Article 41 This Municipality shall establish a unified taxes and fees declaration platform for taxpayers and fee payers, and promote the combined declaration and payment of relevant taxes and fees. Relevant departments shall simplify materials and procedures for handling payment of taxes and fees, reduce the frequency of tax payments and the time for handling payment of taxes and fees, improve the service capabilities of electronic tax bureaus and smart tax service sites, and promote the use of electronic invoices.

This Municipality shall strictly implement various national policies of taxes and fees reduction, and actively conduct the publicity and guidance to ensure the effective implementation of all policies.

Article 42 An enterprise can independently choose the location of its main office within this Municipality and register such location as its domicile according to law. All districts and departments shall provide facilitation to enterprises for their changes of domicile across districts, and shall not impose obstacles to such changes.

Any cross-district relocation that can't be addressed at the district level shall be coordinated, resolved and implemented by this Municipality's Serving Enterprises Joint Meeting mechanism.

Article 43 An enterprise can apply for deregistration through this Municipality's "Integrated Registration Service system", and the departments of market regulation, taxation, human resources and social security shall conduct categorized dealing and simultaneous processing, and conclude the relevant matters once and for all.

The expedited deregistration procedures may apply to those who have not carried out business activities after obtaining a business license, and have not incurred creditor's rights and debts or have completed the liquidation of creditor's rights and debts before applying for deregistration. An enterprise can make announcements through the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System. The time limit for announcements is 20 days. If there is no objection during the announcement period, the registration authority may conduct the deregistration for the enterprise.

Chapter IV   Public Services

Article 44 The municipal economy and informatization department shall organize the establishment of a city-wide enterprise service system, realize the unified release of enterprise-related policies, co-location of professional service agencies, and the centralized acceptance of enterprises' requests on Shanghai Enterprise Service Cloud.

The municipal and district economy and informatization departments shall establish service centers for small and medium-sized enterprises, accept various requests by the enterprises, and improve the mechanism for rapid processing and feedback of requests. General issues shall be settled within five working days and complicated issues within fifteen working days. Where the issue is impossible to be concluded, explanations shall be given to the enterprise.

Each district shall establish a grid-based enterprise service model, designating specific people in villages, towns, sub districts, industrial parks, and business buildings to respond to enterprises' requests.

Article 45 The municipal economy and informatiztion department shall, together with the municipal finance department and other departments, establish a unified application system for the municipal fiscal funds based enterprise-benefiting policies , to provide enterprises with one-stop service of online search, subscription, matching, and application.

All districts shall establish service windows for fiscal funds based enterprise-benefiting policies, and comprehensive service windows for enterprise-benefiting policies can be established in districts where the conditions permit.

Article 46 This Municipality shall establish a communication mechanism between the government and enterprises, where the government shall, through various forms such as survey, discussion, questionnaire survey, and new media, listen to and respond to reasonable requests of market participants in a timely manner.

This Municipality shall establish an Advisory Committee on Optimizing Doing Business Environment, which is responsible for collecting and reporting the requests of the market participants on Doing Business environment, providing decision-making advice for the reform of Doing Business environment, and promoting precise implementation of the policies for optimizing Doing Business environment.

Article 47 This Municipality encourages public utility units of electricity, water supply and drainage, fuel gas, network and others to provide whole-process agent services to market participants. Public utility enterprises are encouraged to fully carry out online business operations, set up special service windows on the general portal of "Integrated Online Platform" to optimize the procedure, and reduce the application materials and the processing time.

Public utility units shall promote the standardization of access and services, ensure the openness and transparency of access standards and service standards, and provide related extended services and one-stop services. Public utility enterprises shall clearly mark the price of chargeable items and perform the obligations of reporting and disclosing cost information in accordance with regulations.

Where public utility units make simultaneous application for multiple municipal accesses, the government departments such as planning and resources, landscaping and city appearance, and transportation shall provide support and convenience.

Article 48 This Municipality shall implement a unified movable collateral registration system, promote market participants to conduct movable collateral registration through the Movables Financing Registry System of PBOC, and to provide financing convenience for market participants.

Financial institutions are encouraged to provide unsecured credit loans to small and medium-sized enterprises operating in good faith, support the provision of complete life-cycle financial services for science and technology-oriented enterprises, intensify the cultivation of science and technology-oriented enterprises, and encourage qualified science and technology-oriented enterprises to be listed on STAR market.

Article 49 This Municipality shall establish a policy-based financing guarantee fund for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, establish and improve a financing guarantee system, and provide credit enhancement services for the financing of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. The municipal finance department shall establish a credit risk compensation and reward mechanism together with local financial department and other relevant departments in this Municipality.

This Municipality shall promote the opening of public data and Big Data Inclusive Financial Applications, share with financial institutions the government data related to, among others, market regulation, taxation, real estate registration, environmental protection, and public utility data such as electricity, water supply and drainage, fuel gas, network and so on, and protect business secrets and personal information in accordance with laws. 

Article 50 This Municipality shall support the construction of industrial parks and promote the integrated development of industries and cities. Relevant government departments shall set up government service windows in industrial parks as needed. The management and operation units of various industrial parks are encouraged to set up a one-stop enterprise service acceptance office to provide policy consulting and agency services such as enterprise start-up, project construction, and talents services.

Where the management and operation unit of the park provides services, such as certification and guarantee, to the park enterprises by means of recommendation letters, the relevant government departments shall be supportive.