At the second session of the 13th National People's Congress, Zhang Mao, the director of the State Market Supervision and Administration, Jiao Hong, the director of the State Drug Administration, and Shen Changyu, the director of the China National Intellectual Property Administration, answered questions from Chinese and foreign journalists about "strengthening market supervision and maintaining market order".
Regarding elevators and regulatory issues, the following are:
Q: It is understood that the service life of elevators is 15 years. Based on the urbanization process in China, it is estimated that a large number of elevators may enter the "late stage of life" in the coming period. May I ask Director Zhang Mao, how will the market supervision department strengthen the supervision of elevators in residential communities? thank you.
Answer from Zhang Mao, Director of the State Administration for Market Regulation:
The question raised by the journalist earlier was very professional, regarding the normal service life of elevators. Indeed, elevators belong to special equipment. Currently, there are 6.28 million elevators in use in China, with the highest number of ownership and annual sales in the world. Therefore, ensuring the safe operation of elevators is also one of the top tasks of our State Administration for Market Regulation. The service life of elevators is closely related to their later management and maintenance. If properly maintained, they can be used normally for 20 or 30 years. Even if the main components exceed their service life, they can continue to be used through updates and renovations. In terms of regulations and systems, the updated and renovated elevator is equivalent to becoming a new elevator. Of course, equipment that has been in use for more than 15 years is gradually aging, and safety issues are of greater concern to all parties.
Our market regulatory department has always prioritized ensuring safety, especially the safety of old elevators.
One is to meet the requirements of improving safety standards, conducting strict inspections on the manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and other aspects of elevators, especially increasing the frequency of inspections for old elevators, and promptly rectifying any potential hazards. The second is to promote smooth funding channels for elevator renovation and renovation, and how to raise funds for the renovation of old elevators, and to open up this channel. The third is to implement a safety responsibility system, with departments responsible for use, testing, and maintenance. Some elevators are maintained by manufacturers, while others are maintained by third parties. Especially, we need to innovate the risk sharing mechanism for elevator safety, and actively promote the liability insurance system for elevators in conjunction with the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission and insurance companies. Currently, about 25% of elevators purchase commercial insurance, and we aim to reach over 30% this year. This is to use the mechanism of market risk sharing to further strengthen the supervision of elevator safety.
I hope that through our efforts and the support of all sectors of society, we can promote this new market-oriented approach to ensuring elevator safety, and the insurance rate for elevator purchases will increase year by year to ensure elevator safety. Thank you all.
Q: May I ask Director Zhang, how will the State Administration for Market Regulation further innovate its regulatory methods to ensure that our regulatory level continues to improve after the State Council has issued a joint "double random, one public" regulatory opinion?
Answer from Zhang Mao, Director of the State Administration for Market Regulation:
"Double randomness and one disclosure" is an important aspect of innovative market supervision methods. As we all know, in the past, our traditional regulatory method was inspection, which was the annual inspection of enterprises. Now, we have changed the annual inspection to annual reports and the inspection to spot checks. This reform should be said to have achieved initial results. Last year, the annual report rate of the company reached 91%, exceeding the previous annual inspection rate of about 80%, indicating that the company's sense of self-restraint is increasing. Last year, we randomly sampled 5% of enterprises, of which more than 5 million were listed as operating abnormally, accounting for 14%. Among them, 530000 were truly blacklisted.
The State Council recently issued the "Opinions on Fully Implementing Departmental Joint" Double Random and One Disclosure "Supervision in the Field of Market Regulation," with 17 ministries jointly implementing "Double Random and One Disclosure". There are three keywords here. The first keyword is "union". It's not about you checking today and I will check tomorrow, repeating the check, but about us working together to reduce the frequency of checks. The second keyword is "random", where the inspection object is random and the inspection personnel are random. The third keyword is "public", which means that the inspection results should be made public and displayed on the national enterprise credit information disclosure system. The "double random and one public" inspection this year's work should focus on checking whether the information disclosed by the enterprise is true, such as whether your investment situation has been changed from a paid in system to a subscribed system, and there is no need for an accounting firm to verify the capital. However, when we conduct random inspections, we need to check whether your investment situation is consistent with your annual report. For example, if a company has a registered capital of two million yuan and I have invested one million yuan this year, I will make it public and check if you have invested. Also, check if you have received any other punishment and how good your credit is. Furthermore, we need to strengthen the application of public announcement results and carry out joint punishment to ensure that law-abiding enterprises operate smoothly and illegal enterprises are obstructed everywhere.
At the same time, I would like to emphasize that in our "double random, one public" inspection, there cannot be exempted companies, and we cannot say that companies with good credit can be left unchecked or checked less. The principle of randomness is to select you for inspection today, select you tomorrow, and conduct inspections tomorrow. There cannot be exempted companies or regulatory gaps. This can encourage enterprises to increase their requirements and awareness of self-discipline, while also reducing government regulatory costs. I believe that joint inspections by departments with "double randomness and one transparency" will play a positive role in establishing a fair competitive market environment and enhancing corporate credit awareness. This is also a measure to stimulate market vitality. Thank you all.
