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Shantou Special Economic Zone Approach To E-Business Promotion

Original Language Title: 汕头经济特区电子商务促进办法

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E-commerce promotion approaches in the leading economic zone

(The thirteenth 19th ordinary meeting of the Government of the Challenge of 21 November 2012 considered the publication, effective 1 January 2013, of the Decree No. 143 of 21 November 2012.

Article 1 promotes rapid development of the health of the e-commerce industry and enhances the quality and efficiency of the economic functioning of the region, in accordance with the basic principles of the relevant laws, regulations and regulations, and develops this approach in the light of the actual practice of the economic special area (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Zone).

Article II promotes e-commerce development and its associated management activities within the context of the special area and applies this approach.

This approach refers to the operation of modern information technologies such as the use of the Internet.

Article 3. E-commerce promotion upholds the principles of corporate ownership, industrial self-regulation, government promotion and regeneration.

Article IV. Governments at all levels should lead societies to build up, improve e-commerce credit systems and online payments, logistics distribution systems, encourage technological innovation in e-commerce enterprises and the diffusion of scientific and technological outcomes, and support the introduction of well-known businesses in national and external e-commerce.

Government procurement should give priority to the use of e-chemical platforms to carry out activities such as information dissemination and transaction, payment, credit assessment.

The Government of the city has established special funds for the development of e-commerce for the promotion of e-commerce. Specific management approaches are developed by the municipal financial administration sector with the municipal development and reform of the administration.

Article 5

The municipal economic and information administration is responsible for organizing this approach.

Other relevant administrative departments, the People's Government of the District (Parliament) and its associated administrations are in line with their respective responsibilities to promote e-commerce development and its associated management.

Article 6. The municipal development and reform of the administration should be accompanied by the development of e-commerce development planning in sectors such as the city's economic and informationization, science and technology, and rural and urban planning, integrated into the overall planning of information-making in the special area, with the approval of the Government of the city.

e-commerce development planning should be aligned with relevant industrial development planning in the special area.

Article 7 gives priority to the following e-commerce projects:

(i) The construction of e-commerce platforms in priority areas such as trade, international trade, manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, tourism, finance;

(ii) Construction of e-commerce services systems such as e-payment, security certification, credible transactions, cross-border transactions, logistics information;

(iii) The development and diffusion of key e-commerce technologies;

(iv) E-commerce with autonomous intellectual property, development and industrialization of hardware;

(v) Development of soft, hardware products that facilitate e-commerce activities by rural and urban residents, in particular older persons and persons with disabilities;

(vi) Mobile e-commerce.

The e-commerce enterprise, which is determined to engage in activities related to the projects listed in the previous paragraph, grants a one-time grant at 30 per cent of the actual investment of the project in the current year, up to $150 million. Specific determinations are developed by the municipal economic and information-policy administration with the relevant sectors of the city.

Article 8 allows an e-commerce enterprise to use a reference to the name of the enterprise without violating the terms of registration of the enterprise name.

In addition to laws, regulations prohibit or require prior administrative permission (approval), e-commerce enterprises conduct business registration and the business administration may apply for approval of their scope of operation.

E-commerce enterprises can use centralized office areas to conduct business registration as shelters (business sites). In accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and local governments concerning residences (commercials), only e-commerce enterprises operating on the Internet can be registered using self-ownership or rented homes as residences (commercials).

Article 9. E-commerce enterprises enjoy the following preferences:

(i) The administrative cost charges project established by the State and the province and authorized the special area to determine the fee standard and collect according to the low-cost criteria;

(ii) Access to demonstration parks by law and benefit from preferential treatment in the park area;

(iii) Provision of financial assistance in accordance with specific circumstances, as confirmed by law as the Centre for the Development of Electronic Industries;

(iv) The declaration of high-technical enterprises, high-technical products, advanced technology service enterprises, consistent with national and provincial determinations, with priority being recommended. In accordance with the requirements of the SPS, support is given to the specific funds concerned;

(v) Under the same conditions, priority is given to the recognition, evaluation of the talent of e-commerce at the level of high-level talent and excellence in the special area, and the corresponding treatment;

(vi) Within two years from the date of delivery, the required liquidity and other necessary borrowing funds are required, and financial institutions are given priority under the same conditions. Access to financial institutions loans is calculated at the same lowest rate;

(vii) Authorize third-party logistics companies to complete their delivery and grant 50 per cent of their insurance costs, with a single grant not exceeding one million dollars;

(viii) With the approval of the human resources and social security, economic and information administration, the training of senior managers in e-commerce applications and the training of more than one hundred and more basic applications, and the provision of 30 per cent of the cost of rental charges, material fees, lecture fees, etc., with a single grant not exceeding two million dollars;

(ix) Develop new technologies, new products, research development costs of new processes and acquisition software costs, and benefit from asset accounting and enterprise income tax incentives. Within a tax year, eligible technology transfer benefits receive the relevant income tax incentives;

(x) Other concessions are granted by law.

E-commerce enterprises are in line with national industrial policies and enabling conditions, with the benefits provided for in the preceding paragraph, to enjoy the support of provincial, municipal finance-specific funds.

The enterprise of the e-commerce platform, in addition to the provisions of this article, also enjoys the benefits provided for in Articles 10 and 11.

Article 10 provides for a 20 per cent grant of the e-commerce platform's enterprise to pay the municipal tax rate in effect for a period of three years from the date of the introduction of this scheme; taxes are difficult and eligible, and can be exempted from taxes on property and urban land use.

Within three years from the date of operation of this approach, E-commerce platform businesses have provided a treasury subsidy to each enterprise that develops a new registered enterprise member or a member of the Association of Cooperation, with annual benefits from each e-commerce platform.

The e-commerce platform enterprises have declared and approved market outreach activities, such as roads, advocacy, training, participation in large e-commerce exhibitions, and provided 30 per cent of the total cost of activities, with no more than five million copies of single-mission assistance.

The e-commerce platform enterprise rents office premises in the special area, either in the area (the district) or in the parking area under the project, and in the rental of the storage logistics facility for e-commerce, with a one-time grant from the area (the district) or the parking area.

Article 11 provides a one-time grant of up to 50 million yen, as determined by the municipal economic and informationization, development and reform administration.

In addition to the 50th or ten-country-ranking e-commerce platform enterprises registered in the special area for the establishment of e-commerce enterprises, the first three years of actual contributions into the bank's business taxes, value-added taxes and corporate income tax, and the local financial dividends at the municipal, district and district (zone) levels, were granted 50 per cent subsidies by the urban and district governments, respectively.

Article 12 provides for a demonstration or entrepreneurship base for e-commerce, as determined by the municipal economy and informationization, development and reform of the administration of justice, for a benefit not exceeding one million yen by the Government of the city, and for a period of two years from the date of the determination, for its management agency not exceeding 50 million dollars a year.

Article 13 provides recognition and incentives to select model e-commerce applications annually. The selection of incentives was developed by the municipal economic and information-policy administration with the municipal development and reform, the financial administration sector.

The e-commerce platform's income was sold for the first time in excess of one thousand yen and awarded a one-time incentive for 50 million yen.

Article 14. Medium-sized micro-enterprise for e-commerce applications through a third-party e-commerce platform, excluding access to commercial registration costs, in accordance with the relevant provisions of small-scale micro-enterprise development in the special area, and a one-time grant for basic services for the first platform.

Small-scale e-commerce enterprises operate nationally known third-party e-commerce platforms, with annual actual contributions in the treasury, value-added taxes, enterprise income tax and personal income of more than 50 million dollars, with 50 per cent grants from the municipalities and district (zone) people's governments, respectively.

Entrepreneurs of small- and medium-sized e-commerce enterprises have prioritized participation in entrepreneurship training and entrepreneurship evaluation under the same conditions.

Article 15 Students who have full-time higher education in general colleges have been self-selected to establish e-commerce businesses within two years of graduate and have been exempted from administrative fees for registration, voucher and management categories within three years of the date of business registration.

Personnel representation costs for university graduates, as mentioned in the previous paragraph, are granted one-time benefits. During the Acting period, professional technical qualifications could be reviewed.

The university graduates referred to in paragraph 1 of this article may apply for small-guaranteed loans with a maximum of up to 1 million dollars, with a maximum period not exceeding two years. The Micro-profit project for access to credit is granted in full interest over three percentage points of the loan base interest rate (expressed during the exhibition period).

Article 16

(i) To develop and publish, in a timely manner, project guidance in line with the items listed in Article 7, paragraph 1, of this approach;

(ii) The establishment and improvement of e-learning systems and online access services for information such as enterprise registration, organizational codes, licences;

(iii) To promote the application of electronic signatures and certification technologies;

(iv) Enhance guidance, inspection and monitoring of e-commerce statistics and establish a system of indicators for e-commerce statistics;

(v) The optimization of logistics delivery offices to advance the construction of new logistics distribution centres and to support community-building networks to purchase fast-moving places;

(vi) Training in e-commerce-based knowledge and skills applications, the development and introduction of a variety of professional talents for adaptation to e-commerce development, and support the establishment of education practices and training bases in partnership with scientific institutions, higher institutions;

(vii) Establish a platform for market good faith in the public service and introduce a third-party business credit certification professional institution;

(viii) Promote the development of e-commerce services systems and promote the development of various e-commerce information services, counselling and brokering institutions;

(ix) Develop guidelines for e-commerce development, with small and medium-sized micro-enterprises, to build and promote third-party e-commerce platforms for small and medium-sized enterprises;

(x) Develop and improve risk investment, financing security systems that are adapted to the development of e-commerce industries, and innovative e-business credit modalities;

(xi) Encourage financial institutions to promote and improve financial operations such as e-bank, insurance services, to strengthen online payment functions, to increase risk control capacity and to support the development of a third-party e-payment service platform;

(xii) Support the establishment of a entrenched e-commerce entrepreneurship mechanism and base with local industrial characteristics, the formation of industry clusters, and the provision of conditional market support for the enhancement of storage, delivery, procurement, etc. functions;

(xiii) Priority in safeguarding the use of major e-commerce projects and encouraging the use of stock land for the development of e-commerce industries;

(xiv) To support the construction of public rental housing in line with the principle of accommodating land, and to the rental of employment personnel in the park area;

(xv) To support the participation of e-commerce enterprises in national e-commerce standardization pilots and to launch the establishment of an e-commerce standard alliance;

(xvi) Enhance quality monitoring of commodities in the field of e-commerce and the timely publication of quality monitoring information on commodities, leading consumer rational consumption;

(17) Provide access to roads and temporary blocks for small-scale vehicles used for delivery.

The establishment of the city shall, within three months of the date of operation of this scheme, identify the responsibilities and units of the economic and information administration of the city to determine the work of the former paragraph of this article, guide, promote its development of the corresponding promotion, enabling measures and report to the Government of the city after its finalization.

Article 17 builds and improves a unified e-stop data exchange platform to achieve e-chemicals of external trade regulation data and to increase the efficiency of customs.

The Customs, Test-Ban, border border border inspection, maritime, economic and information management sectors should promote the expansion of the electronic shore data exchange platform applications and provide support and facilitation for e-trade.

Article 18

(i) Establish an e-commerce credit evaluation system within the industry to promote interoperability, interconnection and mutual recognition of relevant credit evaluations;

(ii) To make recommendations to relevant government departments for the development of e-commerce-related standards and to promote the development and implementation of standards relating to e-commerce by member units;

(iii) To assist in the establishment of a system of e-commerce statistics indicators, regular statistics and the publication of e-commerce development reports;

(iv) To study the development of a model text for contracts adapted to the characteristics of e-commerce and to report back-up applications for the municipal and business administration;

(v) Conduct industry surveys to provide members and Governments with information on e-commerce development, market development trends, economic and technological development projections;

(vi) Other promotions of e-commerce.

The executive branch should support and provide guidance on the activities set out in the provisions of this article by the Municipal E-commerce Industry Association.

Article 19

(i) Provide efficient, quality, concessionary communications services and value-added services;

(ii) Establish mechanisms for the admissibility of complaints to monitor e-commerce enterprises using their basic services, in line with government-related sector management activities, without prejudice to the normal transaction activities of the relevant operators;

(iii) Actively participate in the innovation of e-commerce applications;

(iv) Other obligations under laws, regulations and regulations.

Article 20 E-commerce enterprises should fulfil the following obligations:

(i) Produce commodity information in real terms;

(ii) Provision of commodities or services consistent with the quality, price and post-retirement services of the Internet or pledges;

(iii) In accordance with the consumer's request, the purchase of vouchers or service documents consistent with national regulations or commercial practices;

(iv) Other obligations under laws, regulations and regulations.

Article 21 Business of the e-commerce platform should fulfil the following obligations:

(i) Establish a sound network and information safety and security system that provides the necessary, reliable trading environment and transaction services;

(ii) Where a dispute arises, the authorities competent to deal with the dispute are provided with relevant information and assist in its handling;

(iii) Business information on e-commerce enterprises whose services are known in the course of business, in accordance with the agreed obligation to maintain confidentiality;

(iv) Take appropriate measures to eliminate the dissemination of garbage e-mail;

(v) Identify violations committed within their e-commerce platforms and promptly put an end to reports and assistance to the relevant sectors;

(vi) Other obligations under laws, regulations and regulations.

Consumers participating in e-commerce activities should comply with legal regulations and rules and requirements for online transactions, adhere to public ethics, live in good faith, and be responsible for the conduct of their own accounts (users) and passwords.

Consumers may not unreasonably evaluate other members in their e-commerce activities either by misconceiving or distorting facts, nor shall they create or raise their creditworthiness in a way that is unjustifiable.

Article 23 E-commerce enterprises may serve as a basis for dealing with consumer complaints, with the consent of the consumer.

The Government of the city explores the establishment of a consumer-right fund, co-marked by the Government and the allies' enterprises, which is regulated by third parties, to provide advance compensation for consumers caught in consumer disputes.

Article 24, the executive branch, such as business, economic and informationization, public security, should establish a monitoring platform for e-commerce monitoring in the special area and coordinate mechanisms to strengthen monitoring inspections of e-commerce activities and to investigate violations by law.

Administrative law enforcement officials should maintain the normal operation of e-commerce enterprises in implementing inspection missions and protect their commercial secrets.

Article 25 In collecting, fixed electronic evidence, the administrative law enforcement authorities should make use of electronic evidence, such as the website page, electronic data exchange, e-mail, database, to carry out fixed and displays in writing. The use of computer storage equipment storage, video collection, if necessary, is complementary.

The electronic evidence referred to in this approach refers to data or information that could prove the facts related to the incident in a computer-based storage tool or external storage medium.

Article 26, in violation of the provisions of the law and the present approach, is governed by law by the relevant administrations and removed the corresponding preferential treatment.

The competent or other direct responsible personnel directly responsible for the administration sector are subject to negligence in the promotion of e-commerce development and related management, abuse of authority, provocative fraud, by virtue of law by their units or superior administrative authorities; and criminal liability is lawful.

Article 27 of this approach refers to enterprises with the same conditions:

(i) The acquisition by law of a licence for business and the registration of registration sites and independent accounting sites are the main market;

(ii) Registration of tax taxes by law to the State in which it is located;

(iii) Provide relevant statistical information on time to the location's business, statistical administration.

The twenty-eighth approach was implemented effective 1 January 2013.