Since the beginning of this year, Qingdao has been launching the “license– and certificate-free city initiative” across the city, which is aimed at continuing to broaden the application of and services for electronic licenses and certificates, further streamlining administrative examination and approval procedures, and moving forward with the initiative of “reducing the necessity of presenting physical licenses or certificates for public convenience”. Qingdao has so far put in place a cumulative total of more than 140 “license- and certificate-free” application scenarios, exempted citizens from submitting over 4.9 million pieces of written material, and put into application and sharing more than 26,000 electronic licenses and certificates.

Ensuring the circulation of data in an orderly way is essential to the “license- and certificate-free city initiative”. To date, Qingdao has sorted out more than 7 million pieces of data on licenses and certificates, finished sorting out, preparing and updating synchronously both electronic and physical licenses and certificates in more than 150 categories. Since the beginning of this year, Qingdao has been pushing ahead with the construction of “license- and certificate-free” application scenarios by focusing on “accomplishing efficiently a task”, license and certificate verification, and services at the grass-roots level. With a focus on full life cycle services for enterprises and individuals, Qingdao will provide exemption from submission of written material and filling of forms.

Qingdao will continue to promote “license- and certificate-free” services, and seek transformations from issuing licenses and certificates separately to integrating multiple certifications and licenses into one consolidated business license, from promoting single scenarios to creating modes that can be transferred elsewhere, and from serving the people passively to taking the initiative to offer public services, so as to give enterprises and the masses a greater sense of gain in going through formalities. (Lin Junyan)

The “one window system”, an intelligent government administration app of Qingdao, provides services via video link.