From April, these new rules will affect our lives

On the first day of April, a number of new regulations and measures will also be implemented: the city's catering service policy for the elderly, the pilot project of direct settlement of cross provincial and cross regional medical treatment for work-related injury insurance, the national standard of Express Service, restrictions on excessive packaging of fresh edible agricultural products... What other new regulations will affect all aspects of our lives? See below ↓

In order to strengthen the impetus of private capital investment in "new infrastructure" and increase investment in key areas such as blockchain facilities, intelligent computing facilities, and intelligent connected vehicle facilities, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission has revised and formed the Guidelines on Discount Management of New Infrastructure Construction Projects in Shanghai (2024) on the basis of the 2020 version.

In the Guidance, "the interest rate of loans over five years is no more than 4%" is adjusted to "the interest rate of loans over five years is five year LPR minus 70 basis points or more"; The projects that meet the requirements in the five new cities, north-south transformation and other key areas all enjoy the maximum discount subsidy of 1.5 percentage points; The threshold for investment declaration was adjusted from 100 million yuan to 50 million yuan.

In order to support the development of offshore trade in the pilot free trade zone, the preferential policy of stamp duty for offshore trade is piloted in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone and the new area near the port 。 From April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025, stamp duty will be exempted on the written sales contracts for offshore transfer business of enterprises registered in China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone and Lingang New Area. The offshore resale mentioned in the notice refers to a transaction in which a resident enterprise purchases goods from a non resident enterprise and then resells the goods to another non resident enterprise, and the goods have never actually entered or left the customs territory of China.

Measures of Shanghai Municipality on Tax Collection Service and Guarantee (hereinafter referred to as the Measures)   , effective from April 1, 2024. The Measures further optimize the tax service mode, promote the full enjoyment of tax incentives, fully consider the protection of the rights and interests of market entities while standardizing according to law, reduce institutional transaction costs for market entities, and help Shanghai create a market-oriented, legal and international business environment.

The Measures consists of five chapters and 33 articles, mainly focusing on tax collection services, tax collection security, supervision and management, and focusing on the concepts of both taxes and fees, multiple rights and interests protection, data co construction and sharing, comprehensive supervision and security, and multi-party coordinated governance. The Measures run through tax, social security and non tax collection, and emphasize the provision of comprehensive and diversified rights and interests protection for taxpayer payers. Through deepening data sharing and application, the Measures improve tax risk control, strengthen tax supervision and security, and promote the coordinated governance of all departments, so as to provide institutional support for improving the tax service level and the quality and efficiency of tax collection and management.

In order to standardize the information registration of Shanghai government procurement suppliers and ensure the smooth implementation of electronic government procurement activities, the Measures for the Administration of Shanghai Government Procurement Supplier Information Registration   Effective from April 1, 2024, and valid until March 31, 2029.

Provisions of the Measures The Municipal Finance Bureau has established information comparison mechanism between supplier database and legal person database to check the basic information of supplier registration. Suppliers register information and enter the supplier database through the "Shanghai Government Procurement Network" for free. No unit or individual may charge any fees from suppliers for information registration or verification. The purchaser and procurement agency shall use the supplier database when organizing and implementing the municipal government procurement projects electronically through the "Shanghai Government Procurement Network". If the supplier's registration information is found to be inconsistent with the actual situation, it shall be timely notified to correct it. Suppliers who intend to participate in the city's electronic government procurement activities through the "Shanghai Government Procurement Network" shall complete the information registration and warehousing procedures in advance. Suppliers who have not completed the information registration and warehousing procedures may first obtain the procurement documents from the purchaser or its entrusted procurement agency, but shall complete the registration and warehousing procedures before the deadline for bidding or submission of response documents.

In order to strengthen the management of urban and rural planning, safeguard social and public interests, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the public, Regulations on Publicity of Shanghai Construction Engineering Design Plan   Effective from April 1, 2024.

The planning publicity of the design scheme of the construction project referred to in these Provisions refers to the activities of the planning management department to publicly display the relevant contents of the scheme to the public and listen to the public opinions before approving the scheme. The Regulations specify that the construction engineering design plan of the following two types of projects should be publicized: first The proposed project is adjacent to the existing residential buildings, or there are residential buildings in the winter solstice sunshine shadow range of the proposed project, which may have an impact on the adjacent residential environment; Second Major public facilities projects, livelihood projects such as the 15 minute community life circle, construction projects with high social concern, and other projects that the planning and management departments think involve urban safety and public interests need to be publicized.

The Municipal Market Supervision Administration approved six local standards in Shanghai, including the General Requirements for Cross chain Blockchain   Implemented on April 1, 2024. The six standards are:

Technical Specification for Machinery Operation of Planting, Cultivating and Land Preparation of Stem and Leaf Vegetables (Standard No.: DB31/T 1456-2023)

Dragon Boat Activity Service Specification (standard No.: DB31/T 1457-2023)

Technical Procedures for Breeding and Releasing of Coilia mystus in the Yangtze River (standard No.: DB31/T 1458-2023)

Technical Regulations for Pond Culture of American Shad (standard No.: DB31/T 1459-2023)

General Requirements for Cross chain Blockchain (standard No.: DB31/T 1460-2023)

Hygienic Requirements for Foot Bath Service (standard No.: DB31/T 359-2023)

In order to accelerate the direct settlement of cross provincial and cross regional medical treatment of industrial injury insurance, better protect the rights and interests of injured workers, and constantly improve the convenience of industrial injury insurance management services and the sense of gain of injured workers, from April 1, 2024, the human resources and social security departments (bureaus) of all provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Select some cities to start the pilot work of direct settlement of work-related injury insurance for cross provincial and cross regional medical treatment   。 Relying on the national industrial injury insurance off-site medical treatment settlement information system, the personnel in pilot cities will directly settle the medical expenses for in-patient industrial injury, in-patient industrial injury rehabilitation and auxiliary equipment allocation expenses for cross provincial off-site medical treatment with social security cards (including electronic social security cards, hereinafter referred to as social security cards). The pilot period is one year.

In order to further deepen the reform of the medical device review and approval system, the State Food and Drug Administration has decided to adjust the contents of the 27 categories of medical devices involved in the Classification Catalogue of Medical Devices according to the actual development of the medical device industry and the supervision work 。

The implementation requirements are clear: as of March 28, the RF therapeutic apparatus and RF skin therapeutic apparatus in the 09-07-02 RF treatment (non ablation) equipment involved in the adjustment in the annex can apply for registration in accordance with the Administrative Measures for the Registration and Filing of Medical Devices (Order No. 47 of the State Administration of Market Supervision). Since April 1, 2024, RF therapeutic apparatus and RF skin therapeutic apparatus shall not be produced, imported or sold without obtaining medical device registration certificate according to law.

Restriction on Over packaging Requirements for Fresh Edible Agricultural Products (GB 43284 － 2023) The mandatory national standard will be implemented from April 1, 2024. The release and implementation of this standard will provide law enforcement basis and basic support for strengthening the whole chain governance of over packaging of commodities, guiding the production and operation enterprises of fresh edible agricultural products to properly and reasonably package, and standardizing market supervision.

This standard specifies the technical indicators and determination methods for whether five categories of fresh edible agricultural products, including vegetables (including edible fungi), fruits, livestock and poultry meat, aquatic products and eggs, are over packaged. The main technical indicators include three aspects: First, the upper limit of 10% - 25% packaging porosity is set for fresh edible agricultural products of different categories and different sales package weights. Second, it is stipulated that vegetables (including edible fungi) and eggs should not be packaged in more than three layers, and fruits, livestock and poultry meat, and aquatic products should not be packaged in more than four layers. Third, it is clear that the ratio of the packaging cost of fresh edible agricultural products to the sales price should not exceed 20%, and the sales price of strawberries, cherries, waxberries, loquats, livestock and poultry meat, aquatic products and eggs should not exceed 15%. In order to avoid unnecessary impact on agricultural production and operation activities or new resource waste, the standard sets a six-month implementation transition period and stipulates that "fresh edible agricultural products produced or imported before the implementation date can be sold until the end of the shelf life". After implementation, the production and operation entities shall conduct compliance design for the sales package of fresh edible agricultural products according to the requirements of the standard.

In order to strengthen the sharing and sharing of government procurement data across the country and further improve the convenience of government procurement information query and use, from April 1, 2024, the local branch network of the Chinese government procurement network (hereinafter referred to as the local branch network) should push various announcements and publicity information of all government procurement projects (including projects with less than 5 million yuan) in the region to the central master of the Chinese government procurement network for publication   。 The central main network provides a "one-stop" query service for information on government procurement projects nationwide. The central main network opened the registration information sharing interface of government procurement agencies. From April 1, 2024, local subnets can access the registration information of government procurement agencies registered in the central main network through the interface. The central main network sets up a column of "data standards and specifications" to publish relevant data interface specifications. All local sub networks are requested to organize and complete the interface commissioning of relevant information systems according to the data interface specification, so as to ensure that the government procurement data sharing channel is unblocked.

New national standard of Guidelines for the Evaluation of Economical Organizations (GB/T 29118-2023) It will be officially implemented on April 1, 2024.

The new version of the "Guidelines for the Evaluation of Economical Organizations" national standard highlights the concept of green and low-carbon development, and clarifies the definition of conservation oriented organizations; Optimize the evaluation system, specify the classification, content and requirements of the evaluation indicators of conservation oriented institutions, and clarify that each region, central state organ and department can independently determine the evaluation standards and standard scores of conservation oriented institutions in combination with the actual work; Expand the content of creation, and increase the specific requirements of the party and government organs to implement the central government's decisions and deployment on carbon peak and carbon neutrality, anti food waste, plastic pollution control, etc; To enhance operability, the evaluation process, evaluation index calculation method and suggested weight of conservation oriented institutions are given, which will provide a strong standard support for the administrative departments at all levels and the party and government organs to continue to vigorously promote the creation of conservation oriented institutions.

In order to strengthen the power quality management, ensure the power quality level of the power system, optimize the power business environment, better meet the power quality needs of power users, and support the safe, stable, high-quality and economic operation of the power system, the Power Quality Management Measures (Provisional)   Effective from April 1, 2024.

The full text of the Measures is divided into eight chapters and 33 articles. The first chapter is the general principles, the second chapter is the organization and responsibilities, the third chapter - the fifth chapter is the power quality management of power generation, transmission and distribution, and power consumption, the sixth chapter is information management, the seventh chapter is supervision and management, and the eighth chapter is the supplementary provisions. The main contents include three aspects: First, the connotation of power quality management is proposed; Second, the organization and responsibilities of power quality management are clarified; Third, the power quality information management and supervision management system has been established.

In order to vigorously promote advanced technologies of energy conservation, emission reduction and carbon reduction, accelerate the improvement of energy conservation standards of products and equipment, support energy-saving transformation in key areas, help large-scale equipment renewal and consumer goods trade in, and promote the completion of the binding indicators of energy intensity reduction in the 14th Five Year Plan, Advanced Level of Energy Efficiency, Energy Conservation Level and Access Level of Equipment in Key Energy Using Products (2024 Edition)   As of April 1, 2024, the Advanced Level of Energy Efficiency, Energy Saving Level and Access Level of Equipment for Key Energy Using Products (2022 Edition) (FGHZG [2022] No. 1719) will be abolished at the same time. If there are special provisions in the standards of relevant products and equipment, those provisions shall prevail.

The Advanced Level of Energy Efficiency, Energy Saving Level and Access Level of Key Energy using Products and Equipment (2024 Edition) mainly includes the following six aspects: first, expand the coverage of key energy using products and equipment; second, accelerate the improvement of energy saving standards of products and equipment; third, comprehensively promote upgrading, reconstruction and recycling; fourth, vigorously advocate green and low-carbon consumption, The fifth is to strengthen the application, implementation, supervision and inspection, and the sixth is to strengthen comprehensive policy support.

In order to standardize the implementation of coal administrative punishment, ensure and supervise the effective implementation of administration by the coal administrative departments, safeguard public interests and social order, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons or other organizations, the Measures for Coal Administrative Punishment   Effective from April 1, 2024. The Measures for Coal Administrative Punishment (Order No. 1 of the Ministry of Coal Industry) issued by the former Ministry of Coal Industry on May 19, 1997 shall be repealed simultaneously.

The coal administrative punishment shall be under the jurisdiction of the coal administrative department of the people's government at or above the county level that has the power of administrative punishment in the place where the violations of laws and regulations occurred. The types of administrative penalties applicable to these Measures include: (1) warning, circulating a notice of criticism; 2 fine confiscation of illegal gains; 3 Order the suspension of production business; 4 other administrative punishments prescribed by laws administrative regulations.

On the whole, there are 14 administrative licenses in the Regulations on Certification of Civil Aviation Products and Parts, including 9 implemented by CAAC and 5 implemented by CAAC Regional Administration. The Civil Aviation Administration will entrust some of the administrative licenses implemented to the local administration of civil aviation for implementation. According to the requirements of the Administrative Licensing Law on the entrusted implementation of administrative licensing, the Regulations need to be revised to clarify the regulatory basis for CAAC to entrust the implementation of administrative licensing   。

This amendment mainly involves two clauses: First, Article 21.2D was revised. On the basis of the five administrative permits specified in the Regulations for the local civil aviation authority to implement its own approval work, it further clarified that the type certificate, supplementary type certificate, project approval letter for technical standards, airworthiness certificate, export airworthiness certificate Examination and approval of foreign airworthiness certificate. Second, Article 21.35 was modified to exempt manned free balloons, gliders and low-speed aircraft functional reliability flight test requirements with the approval level of Level 1 or Level 2 determined in accordance with the Airworthiness Regulations for Normal Aircraft in the model certification process. These aircrafts are simple in design and intuitive in functional reliability. They can be directly inspected through relevant requirements in existing airworthiness standards, and product safety can be guaranteed.

The Ministry of Natural Resources issued 17 industry standards, including "Specifications for Regular Survey of Mineral Resources Part 1: General Principles", "Regulations for the Preparation of Land Spatial Planning in Metropolitan Areas", and "Specifications for the Collection of Surveying and Mapping Results"   , which will be officially implemented from April 1, 2024. These standards are oriented to the actual needs of natural resource management, aiming at strengthening the development and protection of mineral resources, giving full play to the positive role of spatial planning in promoting the high-quality development of metropolitan areas, and facilitating the query and utilization of surveying and mapping results.

Water Quality for Aquaculture in Saline alkali Land It is the first national standard in the field of saline alkali land aquaculture in China. The release of the standard provides a basis for rational use of water resources in saline alkali land to carry out aquaculture, and has important guiding significance for guiding aquaculture in saline alkali areas in China according to local conditions. The implementation of the standard is conducive to the ecological improvement of saline alkali land and the expansion of fishery development space, increasing the income of farmers (fishermen) and helping rural revitalization.

The standard defines the terms and definitions of water quality for aquaculture in saline alkali land. In view of the problems such as multiple types of water quality and complex hydrochemical composition of aquaculture water in saline alkali land, it respectively stipulates the indicators of water quality for aquaculture in saline alkali land suitable for the main types of aquaculture, such as freshwater fish, shrimp and crab, and salt fish, and salt shrimp and crab, as well as water sample collection, on-site treatment The storage and transportation requirements, the corresponding determination and calculation methods are described, and the main species suitable for aquaculture in saline alkali land are given.

Compulsory national standard Safety Requirements for Port Operation Part 4: General Cargo Containers (standard number: GB 16994.4-2023) Implemented from April 1, 2024.

The standard specifies the general requirements for container port loading and unloading operations, as well as the safety requirements for ship loading and unloading operations, lifting, fork transportation, yard storage, loading and unloading vehicles, horizontal transportation, container loading and unloading operations and emergency response. The standard is applicable to the loading and unloading operations in the port general cargo container loading and unloading operation area.

Two national railway standards, such as Rail Transit Electric Traction Overhead Rigid Catenary, organized and prepared by the National Railway Administration   Since April 1, 2024, one of the two standards has been newly formulated and one has been revised.

The Rail Transit Electric Traction Overhead Rigid Catenary (GB/T 43511-2023) specifies the application conditions, system composition and technical requirements, equipment and parts requirements, test methods, inspection rules, etc. of the rail transit electric traction overhead rigid catenary, which is applicable to the rail transit electric traction overhead rigid catenary with a running speed of 160 km/h or less.

Electric Connectors for Rail Transit Rolling Stock Part 3: Communication Control Connectors (GB/T 25022.3-2023) specifies the use environment, structural form, model, contact pair numbering, technical requirements, test methods, inspection rules, packaging, marking, transportation and storage of electrical communication control connectors at the end of rolling stock, It is applicable to the electric communication control connector at the end of locomotive and vehicle.

The State Railway Administration issued 8 railway industry standards such as Rolling Stock Weighing Table   Among the 8 standards, 3 are newly formulated and 5 are revised, which will be implemented from April 1, 2024.

The eight standards issued this time are equipment technical standards for rolling stock, track maintenance engineering, communication signal, transportation, general and comprehensive disciplines, which mainly put forward technical requirements for weighing platform of rolling stock, atmospheric corrosion resistant steel of rolling stock, railway gauge pole, AX series relay of railway signal, AC binary relay of railway signal, overload and unbalanced load detection device of railway freight car, etc Test methods and inspection rules; The evaluation requirements and test methods for aerodynamic performance of railway rolling stock in high wind environment are proposed; The test method of railway signal relay is proposed. The preparation and revision of the standard provides a technical basis for product design, manufacturing, inspection and application, and will play a positive role in ensuring railway operation safety and improving product quality.

Rail Transit Electric Traction Overhead Rigid Catenary (GB/T 43511-2023), Rail Transit Rolling Stock Electrical Connectors Part 3: Communication Control Connectors (GB/T 25022.3-2023) Implemented from April 1, 2024. These two standards are important components of China's railway technical standard system. Their release provides technical basis for the design, manufacturing, inspection, etc. of railway products, and will play a positive role in ensuring railway operation safety and improving product quality.

The State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration of the People's Republic of China issued a series of recommended national standards: Technical Specifications for the Interconnection of Highway Network Image Information Management System Platforms Part 1: General Principles (standard number: GB/T 28059.1-2023), Technical Specifications for the Interconnection of Highway Network Image Information Management System Platforms Part 2: Video Format and Coding (standard number: GB/T 28059.2-2023) Technical Specification for Interconnection of Highway Network Image Information Management System Platform Part 3: Interface and Communication Control Protocol (Standard No.: GB/T 28059.3-2023) and Highway Network Image Information Management System Platform Interconnection Technical Specification Part 4: User and Equipment Management (standard number: GB/T 28059.4-2023)   Implemented from April 1, 2024.

The series of standards is divided into four parts. The first part specifies the general technical requirements for the inter provincial interconnection of the highway network image information management system, such as the overall architecture, functional requirements, performance requirements, and testing requirements; Part 2 specifies the requirements and test methods for the digital video format, video interface of the inter provincial interconnection of the Highway Network Image Information Management System Department; Part 3 specifies the interconnection access mode, transmission and control security requirements and test methods of highway network image management system; Part 4 specifies the requirements for the management model, coding object, object coding rules, functional unit coding rules, clock synchronization rules, and video image text information labeling of users and equipment for inter provincial interconnection of Highway Network Image Information Management System Department. This series of standards is applicable to the construction of highway network image information management system and the interconnection between ministries and provinces, as well as the interconnection between provincial and intra provincial platforms.

The Ministry of Transport formulated and revised 9 national standards, including 6 standards Implemented from April 1, 2024:

Business Conditions for Automobile Maintenance Industry Part 1: Automobile Maintenance Enterprises (standard number: GB/T 16739.1-2023)

Business Conditions for Automobile Maintenance Industry - Part 2: Comprehensive Minor Repair and Special Maintenance Operators (standard number: GB/T 16739.2-2023)

Technical Specification for Interconnection of Highway Network Image Information Management System Platform Part 1: General Principles (standard number: GB/T 28059.1-2023)

Technical Specification for Interconnection of Highway Network Image Information Management System Platform Part 2: Video Format and Coding (standard number: GB/T 28059.2-2023)

Technical Specification for Interconnection of Highway Network Image Information Management System Platform Part 3: Interface and Communication Control Protocol (standard number: GB/T 28059.3-2023)

Technical Specification for Interconnection of Highway Network Image Information Management System Platform Part 4: User and Equipment Management (standard number: GB/T 28059.4-2023)

The National Health Commission issued 34 recommended health industry standards, including the Catalog of Health Information Data Elements Part 1: General Principles   Implemented from April 1, 2024.

The 34 recommended health industry standards issued this time consist of two sets of standards, namely, the Catalog of Health Information Data Elements and the Value Field Code of Health Information Data Elements, which all contain general principles, labels, demographic and socio-economic characteristics, health history, health risk factors, chief complaints and symptoms, physical examination, clinical auxiliary examination, laboratory examination, medical diagnosis 17 parts, including medical evaluation, planning and intervention, health expenses, health institutions, health personnel, drugs and medical devices, and health management.

Recommended health industry standard Standard for Quality Assessment of Nursery Institutions (standard No.: WST821-2023)   Implemented from April 1, 2024.

This standard specifies the contents of assessment on the conditions, team, care, health care, support, security and management of childcare institutions. The standard is applicable to the assessment of institutions (including kindergarten classes) that provide full day care services for infants under 3 years of age. The assessment of childcare institutions providing half day care, time care, temporary care and other care services can be implemented by reference.