Information from the 13th Session of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress convened on June 21st, 2004 reveals that 36 administrative licenses, ranging from review and issue of production permission of important products and review and approval of suspending articles on street trees to review and approval of establishment of the permanent survey mark, set up upon Shanghai's local regulations will be canceled along with the enforcement of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Licenses in Shanghai.
According to introduction by Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, under the Law on Administrative Licenses, totally 36 administrative licenses set up upon Shanghai's local regulations are not in conformity with provisions of this Law. Inconformity is mainly in three aspects. Firstly, the created administrative licenses are those which shall not be independently created by local government, e.g. the preposition license on incorporation of enterprises or other organizations, and on qualifications of citizens, legal persons or other organizations the configuration of which shall be unified by the state. Secondly, the created administrative licenses restrain individuals or enterprises from other parts of China from entering into Shanghai to operate production or provide services, or restrain commodities from other parts of China from entering into Shanghai. And thirdly, the created administrative licenses are those which added to the administrative licenses set up by the upper law.
In addition, the Shanghai Municipal Government has, upon due liquidation, sorted out that 12 administrative licenses created under the rules whereof are those which are truly needed by the current administrative management and are necessarily continued in practice, according to introduction by the Legislative Affairs Office of the Municipal Government.
Part of administrative licenses proposed to be stopped since July 1st, 2004
* Review and issue Permissions for Building Companies from Other Parts of China Entering into Shanghai to Construct,
* review and issue of Permissions for Engineering Survey and Design Institutes from Other Parts of China Entering into Shanghai to Operate Businesses of Survey and Design,
* review and issue of Permissions for Companies from Other Parts of China Entering into Shanghai to Operate Consultation of Construction Costs,
* review and approval of business operation of in-Shanghai water transportation of goods and passengers by water transportation operators from other parts of China,
* review and approval of configuration of labour forces from other parts of China,
* review and issue of Qualified Work Licenses for drivers, dispatchers and other practitioners of trail transportation,
* review and issue of Qualified Work Licenses for practitioners of cultural or entertainment places,
* review and issue of Work Licenses for Persons from Other Parts of China,
* review and issue of qualified certifications for posts of archive management,
* recognition of qualification of persons in archive intermediate services,
* review and issue of qualification certificates for persons in consultation services of mental health,
* review and issue of Qualified Work Licenses for practitioners of special sectors and public places,
* review and approval of deferred cremation of remains,
* review and approval of cremation of remains beyond the allowed deposit period,
* preposition review and approval of practice of businesses (or individual small businesses of industry and commerce) that manufacture and sell funeral equipments and funeral articles,
* preposition review and approval of practice of businesses (or individual small businesses of industry and commerce) that manufacture and sell graveclothes and wreaths,
* review and issue of permissions for production and trading of edible animals' and birds' blood in fairs,
* review and verification of qualification of entities that accept remains endowment,
* review and approval of scope of enrollment of school-running entities at the compulsory education phase,
* review and issue of Public Security Permissions for Housing Lease,
* review and issue of Public Security Permissions for certain public places, and
* review and issue of Permissions for Special Sectors (e.g. sector of AV products copy)
12 administrative licenses that can continue their effects
* review and verification of design and construction entities of engineering of public security guarding,
* permission for cultivation of dogs,
* permission for breeding of dogs,
* permission for sales of dogs,
* review and approval of use of sea walls in the public banks,
* review and approval of use of roads above the top of seal walls,
* review and approval of design option of water-saving facilities in construction projects,
* review and approval of construction work carried out within the protected domain of diversion pipes and ducts of raw water,
* determination of entities that recycle and process wasted edible fat and oil,
* preposition review and approval of buildings and structures construction carried out within the protected domain of navigating oil pipelines,
* review and approval of limited activities carried out within the protected domain of navigating oil pipelines, and
* review and approval of temporary retaining of overhead lines that cannot be laid underground due to underground pipe network in the urbanized areas.