Certain Provisions of Jilin on Improving the Foreign Investment Environment Ⅰ

（Promulgated by Decree No.95 of Jilin Provincial People's Government on July 8,1998; revised by Decree No.145 of Jilin Provincial People's Government on November 20,2002）

　　Chapter ⅠGeneral Provisions

　　Article 1. These provisions are formulated for the purposes of improving the investment environment of foreign businessmen, protecting the legal rights and interests of foreign-invested enterprises, enhancing the scope and level of utilizing foreign capital, promoting the opening to the outside world and economic development, in accordance with the relevant regulations of the state, and in the light of the factual circumstances in this province.

　　Article 2. The people's governments at all levels and their departments, and the relevant public-utility organizations must all abide by these Provisions, while they handle the examination and approval of the foreign-invested enterprises, carry out collecting fees, law-enforcement inspect and other activities related the foreign-invested enterprises.

　　The foreign-invested enterprises referred to in these Provisions shall include Sino-foreign joint ventures, Sino-foreign operative enterprises and exclusively foreign-owned enterprises.

　　Article 3. The competent departments of foreign economy and trade of the people's governments at all levels are the comprehensive departments of centralized management by specialized departments of foreign-invested enterprises.

　　Article 4. The people's governments at all levels, their branches, and the relevant organizations of public utilities should insist on the principles of convenience, quickness and high efficiency, while they are handling the relevant affairs of foreign-invested enterprises. To implement the systems of government affairs in public and service acceptance, to public the working contents, procedures and the time limit of finishing transaction, and the measures of investigating into the responsibilities to those illegal examination and approval or those failing to fulfil their responsibilities of supervision and management.

　　As for the approval and registration items of foreign-invested enterprises, they should be given priority to handle, urgent items shall be handle as soon as possible; as for those tallying with the conditions, it shall be forbidden to refuse, put off the service for any reasons.

　　Article 5. The departments of development and planning, the administrative departments of economy and trade, and the comprehensive departments of centralized management by specialized departments of foreign-invested enterprises should announce periodically the catalog of invested directions, and the Key items of inviting businessmen to open companies of this province, clear and definite those lines and fields which are encouraged, permitted, limited or forbidden to the investment of foreign businessmen, together with the relevant departments, in accordance with national industrial policies and the need of the economic development of this province.

　　Article 6. All the departments should solicit the opinions of the comprehensive departments of centralized management by specialized departments of foreign-invested enterprises at the same level, while they draw up or revise the policies related to the foreign-invested enterprises.

　　Article 7. The people's governments at all levels and enterprises may award a kind of honour or issue an amount of bonus to the foreign and domestic corporations or individuals who have made great contributions on the work of introducing foreign capital.