Survey Shows That Environmental Protection Departments Become The Biggest Source Of Burden For Chinese Enterprises.

In the late autumn of Beijing, the industrial and information technology complex in Xidan was as calm as ever.

Behind the seemingly calmness, the largest, the highest specification and the longest duration in history.

It is reported that the burden reduction action began in June 13th this year, the State Council set up a special management task force to lighten the burden on enterprises, which ended at the end of the year and lasted six months.

Now, in the twinkling of an eye, more than half of the time, the last big check in December is only two months.

At present, officials from the Ministry of industry and the Ministry of supervision and Coordination Bureau, the SME division and other departments are still rushing around to carry out supervision and guidance for lightening the burden.

At present, there are 4000 SMEs in China, accounting for 99% of the total number of enterprises, contributing 60% of China's GDP, 50% of tax revenue and 80% of urban employment.

But statistics show that China's SMEs are burdened with heavy burden.

According to preliminary statistics, at present, there are 18 departments of administrative and administrative fees charged to small and medium-sized enterprises, which are divided into 69 categories according to the charging items and thousands of sub projects.

It is no longer a suspense for the burden of small and medium enterprises to burden themselves. But the suspense is: can we really get rid of it this time?

High profile burden reduction

Since June 13th,

From the moment of its establishment, the leading group of lightening the burden has attracted the attention of all parties.

The leading group was chaired by Li Yizhong, Minister of the Ministry of industry and information, deputy director of the Ministry of supervision, vice chairman of the rectification office, Qu Wanxiang, Peng Sen, deputy director of the national development and Reform Commission, Miao Wei, Vice Minister of Ministry of Finance and vice minister Wang Baoan of the Ministry of finance, four Deputy ministerial officials.

Guo Yanyan, head of the discipline inspection team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Zhu Hong, chief engineer of the Ministry of industry and industry, Liu Jinguo, Vice Minister of public security, Jiang Li, Vice Minister of Ministry of civil affairs and vice minister of Ministry of housing, Qi Ji and other 10 Deputy ministerial level officials.

The leading group is a phased working mechanism and does not belong to the newly established coordinating body for deliberation and negotiation.

Because the burden reduction is very difficult, involves a wide range of circumstances, and the situation is complex. It corresponds to the central leading group for reducing burdens.

The Ministry of industry and information has told the China Economic Weekly that in some places, the "burden reduction" has been established in the past. The burden reduction work can continue to be organized and implemented by "reducing the burden".

At present, the proportion of temporary reduction institutions set up throughout the country and the previous "reduction and reduction office" have accounted for half of the total.

In addition to the establishment of institutions, the timetable for reducing the burden of SMEs has also been determined.

According to Wang Liming, director of the SME division of the Ministry of industry and information, in order to protect the rights and interests of small and medium-sized enterprises, efforts will be made to reduce the burden on small and medium-sized enterprises. In the second half of the year, special management activities to reduce the burden on SMEs will be carried out in three stages. The relevant departments will be required to carry out supervision and clearance before the end of August. In September, -10 will propose policy measures to clean up the burden reduction, and intensify inspection efforts in December.

According to China Economic Weekly, at present, there are 18 administrative and business fees charged by small and medium-sized enterprises, which are divided into 69 categories according to the charging items, and there are thousands of sub projects.

How to clean up so many fees? A Ministry of industry and information related personage disclosed to China Economic Weekly that the specific cleaning procedure is first to let all provinces and cities and all relevant departments of the system in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Finance issued a notice to recombing all current charging items to see which are reasonable charges within the prescribed scope, and which are unreasonable charges which do not meet the requirements.

Secondly, a team is formed in the Ministry of industry and information for verification.

This group is made up of experts who are very familiar with this field.

In addition, the Ministry of finance will also take part in the verification.

According to the reporter, in the process of cleaning up, according to the "Implementation Opinions on the special management of lightening the burden of enterprises in 2010" issued by the Ministry of industry and Commerce in June 21st (2010), the Ministry of industry and information, the Ministry of national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of supervision, the Ministry of Finance and the General Administration of quality supervision, inspection and Quarantine will take the lead in forming 5 inspecting teams to conduct inspections in all provinces.

Each inspector team is composed of 3-4 members, headed by leading comrades at the bureau level. The members are composed of the relevant comrades of the special management leading group members and the relevant experts of the China Federation of Labor Protection Committee.

Each group inspecting 2-3 provinces, mainly inspecting and reducing the completion of the special management of enterprises' burdens, and the implementation of relevant policies and measures of the Central Committee on small and medium-sized enterprises.

At the same time, the inspection team also focused on investigating and understanding the outstanding problems existing in the current enterprise burden, creating a favorable environment for further lightening the burden of enterprises and promoting the development of enterprises.

Administrative charges are the key to clean-up.

Since reform and opening up, the burden of reducing the burden of enterprises has never been interrupted.

Since 1980s, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have formulated and issued a series of documents to stop arbitrary fees, fines and all kinds of arbitrary apportionment.

All kinds of enterprises and individual businesses that are legally registered in China are listed among enterprises that need to be reduced.

In 1997, the office of the inter ministerial joint conference of the State Council on relieving the burden of enterprises (hereinafter referred to as the "reduction of office of the State Council") was established. Its function is to be responsible for work guidance, supervision, inspection and organization and coordination.

Reporters from the Ministry of industry and the relevant personages were informed that the burden reduction action is to reduce the excessive tax burden on enterprises, especially to reduce the non tax burden of SMEs.

In China, policy fees (including administrative and government fees) are part of the government's non tax revenue.

The main body of the policy fee is the administrative institution.

At present, how to define the "enterprise burden" is very different from the society. The more consistent view is that the "enterprise burden" is divided into three categories: the policy burden (the formation of legislation or policy formulation, the burden behavior in the execution process), and the administrative burden (as a result of the performance of government management functions, such as taxes, administrative fees, government fundraising, fines, etc.), and the social burden (such as social organizations, intermediaries and other non-standard services, resulting in the burden of enterprises).

Zhou Tianyong, deputy director of the research center of the Central Party School (blog), seems to be one of the main reasons for the excessive and too large number of civil servants.

He said that in recent years, in the process of structural reform, some central departments, local governments and local departments have set up the nature of the business belonging to the public service. Some posts that are originally civil servants have been set up as a career establishment. The purpose is to avoid the restrictions of civil service institutions and staffing. Two, the business units in institutions and administrative organs can pay fines to the society to solve the problem of funding shortage caused by the expansion of institutions and personnel.

Zhou Tianyong told China Economic Weekly that there are many administrative and law enforcement departments in public institutions and civil service settings, including quality supervision, environmental protection, banking supervision, insurance supervision, maritime affairs, air traffic control and so on.

A number of government agencies are also set up according to public institutions, or some of them belong to the business establishment.

Like this administrative law enforcement department, it is often the cadre of the Organization Department, which is compiled to the establishment, and the price department allows the fees to be charged.

"It was the government's official business, but it made them professionalization and charging."

Zhou Tianyong said that at present, all government departments, including some authorized administrative institutions, have fiscal revenue and expenditure institutions, such as letters and Visits Bureau, which are formed by tax revenue. There are institutions that allow money to be sent to finance and allocate funds to meet financial needs, such as industry and Commerce (in September 2008, the pformation of the industrial and commercial charging system has been pformed into financial appropriation reform), quality inspection, sanitation and epidemic prevention, urban management and so on; there are institutions that combine financial appropriation and two lines of revenue and expenditure, such as pportation and traffic policemen, and so on, and a large part of them do not enter into the establishment of administrative institutions, and some non establishment organizations and personnel supported by two lines of revenue and expenditure and self-supporting, such as temporary government offices and a large number of co management personnel.

These are important sources of burden for small and medium-sized enterprises.

High fees will certainly inhibit the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, which will greatly weaken the ability of cities to absorb surplus agricultural labor, and the capacity of the cities to accommodate labor and employment will also decrease correspondingly.

According to Zhou Tianyong's research, in addition to taxes, the number of fees and fines is highly correlated with the number of SMEs and the employment rate of urban population per thousand people.

In other words, employment difficulties are not difficult, but to a large extent, it is related to the fines imposed by the government.

In May of this year, the national development and Reform Commission (NDRC) carried out nationwide management and regulation of business service charges.

The notice of standardizing the operation of service charges clearly states that there are five kinds of acts that the administrative organs or institutions take charge of to provide services to enterprises by using administrative power or monopoly status. They should be resolutely banned: the administrative agencies charge fees in the name of operating service charges; the abolished administrative fees are converted into operating service charges; the administrative organs are responsible for pferring the affairs within their duties to other institutions such as public institutions and social organizations without authorization, and to make them serve for paid services; to use (borrow) administrative power and monopoly status to coercive services and collect fees or to collect fees or services; violating laws and regulations, forcing enterprises to accept services such as testing, agency, enquiry and so on. "Governance" issued by the national development and Reform Commission