, or has no outstanding claims or debts, and no objections are raised within twenty (20) days after the publication of the intended deregistration announcement on the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System;

　　(2) A bankruptcy administrator files an application in accordance with the people’s court ruling that bankruptcy proceedings have been concluded;

　　(3) An enterprise has had its business license revoked for more than three years, and its shareholders undertake in writing to assume outstanding debts.

　　Article 29 The municipality encourages and supports industry associations and chambers of commerce in independently recruiting members, representing member interests, and supporting member development, all in accordance with the law. When drafting or formulating industry-related policies and measures, the government and relevant departments shall actively solicit and consider opinions from relevant industry associations and chambers of commerce, and give timely feedback and explanations regarding the adoption of their opinions.

Chapter III Government Services

　　Article 30 The government and relevant departments shall harmonize the standards of government services, innovate service delivery methods, and promote the application of next-generation information technologies, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things, to continuously improve service quality. These efforts aim to provide business entities with standardized, convenient and efficient government services.

　　Article 31 The municipality shall promote standardized government services.

　　The municipal government service and data management departments shall, in collaboration with relevant government departments, compile and publish a unified directory of government service items and their guidelines. These guidelines shall specify conditions, procedures, required documents, acceptance of incomplete documents, steps and time limit, fees, contact information, complaint channels, and other relevant details. The conditions and required documents listed in the guidelines must not contain ambiguous terms such as “other” or “relevant”.

　　Article 32 Relevant departments and their staff shall provide government services in line with the principle of benefiting business entities and adhere the following rules:

　　(1) Services shall be provided in accordance with the published guidelines, and no additional requirements beyond those specified in the guidelines shall be imposed;

　　(2) Materials that can be obtained through information sharing between government departments shall not be requested from business entities;

　　(3) For matters requiring field inspections, on-site verifications, technical reviews, hearings, or verifications, arrangements shall be made promptly within the specified timeframes, without delay or procrastination;

　　(4) The same standards shall be applied to the acceptance and processing of identical service items under the same conditions;

　　(5) Staff shall comply with work discipline and avoid interactions with business entities that could compromise the lawful performance of their duties.

　　Article 33 The municipality shall implement the notification and commitment system for delivering government services in industries and fields not directly related to national security, public security, or public health. If an applicant commits to meeting the required conditions, the relevant government department shall grant approval. Applicants who fail to fulfill their commitments shall be ordered to make corrections within a specified timeframe. If the required conditions are still not met after corrections, the approval shall be revoked, and the case shall be recorded on the municipality’s public credit information service platform. For false commitment, approvals shall be directly revoked, and applicants shall bear legal responsibility for unauthorized activities.  Such cases shall be recorded on the public credit information service platform. 

　　The specific scope, conditions, standards and procedures of the notification and commitment system shall be jointly formulated by the municipal government service and data management departments and other relevant government departments and publicly announced.

Article 34 The government shall establish a government service system covering the municipal, district, sub-district and township levels, with government service halls or stations set up as needed to process government service items in a unified manner.

　　The government service halls or stations shall adopt standardized names and signage, provide services on weekends, during staggered hours, or with extended hours, and facilitate business entities in accessing government services nearby, at multiple locations, efficiently, and at their convenience.

　　Article 35 Government service halls or stations shall set up comprehensive service windows for centralized acceptance of government service applications. Relevant government departments may entrust, by way of signed agreements, government service department at the same level to accept applications, which shall be processed administratively by the respective departments, with the results delivered back through the comprehensive service windows.

　　Should relevant government departments station their personnel at a government service hall or station, they shall grant such personnel sufficient administrative approval authority. A working mechanism shall be implemented where, in principle, processing should require no more than two signatures—by the processing officer and chief representative, ensuring one-stop services from acceptance to approval decision and completion.

　　Relevant government departments shall, upon receiving the application from a business entity, make a decision on whether to grant an extension before the expiry of an administrative approval. If no decision is made by the expiry date, the extension shall be deemed granted.

　　Article 36 The municipality shall implement whole-process online processing for government service items, except where otherwise stipulated by laws or regulations or when state secrets are involved.

　　Relevant government departments must not restrict business entities from choosing between online and on-site procedures on the ground that whole-process online services are available.

　　The municipal government service and data management departments shall establish a municipality-wide unified online government service platform, and promote well-regulated, standardized and interconnected platforms across districts and departments.

　　Article 37 The municipal government service and data management departments shall establish a municipality-wide unified big-data management platform and an information sharing mechanism to promote the sharing of government service information. Relevant government departments shall provide accurate, updated and complete information within their scope of duties to the platform. Regions with the necessary conditions are supported in sharing and accessing the electronic certificates and licenses of business entities through the platform.

　　Relevant government departments shall promote the use of electronic materials, such as electronic certificates and licenses, seals and signatures, in government services. Reliable electronic signatures used by business entities for government services in compliance with the provisions of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Electronic Signatures shall have the same legal effect as handwritten signatures or seals; electronic seals and physical seals shall have the same legal effect; electronic certificates and licenses shall have the same legal effect as the paper ones, unless otherwise stipulated by laws and administrative regulations.

　　Electronic data generated through blockchain applications may serve as the basis and archival material for government service matters.

　　Article 38 The municipality shall implement a list-based management system for administrative licensing items. The list shall be drafted, adjusted and made public in accordance with the law. No administrative licensing items beyond the list shall be illegally created, disguisedly introduced or implemented.

　 Article 39 The municipal government service and data management departments shall, in accordance with the law, create and publish a list of intermediary services required for administrative approval. Relevant government departments shall not impose intermediary service requirements that are not included in the list as conditions for administrative approval.

　　Article 40 The notification and commitment system shall be applied to the approval of fixed-asset investment projects by businesses. The scope of such projects shall be determined by the municipal development and reform department and publicly announced upon approval by the municipal people’s government.

　　Article 41 In Beijing’s Municipal Administrative Center, Zhongguancun Science City, Huairou Science City, Beijing Future Science Park, Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area and other suitable regions, the government and relevant departments shall conduct regional assessments on environmental impact, water resources, transportation, seismicity, geology, overlying mineral resources, and archaeology concurrently with the formulation of detailed planning or during the primary land development stage. No separate assessment shall be required of business entities for individual construction projects in these regions.

　　Article 42 The municipality shall continue to deepen the surveying and mapping reform in the engineering construction field by integrating surveying and mapping items, establishing unified technical standards, and promoting joint surveying and mapping and mutual recognition of results. Eligible construction entities are not required to submit multiple surveying and mapping results for the same subject matter. If conditions change, supplemental surveying and mapping may be conducted.

　　Article 43 The municipality shall establish a “risk-plus-credit” regulatory system in the engineering construction field. Supervision rules shall be tiered, adjusted dynamically, and applied based on risk and credit levels, enabling differentiated management.

　　For low-risk construction projects funded by private investors, planning permits, construction permits, joint acceptance and real estate registration may be processed together, with the entire approval time from project filing to real estate registration taking no more than fifteen (15) working days. For other private investment construction projects, parallel processing with time limits for completion shall be promoted.

　　The municipal planning and natural resources departments shall explore the formulation of an exemption list of construction project planning permits and improve the corresponding regulatory mechanisms in line with national requirements.

　　Article 44 The municipality promotes the architect responsibility system for civil and low-risk industrial construction projects, under which design teams led by registered architects and their affiliated design enterprises may provide full-cycle design, consulting and management services. The municipality promotes a professional liability insurance scheme for the architect responsibility system, supporting insurance companies in developing related products.

　　For construction projects that do not require engineering supervision or where project owners lack management capacity, owners may purchase insurance against potential defects in project quality, with insurance companies commissioning risk management agencies to oversee project implementation.

　　The municipality shall, under the authorization of the State Council, explore the cancellation of construction drawing reviews or narrowing their scope. The notification and commitment system shall be applied to the regulation of surveying and design quality. In-depth integration of joint regulation featuring random selection of targets and inspectors and timely public disclosure of inspection items and results (“randomized inspection and public disclosure”) and credit regulation shall be further promoted. The risk-based management model shall be improved.

　　Article 45 The municipality shall optimize the management of construction projects. For housing construction projects or municipal construction projects involving large volumes of earthwork, construction activities such as earthwork excavation, slope protection, and dewatering may commence after obtaining the project design review opinion and if site conditions are suitable. However, a construction permit must be obtained before the commencement of the main structure, at the latest.

　　Article 46 Public utility providers, including those supplying water, drainage, electricity, gas, heating, and communication services, shall publicly disclose information such as their service scopes, standards, charges, procedures, and completion timelines.

　　For small-scale construction projects invested by business entities requiring connection to municipal utilities, public utility enterprises providing water, drainage, and low-voltage power shall provide free on-site services.

　　The municipality shall promote joint processing of real estate registration and utility service modifications for water, drainage, electricity, gas, and communication services. Public utility providers shall streamline application processes, reduce required materials, shorten processing time, enable fully online applications, and explore a single-window service model for applications to enhance coordination.

　　The municipality ensures the construction of communication infrastructure by incorporating relevant requirements into detailed control plans and land transfer conditions in accordance with national and municipal regulations.

　　Telecommunication operators, building owners, and property service providers or other managers entrusted by the owners must not restrict other telecommunication operators from using shared communication facilities in buildings or hinder equal access to networks.

　　Reforms in the approval of municipal utility connections shall be deepened. Public utility providers may commence construction for connections in non-restricted road areas after submitting construction plans and underground pipeline protection plans in accordance with regulations. Relevant departments shall optimize approval procedures and oversight for municipal utility connections.

　　Article 47 Power suppliers shall ensure the normal and stable operation of power supply facilities and ensure that the quality of power supply conforms to national regulations. The municipal urban management department shall strengthen monitoring of the annual power supply reliability rate of power suppliers. Suppliers failing to meet the nationally required reliability rate will be ordered to make rectifications; those refusing to comply will be fined between RMB 50,000 and RMB 500,000.

　　Article 48 Taxation, human resources and social security departments shall take the following measures to facilitate the payment of taxes and fees while ensuring information security:

　　(1) Make taxation services accessible throughout the municipality;

　　(2) Promote the use of the financial and tax assistant declaration system, providing automatic data conversion between financial statements and tax declaration forms for business entities;

　　(3) Issue tax payment reminders and risk alerts to business entities;

　　(4) Promote combined declaration and online payment of social insurance, medical insurance and housing provident fund;

　　(5) Promote the use of electronic invoices.

　　Enterprises anticipating complex and major tax-related issues may apply to tax authorities for guidance on the application of tax policies. Tax authorities shall provide written notice regarding policy applicability.

　　Article 49 Relevant departments shall record the real estate unit code in compensated land use contracts (allocation decisions), construction project planning permits, housing sales (purchase) contracts, mortgage contracts, tax payment certificates, real estate registration books, legal documents and other related materials. The code shall be linked to transactions, tax collection, right registration, municipal utility services, judicial rulings and other business activities to facilitate sharing, inquiries and traceability.

　　The municipality shall improve the protection mechanism for registration-related risks, and promote the real estate registration liability insurance system.

　　The real estate registration department shall, in accordance with relevant national regulations, strengthen cooperation with housing and urban-rural development, taxation and other departments to provide a single-window service for registration, transactions, and tax payments for real estate transfers by businesses. These procedures shall be handled simultaneously and completed within one working day.

　　The real estate registration department shall, in accordance with relevant national and municipal regulations, provide business entities with both online and on-site access to the following information:

　　(1) Natural conditions of the real estate, such as area and use;

　　(2) Restriction information such as mortgage and seizure orders;

　　(3) Ownership information for non-residential properties held by legal persons or unincorporated organizations, excluding cases involving state secrets;

　　(4) Information from cadastral maps, parcel maps, and other related graphical documents.

　　Authorized agents may access the right holder’s real estate information and obtain an official inquiry result notice.

　　People’s courts shall promptly disclose the trial status and related data for land dispute cases in accordance with the law.

　　Article 50 The municipal port administration department shall, in accordance with national requirements for promoting cross-border trade facilitation, provide a single-window service for import and export cargo declarations, manifest declarations, and transport vehicle declarations. It shall promote the interconnection of regulatory information and logistics service information, and achieve paperless customs clearance, except in special circumstances involving state secrets.

　　Customs shall disclose the overall clearance time for enterprises. The port management department shall compile and publish a directory of port charges, and port operators are prohibited from charging fees outside the published directory.

　　Article 51 Customs, commerce and other relevant government departments shall streamline import and export approval items and documentation in accordance with the law, optimize customs clearance procedures, and minimize documents to be inspected at port. Business entities that meet the prescribed conditions shall be eligible for management measures such as pre-inspection release of goods, tax deferral, and post-clearance corrections.

　　Enterprises are encouraged to submit pre-clearance customs declarations and documentation. Any errors in pre-clearance declarations shall be handled through the relevant fault-tolerance mechanisms.

　　Article 52 The municipal transportation department shall, in collaboration with relevant departments, establish a public information platform for multimodal freight transport. This platform shall promote information sharing across air, rail, road, postal, water and other modes of transport, and enable inquiry about freight information and the real-time tracking of freight throughout its journey.

　　Article 53 The government and relevant departments shall establish a regular communication mechanism with enterprises to solicit opinions and suggestions, provide policy information, and coordinate solutions for challenges faced by business entities.

　　Business entities can submit inquiries, reports and complaints about the business environment through the 12345 service hotline, relevant departments’ phone numbers, government websites, or new-media platforms for government services. Relevant government departments and public utility providers shall coordinate, resolve and reply within the prescribed timeframes. If the issue cannot be resolved, a prompt explanation shall be provided.

　　Article 54 The municipal government service and data management departments shall, in collaboration with relevant departments, establish a municipality-wide policy service platform. This platform shall aggregate and share policies, providing business entities with tailored services such as policy announcements, updates, and implementation.

　　For policies benefiting enterprises that require applications, reasonable application deadlines shall be set, and eligibility criteria and fulfillment periods shall be made public, and a one-time application process with timely fulfillment shall be implemented.

　　Article 55 The municipality supports the Management Committee of Beijing Municipal Administrative Center, the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee, and eligible district governments in piloting relatively centralized administrative licensing, allowing a single administrative agency to exercise the licensing authority of relevant departments.

　　Joint approval pilot programs shall be explored for business licenses and related administrative permits in certain sectors. Business entities may simultaneously apply for relevant administrative permits during business registration, which shall be processed by the market regulation department and other relevant government departments concurrently.

　　The municipality explores pilot programs for comprehensive administrative licensing in certain industries. Multiple administrative licenses required for operating within an industry may be consolidated into a single comprehensive industry license, which shall document all relevant administrative licensing information.

　　The municipality explores a risk-based tiered approval management mechanism.

　　Article 56 The municipality shall promote integrated government services to achieve "efficient completion of a full business process." Relevant government departments shall address business entities’ needs by integrating government services across levels and departments, informing all necessary requirements at once, and accepting the application materials and delivering results in a unified manner.

　　The municipality establishes a coordination mechanism for approval services to comprehensively advance complex enterprise-related approval processes in the development of new industries, new business models, and new paradigms.

　　Article 57 The municipality implements parallel approval processes for work permits and work-related residence permits for foreign nationals. Relevant departments shall improve supporting measures to facilitate accommodation, travel, and payment for foreign residents.

　　Article 58 The municipality shall implement the government service rating system, under which business entities may evaluate the performance of government departments and staff in providing services. Government departments shall respond promptly to negative comments and provide timely explanation. The specific implementation measures shall be formulated and publicly announced by the municipal government service and data management departments.

Chapter IV Regulation and Law Enforcement

　　Article 59 The government and relevant departments shall perform their regulatory and supervisory duties in accordance with the law, innovate regulatory and supervisory methods, adhere to fair, impartial, credit-based and comprehensive regulation, and enforce laws in a strict, standardized, impartial and civilized manner.

　　Article 60 Lists of powers compiled by relevant government departments shall specify the regulatory enforcement matters, legal basis, regulators, scope of authority, content, methods, procedures and penalty measures.

　　Article 61 The municipality implements a credit-based regulatory system with tiering and classification, and explores the establishment of an integrated regulatory system based on “risk-plus-credit”, focused on “tiering-plus-collaboration”, and driven by “technology-plus-co-governance”.

　　Relevant government departments shall use public credit information platform evaluation results to formulate industry- or field-specific credit-based regulatory standards. Inspections shall be reduced for business entities with relatively good credit and low risk.

　　The municipality shall implement the special credit reporting system for business entities. Business entities may obtain their special credit reports online through the national credit platform or on-site. These reports may replace certifications issued by relevant departments to confirm the absence of violations of laws or regulations.

　　Article 62 The municipal economy and information technology department shall establish and improve a credit repair system for business entities. Business entities with poor credit records may repair their credit by making credit commitments, completing rectifications, passing verifications, attending special training, submitting credit reports, or participating in public interest or charitable activities. For business entities that have completed credit repair, relevant departments shall promptly stop publishing their negative credit information, and share the repair results with the municipal public credit information service platform.

　　Credit service institutions that publish credit information sourced from national platforms shall update their records promptly following credit repair results.

　　Article 63 The market regulation department shall establish an anti-monopoly risk early warning mechanism to issue timely alerts regarding suspected monopoly issues and compliance risks related to business operator concentration, provide anti-monopoly compliance guidance, and improve compliance guidelines.

　　Article 64 In accordance with the principles of encouraging innovation and development and ensuring quality and safety, relevant government departments shall, in light of the nature and characteristics of new technologies, industries, business forms and models, formulate provisional or transitional regulatory rules and measures, exercise inclusive and prudent regulation and guide their healthy and well-regulated development.

　　Article 65 In industries and fields not directly related to national security, public safety or public health, the municipality shall implement a regulatory model based on “randomized inspection and public disclosure”, where inspection targets and inspectors are randomly selected with inspection items and results disclosed publicly in a timely manner.

　　Relevant government departments shall define the scope of “randomized inspection and public disclosure” regulation within their industries or fields, improve the randomized inspection system, and establish detailed implementation rules to ensure fair oversight.

　　Article 66 The municipality improves the reporting and complaint system for violations of laws and regulations, and maintains open channels for public supervision. Relevant government departments shall promptly investigate and handle complaints.

　　The municipality promotes the establishment of a whistleblower system in specific industries and fields, encouraging insiders to report serious violations or hidden risks. Verified reports shall result in enhanced rewards for whistleblowers, along with strict protection.

　　Reports and complaints must comply with laws, regulations and relevant provisions. They must not be used to seek improper benefits or infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of business entities.

　　Article 67 Relevant government departments shall draw up annual law-enforcement inspection plans and publish them by the end of March each year.

　　Annual law-enforcement inspection plans shall include the inspectors, target scope, inspection methods, items and the proportion of inspections to be conducted.

　　Article 68 Relevant government departments shall improve regulatory efficiency, optimize regulatory methods, adhere to the principle of “no unnecessary interference”, leverage technological means to identify problems in a timely manner, and gradually reduce the frequency of on-site inspections.

　　Article 69 The municipality implements the administrative checklist system for on-site inspections. Relevant government departments shall, in accordance with the law, develop administrative checklists for their respective industries and fields, specifying inspection contents, methods and standards. If inconsistencies are found in the inspection standards for the same inspection item, the market regulation department and the judicial administration department shall coordinate with relevant departments to ensure timely alignment and consistency.

　　During on-site inspections, administrative law enforcement personnel shall scan the QR code on the business entity’s business license to record the inspection activity. They must not arbitrarily change the contents specified in the administrative checklist, or require the business entity to prepare written reports or have their managers accompany them.

　　For off-site regulation, relevant government departments shall protect the data security and trade secrets of business entities.

　　When professional assistance from third-party institutions is necessary during inspections, these institutions must not enter inspection sites or issue opinions to inspection targets independently. Municipal-level government departments shall guide third-party institutions in their respective industries and fields to enforce unified work content and standards.

　　Article 70 When multiple regulatory departments need to inspect the same entity within a specific location or timeframe, joint inspections shall be organized. These inspections shall be led by a designated department and involve multiple departments to ensure that all inspections are conducted simultaneously and comprehensively.

　　Article 71 The municipality shall implement integrated law enforcement by reducing the number of law enforcement organs and tiers. Integrated law enforcement teams are established in fields such as agriculture and rural affairs, culture and tourism, ecological and environmental protection, transportation, and market regulation. At the sub-district and township levels, law enforcement forces shall be consolidated to exercise administrative penalties in a relatively centralized manner, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.

　　Article 72 Relevant municipal government departments shall establish and improve a benchmark system for administrative penalties in their respective industries and fields, based on such factors as the facts, nature, circumstances of violations, the degree of social harm, the elimination of harmful consequences, and the subjective fault of offenders. The circumstances for mitigating, lightening, or exempting penalties are explicitly defined in accordance with the law. Relevant municipal and district government departments, sub-district offices, and township governments shall strictly adhere to the penalty benchmark, and must not arbitrarily exceed it when imposing administrative penalties.

　　Administrative law enforcement organs shall provide services throughout their law enforcement process, helping business entities to operate legally through methods such as reminders and warnings, persuasion and education, guidance and demonstrations, and administrative instruction.

　　Article 73 Relevant municipal government departments shall classify administrative penalties subject to public disclosure into two categories—general illegal acts and severe illegal acts—based on severity of their consequences. They shall establish and publish catalogs and time limits for the public display of penalties.

　　For general illegal acts, the public display period for administrative penalties ranges from a minimum of three months to a maximum of one year; for serious illegal acts, the public display period ranges from a minimum of one year to a maximum of three years. Once the display period expires, penalty information shall no longer be made public, except in cases where the penalty decision has not been implemented. If a business entity discovers that penalty information should not have been published, it has the right to request rectification from the entity responsible for publication.

　　Relevant government departments may, upon request by a business entity, shorten the public display period as appropriate, if the business entity fulfills the penalty requirements within the prescribed time period and proactively eliminates or mitigates the harmful consequences of the illegal act.

Chapter V Legal Safeguard

　　Article 74 When formulating policies and measures closely related to the production and operation of business entities, the government and relevant departments shall conduct a legality review; fully consider the opinions of business entities, industry associations and chambers of commerce; solicit public opinions for a period that is generally no less than thirty days, except when confidentiality is required by law; and establish and improve a feedback mechanism regarding the adoption of public opinions. Except in cases where national security is involved or when immediate enforcement is necessary, business entities shall generally be given an adaptation period of no less than thirty days.

　　Article 75 When drafting local regulations, government rules, normative documents and specific policies and measures concerning the economic activities of business entities, relevant departments shall conduct fair competition reviews and evaluate consistency with macroeconomic policy orientation in accordance with relevant regulations.

　　Article 76 Business entities that believe local regulations, government rules, or normative documents conflict with higher-level laws may submit applications for review in accordance with the law. Relevant organs shall handle such requests following prescribed procedures.

　　If a business entity finds any local regulations, government rules, normative documents, or specific policy measures that impair fair competition, it has the right to report them to the market regulation department. The market regulation department shall promptly address the issue or refer it to the appropriate department and provide feedback on the outcome.

　　Article 77 The municipality s local regulations, government rules and normative documents in a timely manner in response to the formulation, amendment, or repeal of higher-level laws, as well as to meet the requirements of comprehensively deepening reforms, fully promoting law-based governance, and advancing economic and social development. The results of these updates shall be made public.

　　Article 78 The municipality supports the development of Beijing-based commercial arbitration and mediation institutions and their participation in the one-stop platform for international commercial dispute resolution.

　　Commercial arbitration institutions shall establish information disclosure mechanisms, and promptly disclose to the public such information as their articles of association, fee standards, annual work reports, and arbitration case statistics.

　　Commercial mediation institutions shall specify mediation procedures, establish mediation rules, publish the list of mediators, and implement a mediator withdrawal system.

　　Article 79 People’s courts at all levels within the municipality shall make public such data as case trial durations and case closure rates as required by law to improve judicial transparency.

　　The municipality supports people’s courts in improving the functions of their online litigation service platforms to facilitate the whole-process online handling of cases. Parties filing lawsuits online may be exempted from submitting paper documents.

　　People’s courts may, based on the needs of small- and medium-sized enterprises involved in lawsuits, share essential case-related information with authorized financial institutions. This ensures that such financial institutions have sufficient information to avoid withholding normal loans from these enterprises due to information gaps.

　　Article 80 Relevant departments shall improve the sectoral administrative frameworks, such as judicial appraisal, asset evaluation, auditing, and price review, and urge relevant institutions to optimize work processes, shorten processing timeframes, improve work quality, and assist in ascertaining facts.

　　The municipal higher people’s court shall establish and improve rules and standards for the selection, evaluation and assessment of institutions engaged in judicial appraisal, asset evaluation, auditing, and price review. These rules and standards shall be published, and the court shall regularly notify relevant departments of assessment results of such institutions.

　　Article 81 People’s courts shall, in accordance with the law, enhance the efficiency and quality of IP case trials by assigning technical investigators to participate in highly technical IP cases and implementing other necessary measures.

　　Article 82 Relevant government departments shall establish a coordination mechanism with people’s courts for handling enterprise bankruptcy. They shall support the enterprises eligible for bankruptcy in conducting liquidation or reorganization, and help them address issues such as credit repair, enterprise deregistration, and social stability preservation.

　　Article 83 People’s courts explore to establish bankruptcy rescue mechanisms, including reorganization recognition and pre-reorganization. They shall also improve mechanisms for separating complex bankruptcy cases from simple ones for different trial procedures, and improve the efficiency of handling bankruptcy cases.

　　People’s courts shall disclose to the public such information as bankruptcy administrators, the progress of bankruptcy proceedings and bankruptcy adjudication documents.

　　People’s courts shall explore working mechanisms for cross-border bankruptcy, including recognition and assistance of cross-border bankruptcy proceedings, recognition and enforcement of overseas bankruptcy rulings, and strengthening judicial cooperation and exchanges in cross-border bankruptcy cases.

　　Article 84 Creditors may recommend to people’s courts qualified intermediary institutions to act as bankruptcy administrators.

　　Bankruptcy administrators, holding legal documents such as the ruling on the acceptance of the bankruptcy application and the decision on their appointment issued by people’s courts, are authorized to take over, investigate, manage, and dispose of the bankruptcy assets in accordance with the law.

　　Relevant government departments and financial institutions shall cooperate with bankruptcy administrators in providing information, including business registration materials, social insurance payment records, bank account details and deposits, and information on real estate, motor vehicles, and intellectual property of bankrupt enterprises. The municipality establishes an enterprise bankruptcy information verification platform to support online inquiries by bankruptcy administrators.

　　The association of bankruptcy administrators shall strengthen industry self-regulation, intensify training, and improve the performance capabilities of administrators.

　　Article 85 The municipal higher people’s court shall establish a joint mechanism for asset disposition in bankruptcy cases in collaboration with relevant municipal government departments, such as the municipal planning and natural resources department and the traffic management division of the public security organ, to unify rules for the disposition of bankrupt enterprises’ land, real estate, vehicles, and other assets to improve the efficiency of asset disposition in bankruptcy.

　　Article 86 The human resources and social security department shall step up efforts to protect the lawful rights and interests of employees of bankrupt enterprises. It shall coordinate the resolution of issues such as transferring employees' social security accounts, managing retirees independently of their former employers, and transferring employee records.

　　Article 87 People’s courts shall improve mechanisms for protecting creditors’ rights and interests in bankruptcy cases. These mechanisms shall ensure creditors’ meetings have decision-making power over the distribution and disposition of bankruptcy assets, and safeguard creditors’ rights to know, participate and supervise.

　　Article 88 During the reorganization period of a bankrupt enterprise, the tax department shall, in accordance with relevant regulations, either automatically terminate or, upon the bankruptcy administrator's request, terminate the enterprise's abnormal account status.

　　Article 89 When a people’s court needs to locate a person subject to enforcement or an individual related to the enforcement case—such as the person’s legal representative, principal person in charge, directly responsible person affecting the fulfillment of debt obligations, or actual controller—or to locate the vehicle(s) of the person subject to enforcement, it may request assistance from the public security department, which shall provide cooperation.

　　Article 90 People’s procuratorates shall, in accordance with the law, correct acts such as interfering in economic disputes by criminal means, illegally applying compulsory measures, or unlawfully sealing, seizing, freezing or executing enterprise assets. If administrative organs are found to have exercised their powers illegally or failed to perform their duties, thereby harming the legitimate rights and interests of business entities, people’s procuratorates may issue procuratorial recommendations or take other measures in accordance with the law to urge rectifications.

　　Article 91 Supervisory organs shall strengthen oversight and accountability for cases of inaction or misconduct by public officials in optimizing the business environment.

　　Article 92 The government, relevant departments, or their staff who fail to perform their duties in accordance with this Regulation or infringe upon the lawful rights and interests of business entities will be held accountable in accordance with the law and regulations.

Chapter VI Supplemental Provisions

　　Article 93 The government and relevant departments may formulate implementation measures or detailed rules based on this Regulation.

　　Article 94 This Regulation shall come into force as of the date of promulgation.