Good morning, Texas

June 28, Texas optimization of the business environment focused on the mobilization of the General Assembly held at the meeting issued "on the implementation of the continued in-depth optimization of the business environment", put forward 21 supporting measures, continued in-depth optimization of the business environment.

1. Enhance the convenience of business startup and cancellation

◆Enterprise startup is accepted by one window, one form, and the whole process is done online, and the registration of enterprise establishment, seal engraving, invoice application, social security and medical insurance registration, and provident fund registration are completed in one working day.

◆Newly-established enterprises are provided with a set of seals and a "policy package" free of charge, and the cost of seal engraving is borne by the same level of finance.

◆The reform of "one license for one industry" will be implemented, and by the end of August 2020, comprehensive licenses for 10 industries, including convenience stores and restaurants, will be introduced.

◆Strictly in accordance with the requirements of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, by the end of December 2020, full coverage of the "separation of licenses" reform will be realized.

2. Speeding up Approval of Engineering and Construction Projects

◆The government service matters in the approval chain of engineering and construction projects will be sorted out and standardized, and the city's "building permit" chain of matters will be handled without any difference, and the evaluation matters such as "seismic safety evaluation" will be canceled as part of the project. The evaluation matters such as "seismic safety evaluation" will be canceled as a condition for project approval or authorization.

◆Enterprises are required to fill out only one form for each approval stage of construction projects, and the declaration materials are ****used*** by all relevant departments.

◆The system of joint review of construction drawings and designs will be implemented. By the end of October 2020, the technical review of fire protection, human defense, technical defense and water, electricity, gas and heat will be incorporated into the review of construction drawings and designs, and other departments will no longer review them separately, so as to realize simultaneous design, parallel review, one-time completion and mutual recognition of results.

◆Canceling the review of construction drawings for simple and low-risk social investment projects.

◆ By the end of December, the unified assessment of matters such as the danger of geologic hazards in state-level development zones will be realized, and separate assessment requirements will no longer be put forward for market players in the region.

◆By the end of December, industrial production enterprises will be exempted from charging the fee for easy land construction of human defense projects for all kinds of buildings (except new civil buildings) within the scope of their plants.

3. Optimizing the Process of Obtaining Electricity

◆The administrative examination and approval application for power connection by users will be fully implemented by the power grid enterprises in one window, and the time limit for examination and approval will be no more than three working days.

◆ Zero door-to-door approval and zero charge will be realized for small and micro-enterprises with electricity consumption of 160 kVA in urban planning areas and 100 kVA and below in rural areas.

◆Small and medium-sized enterprises that meet the conditions for direct access to electricity and do not have any projects will apply for electricity connection on the same day and receive electricity on the next day.

◆ For power supply facilities that need to be reformed beyond the household ports in old urban neighborhoods and whose property rights don't belong to the grid enterprises, the government will support the grid enterprises to fund the "one-household, one-meter" reform through the method of "rewarding instead of subsidizing".

4. Simplify the installation of water and gas application

◆By the end of June 2020, the installation of water and gas application will be done online and on the palm of your hand.

◆The conditions of direct connection will be simplified into 2 links of application acceptance and meter installation, and the water and gas connection will take no more than 4 working days; the application acceptance, on-site investigation and program preparation, and acceptance and connection will be simplified into 3 links of application acceptance and acceptance, and the water and gas connection will take no more than 7 and 10 working days, respectively.

◆Total abolition of additional approval requirements and procedures established in the water, electricity and gas installation.

5. Optimizing property registration by category

◆Implementing "one-window acceptance" for real estate registration, transaction and tax payment, and handling them in parallel.

◆By the end of June 2020, online application and different places will be realized, and 24-hour online application and online inquiry will be implemented.

◆The real estate registration service points will be extended to banks and other service organizations, so that the relevant real estate registration business can be handled directly at the service points, solving the problem of "running at both ends".

◆Establishing a convenient service platform for real estate registration, realizing online payment of fees, enabling electronic monitoring and electronic photo library, applying electronic warrants, and equipping self-service certificate issuance equipment.

◆Except for the legal types of tax for real estate registration, other types of tax will be canceled as a precondition for transferring real estate.

◆ Realize real estate registration and bank mortgage, provident fund loan, notary public and other businesses jointly, and work with water, electricity, gas and heat transfer business.

◆ If the construction unit obtains the pre-sale license of commodity houses according to law, and the purchaser signs the purchase agreement, obtains the legally valid certificate of sale of real estate and has fulfilled the relevant obligations according to law, and if the purchaser obtains the certificate of right to real estate due to the failure of the construction unit to complete the relevant formalities, the registration of the real estate can be processed in parallel with the improvement of the procedures of retrospecting the legal responsibility to the construction unit.

6. Improving the Quality of Taxation Services

◆Tax payment matters are all handled online.

◆The export tax refund of a class of export enterprises and enterprises included in the provincial bank of projects for conversion of old and new energies will be completed within two working days; the average processing time of the city's export tax refund will be controlled within five working days.

◆ The write-off of VAT general taxpayers will be completed within 10 working days, and the write-off of small-scale taxpayers and other taxpayers will be completed within 5 working days.

◆The scope of canceling the certification of VAT invoices was extended to all taxpayers.

7. Promoting the facilitation of cross-border trade

◆ The on-site quarantine of imported fruits without quarantine harmful organisms or suspected quarantine harmful organisms will be carried out with the implementation of "immediate release upon inspection".

◆The tax refund standardized service is fully implemented, and the acceptance, examination and approval of tax refund business are clearly unified time standard.

◆The application of the platform for public inquiry of export tax rebate information is well done, with real-time inquiry on the process link of tax rebate handling and online unemployment registration of export enterprises' application.

8. Optimize road traffic safety management

◆By the end of June 2020, complete the investigation of road traffic accident-prone points and sections and serious hidden safety hazards, and realize the simultaneous design, simultaneous construction, simultaneous acceptance and simultaneous putting into use of road safety facilities and the main project of roads.

◆Speed limit signs are standardized in conspicuous positions, so that they are easy to observe and prejudge, and real-time information data on highway traffic, accidents and weather are pushed out to adjust the road speed limit accordingly.

◆Public security organs will push the relevant data to the relevant navigation operators to publicize the speed limit, speed measurement and other information.

9. Reinforcement of enterprise loan support

◆ Where enterprises are included in the list of non-repayable loan renewals, banks will conduct investigation and evaluation one month before the expiration of their loans according to the enterprises' applications.

◆Banks are not allowed to downgrade the classification of enterprise loans due to the renewal of non-repayable loans.

◆ Banks are not allowed to reject enterprises that use intellectual property rights, accounts receivable, contracting rights, equity, movable assets, etc. as collateral for financing.

◆Shortening the time limit for credit approval, with the average processing time for qualified small and micro enterprises not exceeding 11 working days with no more than 4 links and 10 application materials.

◆ The comprehensive financing cost of loans for inclusive small and micro enterprises will be further reduced by 0.5 percentage point in 2020.

◆ The guarantee fee rate charged by governmental financial guarantee institutions for small and micro enterprises with a single guarantee amount of 5 million yuan or less shall not exceed 1% in principle.

◆The municipal and county emergency loan transfer funds will be fully utilized to provide enterprises with loan renewal and turnover services.

◆Encourage qualified emergency loan transfer organizations to dock with the provincial emergency loan transfer fund, and reduce the rate of daily use of the fund to below 0.08%.

◆To strictly investigate and deal with all kinds of illegal fees and charges, it is prohibited to charge commitment fees and fund management fees for loans to small and micro-enterprises, and strictly limited to charging financial consultant fees, consulting fees and other fees.

10. Establishing the mechanism of "elements following projects"

◆Land following projects, strengthening elemental support, highlighting the key points of protection, improving the efficiency of land resources allocation, and prioritizing the new construction land indexes to protect major provincial projects and livelihood projects.

◆Funds follow projects, strengthen financial docking between government, banks and enterprises, establish a "white list" system for major projects, and encourage and guide financial institutions to maintain credit support for "white list" projects under the premise of effective risk control and commercial sustainability. The system encourages and guides financial institutions to maintain credit support for "white list" projects under the premise of effective risk control and commercial sustainability.

11. Protecting the legitimate rights and interests of small and medium-sized investors

◆Compressing the time limit for mediation of investor disputes, with ordinary mediation procedures to be completed within 30 days from the acceptance of the mediator's selection or designation, and simplified mediation procedures to be completed within 20 days from the acceptance of the mediator's selection or designation.

◆ For securities and futures disputes of less than 10,000 yuan, the parties may choose the small amount of speedy mediation procedure, and the mediator will make a mediation proposal and send it to the parties within 10 days.

12. Optimizing Labor Market Services

◆The online unemployment registration will be fully opened, and by the end of June 2020, the online unemployment registration will be connected to the national service platform for unemployment registration.

◆ By the end of July, the transfer and continuance of pension insurance relations of enterprises in the city will be fully online, and the processing time limit will be compressed from 45 working days to 15 working days.

◆ The time limit for the first approval of special working hours will be compressed from 20 working days to 5 working days, and the re-approval will be completed immediately.

◆By the end of December, professional and technical personnel will be able to realize online "one-stop" service for title declaration, audit, evaluation, public announcement and filing, etc.

◆By the end of December, professional and technical personnel will be able to realize online "one-stop" service.

◆Starting from 2020, the independent evaluation of skilled personnel will be fully launched in enterprises above large-scale.

13. Standardizing Bidding and Government Procurement

◆Removing restrictive regulations and hidden thresholds such as the nature and location of enterprises in government procurement and bidding projects.

◆ Suppliers will participate in government procurement activities through electronic means in the whole process.

◆ Replacing performance bonds in the form of cash with bank guarantees and guarantee insurance, and exempting suppliers with good credit from bidding bonds.

◆The whole process of public ****resource transactions will be e-enabled, the cost of bidding documents will be exempted for bidding projects that provide electronic bidding documents, and the entry service fee will be exempted for bidding projects included in the catalog of public ****resource transactions.

◆To deal with bid-rigging, malicious complaints and other behaviors in accordance with the law, the serious defaulters will be put on the "blacklist" and banned from entering the Texas market.

14.Building a streamlined and efficient government ecology

◆By the end of June 2020, the municipal administrative licensing matters will be adjusted to be implemented by the county level by comprehensively applying the methods of direct decentralization, forwarding the service window and decentralizing the right of substantive review.

◆By the end of December, administrative licenses set at the municipal level will be completely abolished.

15. Optimizing Government Services

◆By the end of June 2020, the online availability rate of government services upon application will be no less than 90 percent, except for confidential matters.

◆To fully promote the notification and commitment system for proof matters, and release the list of proof matters by the end of July.

◆By the end of December, government service halls at all levels will fully implement the "one-window acceptance" without any difference.

◆Promote the application of "Love Shandong" APP, and realize the "Palm Office" government service matters "should be on as much as possible" by the end of December.

◆Release the task list of data *** enjoyment, and realize the *** enjoyment *** use of governmental data such as planning, land, tax, environmental protection, market supervision, etc., which are closely related to enterprises, as well as the data of water, electricity, gas and heat, etc., by the end of December.

16. Strengthening Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

◆Compressing the time limit for handling cases of administrative enforcement of intellectual property rights related to enterprises, general administrative penalty cases will be reduced to an average of 20 working days, and cases of administrative rulings need to be completed within 60 days.

◆Constructing a patent database for the transformation of old and new energies, focusing on the "top ten" industries, and pushing 50 high-value patents to enterprises every year.

17. Enhancing the Efficacy of Supervision and Service

◆Implementing credit risk classification and management, random inspections will be carried out at most once a year for enterprises with minor credit failures, while no upper limit will be set on the proportion of random inspections for enterprises with serious credit failures.

◆ Dynamically adjusting the list of "double random and open" random inspection matters, except for complaints and reports, referrals and special remedies, administrative inspections shall not be carried out randomly.

◆Implementation of credit repair system for enterprises applying for credit repair and complying with the regulations, the review time is no more than 10 working days, and the joint disciplinary measures will be canceled simultaneously after the credit repair.

18. Enhancing Policy Stability and Anticipation

◆The opinions of entrepreneurs and industry associations and chambers of commerce shall be fully heard when local laws and regulations are formulated that are closely related to the production and operation activities of the enterprises; if hearings are required, they shall be held according to the requirements.

◆ Synchronize the release of enterprise-related policies in the media, and disclose the information on the application conditions, list of declaration materials, handling procedures, contractor departments, contact information, starting and ending times of enterprise-friendly policies.

◆By the end of June 2020, complete the special cleanup and rectification of enterprise-related taxes and fees, and by the end of June, complete the combing of enterprise-related policies that have been issued.

◆By the end of June, the Municipal Party Committee Office and the Municipal Government Office will set up a platform for responding to complaints, and will start the verification process within one working day upon receipt of a complaint, reply within three working days, and resolve or confirm the service within 15 working days, with the maximum time of not more than 30 working days for matters of greater difficulty or multi-departmental coordination.

19. Strengthening Publicity and Training and Tracking and Evaluation

◆Establishing the city's unified and authoritative policy release platform.

◆Organize flexible and diversified policy interpretation.

◆Establish an open assessment and evaluation mechanism, and comprehensively utilize third-party assessment and other methods to evaluate the implementation of business environment measures in counties (cities, districts) and departments, while strengthening the application of the assessment results.

20. Strictly prohibit the enforcement of "one size fits all"

◆ According to the environmental performance of enterprises, some of the key industries to carry out differentiated control, livelihood protection, foreign trade and exports, strategic industries, emerging industries and other industrial enterprises as well as the province's major engineering projects, included in the list of protection category.

◆ During the period when the city starts the emergency plan for heavy polluted weather, it may not take emergency abatement measures such as stopping work and production, and is only permitted to engage in production and business activities for specific protection tasks.

◆The introduction of restrictive policies for high-risk and natural disaster risky industries will be implemented according to the actual categorization of enterprises after careful argumentation and full consultation with enterprises beforehand.

◆ Except for those involving the safety of people's lives, the occurrence of serious accidents, the emergency response to heavily polluted weather or the organization of major national events, and approved by the competent authorities, the general suspension of production and business by market players in the relevant industries and fields shall not be required in the relevant areas or in disguised form.

◆The administrative and law enforcement agencies at all levels will guide and help enterprises to correct their mistakes in a timely manner, and implement "first-time impunity" and "first-time light punishment" for minor non-subjective violations in the operation of enterprises, which have not caused social harm.

21. Strengthening the Construction of Integrity in Government Affairs

◆All levels and departments shall not use the adjustment of administrative divisions, the change of government, the adjustment of institutions or functions, and the change of the relevant responsible person as the reason for the breach of contract and the destruction of the contract for the enterprises.

◆To carry out the action of clearing debts owed to enterprises by government agencies, implement the leadership help package system, and by the end of December 2020, all debts owed for more than five years will be cleared, and more than 80% of debts owed for more than two years will be cleared.

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