Recently, the General Office of the State Council has promulgated the Circular on Simplifying and Optimizing Procedures of Public Service to Facilitate the Affairs Handling and Entrepreneurship by the Grass Roots (the "Circular").
The Circular defines tasks in the following aspects: 1. overall sorting out and making public the catalogue of public service items. Guided by the demands for entrepreneurship and innovation, we shall specify relevant policy support, laws and information consultation, intellectual property protection, training for employment skills and other comprehensive service items; 2. firmly cutting off all kinds of pointless certifications and complicated procedures. All links for certification and sealing without the basis of laws and regulations shall be cancelled in principle; 3. vigorously promoting the simplification and optimization of procedures for affairs handling and innovative exploration of service methods. We shall integrate separate windows for affairs handling arranged by relevant departments into comprehensive windows to change the "multipoint acceptance" into the "one-window acceptance"; 4. accelerating the information sharing and business coordination among departments. We shall strengthen coordination and cooperation to promote the construction of information platforms for public service; 5. steadily advancing online transaction and consultation. We shall promote the extension from administrative affairs offices at entities to online business sites.