China's complete lifting of domestic game equipment production and sales

Absrtact: January 29 News, this afternoon, the State Council officially issued the State Council on the Promotion of China (Shanghai) Free Trade test area can be replicated reform of the pilot experience notice. It refers to allow foreign-funded enterprises to engage in game entertainment equipment production and sales, etc.

January 29 News, this afternoon, the State Council officially issued the State Council on the Promotion of China (Shanghai) Free Trade test area can be replicated reform of the pilot experience notice. It refers to "allow foreign-funded enterprises to engage in game entertainment equipment production and sales", marking the complete lifting of China's domestic game equipment production and sales.

Prior to this, we have experienced a 14-year-old game ban, during which the domestic game has been in the gray area, all kinds of shanzhai, parallel imports, piracy rampant, the game has long been considered "electronic heroin" and was misunderstood.

Now, with the development of the game industry, people's understanding of the game and the game machine has gradually become rational and comprehensive. And with the establishment of the Shanghai FTA more than a year ago, the ban on game equipment was initially lifted. Then there is the launch of the National Bank's Xbox One and the coming of Sony PS4.

In addition, listed in the notice annex, allowing foreign-owned enterprises to engage in game entertainment equipment production and sales, after the cultural sector content audit for the domestic market sales, the time limit of June 30, 2015, the scope of the country.

The following is the full text of the notice (note: The written date is December 21, 2014; release date is January 29, 2015):

Circular of the State Council on the experience of promoting the experiment of free trade in China (Shanghai)

The governments of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, the State Council ministries and institutions:

The establishment of China (Shanghai) Free Trade test area (hereinafter referred to as Shanghai FTA) is a major decision made by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. Shanghai since the establishment of the Trade test area for more than a year, Shanghai and related departments to decentralization, put the combination of system innovation as the core, speed up the transformation of government functions, explore the institutional mechanism of innovation, in the establishment of the negative inventory management as the core of foreign investment Management system, trade facilitation to focus on the The financial innovation system, which aims at the convertibility of capital account and the opening of financial services, and the supervision system after the change of government function to the core, has formed a batch of reform and innovation achievements which can be replicated and popularized. With the approval of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the pilot experience of replicable reform in Shanghai FTA will be promoted nationwide. The relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:

The main content of replicable promotion

Shanghai FTA can be replicated in the pilot experience, in principle, in addition to legal amendments, Shanghai International Financial Center construction matters, can be promoted in other regions to promote, can be promoted nationwide. The departments concerned, in combination with their own deepening reform efforts, have replicated a number of experiences and practices throughout the country. On this basis, further promotion of the following matters:

(a) The nationwide replication of promotional reform matters.

1. Investment Management Area: Foreign investment advertising Enterprise Project filing system, tax-related matters online approval and filing, tax registration number online automatic code, online independent tax, tax credit management online credit rating, organization code real-time, enterprise standard record management system innovation, cancel production license commissioned processing record, The establishment of enterprises to implement a "single Window" and so on.

2. Trade facilitation Areas: Global Maintenance industry inspection and quarantine supervision, interim cargo Origin certificate management, inspection and quarantine clearance paperless, third-party inspection results of the letter, entry-exit biological material products risk management.

3. Financial sector: Individual other regular renminbi settlement business, foreign investment enterprises foreign exchange capital will settlement, banks dealing with commodity derivatives counter transactions involved in the transaction, foreign Exchange registration and change registration under the transfer of bank management.

4. Open sector of services: Allow the financial leasing company to run business factoring business related to the main business, to allow the establishment of foreign investment credit investigation companies, to allow the establishment of joint-stock foreign investment companies, financial leasing companies set up subsidiaries do not set minimum registered capital restrictions, allowing foreign-owned enterprises to engage in game entertainment equipment production and sales.

5. Ex post facto regulatory measures: Social Credit system, information sharing and comprehensive law enforcement system, enterprise annual report publicity and operating anomaly directory system, social forces to participate in market supervision system, and various departments of professional supervision system.

(b) to replicate and promote reform in other customs-specific areas throughout the country.

1. The Customs Supervision system Innovation: the Futures Bonded Delivery customs supervision system, the domestic and overseas maintenance customs supervision system, the financing leasing customs supervision system and so on.

2. The inspection and Quarantine system Innovation: Import goods pre-inspection, line supervision and management system, animal and plant and product quarantine examination and approval of negative inventory management measures.

Second, attaches great importance to the promotion work

All regions and departments should deeply understand the significance of popularizing the experimental experience of the reform in the experimental area of Shanghai free trade, and make the promotion work as an important measure to deepen the reform in an all-round way, actively change the management idea of the Government, promote reform by opening, combine the actual situation of the local region and the department The Government intervenes excessively and the supervision is not in place, and so on, better play the market in the resource allocation the decisive role and the government role. In order to adapt to the trend of economic globalization, we will gradually build new system and new model adapting to the development of our open economy, release the reform dividend, promote the orderly and free flow of international and domestic factors, efficiently allocate resources and deepen market integration, and accelerate the cultivation of new advantages of participation and leading international economic cooperation.

Iii. Implementing the Organization effectively

Each province (district, city) People's government should adapt to local conditions, the promotion of relevant institutional mechanism reform measures as the focus of the region, the establishment of a sound leadership mechanism, and actively create conditions, a solid advance to ensure that the pilot experience of reform to take root, to produce results. The relevant departments of the State Council shall complete the relevant reform pilot experience promotion work according to the stipulated time limit. Each province (district, city) People's government and the relevant departments of the State Council shall formulate a work plan, clear specific tasks, time nodes and verifiable results form, before January 31, 2015 sent to the Ministry of Commerce, summed up by the Ministry of Commerce, reported to the State Council. Reform pilot experience in the process of promotion of the major problems encountered in the timely report to the State Council.

Appendix: 1. The Department of the State Council responsible for replication and promotion of reform matters division of labor table

2. The provincial (district, municipal) People's Government for reference to promote the reform of the Task table

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December 21, 2014