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Provisions On Administration Of Periodical Publication

Original Language Title: 期刊出版管理规定

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(September 30, 2005 GAPP released 31st come into force on December 1, 2005) Chapter I General provisions article in order to promote the prosperity and development of China's periodical industry, regulate the periodical publication activities, strengthening the administration of periodical publication, according to the State Council published regulations and related laws and regulations, this provision is enacted.
    Article in the People's Republic of China engaged in publishing activities in the territory, these provisions shall apply. Journals published by the periodical Publishing units established by law.
    Publishing periodicals periodical Publishing Unit, must be approved by the General Administration of press and publication, holding a national unified publication number, receive the publishing license.
    Journals and magazines in these rules refers to a fixed name, volumes, numbered sequentially, quarter, month, or year, book serials published according to certain periods. Periodical Publishing units in these rules refers to established according to relevant regulations of the State, approved by the General Administration of press and publication and complete the registration procedures of periodical press.
    Creation of periodical journals of legal publishing, its established journals as journals publishing unit.
    Third article journals published must insisted Marx Leninism, and Mao Zedong thought, and Deng Xiao-ping's theory and "three a representative" important thought, insisted right of opinion oriented and published direction, insisted put social benefits put in first, and social benefits and economic phase unified of principles, spread and accumulated benefit improve national quality, and economic development and social progress of science and technology and culture knowledge, promote Chinese excellent culture, promote international culture exchange, rich people of spirit culture life.
    Fourth periodical issued public offerings and internal release.
    Internal circulation periodicals only issued within specified boundaries, public offerings, not the community displays.
    Article press and publication administration is responsible for the supervision and administration of periodical publication activities of the country, develop and implement the national journal published volume, structure, layout planning, establish and improve the periodical publication of the quality assessment system, periodical annual check system and journal publishing exit mechanism of supervision and management system.
    Local press and publication administrative departments at all levels are responsible for the supervision and administration of periodical publication activities in the administrative area.
    Article sixth publishing unit responsible for the journal's editing and publishing journals publishing activities. Publishing unit legal publishing activities are protected by law.
    No organization or individual may unlawfully interfere with, prevent, destroy journals publishing.
    Article press and publication administration of China's periodical industry prosperity and made outstanding contributions to the development of periodical Publishing Unit and individual awards.
    Article eighth of periodical publishing industry organization in accordance with its Statute and guided by the Administrative Department of press and publication, and self-regulation.
    Second chapter journals founded and journals published units established ninth article founded journals, and established journals published units, should has following conditions: (a) has determine of, and not and has has journals repeat of name; (ii) has journals published units of name, and articles; (three) has meet news published Department finds conditions of competent, and hosted units; (four) has determine of journals published business range; (five) has 300,000 yuan above of registered capital;
    (Six) has adapted journals published activities need of organization institutions and meet national provides qualification conditions of edit professional personnel; (seven) has and hosted units in same administrative of fixed of work places; (eight) has determine of statutory representative people or main head, the statutory representative people or main head must is in territory long live of China citizens; (nine) legal, and administrative regulations provides of other conditions.
    In addition to the conditions set out in the preceding paragraph, but also must comply with national journal and a publishing unit total, structure, layout master plan.
    Article tenth of the central institutions in Beijing founded a periodical and magazine publishing unit, by the authority for examination and approval, State press and publication administration for approval by the organizers.
    The people's Liberation Army and the Chinese people's armed police forces founded a periodical and magazine publishing unit, Bureau of press and publication of propaganda Department of the Chinese people's Liberation Army General political Department for examination and approval by State press and publication administration for approval.
    Other units founded a periodical and magazine publishing unit, by the authority for examination and approval, by the organizers to the local provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the application to the Administrative Department of press and publication, provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the examination and approval of the Administrative Department of press and publication, State press and publication administration for approval.
    11th more than two sponsors joint journal, identified one of the main organizers, and hosted by the main unit to apply. The major sponsor of the journal should be attached to the unit in charge of units.
    Publishing unit and the principal organizers at the same area. 12th article founded journals, and established journals published units, by journals published units of hosted units proposed application, and submitted following material: (a) by requirements fill in of journals published application table; (ii) competent units, and hosted units of about qualification proved material; (three) intends any published units statutory representative people or main head resume, and identity proved file and the national about sector issued of career qualification certificate; (four) Edit published personnel of career qualification certificate; (five) do published sources, and
    Amount and the relevant supporting documents; (vi) Regulation of the publishing unit, (VII) used in the workplace, and (VIII) journal publishing feasibility study report.
    13th received press and publication administration shall establish a periodical, the establishment of a publishing unit within 90 days from the date of application, the decision to approve or disapprove, and directly or by the province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the administration of press and publication in writing notify the hosting entity; is not approved, reasons shall be given. 14th article journals hosted units should since received news published Department approved decided of day up 60 days handle registered registration procedures: (a) holding approved file to location province, and autonomous regions, and municipalities news published administrative sector received journals published registration form, fill in a type five copies, by journals competent units audit signed chapter Hou, reported location province, and autonomous regions, and municipalities news published administrative sector, province, and autonomous regions, and municipalities news published administrative sector should in 15th within, will journals published registration form Submitted news published Department record; (ii) public issued of journals, can to ISSN China National Center apply for international standards continuous publications,, and to news published Department barcode Center apply for article type code; (three) province, and autonomous regions, and municipalities news published administrative sector on journals published registration form audit correct Hou, in 10th within to hosted units issued journals published license; (four) journals published units holding journals published license to business administration sector handle registration procedures,
    Obtain business licenses according to law.
    Periodical publication registration form hosted by the journal publishing unit, units, and the authorities and the province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the administration of press and publication, where each retained one copy.
    15th periodical organizers received approval from the General Administration of press and publication files fails to register within 60 days from the date of its registration, approval document shall automatically cease, the registration authority not to proceed with the registration, Journal of the organizer shall return the relevant documents of ratification GAPP.
    Publishing Unit since the expiration of 90 days from the date of registration of unpublished journals, by the press and publications administration revoked the publishing license and the Administrative Department of press and publication of the original registration cancellation of registration.
    Due to force majeure or other valid reasons listed in the preceding paragraph, a publishing unit may apply to the Administrative Department of press and publication of the original registration extension.
    16th periodical should be qualified as legal persons, after they have been approved and registered, qualified as a legal person, with all of its property independently assume civil liability of legal persons.
    Journals do not have legal personality, its civil liability borne by the organizers.
    17th periodical publishing unit changes name, merger or Division, changes in capital structure, publish new periodicals, in accordance with the provisions of article tenth between the 14th and the provisions of article approval and registration procedures.
    18th periodical change names, organizers or authorities, place of registration, the scope of business, publications, in accordance with the provisions of the present article tenth between the 14th and handling approval and registration procedures.
    Periodical change of periodicals, the press and publication administration may entrust of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the approval of the Administrative Department of press and publication.
    Journals in these rules the business scope includes the purpose, languages.
    19th periodical publishing unit change journal format, the legal representative or principal responsible, change of address within the same registration, after its sponsor for examination and approval, by the publishing unit is located in the 15th of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Administrative Department of press and publication.
    20th periodical xiukan articles, publishing unit to the local provincial, autonomous region, municipality directly under the administration of press and publication record and explain the xiukan reason and duration. Journal xiukan may not exceed one year.
    Xiukan for more than a year, by the press and publications administration revoked the publishing license, location of provinces, autonomous regions, or municipalities directly under the press and publications Administration to cancel the registration.
    21st periodical publishing unit stop periodical publication activities, authorities agreed, by its organizers to the local provincial, autonomous region, municipality directly under the administration of press and publication for cancellation of registration, and by provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the administration of press and publication General Administration of press and publication record.
    22nd periodical cancellation of registration, with the same name and established publishing unit and log off, and industrial and commercial Administrative Department for cancellation of registration of the original registration.
    Cancellation of registration of periodicals and publishing unit shall not in the name of publication, business activities.
    23rd Central Publishing Unit set up the group, approved by the General Administration of press and publication local publishing unit set up the group to the local administrative Department of press and publication of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the application, examination and approval, State press and publication administration for approval.
    Chapter journal published its 24th journal publishes editorial responsibility system, guaranteed periodical published in line with provisions of national laws and regulations. 25th publishing of the journal not published with the regulations and other relevant laws and regulations as well as State regulations prohibited content.

    Article 26th journal content published is untrue, unfair, and the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons or other organizations against journal publishers should publicly corrected, remove, and bear other civil liabilities according to law.
    Contents of periodicals published untrue, unfair, resulting in the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons or other organizations against, the parties have the right to request publishing unit correction or reply, publishing unit shall, in its most recent issue of the journal was published; refused to publish it, parties to proceedings before a court.
    Contents of periodicals published untrue, unfair to the detriment of public interests, the press and publication department or province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the administration of press and publication can be ordered to the publishing unit to correct.
    27th journals published articles related to national security, social stability and other major development projects are subject to major development projects management provisions of filing procedures.
    28th public issuance of periodicals shall not be reproduced excerpts of internal publications.
    Journal Reprint, excerpts of content on the Internet, in accordance with the relevant provisions to verify its contents and publish clear place marked downloads Web site, download date.
    Article 29th Publishing Unit cooperates with foreign publishers publishing projects, subject to approval by the press and publication administration, specific measures shall be prescribed separately. 30th periodical publication quality in compliance with national standards and industry standards.
    Periodical use of languages shall be in accordance with relevant regulations of the State.
    31st journal article versions shall be published on the back cover or on the copyright page the following record: journal name, and the authorities, organizers, publishers, the printing unit, unit of issue, date of publication, the Editor (editor) names, distribution, pricing, unified serial publications, advertising, business license, etc.
    Receive journals at the same time, ISSN print ISSN number.
    Article 32nd journal shall be published on the cover of the obvious location journal name and numbered sequentially, such as year, month, period, volumes may not be total number instead of year, month, date.
    Other logo may not be obvious in this issue of the magazine. Journals foreign-language title is the literal translation of the Chinese Journal.
    Chinese Journal of foreign periodicals must also be printed on the cover; minority languages must also be published on the magazine journal of Chinese.
    Article 33rd a unified serial number corresponds to only publish a journal, should not use the same unified publishing different versions of the journals, serials.
    Publishing different versions of journals, subject to the creation of new journals go through examination and approval procedures. Article 34th periodicals periodicals published outside normal supplement.
    Each periodical is published twice each year the supplement.
    Publishing periodical Publishing Unit supplements, should be described in the application report intended to supplement article catalogue, print run, price, publication date, print unit, the unit in charge of the examination and approval, and report by the organizers of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the approval of the Administrative Department of press and publication; approved, issued a one-time supplement licenses.
    Supplement content must conform to the journal's business scope, format and distribution must be consistent with the journal; supplements in addition to printed versions listed in this article 31st record, also produced to supplement the license number, and published the journal name on the envelope and marked "supplements".
    35th bound volumes of periodicals shall be bound in the original publishing order, contents of periodicals shall not be separately choreographed, and its cover clearly indicate the journal name and "consolidated".
    Journals because of their content of unlawful administrative penalties by the Administrative Department of press and publication, titles may not be income related to the issue of the Bulletin magazine.
    Is to cancel the registration of periodicals, may not make magazine.
    Article 36th publishing unit shall not sell, lease or transfer of the unit name and the serial number, name, publishing periodicals layout shall not lend, transfer, lease and sale of the publishing license.
    37th publishing unit using the journals advertising must comply with advertising laws, advertising required by law to inspect the document, verify the contents of advertisements, shall publish any harmful, fraudulent and other illegal advertising.
    Journal of advertising agents is limited to lawful authority within the advertising business, agent business, shall not participate in the Journal interview, editing and publishing activities.
    Article 38th journal acquisition and operations must be strictly separated.
    Prohibition of the threat of editorial coverage, to require that the object was reported, advertising and sponsorship, damage was reported to objects of interest such as accession to the Council of acts seeking illegitimate interests.
    Journals shall publish any form of paid news.
    News collecting and editing staff of 39th publishing unit engaging in news gathering activities, must hold a unified journalist certificate issued by GAPP, and comply with the General Administration of press and publication of relevant provisions of management measures of the news-press card. 40th publishing unit with news gathering operations in areas outside the registration Bureau, references to press the management of newspaper reporters and approval and management.
    Other journal publishers are not allowed to establish correspondent.
    Publishing Unit has a news gathering operations by the press and publication administration finds.
    41st publishing unit shall not be unfair competition acts or conduct business activities shall not be assessed using power issue periodicals.
    42nd publishing unit shall comply with national statistical laws, submitted to the Administrative Department of press and publication of statistical information in accordance with law.
    Periodical publication should be accompanied by a state-certified publication for periodical circulation data survey data, provide real journals ' data.
    Article 43rd periodical publication shall be published in each issue of the bulletin in the 30th, respectively, to the press and publication administration, the version of the library, the National Library of China and is located province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the administration of press and publication departments submitting the book 3.
    Supervision and administration of the fourth chapter article 44th periodical publication activities supervision and management of the implementation of the principle of territoriality.
    Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Administrative Department is responsible for the administration of press and publication journal and a publishing unit of registration, annual verification, quality assessment, administrative sanctions work, supervision and management on the administration of periodical publication activities.
    Other local administrative Department of press and publication on the publishing unit and its periodical publication activities were within the administrative area supervision.
    Article 45th periodical publication management journals published after reading system, the journal publishes quality assessment system, periodical annual check system and journal publishes practitioners qualification management system.
    Publishing unit should be in accordance with the provisions of the General Administration of press and publication, will engage in publishing activities of the written report to the Administrative Department of press and publication. Article 46th read press and publication administration is responsible for the national journal. Local press and publication administrative departments at all levels are responsible for reading the journals published within their respective administrative areas.
    Junior press and publication administrations regularly review reports submitted by higher administrative Department of press and publication.
    Authorities shall read its journals and regularly report to the local administrative Department of press and publication submitted to the reading. Journal publishers should set up a reading evaluation system, write and read reports on a regular basis.
    According to the needs for the management of the Administrative Department of press and publication, can easily scan, check the publishing unit of the reading assessment.
    47th GAPP standard system of making journal publication of quality comprehensive assessment, undertake a comprehensive assessment on the quality of journal publication.
    Comprehensive evaluation of the quality of journals published by journal publishes quality does not meet the required standards or cannot maintain normal publishing activities, from the press and publications administration revoked the publishing license, location of provinces, autonomous regions, or municipalities directly under the press and publications Administration to cancel the registration. 48th of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Administrative Department is responsible for the administration of press and publication of periodical annual check.
    Annual checking includes publishing unit and the publication of journal entries, publication quality, compliance, and so on.
    49th article annual nuclear inspection according to following program for: (a) journals published units proposed annual since check report, fill in by news published Department unified printed of journals registration project annual nuclear inspection table, by journals hosted units, and competent units audit sealed Hou, together with this year published of sample published reported province, and autonomous regions, and municipalities news published administrative sector; (ii) province, and autonomous regions, and municipalities news published administrative sector on journals published units since check report, and journals registration project annual nuclear inspection table and the sample published for audit identification;
    (Three) by nuclear inspection meet provides standard of, province, and autonomous regions, and municipalities news published administrative sector in journals published license Shang stamped annual nuclear inspection chapter; journals published license Shang stamped annual nuclear inspection chapter that for through annual nuclear inspection, journals published units can continues to engaged in journals published activities; (four) province, and autonomous regions, and municipalities news published administrative sector in completed journals annual nuclear inspection work 30th within to news published Department submitted journals annual nuclear inspection work report.
    50th under any of the following circumstances, suspension of annual verification: (I) is within a closed, (ii) the audit found that violations should be punished; (c) the authority, the organizers did not carry out his managerial responsibilities, leading to periodical publications management and (iv) there are other suspected illegal need further verification. Annual verification of the suspension period will run from the province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the administration of press and publication Department, General Administration of press and publication record.
    Slow expiration of the inspection, according to the provisions of article 48th, 49th, renew the annual verification.
    51st journal has any of the following circumstances, not through an annual verification: (a) violations are investigated and dealt with later refused to correct or there is no significant improvement, (ii) periodical publication quality is not up to the required standard for a long time; (c) deteriorating business insolvent; (d) no longer have the conditions specified in article Nineth. Not through an annual verification, by the press and publications administration revoked the publishing license, location of provinces, autonomous regions, or municipalities directly under the press and publications Administration to cancel the registration.

    Not through an annual verification, a publishing unit since second year stopping publication of the journal. 52nd Annual sheet-the publishing license verification before they can continue to use it.
    Authorities at the time of publishing, printing, distribution and other formalities, the chapter without the annual verification of the Periodicals publication license and dropped.
    Not complying with the provisions in the annual verification of the publishing unit, has yet to participate in the annual verification of publication from the press and publications administration revoked the publishing license, location of provinces, autonomous regions, or municipalities directly under the press and publications Administration to cancel the registration.
    53rd Annual verification results, certification bodies can contribute to the public.
    54th journal publishes practitioners, vocational qualifications should be stipulated by the State press and publication.
    55th publishing unit's President and editor in Chief must meet the qualifications and conditions stipulated by the State.
    Publishing Unit's President and editor-in-Chief will be required to attend job training organization by the administration of press and publication.
    Publishing Unit's new Chief, after passing the editor must go through on-the-job training in order to post.
    Fifth chapter legal responsibility 56th article journals published units violation this provides of, news published administrative sector depending on its plot weight, can take following administrative measures: (a) issued warning notice; (ii) informed criticism; (three) ordered public review; (four) ordered corrected; (five) ordered stop printed, and issued journals; (six) ordered recovered journals; (seven) obliges hosted units, and competent units supervision journals published units rectification.
    Uniform format warning notice by the General Administration of press and publication, by the press and publication Department, or province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the administration of press and publication given to the illegal publishing unit, and copied to the organizers of illegal publishing unit and its authorities.
    Administrative measures listed in this section can be used.
    57th has not been approved, any establishment of a publishing unit, or engaged in the publishing business without authorization, fake name publishing unit, counterfeit, fake journal publishing periodicals, 55th penalty according to the published regulations.
    Publishing Unit published supplements without permission, unauthorized publishing projects of cooperation with overseas publishers, punishment according to the preceding paragraph.
    Article 58th Edition contains the published regulations and other relevant laws and regulations as well as State regulations banning contains journals, 56th penalty according to the published regulations.
    59th publishing unit in violation of the provisions of article 36th, 60th penalty according to the published regulations.
    Periodicals publishers allow or default runners participate in periodical acquisition, editing, publishing activities, punished by the preceding paragraph.
    60th article journals published units has following behavior one of of, in accordance with published Management Ordinance 61st article punishment: (a) journals change name, and hosted units or competent units, and registration to, and business range, and published period, not in accordance with this provides handle approval procedures of; (ii) journals published units change name, and merged or Division, and change capital structure, and published new of journals, not in accordance with this provides handle approval procedures of; (three) journals published units not will involved national security, and social settled, aspects of major topics record of;
    (D) publishing unit is not paid in accordance with the sample issue.
    61st periodicals published in violation of the second paragraph of this article fourth, according to the General Administration of press and publication of the administration of the publications market provisions of article 48th of the punishment. 62nd article journals published units has following behavior one of of, by news published Department or province, and autonomous regions, and municipalities news published administrative sector give warning, and at 30,000 yuan following fine: (a) journals published units change journals format, and statutory representative people or main head, and in same registration to within change address, not by this provides 19th article submitted record of; (ii) journals xiukan not by this provides 20th article submitted record of; (three) published damage public interests of false or false reported,
    Refused to implementation news published administrative sector corrections command of; (four) public issued of journals reproduced, and excerpts internal issued publications content of; (five) journals reproduced, and excerpts Internet Shang of content, violation this provides 28th article second paragraph of; (six) not according to this provides 31st article published journals version records of; (seven) violation this provides 32nd article on journals cover identifies of provides of; (eight) violation this provides 33rd article, "first, more published" of;
    (I) 34th supplement published in violation of the provisions of article; (j) violation of the provisions of article 35th making periodical magazine (11) published a paid news, or violation of other provisions of this article 38th (12) violation of the provisions of article 41st, to acts of unfair competition and activities assessed or power issue.
    63rd publishing unit news collecting and editing staff violating journalist permit regulations, in accordance with the General Administration of press and publication of the news-press card regulations are punishable.
    64th periodical publication violated the Bureau's regulations, according to the General Administration of press and publication of the management of newspaper reporters are punishable.
    65th publishing unit to make administrative punishment shall inform the Administrative Department of press and publication of its organizers and authorities, to the public through the media.
    On publishing unit to make administrative punishment, the press and publication administration can recommend their hosting unit or units and principal responsible person directly responsible to an administrative sanction, or removed from the post.
    Sixth chapter supplementary articles article 66th after the implementation of this provision, the press and publication Department of the provisional regulations on the management of periodicals and the administrative punishment measures for the implementation of the provisional regulations on the management of periodicals of abrogated after administration of press and publication of periodical publication activities of other provisions, where inconsistent with this provision, is subject to this provision.
            67th these provisions come into force on December 1, 2005.