To promote the thorough implementation of the decisions and arrangements made by the Party Central Committee and the State Council, fully meet the requirements of preventing epidemic outbreaks, stabilizing the economy, and ensuring development security, accelerate the implementation of policies and comprehensive measures to stabilize the economy as outlined in the Central Economic Work Conference and the Government Work Report, and maintain economic operations within a reasonable range, the State Council plans to conduct the ninth round of major inspections in late August. These inspections will involve on-site visits to Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. To achieve both enhanced inspection effectiveness and reduced burdens on grassroots units, ensuring that inspectors can follow leads, track issues, and oversee problem rectification, over two-thirds of inspection personnel and more than two-thirds of their time and effort will be dedicated to verifying leads and conducting undercover inspections. Starting immediately, the Inspection Office of the State Council is soliciting public feedback on problem clues in the following five areas:

First, in terms of stabilizing growth. The focus is on collecting clues related to inadequate implementation of policies and measures to expand demand, cumbersome approval procedures and slow progress in major infrastructure projects in water conservancy, transportation, and energy sectors, insufficient guarantees for land, sea, and energy use, improper utilization of local government special bond funds, delays in the commencement or slow progress of urban old residential area renovation projects, and inadequate implementation of policies aimed at steadily increasing consumption of automobiles and other major goods.

Second, regarding stabilizing market entities. The focus is on collecting issues such as inadequate implementation of the large-scale VAT credit refund policy, fraudulent claims for VAT credit refunds, insufficient implementation of phased deferrals for basic pension insurance, unemployment insurance, and work-related injury insurance premiums for enterprises in severely affected industries, as well as the reduction of state-owned property rents; financial institutions failing to reasonably extend loans, defer payments, or adjust repayment schedules for SMEs and individual businesses as required; local government departments engaging in campaign-style enforcement, arbitrary fees, fines, or apportionments; industry associations and chambers of commerce leveraging administrative bodies or influence to impose unjustified charges; intermediaries monopolizing operations, enforcing services, or charging unreasonable fees by leveraging administrative resources; and entities exploiting pandemic control measures to impose unauthorized or unreasonable fees.

Third, in terms of stabilizing employment and ensuring people's livelihoods. The focus is on collecting clues regarding issues such as inadequate implementation by relevant local authorities and units of policies and measures to promote employment for key groups such as college graduates, veterans, migrant workers, and those with employment difficulties; failure to fully implement policies like skills upgrade subsidies, one-time job expansion allowances, and unemployment insurance stabilization refunds; poor performance in ensuring the supply and price stability of essential goods; delays in providing assistance to individuals in need or including them in the subsistence allowance system; failure to fully distribute additional living subsidies to subsistence allowance recipients and individuals in extreme poverty; and unpaid wages for teachers and subsidies for rural doctors. %% Fourth, in terms of ensuring the stability of industrial and supply chains. The focus is on collecting clues regarding issues such as falsification by relevant local authorities and units in efforts to resume and ramp up enterprise production; inadequate services in facilitating employee returns, logistics support, and upstream-downstream coordination; incomplete implementation of policies to help foreign trade enterprises stabilize orders and production or support foreign-invested enterprises in maintaining production and operations; insufficient power supply during peak summer periods; inadequate supply of raw materials and key components needed for enterprise production; poor coordination in resolving cargo backlog and turnover difficulties at ports and freight yards; and the illegal establishment of inspection checkpoints that hinder the smooth flow of goods and logistics. %% Fifth, in terms of deepening reforms to streamline administration, delegate power, and optimize the business environment. The focus is on collecting clues regarding issues such as the introduction of local protectionist policies in government procurement, project bidding, and the used car trade that restrict or exclude fair competition; lack of sharing of government data, forcing the public to repeatedly provide the same documentation; unfulfilled government promises or new officials ignoring previous commitments; and unpaid dues owed by government agencies, public institutions, and large state-owned enterprises to small and medium-sized enterprises. %% Additionally, clues are being collected regarding issues such as inadequate implementation of pandemic prevention and control policies, violations of the "Nine No’s" requirements for pandemic control, excessive layering of restrictions and "one-size-fits-all" measures; poor performance in ensuring food and energy security; failure to fully implement policies for consolidating and expanding achievements in poverty alleviation and effectively linking them with rural revitalization; inadequate progress in improving rural drinking water safety and rural living environments; and insufficient efforts to prevent the conversion of farmland to non-agricultural uses and to curb the shift of farmland away from grain production. %% Market entities and the general public who are aware of clues to any of the above issues may report them through the State Council's "Internet + Supervision" platform. For representative cases, the State Council's inspection office will promptly forward them to on-site inspection teams for verification, addressing the concerns of market entities and the public with concrete actions.

Clue Collection Period: August 1 to August 20, 2022.

Fifth, deepening the "streamlining administration and delegating power, improving regulation, and upgrading services" reforms to optimize the business environment. This mainly involves collecting clues regarding issues such as local protectionist policies restricting and excluding fair competition in government procurement, project bidding, and second-hand car trading; failure to share government data while still requiring the public to repeatedly provide the same certificates across multiple departments; unfulfilled government promises and "new officials ignoring old debts"; and government agencies, public institutions, and large state-owned enterprises delaying payments to small and medium-sized enterprises. %% Simultaneously, we are gathering clues about issues such as inadequate implementation of COVID-19 prevention and control policies, violations of the "Nine Prohibitions" requirements, excessive layering of restrictions and "one-size-fits-all" approaches; insufficient efforts in ensuring food and energy security; inadequate measures to consolidate and expand poverty alleviation achievements and effectively connect them with rural revitalization policies; poor progress in advancing rural drinking water safety and rural living environment improvements; and ineffective measures to prevent the conversion of farmland to non-agricultural uses and ensure farmland is not diverted from grain production. %% Market entities and the public who possess clues regarding the above issues can report them through the State Council’s "Internet + Oversight" platform. For representative cases, the State Council's Inspection Office will promptly forward them to on-site inspection teams for verification, taking concrete actions to address the concerns of market entities and the public. %% Clue collection period: August 1 to August 20, 2022.

Simultaneously soliciting clues regarding issues such as inadequate implementation of epidemic prevention and control policies and measures by relevant localities and units, violations of the "Nine Prohibitions" requirements for epidemic prevention and control, excessive policy layering and "one-size-fits-all" approaches, insufficient efforts in ensuring food and energy security, failure to effectively implement policies and measures for consolidating and expanding poverty alleviation achievements and linking them with rural revitalization, inadequate progress in advancing rural drinking water safety and rural living environment improvement, and ineffective measures to prevent the "non-agriculturalization" and "non-grainization" of arable land.

Market entities and the general public who are aware of problem clues in the above areas can report them via the State Council's "Internet + Supervision" platform. For representative problem clues, the State Council Office's Supervision Office will promptly transfer them to on-site inspection teams for verification, responding to the concerns of market entities and the public with concrete actions.

Clue collection period: August 1 to August 20, 2022.

Thank you for your concern and support for the State Council's inspection work!

                                           State Council"Internet + Supervision" Platform Mini Program QR Code

General Office of the State Council Inspection Office
August 1, 2022

Source: General Office of the State Council Inspection Office  

Editor: Liu Jiarui

Reviewer: Ning Shuai