File photo of the Bund. [Photo/shobserver.com]

Shanghai's legislature adopted a resolution on Sept 27 making revisions to the document titled Regulations on Optimizing the Business Environment in Shanghai. The resolution will take effect on Nov 1.

Here are some key highlights of the revisions.

At the end of Paragraph 2, Article 12, the following provision is added:

It is prohibited to defame or damage the reputation of enterprises or other business operators by fabricating or distorting facts in any way or by any means.

Paragraph 1, Article 24 is revised as follows:

The municipality shall expedite the building of a digital government. Guided by the principle of "efficiently completing one task", it shall optimize government services, improve administrative efficiency, deepen the construction of a whole-process integrated government service platform (hereinafter referred to as the "one network service platform"), promote the integration and complementarity of online and offline channels, facilitate the coordinated handling of associated matters, ensure the timely processing of matters with deficiencies, enable cross-regional processing of remote matters, and provide precise handling of policy-related services, making government services more standardized and accessible.

A new paragraph is added as Paragraph 3, Article 24:

The municipality shall establish a whole-process service mechanism for policies that benefit enterprises. Each district and department shall pool these policies to the "one network service platform", and accurately match applicable conditions, required materials, business rules, and review points to matters that need addressing. Through the said platform, enterprises and other business operators shall be directly posted on matched policies, and direct and quick access to policies that benefit enterprises shall be advanced in an orderly manner.

Paragraph 1 of Article 25 is revised as follows:

The municipality shall optimize its comprehensive "one-window acceptance" government services and implement comprehensive acceptance, sorted processing, and unified issuance of credentials. It shall promote government services in "remote handling" to enable enterprises and other business operators to receive services of the same quality and effectiveness at nearby government service windows as they do at local service windows.

A new paragraph is added as Paragraph 5 of Article 25:

Each district and department shall establish a backup service mechanism for enterprises, and promptly coordinate all parties and solve difficult and complex issues encountered by enterprises and other business operators in the process of addressing affairs.

Amend Paragraph 5 of Article 31 to:

Business operators registered in the municipality can conduct business activities outside their registered venues with no need to apply for registration and filing procedures with the market supervision department. When laws and administrative regulations have other provisions, follow the provisions. When an enterprise needs to have added business premises filed, it can apply with the market supervision department that handled the initial registration.