Legal basis
"The Chinese people's *** and the state company law" article 16
The bidder adopts the open tendering method, it shall publish the bidding announcement. The bidding announcement for projects for which bidding is required by law shall be published through state-designated newspapers and magazines, information networks or other media.
The bidding notice shall contain the name and address of the bidder, the nature of the tender, the number of projects, the implementation of the place and time, as well as the method of obtaining the bidding documents and other matters.
Article 24
The bidder shall determine the reasonable time required by the bidders for the preparation of the bidding documents; however, in the case of an item for which bidding must be conducted in accordance with the law, the minimum period from the date of the commencement of the issue of the bidding documents to the date of the deadline for submission of the bidding documents by the bidders shall not be less than twenty days.