Policy digest

Cabinet releases license reform rule

Nineteen categories of industrial products will no longer be required to have a manufacturing license, according to a document released by the State Council, China's Cabinet. In addition, authorization of eight types of industrial products will be delegated to provincial-level governments. The new rule reduces the number of types of industrial products requiring manufacturing licenses to 38, with half of them to be managed by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the other half by provincial governments.

China streamlines administrative power