On the basis of a comprehensive review of 691 administrative regulations currently in force by the end of 2009, the State Council recently decided to abolish 7 administrative regulations and amend 172 articles of 107 administrative regulations.

According to the person in charge of the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council, the State Council has carried out four comprehensive and six special checks on administrative regulations since 1983. Since the beginning of 2010, in accordance with the requirements of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the unified deployment of the State Council, the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council, together with relevant departments, has carried out a comprehensive cleaning up of administrative regulations, which is obviously incompatible with the requirements of economic and social development and the deepening of reform, or is not consistent with or not coordinated with the newly formulated or revised laws, so it is suitable for the centralized "package" abolition If it has not been amended, it has proposed to abolish or amend it.

It is understood that the seven administrative regulations that have been decided to repeal include: the decision on the payment of wages for statutory holidays by factories and mines in various localities, the provisions on the protection of airport clearance, the administrative provisions on the handling of spot and forward foreign exchange transactions by financial institutions on behalf of customers, the measures for the administration of foreign exchange investment in foreign countries, the administrative measures for overseas financial institutions, and the labor dispute division of enterprises of the people's Republic of China Regulations, oil and Gas Pipeline Protection Ordinance.

In addition, the State Council has also revised the statements in some administrative regulations that are obviously not suitable for the new situation of socialist market economy and economic and social development, the provisions on Expropriation and requisition in some administrative regulations, and the provisions that the names or serial numbers of the laws and administrative regulations quoted in some administrative regulations do not correspond to and do not connect with each other.