INTERIM REGULATIONS OF THE BEIJING MUNICIPALITY CONCERNING THEEXPERIMENTAL AREA FOR DEVELOPING NEW-TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES
INTERIM REGULATIONS OF THE BEIJING MUNICIPALITY CONCERNING THEEXPERIMENTAL AREA FOR DEVELOPING NEW-TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES
Important Notice:
This English document is coming from the "LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA GOVERNING FOREIGN-RELATED MATTERS" (1991.7)
which is compiled by the Brueau of Legislative Affairs of the State
Council of the People's Republic of China, and is published by the China
Legal System Publishing House.
In case of discrepancy, the original version in Chinese shall prevail.
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INTERIM REGULATIONS OF THE BEIJING MUNICIPALITY CONCERNING THE
EXPERIMENTAL AREA FOR DEVELOPING NEW-TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES
(Approved by the State Council of the People's Republic of China
on May 10, 1988 and promulgated by the People's Government of the Beijing
Municipality on May 20, 1988)
Article 1
These Regulations are formulated for the purpose of facilitating the
direct integration of science and technology with production and the
optimal combination of science and technology with other production
factors, promoting technical and economic development and supporting the
establishment of an experimental area for developing new-technology
industries.
Article 2
An area of approximately 100 square kilometres with the Zhongguancun Area
as its centre shall be delineated in the Haidian District of the Beijing
Municipality for the establishment of an export-oriented, open
experimental area for developing new-technology industries (hereinafter
referred to as the "experimental area"). The limits of the experimental
area shall be planned and delineated by the People's Government of the
Beijing Municipality.
Article 3
These Regulations shall apply to technology-intensive and intelligence-
intensive economic entities that are engaged in the research, development,
production and management of one or many types of their new technologies
and the products thereof. The scope of new technologies and the products
thereof shall be separately prescribed by the People's Government of the
Beijing Municipality in accordance with the catalogues drawn up by the
State Science and Technology Commission.
The proportional standards of the technical income, research and
development expenditure and output value of new products of new-technology
enterprises shall be formulated by the People's Government of the Beijing
Municipality in consultation with the State Science and Technology
Commission.
Article 4
The new-technology enterprises in the experimental area shall, after
confirmation by the departments designated by the People's Government of
the Beijing Municipality, register with the administrative department for
industry and commerce in accordance with the pertinent provisions of the
State.
Article 5
With respect to the new-technology enterprises in the experimental area,
the following preferential treatment in the form of reduction of, and
exemption from, taxes shall be effected:
(1) income tax shall be levied at a reduced rate of 15 percent. With
respect to an enterprise whose output value of export products amounts to
over 40 percent of the total output value of the same year, income tax
shall, upon verification by the tax department, be levied at a reduced
rate of 10 percent.
(2) a new-technology enterprise shall be exempted from income tax in the
first three years following its inauguration and shall, upon approval by a
department designated by the People's Government of the Beijing
Municipality, be allowed a 50 percent reduction on the basis of the income
tax rates prescribed in paragraph 1 of this Article in the fourth through
sixth years.
(3) a new-technology enterprise may, upon approval by the People's
Government of the Beijing Municipality, be exempted from buying the bonds
for key construction projects issued by the State.
(4) houses of a productive and business nature built for technological
development with self-raised funds shall be exempted from building tax in
the five years beginning from 1988.
The above-mentioned preferential treatment in the form of reduction of,
and exemption from, taxes shall be applicable to the enterprises with
foreign investment established in the experimental area that measure up to
the standards of a new-technology enterprise.
Article 6
The capital construction projects of the new-technology enterprises in the
experimental area that are of a productive and business nature shall be
arranged for construction in accordance with the unified planning. They
shall not be incorporated into the scale of fixed assets investment.
Procedures for examination and approval shall be simplified and priority
shall be given to their construction.
Article 7
No import licence shall be required for imported raw materials and parts
and components that are needed for the production of export products by a
new-technology enterprise in the experimental area and the Customs shall
inspect and grant clearance on the strength of the contract and the
document of approval issued by the department designated by the People's
Government of the Beijing Municipality. Bonded warehouses and bonded
factories may, upon approval by the Customs, be built in the experimental
area and the Customs shall exercise supervision and control over the
imported raw materials and parts and components in the same way as it
deals with imported materials for processing. The Customs shall, based on
the actual processed and exported quantities, grant exemption from import
duties and product tax on the link of import or value added tax. Export
products shall be exempted from export duties. Bonded goods that are to be
shifted to the domestic market shall be subject to the approval of the
original examining and approving department and the permission of the
Customs and the taxes thereon shall be levied in accordance with the
relevant regulations. With respect to products the import of which is
restricted by the State or which are controlled by the State import
licencing system, the procedures shall be made up for to obtain the
document of approval for import or an import licence in accordance with
the pertinent provisions of the State. If a new-technology enterprise is
to import instruments and equipment for the development of new technology
because China is not capable of producing them, they shall, on the
strength of the document of approval issued by the examining and approving
department and upon verification by the Customs, be exempted from import
duties for the next five years.
The Customs may establish an agency or station a supervising group in the
experimental area.
Article 8
The money resulting from the exemption from, or reduction of, taxes shall
be placed on the State Supporting Fund and be used by the enterprises
exclusively for the development of new technology and production and may
not be used for collective welfare or for distribution among the workers
and staff.
Article 9
The banks shall support the new-technology enterprises in the experimental
areas by means of providing loans and shall allocate every year a certain
amount from the repaid loans for technological transformation to be used
for the development of new technology. Export-oriented new-technology
enterprises shall be granted the priority of being provided with loans in
foreign exchange. The banks shall, for three years following the day on
which these Regulations go into effect, appropriate every year a certain
amount of special loans to be used exclusively for the development and
construction (including capital construction) of the new-technology
enterprises in the experimental area. This special fund shall be for the
exclusive use mentioned above and the banks shall control the turnover in
its use. The banks shall arrange every year for the experimental area to
issue a certain amount of long-term bonds to raise funds from society to
support the development of new technology.
A new-technology enterprise may, upon approval by the tax department,
repay the loans it has used before tax. If the loans are to be used for
capital construction, they shall not be restricted by such provisions as
having to be deposited for half a year and longer before they are used.
The banks in the experimental area may draw a certain proportion from
their interest income and found a loan risk fund. Chinese-foreign joint
risk investment companies may be established in the experimental area.
Article 10
New-technology products import and export companies shall be established
in the experimental area. New-technology enterprises that possess the
necessary conditions shall be granted the right to foreign trade business
operations by the People's Government of the Beijing Municipality and
undertake export plans, assuming full responsibility for their own profits
and losses. They may, upon approval by the State departments concerned,
establish branch offices abroad. The foreign exchange earned by a new-
technology enterprise shall be retained entirely by the enterprise for the
first three years and shall, from the fourth year on, be divided between
the local authorities and the foreign exchange earning enterprise, with 20
percent going to the former and 80 percent retained by the latter.
Article 11
With respect to new-technology enterprises in the experimental area that
have relatively many economic and technical exchanges with foreign
countries or relatively much products export business, if their commercial
and technical personnel have to go abroad many times in a year, their
first visit abroad shall be examined and approved by the People's
Government of the Beijing Municipality and the later ones shall be
examined and approved by the respective enterprises themselves.
Article 12
Instruments and equipment that are used by a new-technology enterprise in
the experimental area for the development of new technology and the
products thereof may be granted fast depreciation.
Article 13
New-technology enterprises in the experimental area may fix trial sale
prices for the new products developed by themselves. If they handle the
new-technology products that have not been unifiedly priced by the State,
they may fix the prices for these products themselves.
Article 14
Technical personnel working in scientific research institutions, schools
and enterprises are encouraged to do part-time jobs in the new-technology
enterprises in the experimental area, or launch, lead the running of or
contract various kinds of new-technology enterprises, or leave their jobs
to take up positions in the new-technology enterprises. The departments
concerned shall give them active support, provide convenience and protect
their legitimate rights and interests.
New-technology enterprises shall be permitted to recruit graduating junior
college students, graduating university students, postgraduates, returned
students and foreign experts.
Article 15
New-technology enterprises in the experimental area shall be exempted from
bonus tax. If the personal income of a person employed in such an
enterprise reaches the standard where the regulatory tax for personal
income shall be payable, a tax shall be levied in accordance with the
relevant regulations.
Article 16
With respect to the various taxes paid by the new-technology enterprises
in the experimental area, the whole amount that has been increased on top
of the taxes paid in 1987, which are used as the radix, shall for five
years be returned to the Haidian District. This amount shall be used for
the development and construction of the experimental area and its use
shall be supervised by the municipal financial and tax departments.
Article 17
The People's Government of the Beijing Municipality may formulate
procedures of implementation and specific implementing provisions in
accordance with these Regulations.
Article 18
These Regulations shall go into effect on the date of promulgation.
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