Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and Government attach great importance to the construction of soft investment environment in the province.
The provincial party committee and government have decided to name the year 2000 as the province's year of further improvement of investment environment, and put the focus of work on enhancing the administrative action of government departments according to law and the improvement of service quality and work efficiency, in order to create an excellent external environment for foreign investment and the production and management of foreign investment companies.

1.Insist on the system of the provincial foreign investment joint conference. Continue to insist on the system of the provincial foreign investment joint conference. The joint conference is held once every three months. It is presided by the vice governor in charge of foreign investment joined, and is participated by the leaders of the departments concerned of the provincial government. The main purpose is to research on and solves the key problems of the utilization of foreign investment, and the management and production of foreign investment companies.

2.Implement the open action system, and simplify the approval procedures. The foreign-related departments of all levels of government of the province must make public the function, responsibility, work standard and procedures of their own departments, including the application procedures, the work flow formula, the materials needed, and the deadlines, etc., especially whether or not a fee is charged and the standard of payment. For certain competitive areas, "one- stoptation" service should be promoted.

3.Promote the commitment system of social service, and implemented extended services. If aAll the key social service departments, such as public utility, urban constructions, heat supply, business, post, communications, electric supply, health, finance, port and tourism, etc., if they are involved with the direct service for enterprises, they must implement commitment system, and publish the contents, standard, obligation and service time limit, etc., of the commitment, and accept the supervision of the society and the enterprises. Such port inspection departments as the customs office, the commodity inspection and quarantine bureau, the maritime supervision and the frontier inspection must all insist on the implementation of the 24-hour duty system for international liners, the extra shift appointment system for commodity declaring and passing on holidays, and the convenient and preferential treatment for companies with good credit to pass the customs and inspection.

4.Enhance the development of local foreign-related regulations. The province We should carry out a thorough check on all the regulations and documents, and such regulations against the further opening to the outside world must be immediately revised or abolished. The province We should also further formulate and perfect the local rules and government regulations, and improve the legitimate environment of the foreign investment in our province.

5.Implement the registered protection service for key foreign investment companies. "The Foreign Investment Companies with Outstanding Contributions" appraised by the departments concerned of the provincial government should be specially protected according to special protection policies. Except for special law enforcement inspection, all the ordinary activities like visit, inspection, training or contest must be reported to and approved by the company's local foreign trade and economic cooperation department. Other people are not allowed to enter the company.

6.Implement the examining and approving system in the issuance of documents, training and conference. As for the documents issued by various functional departments of the provinceial, the foreign trade and economic cooperation departments at the same level before the issuance of the documents, whenever there are clauses concerning foreign investment companies, these terms must approve municipal or county government. Unapproved documents are not allowed to be issued. Foreign investment companies do not have to abide by the documents without clear indication that they are applicable to foreign investment companies.

7.Regulate the inspection and fee charges on foreign investment companies. If departments concerned must carry out an inspection and impose a fee charge on foreign investment companies, they must strictly follow the laws and regulations. If such action belongs to an enforcement inspection, the inspectors must show the documents for administrative enforcement; if such action belongs to fee charge, the collector must show the Fee Charge License, and fill out the Foreign Investment Company Fee Charge Supervision Card of Liaoning Province, and strictly follow the standards set. Two or more people must jointly carry out the inspection and fee charge activities.
The inspectors and fee collectors must wear uniforms in case they are obliged by the national law to wear them in their administrative activities. If they do not carry out such activities according to the abovementioned requests, the company has the right to decline the reception, and may lodge a complaint to the local or provincial foreign investment complaint-lodging center.

8.Strictly forbid the paid or covert paid official actions of government agencies. The functional departments of the provincial government must not execute paid service for foreign investment companies by using their power. The companies or institutions attached to government agencies are also not allowed to covertly fees with the authority given by such government departments.

9.Further improve the handling of the complaints lodged by foreign investors and their companies. The leaders of all levels must attach importance to the complaints lodged by foreign investors and their companies, and the foreign investment company complaint lodging centers must enhance theirthe ability to coordinate such cases, carefully solve such disputes, and raise the rate of satisfaction of such complaint cases.

10.Establish regular meeting system for dialogs with foreign investors. The departments concerned of the provincial and municipal governments must all insist on the implementation of a the regular meeting system for dialogs with foreign investors. Every year, such departments must sponsor several investment environment symposiums attended by the foreign investors, and the board directors and CEOs of the foreign investment companies, to directly listen to the suggestions and proposals by foreign investors and their companies, and to communicate with themn and help them solve the problems.