Shanghai Foreign Economic and Trade Committee: the work guide will be made public in 3 languages
On April 29th, 2004, Shanghai Foreign Economic and Trade Committee has revealed that such overseas economic laws and regulations as "on-line work guidebook" covering foreign trade, foreign capital, foreign economy and foreign affairs, as well as governmental information would be open to the public from April 28th and be officially open to the public on May 1st.
According to Publicizing Shanghai Governmental Information Regulation, Shanghai Foreign Economic and Trade Committee, one of the 15 experimental governmental departments with great public attention, public interest and public right, will make government trade and economic information open to all circles of society, especially those export-oriented sectors. At present, Publicizing Shanghai Governmental Information Guide and Publicizing Shanghai Governmental Information Catalogue are posted on-line and the Guide will be publicized in three languages of Chinese, English and Japanese. Administrative operations and information of Shanghai Foreign Economic and Trade Committee, including foreign trade, foreign capital, foreign economy and foreign affairs, will be completely published. The government information that Shanghai Foreign Economic and Trade Committee and Foreign Capital Committee brought public has amounted to over 180 pieces, including 26 pieces concerning organ setup, over 20 pieces concerning policy, 74 pieces concerning administrative operation, 61 concerning statistics, notifications, proclamation, etc. Any citizen, legal person and organization can directly consult various government information concerning foreign economy and trade at specific reception sites or on-line.
The publicizing of information concerning industry and commerce has been put into trial use in advance
As "May Day" is approaching, the work of publicizing governmental information has been put into trial use in advance in the municipal system of industry and commerce. "Eight highlights" is the governmental information that companies and citizens are most concerned about.
The municipal system of industry and commerce has drawn up Publicizing Governmental Information of Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administration Guide and Publicizing Governmental Information of Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administration Catalogue. Thereinto, all standardized documents, documents that are closely connected with public interest, statistics of industry and commerce operation, procedures of industrial and commercial work, spot-check results of commodity quality in circulating circle, the contents that can be made public in contract terms record, famous brands, well-known brands, overseas famous brands catalogue and designs, the information concerning licenses revoked, the results concerning annual check will become highlights of publishing government information in municipal system of industry and commerce.
Among the governmental information that municipal system of industry and commerce has first made public, spot-check results of commodity quality in circulating circle (including substandard products and distributive units), which citizens pay much attention to, will be published on the first page in the website of Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administration website every quarter.（www.sgs.gov.cn）
Shanghai Municipal Civil Administration Bureau (SMCAB): publicizing 450 pieces of information
It is reported that Shanghai Civil Administration Bureau is ready for publicizing governmental information. From May 1st, citizens can consult related information on the website of SCAB（www.shmzj.gov）, in the public consulting room of governmental information of SCAB, or at Shanghai Archives.
It is said that public information that SCAB published this time includes over 450 pieces under five categories as policy, civil administration operation and organ function. At appointed time, citizens can log on the website to consult information of public services that Civil Administration Bureau is in charge of, such as community nursing homes, old-age activities room under Starlight Program, marriage registration service center, community service center. In addition, conditions, standards, basis, procedures and work process of administrative examination and approval items, which the civil administrative unit is in charge of, as well as the result of administrative examination and approval items, including the decision of administrative approval (for example, non-governmental organization registration), annual inspection and results of administrative punishment will be published to the society.
To ensure that citizens can consult information in time and conveniently, SCAB has established the relevant service department and has opened a line and signed up for an e-mail（xxgk＠shmzj.gov.cn）that is open to public consultation and complaints（63232222）.
Xuhui District: all policy-related information on the Net
Remarried Mrs. Wang wanted to apply to give birth to her second child but thought it would be very difficult to get the official approval. Therefore, she asked Mr. Xu, her colleague, to inquire about this matter. The next day, Mr. Xu told Mrs. Wang to write an application according to his requirements and promised to get it done within 20 days. As expected, her application for the second child has been approved within 20 days. All her friends want to have a look at that "friend" of Mr. Xu, whom they admire a lot.
As a matter of fact, the "friend" of Mr. Xu is just the governmental website of Xuhui District. In the website, all information from birth to grave of a natural person, covering family planning, schooling, employment and social security is published; in addition, 1150 work items from corporate registration to corporate write-off are also publicized. You can also download over 500 forms from the website. Some items are accompanied with definite work flow chart. Therefore, you can just log on the Net to deal with the affairs related to government rather than relying on friends.
The reason why Xuhui District publicizes its information of government affairs is that it tries to establish a transparent government. Concerning financial budget, education tuition, allotted money to renovate roads, it was hard for the public to get access to the information, but now you can acquire the information by logging on the Net.