Regulations for Administration of Newspaper Publication

Regulations for Administration of Newspaper Publication

Chapter I General Provision

Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in accordance with the "Regulations on

Publication Administration" promulgated by the State Council and related laws and

regulations for the purpose of developing and promoting our country's newspaper cause,

standardizing and strengthening newspaper publication.

Article 2 These Regulations shall apply to the newspaper publishing activities conducted

in the territory of the People's Republic of China.

Newspapers shall be published by publishing units established according to law. To

publish newspapers, a publishing unit must get approval of the Press and Publication

Administration, national unified publication number and newspaper publication license.

The "newspaper" used in these regulations refers to any loose-leaf publication with fixed

name, number of issues and format size and with news and current events survey as the main

content that is continuously published at least one issue a weak.

The "newspaper publishing unit" used in these regulations refers to any newspaper office

established in accordance with relative provisions of the state as approved by the Press and

Publication Administration. Where a legal person publishes a newspaper without setting up a

newspaper office the editorial department established by the legal person for the newspaper

shall be deemed to be a publishing unit.

Article 3 Newspaper publication must adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong

Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "three representatives", follow

correct guideline of public opinions and publication orientation and persist in the principle of

giving first priority to the social benefits, achieving combination of social benefits and

economic returns, leaning close to the practice, the masses and the life, fostering a good

atmosphere for building socialism with Chinese characteristics and enriching the cultural life

of the broad masses of the people.

Article 4 The Press and Publication Administration shall be responsible for the

supervision and administration of publishing activities nationwide, make and implement plans

for the total number, structure and distribution of newspaper publishing units nationwide and

establish and perfect supervision and management systems such as comprehensive quality

assessment system for newspaper publication nationwide, annual newspaper check and

examination system and newspaper publication withdrawal system.

The local press and publication administration departments at different level shall be

responsible for the supervision and administration of newspaper publishing activities within

their own administrative areas.

Article 5 Newspaper publishing units shall responsible for the publishing activities

including editing and publication.

Lawful publication activities of newspaper publishing units shall be protected by law. No

organization or individual shall illegally interfere with, prevent or disrupt the publishing of

newspapers.

Article 6 The Press and Publications Administration shall reward the units and

individuals who have made contribution to the development and flourishing of the newspaper

cause of the country.

Article 7 The social organization of the newspaper publishing industry shall carry out

self-regulation in conformity with the articles of association and under the guidance of press

and publication administration department.

Chapter II Establishment of Newspapers and Newspaper Publishing Units

Article 8 For establishment, a publishing unit shall meet the following conditions:

（I） possessing a name different with that of any other exiting newspaper

（II） possessing a name and the articles of association of the publishing unit;

（III） possessing a sponsoring unit which is recognized by the Press and Publication

administration of the State Council, and the competent agency at the higher level;

（IV） possessing a well-defined scope of business;

（V） possessing a registered capital of more than 300,000 yuan;

（VI） possessing an organizational structure which meets the needs of its scope of

business and editorial and publishing professionals conforming to qualifications stipulated by

the State;

（VII） possessing a fixed premise located in the same administrative area of the

sponsor;

（VIII） possessing legal representative or major responsible person who must be a

Chinese citizen permanently residing in Chinese territory; and

（IX） other requirements prescribed by the laws and administrative regulations.

In addition to the conditions listed in the preceding paragraphs, the approval of the

establishment of a publishing unit shall also accord with the plan of the State for the total

number, structure and distribution of newspaper publishing units.

Article 9 For a central department located in Beijing to establish newspaper or

newspaper publishing unit, the sponsoring unit shall apply to the Press and Publication

Administration for approval after getting approval from the host unit.

For the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Chinese People's Armed Police Forces

to establish a newpaper and a publishing unit, the sponsoring unit shall make an application to

the Press and Publication Bureau of the Propaganda Department under the General Political

Department; the said bureau shall upon examination and consent, submit it to the Press and

Publication Administration under the State Council for examination and approval.

For other department to establish a newspaper and publishing unit, after approved by its

host unit, the sponsoring unit shall make an application to press and publication

administration department the province, autonomous region or municipality where it is

located; the said publication administration department shall, upon examination and consent,

submit it to the Press and Publication Administration under the State Council for examination

and approval.

Article 10 For two or more than two units to establish a newspaper, there must be a

major sponsoring unit that shall make application.

The major sponsoring unit of a newspaper shall be a subordinate unit of its host unit; the

publishing unit of a newspaper shall be located at the same area of the major sponsoring unit.

Article 11 For establishment of a newspaper and a newspaper publishing unit, the

sponsoring unit shall make an application with the following materials:

（I） a "Form of Application for Newspaper Publication";

（II） certificates about the qualification and competence of the sponsoring unit and

host unit;

（III） the resume, identification documents and professional qualification certificates

of the proposed legal representative or major responsible person of the newspaper publishing

unit;

（IV） qualification certificates of editorial and publishing professionals

（V） relative certificate documents about the sources and amount of the fund used for

newspaper publishing

（VI） the articles of association of the publishing unit;

（VII） certificate of premise used;

（VIII） feasibility study report on newspaper publishing.

Article 12 The Press and Publication Administration under the State Council shall make

a decision of approval or disapproval within 90 days from the date of receipt of the

application for the establishment of a newspaper and publishing unit, and press and

publication administration department of the province, autonomous region or municipality

shall inform the sponsoring unit of the decision in written form; reasons shall be given where

a decision of disapproval is made.

Article 13 The sponsoring unit establishing a newspaper shall go through the formalities

of registration within 60 days from the date of receipt of the information on the approval

decision of the Press and Publication Administration.

（I） The sponsoring unit shall take the approval documents to press and publication

administration department of the province, autonomous region or municipality where it is

located to obtain a "Registration Form of Newspaper Publication" and fill it. After examined

and signed by the host unit, the form shall be submitted to press and publication

administration department of the province, autonomous region or municipality where it is

located

（II） The "Registration Form of Newspaper Publication" shall have five copies. Each

of them shall be held by the publishing unit, sponsoring unit, host unit and press and

publication administration department of the province, autonomous region or municipality

where it is located; the last copy shall be submitted by press and publication administration

department of the province, autonomous region or municipality within 15 day to the Press and

Publication Administration under the State Council for record.

（III） After examining the "Registration Form of Newspaper Publication" as correct,

press and publication administration department of the province, autonomous region or

municipality shall issue "Newspaper Publishing License" to the sponsoring unit within 10

days and list the newspaper into the national unified publication number.

（IV） The sponsoring unit thus shall apply to the administrative department for

industry and commerce for a business license on the basis of "Registration Form of

Newspaper Publication".

Article 14 The sponsoring unit of a newspaper shall go through the formalities of

registration within 60 days from the date of receipt of the approval document from the Press

and Publication Administration; otherwise, the approval document will be invalid, and the

registration department would refuse its registration and the sponsoring unit shall return the

approval documents back to the Press and Publication Administration.

Where a newspaper publishing unit has not published any newspaper within 90 days

from the date of registration, the Press and Publication Administration shall revoke the

"Newspaper Publishing License" and the original publication administration department shall

cancel the registration.

Where the situation listed in the preceding paragraph is due to force majeur or for other

justified reasons, the publishing unit may apply to press and publication administration

department for an extension of the said time limit.

Article 15 A newspaper office shall satisfy the requisite conditions of a legal person,

obtain the qualifications of a legal person through verification and registration, and undertake

civil liabilities independently with all its legal person property.

The editorial department does not have the qualifications of a legal person, and its civil

liabilities shall therefore be undertaken by its sponsoring unit.

Article 16 Where a publishing unit changes its name, carries out merger or separation,

changes its capital structure or publishes a new newspaper it shall go through the procedures

of examination, approval and registration in accordance with the provisions of Articles 9 to

Article 13 of these Regulations.

Article 17 Where a newspaper changes its name, sponsoring unit or competent agency at

the higher level, number of issues or scope of business, it shall go it shall go through the

procedures of examination, approval and registration in accordance with the provisions of

Articles 9 to Article 13 of these Regulations.

Where a newspaper changes its number of issues, the Press and Publication

Administration can entrust press and publication administration department of the province,

autonomous region and municipality to make examination and approval.

The scope of business used in these regulations includes the aim and the language used.

Article 18 Where a newspaper changes its size, its publishing unit shall, upon

examination and content of its sponsoring unit, apply for approval of the change to press and

publication administration department of the province, autonomous region or municipality

where it is located

Article 19 Where a newspaper publishing unit changes its address, the legal

representative or major responsible person or the printing unit, it unit shall, upon examination

and content of its sponsoring unit, be registers with press and publication administration

department of the province, autonomous region or municipality where it is located within 15

days.

Article 20 Where a newspaper suspends for more than 20 successive days, the publishing

unit shall go through the suspension formalities with press and publication administration

department of the province, autonomous region or municipality where it is located and

explain the reason and period of the suspension.

The suspension period of a newspaper should not exceed 180 days. If there is no normal

publication for more than 180 days the Press and Publication Administration shall revoke its

"Newspaper Publishing License", and press and publication administration department of the

province, autonomous region and municipality shall cancel the registration.

Article 21 Where a newspaper publishing unit terminates its publishing activities, it shall,

upon examination and content of its sponsoring unit, go through registration of cancellation at

press and publication administration department of the province, autonomous region or

municipality where it is located, which shall make a report to the Press and Publication

Administration under the State Council for the record.

Article 22 The publishing unit established with the same name of the newspaper

cancelled shall be cancelled at the same time and shall go through registration of cancellation

at the administrative department for industry and commerce where the original registration

was conducted

The cancelled newspaper and its publishing unit should no longer conduct publishing

and business activities with the same name.

Article 23 For central newspaper publishing units to establish a newspaper group, the

approval should be given by the Press and Publication Administration; for local central

newspaper publishing units to establish a newspaper group, application be submitted to press

and publication administration department of the province, autonomous region and

municipality where they are located and upon examination and content reported to the Press

and Publication Administration for approval.

Chapter III Publishing of Newspapers

Article 24 Newspaper publishing shall adopt a system of editor's responsibility to ensure

that the contents of the newspapers conform to the provisions of the state laws and regulations.

Article 25 No newspaper shall contain the contents which are prohibited by the

"Regulations on Publication Administration" and other laws and regulations or by the state.

Article 26 Newspaper must adhere to the principle of real, overall, objective and just and

should not contain false contents inconsistent with the facts.

Where the lawful rights and interests of a citizen, a legal person or some other

organizations are infringed upon due to the false and untruthful contents of a newspaper, its

publishing unit shall make public corrections, eliminate the effects, and bear civil liabilities

according to law.

Where the lawful rights and interests of a citizen, a legal person or some other

organizations are infringed upon due to the false or untruthful contents of the report published

in a newspaper, the party concerned shall have the right to require to make corrections or

make a reply, and the relevant publishing unit shall publish the corrections or reply in its

newspaper; in case of refusal to make publication, the party concerned may bring a suit in a

people's court.

The corrections or reply to the false and untruthful contents of the report shall be

published in the latest issue of the newspaper after the mistakes are found and on the same

position where they are found.

Where the public benefits are infringed upon due to the false or untruthful contents of the

report published in a newspaper, the Press and Publication Administration or the press and

publication administration department of the province, autonomous region and municipality

can instructed the publishing unit to make corrections.

Article 27 Any newspaper shall abide by relative regulations when carries or reprinted

the contents with relation to the important state policy, national and religion affairs,

diplomacy, military and secrecy of the state.

For any newspaper to reprint and abstract contents from the Internet, the contents must

be verified according to relative provisions; the website where the contents are unloaded and

the date when they are loaded must be marked in obvious position.

Article 28 For newspaper to carry news report, the real name of the author must be

clearly indicated.

Article 29 The quality of newspaper publishing shall meet the national and industrial

standards; the language the newspaper uses shall accord with relative provisions of the state.

Article 30 The newspaper publishing shall accord with the registered items in the

"Newspaper Publication License"; change of the registered items shall be applied for approval

or go through recording formalities.

Article 31 Each issue of the newspaper shall be marked with following edition records

on a fixed position when published:

（I） Name of the newspaper;

（II） Names of the publishing unit, sponsoring unit and host unit;

（III） Consecutive national unified publication number;

（IV） Name of the editor-in-chief （director general）;

（V） Publication date, general issue number, pages, and series;

（VI） Address, telephone and zip code of the publishing unit;

（VII） Price of the newspaper （extra shall be marked with "free to read"）;

（VIII） Name and address of the printing unit;

（IX） Number of advertising business license;

（X） Other marks with relation to public benefits or industrial standards as stipulated

by the sate.

Article 32 One consecutive national unified publication number only can be used by one

newspaper and cannot be use for the publication of different newspapers.

For the publication of a newspaper in different editions （languages） such as local

edition, minority nationality language edition and foreign language edition, the application

formalities shall be gone through as for creating a new newspaper.

Article 33 One newspaper cannot be published with different sizes.

All the pages of a newspaper shall be issued as a whole and cannot be issued respectively.

Article 34 The special page or special issue of a newspaper shall accord with the aim and

business scope of the newspaper; the headline characters of the special page or special issue

shall not be larger than the name of the newspaper.

Article 35 In addition to normal issues, extra issue can be published. Application

formalities for extra issues shall be gone as changing the number of issues.

The contents of extra issue shall accord with the business scope of the newspaper; the

size, language, range of distribution and number of copies shall accord with the main

newspaper; the extra newspaper shall be issued along with the main newspaper.

Article 36 Newspaper publishing unit can issue extra for important events; the extra issue

shall be market with "Extra" on the head and cannot be published for more than 3 consecutive

days.

The publishing unit that issues extra shall register with the press and publication

administrative department of the province, autonomous region and municipality where it is

located and submit all the sample copies of the extra newspapers within 15 days after

publishing.

Article 37 A publishing unit should not sell, lease or transfer its name and the edition

number, name and edition layout of its newspaper; and should not lend, transfer, lease and sell

the "Newspaper Publication License".

Article 38 For publishing advertisement, the characters of "Advertisement" shall be

market on the distinct position of the newspaper; advertisement should not be published in the

form of news.

For newspaper to cover advertisement, relative certificates should be checked according

to laws and administrative regulations; the contents of the advertisement shall be verified;

pernicious, false and illegal advertisement identified should not be published.

Advertisement business of a newspaper shall be limited to advertisement service and

advertisement agency within the authorized legal scope and should not be involved in the

news gathering, editing and other publishing activities of the newspaper.

Article 39 A newspaper publishing unit should not cover any payable news in the

newspaper.

A newspaper publishing unit and its staff should not use news coverage to seek irregular

profits for themselves, and should not ask for and accept any property or other benefit from

the covered or the interested person.

Article 40 The editorial and publishing operations of a newspaper must be divided with

the business operation.

The editorial and publishing department and its staff should not get involved in the

business activities with relation to the newspaper distribution and advertisement; the business

department and its staff should not get involved in the covering and editing works.

Article 41 The editorial and publishing persons of a newspaper publishing unit who

conduct news gathering activities must hold press card verified and issued by the Press and

Publication Administration under the State Council and follow relative provisions of the

"Measures for Management of Press Card" formulated by the Press and Publication

Administration.

Article 42 Based on the demands of news gathering, a newspaper publishing unit can

establish press stations in accordance with the "Measures for Management of Press Card"

formulated by the Press and Publication Administration to conduct press activities.

Article 43 Newspaper publishing unit should not conduct business activities through

illicit competition or with illicit form, and should not apportion distribution of newspapers by

taking advantages of its power.

Article 44 Newspaper publishing units shall submit statistics data to the press and

publication administration department according to the statistics laws and regulations of the

state.

Newspaper publishing units shall cooperate with the publication distribution data

investigation body certified by the state to conduct investigation on the distribution number of

newspapers and provide real data on newspaper distribution.

Article 45 Newspaper publishing units shall send free sample copies to the National

Library of China, China Library of Editions, the Press and Publication Administration under

the State Council and the press and publication administration departments of the provinces,

autonomous regions and municipalities they are located.

Chapter IV Supervision and Management

Article 46 The supervision and management of newspaper publishing activities shall be

conducted under territorial principle.

The press and publication administration departments of the provinces, autonomous

regions and municipalities shall be responsible for the supervision and administration of

newspaper publishing activities within their own administrative areas accordance to law,

including registration, annual inspection, quality assessment and administrative penalty.

Other local press and publication administration departments shall be responsible for the

supervision and administration of newspaper publishing units and their newspaper publishing

activities within their own administrative areas.

Article 47 Newspaper publication management shall carry out newspaper re-reading

system, quality assessment system, annual inspection system and press staff competency

management system.

Newspaper publishing units shall submit written report on newspaper publishing

activities to the press and publication administration departments according to the provision

of the Press and Publication Administration under the State Council.

Article 48 The Press and Publication Administration under the State Council shall be

responsible for the re-reading of national newspapers. Local press and publication

administration departments at different level shall be responsible for the re-reading of the

newspapers published in their own administrative areas. The press and publication

administration departments at lower level shall submit report on re-reading to the press and

publication administration departments at higher level.

The host units shall re-read the newspapers under their control and submit re-reading

reports to the press and publication administration departments where they are located

regularly.

Newspaper publishing units shall establish newspaper reading and assessment system

and prepare reading and assessment report regularly. The press and publication administration

departments can read and inspect the reading and assessment reports of the publishing units at

any time based on the requirements for management.

Article 49 The Press and Publication Administration under the State Council shall

formulate the comprehensive assessment system for newspaper publishing quality to conduct

overall assessment on the publishing quality.

In case the results of the quality comprehensive assessment on a newspaper shows that

the quality of the newspaper fails to reach the defined standard or cannot maintain normal

publishing activities, the Press and Publication Administration under the State Council shall

revoke its "Newspaper Publishing License" and the registration with the press and publication

administration department of the province, autonomous region and municipality it is located

shall be cancelled.

Article 50 The press and publication administration departments of the provinces,

autonomous regions and municipalities shall conduct annual verification and examination to

the newspaper publishing units located in their administrative areas. The contents of annual

verification and examination shall include newspaper publishing unit and the registered items

of the newspapers they published, publishing quality, situation of the observance of

disciplines and law, management of press cards and press stations etc.

Article 51 Annual verification and examination shall be conducted according to the

following procedure:

（I） A newspaper publishing units shall submit annual self-examination report and fill

in the unified "Newspaper Publishing Annual Examination Format" printed by the Press and

Publication Administration under the State Council; after verified and sealed by the

sponsoring and host units, the self-examination report, along with 30 sample copies

consecutively published before the date of examination, to the press and publication

administration department of the province, autonomous region and municipality where it is

located.

（II） The press and publication administration department of the province, autonomous

region and municipality shall conduct verification and examination of the self-examination

report, the "Newspaper Publishing Annual Examination Format" and other data and materials

submitted by the publishing unit.

（III） If a publishing passes the examination as meeting the defined standard, the press

and publication administration department of the province, autonomous region and

municipality shall stamp the annual examination seal on the "Newspaper Publishing Annual

Examination Format". Once the Format stamped, the publishing unit shall go on its

newspaper publishing activities.

（IV） The press and publication administration department of the province,

autonomous region and municipality shall submit an annual examination report to the Press

and Publication Administration under the State Council within 30 days after completing the

newspaper publishing annual examination.

Article 52 Under one of the following circumstances, the annual examination shall be

deferred:

（I） in the process of rectifying and reform within a prescribed time limit of stopping

publishing;

（II） being found of unlawful practice constituting penalty;

（III） with host and sponsoring units' failure to implement their responsibility for

management leading confusion in management of the newspaper publishing;

（IV） on suspicion of other illegal acts ought to be further verified.

The deferring period of the annual examination shall be decided by the press and

publication administration department of the province, autonomous region and municipality

and be submitted to the Press and Publication Administration under the State Council for

record. After the deferring period, the annual examination shall be recovered in accordance

with Article 50 and Article 51 of these Regulations.

Article 53 Under one of the following circumstances, the annual examination should not

be passed:

（I） violating law but refusing to rectify after being investigated and prosecuted or

without obvious results of rectification;

（II） failure to meet the standard defined for publishing quality for long time;

（III） in insolvency because of worsening operation;

（IV） already unable to meet the conditions prescribed in Article 8 of these

Regulations.

Failing to pass the annual examination, the publishing unit's "Newspaper Publishing

License" shall be revoked by the Press and Publication Administration under the State

Council and the registration shall be cancelled by the press and publication administration

department of the province, autonomous region and municipality where it is located.

Failing to pass the annual examination, the newspaper publishing unit shall stop

publishing newspaper starting from the next years.

Article 54 After being stamped with the annual examination seal, the "Newspaper

Publishing License" can be used continuously. For relative departments to go through

formalities of newspaper publishing, printing and distribution, the "Newspaper Publishing

License" without annual examination seal cannot be used.

Where any newspaper publishing unit does not participate annual examination and still

refuse to participate under ask, the Press and Publication Administration under the State

Council shall revoke its "Newspaper Publishing License", and the press and publication

administration department of the province, autonomous region and municipality where it is

located shall cancel its registration.

Article 55 Organs in charge of the examination can publicize the results of the annual

examination to the society.

Article 56 Professionals involved in newspaper publishing shall meet the occupational

requirements for press publication prescribed by the state.

Article 57 The director general and editor-in-chief of a newspaper publishing unit shall

meet the occupational requirements prescribed by the state.

The director general and editor-in-chief of a newspaper publishing unit shall take part in

the occupational training organized by the press and publication administration department.

The new director general and editor-in-chief of a newspaper publishing shall accept

occupational training and pass the examination before take their positions.

Chapter V Legal Liabilities

Article 58 Any newspaper publishing unit that violates these Regulations shall be

imposed on following administrative countermeasures by the press and publication

administration department based on the actual situation:

（I） circulating notice of warning;

（II） circulating notice of criticism；

（III） order to make public self-criticism;

（IV） order to rectify;

（V） order to stop publishing and distributing the newspaper;

（VI） order to retract the newspapers;

（VII） oder the sponsoring and host units to supervise the publishing unit's rectification.

The notice of warning shall take the unified form stipulated by the Press and Publication

Administration under the State Council and be sent to the law-breaking newspaper publishing

unit by the Press and Publication Administration under the State Council or the press and

publication administration department of the province, autonomous region and municipality

where it is located, with a copy sent to the sponsoring and host units of the newspaper

publishing unit.

The administration measures prescribed in this article can be used in combination.

Article 59 Without approval, any unauthorized establishment or any activity to engage in

the unauthorized publication, or to forge or counterfeit the name of a publishing unit, or of a

newspaper to publish newspaper, shall be punished in accordance with Article 55 of "the

Regulations on Administration of Publication".

Article 60 Publishing newspapers which contain the contents prohibited by "the

Regulations on Administration of Publication", other laws and regulations or provisions of the

state shall be punished in accordance with Article 55 of "the Regulations on Administration of

Publication".

Article 61 Newspaper publishing unit that breaks Article 37 of these regulations shall be

punished in accordance with Article 60 of "the Regulations on Administration of Publication".

Newspaper publishing unit that permit or acquiesce in advertisement operators to engage

in the publishing activities including covering and editing shall be punished in accordance

with the preceding item.

Article 62 A newspaper publishing unit that commits one of the following acts shall be

punished in accordance with Article 61 of "the Regulations on Administration of Publication".

（I） A newspaper publishing unit fails to follow these regulations to go through the

formalities of examination and approval of change of its name, merger or separation, change

of its capital structure, publishing new newspapers;

（II） A newspaper fails to follow these regulation to go through the formalities of

examination and approval of changes at its name, sponsoring unit, host unit, number of issues,

scope of business and size;

Article 63 Where any newspaper publishing unit commits one of the following acts, the

Press and Publication Administration under the State Council or the press and publication

department of the province, autonomous region and municipality shall give a warning and

impose a fine of no more than RMB 30,000 yuan:

（I） failing to follow Article 19 of these regulations to report for record the changes of

address, or legal representative or major responsible person, or printing unit;

（II） failing to follow Article 20 of these regulations to report for record the suspension

of publishing;

（III） covering false or inaccurate reports harming public interests and refusing to

implement the rectifying order of the press and publication administration department;

（IV） failing to carry the real name of the author when cover report on the newspaper;

（V） covering or abstracting relative articles against Article 27 of these regulations;

（VI） failing to carry editorial record of the newspaper according to Article 31 of these

regulations;

（VII） publishing several editions of newspapers with a single number against Article

32 of these regulations;

（VIII） publishing different editions of newspapers or distributing some pages

respectively against Article 33 of these regulations;

（IX） violating the provisions of these regulations on publishing special page, special

issue, additional issue or extra;

（X） failing to mark the word "advertisement" on the distinct position when covering

advertisement or covering advertisement in news form;

（XI） covering payable news or violating other provisions of Article 39 of these

regulations;

（XII） conducting business activities through illicit competition or imposing

distribution with power against Article 43 of these regulations.

Article 64 Any news gathering persons of a newspaper publishing unit that violates

related provisions on Press Card shall be punished in accordance with the "Measures for

Administration of Press Cards" formulated by the Press and Publication Administration under

the State Council.

Article 65 Any newspaper publishing unit that violates related provisions on press

stations shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the "Measures for

Administration of Newspaper Press Stations";

Article 66 Any administrative punishment on a newspaper publishing unit shall be

noticed to the sponsoring and host units of the newspaper and can be announced to the public

through media.

Where administrative punishment is imposed on a newspaper publishing unit, the press

and publication administration department shall recommend its sponsoring unit or host unit to

give administrative sanction to the direct and major responsible persons or dismiss them.

Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions

Article 67 These regulations also apply to other individual-paged publications possessing

national unified consecutive publication number with non-news stories as the major contents

or with publishing period over one week.

Article 68 The Provisional Regulations for Administration of Newspaper Publication

promulgated by Press and Publication Administration under the State Council shall be

repealed simultaneously when these regulations come into effective. Other prior provisions on

the administration of newspaper publication activities stipulated by the press and publication

administration department that may have conflict with these regulations shall subject to these

regulations.

Article 69 These Regulations shall be effective on December 1, 2005.