1. BR Initiative Improvement in China
Yang Kuankuan
Shen Na
Du Dejun
September 2010

2. ◆ Current situation of unit management in China
◆ Positive and negative effects of government agencies on units registration and management
◆ Initiatives performed by NBS to improve efficiency in BR registration and management

3. Current situation of unit management system in China
Main types of units
Types of units
Population
(unit)
Proportion
(%)
Legal units
8,003,872
100
Enterprises
5,782,827
72.25
Institutional Units
730,169
9.12
Government Agencies
251,022
3.14
Social Organizations
199,293
2.49
Non-Governmental Non-Profit Units
162,398
2.03
Foundations
901
0.01
Residents Committees
81,494
1.02
Villagers Committees
608,753
7.61
Others
187,011
2.34
Establishments
9,814,995
Single-
7,604,550
77.48
Multi
2,210,445
22.52

4. Main government agencies of registration and management on legal unit
Units registration by government agencies
Types of Legal Units
Government Agencies of Registration for Units
Remarks
Enterprises
Department of Administration for Industry & Commerce (DAIC)
Tax Bureau is also responsible for registrations on enterprises
Institutional units
Office for Public Sector Reform (OPSR)
Government agencies
Social organizations
Department of Civil Affairs (DCA)
Social organization with legal units licenses in DCA
Social organization without legal units licenses but putting on records in OPSR
Non-governmental Non-profit units
Non-governmental Non-profit units usually refer to some school or hospitals financed by privates
Residents Committees
Villagers Committees
Annotation: all legal units must get organization codes from Department of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (DQSIQ).

5. Positive and negative effects of government agencies on units registration and management
◆ Positive effects
Mastering accurate and timely records so that central and local governments could make macro-decision on basis of such information
Getting enough labor power and financial support to conduct survey

6. Positive and negative effects of government agencies on units registration and management
Not having unified standard on units code, definition and classification
Correspondences cooperation will have declined to a lower extent
Re-building on BR is not only crease administrative management budget but also decrease records quality

7. Initiatives performed by NBS to improve efficiency in BR registration and management
◆ Firstly Census Center had done some change in organization and specially establish division of Business register in And we arranged more experts on Business Register to this division.
Meanwhile Census Center developed a new Business Register system with PC-based and Internet based. And now this data processing system has utilized by four levels from county office to national office. Functions of this BR system are much perfect than before, especially on how to match statistics data with administrative records.

8. Initiatives performed by NBS to improve efficiency in BR registration and management
◆ Secondly In 2009 NBS revised former contact(2005) with other administrative agencies( state department of administration and reform for government agency, Ministry of civil affairs, state administration of taxation, State administration for industry and commerce). In this new agreement We demand other four departments supply not only attribute indicators but also financial records on birth, changeable and dead of unit respectively.
For example department of taxation will supply financial indicators such as business revenue, taxes and employee number. Department for industry and commerce will supply registered capital. Those information will help us to judge the scale and structure of unit.

9. Initiatives performed by NBS to improve efficiency in BR registration and management
◆ Thirdly we are drawing up <Method of management on Business Register> and planning to carry out this method as soon as possible.
This method clears the responsibility and divides the work on BR updating and maintenance between department of BR and departments of Subject Matter within NBS.
It also makes more details and rules on data sharing between NBS and other administrative agencies which are responsible for units registration. We hope to publish this method by Office of State Council for much better improving data quality of BR and increase work efficiency.

10. Thank you for your attention!