Recently, the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China issued the notice about dealing with the articles concerned with 18 due government funds policies. The notice emphasizes the remaining 17 funds will continue to be collected by the end of 2006, except that the funds to help the needy in Shanxi province stops to be collected from Jan 1st of this year.

It is known that, these 18 government funds includes: the capital of agriculture net's returning loans, the special funds of wall material, port construction fee, the management and construction fee of civil aviation airport, railway construction funds, railway construction surcharge, the development risk funds of national silkworm silk, the special funds of bulking cement, the development funds of central foreign trade, the warehouse maintenance and construction funds(including warehouse maintenance funds, warehouse support funds at the end of period, warehouse immigration support funds at the end of period, warehouse immigration assistance funds), city and town public affairs surcharge, culture career construction fee, the special funds of national movie career development, tourism development funds, the funds to help the needed, the construction funds of energy sources bases, compensation fee of water resource, the construction fee of electrical source base, etc.

According to the plan, these government funds policies should be on due by the end of 2005. However, the ministry demonstrated in the notice, because the circumstance of remaining 17 funds is complicated, some questions are still to be studied further, so the original policy execution period lasts to the end of 2006.Ministry of finance will continue to ask for the opinion of related aspects, conduct the deeper investigation and study towards the 17 government funds above, put forward the opinions of treating then report them to State Department, and execute them according to the new policy after State Department approves them.(Translation: CARNOC Mengping Tao)

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