1. The objectives of the service building

The Yunnan provincial foreign investment service building is an important measure adopted by the province for the further expansion of the opening-up to the outside world and the increasing utilization of foreign investment. It is also an important measure for the change of government functions, the improvement and openness of the government administration, and the improvement of investment environment. With the aim of “open handling of administrative affairs, transparent operational procedure, standardized work regulations, and streamlined work structure”, by providing investment consultancy service, handling investment approvals, and providing excellent, efficient, uniformed, and standardized services to foreign investment enterprises, the service building serves as a modal of foreign investment environment improvement in the whole province. The Provincial Economic and Trade Cooperation Office is responsible for the organizational work and a leading department in the service building.

2. The responsibilities and requirement of the service building

(1). The responsibilities of the service building. The responsibilities are providing good investment policy consultancy work, and handling all the approval formalities required of the foreign investors intended to invest in Yunnan province. All those approvals related to the responsibility of the provincial government are to be handled in the service building. For those projects to be processed at the provincial level, all the formalities related to the establishment of enterprises, as well as the related approval work on the provincial level concerning the starting of construction and the production and management will be processed centrally in the service building. For projects to be approved on the prefectural levels, the relevant formalities requiring the provincial level approval concerning the starting of construction and the production and management will be also handled in the building.

(2). The work requirement. Project approval formalities which should be handled in the building will be accepted and handled by the relevant government functional departments in the building. The working staff of all the composing departments in the building will undertake the receiving, transferring, following-up, coordinating, and approving of the application within their own scopes of departmental responsibilities.

3. The composing departments in the service building.

The united offices of the service building is composed of by the following departments: the Provincial Economic Cooperation Office, the Provincial Development Planning Commission, the Provincial Economic and Trade Commission, the Provincial Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Department, the Provincial Department of Finance, the Provincial Department of Construction, the Provincial Department of Supervision, The Provincial Department of Land and Resources, the Provincial Department of Labour and Social Security, the Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce, the Provincial Environmental Protection Administration, the Provincial Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision, the Provincial State Taxation Administration, the Provincial Local Taxation Administration, the Provincial Administration of Foreign Exchanges, and the Kunming Customs. Other departments and agencies like the Public Security Bureau, Fire Brigade, the Personnel Department, the Cultural Department, and Health Department will not join the united office. But any work related to these departments will be transferred to the relevant department after handled by the approval leading department in the building and must be handled within the specified timing limit.