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By MO JINGXI | China Daily | Updated: 2022-05-25 08:40

Document targets smart residential compounds

The Ministry of Civil Affairs and eight other government departments issued a guideline recently on bolstering the development of smart residential compounds, it said in a notice on Friday.

Smart residential compounds provide services to residents by utilizing information technology like big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

According to the guideline, smart compounds should make it more convenient for residents to deal with matters such as healthcare and elderly care.

The guideline stated that more efforts must be made to improve the organization of power, water, gas and heating networks with the help of smart technologies and to increase access to facilities like convenience stores and smart delivery lockers.

In order to bridge the digital divide, the guideline includes measures to guarantee the rights and interests of the elderly and the disabled during the development of smart compounds.

For example, it states that offline channels for handling frequently needed services, such as payments for medical services or social insurance, must remain in place, and that the elderly and disabled should have access to one-stop services.

Pilot projects aim to ensure fair competition

The State Administration for Market Regulation has carried out several pilot projects to improve fair competition in nine provinces and cities, including Tianjin and Jilin province.

They are part of national efforts to create a more fair, transparent and predictable business environment to stimulate market vitality and development, according to a notice issued on May 19.

The pilot projects cover all aspects related to the implementation of fair competition oversight.

In Tianjin, Shanghai, Jilin, Zhejiang and Shandong, authorities have worked to ensure that no policy or measure that excludes or limits competition is introduced.

The projects in Anhui and Guangdong provinces have focused on promptly responding to the concerns of market entities. Authorities have experimented with creating a mechanism to deal with tipoffs smoothly and efficiently.

Positive experience from the projects will eventually be applied in other regions to ensure fair competition nationwide, thus creating a better environment for the development of companies, particularly small- and medium-sized ones, the administration said.

Entertainment venue rules to be revised

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has decided to revise measures related to entertainment venues to streamline government administration and improve government services, according to a notice issued on May 17.

In recent years, China has revised or introduced a series of laws and regulations, including those related to the protection of minors, administrative punishment and foreign investment.

Current clauses in measures that are inconsistent with these laws will be revised. For example, the revisions include the provision that no entertainment venue shall be set up near kindergartens, as stipulated in the Law on the Protection of Minors.

The measures will also remove restrictions regarding foreign investment in entertainment venues.

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