Administrative Provisions of Guangzhou Municipality on Government Information Sharing
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These Provisions are formulated with a view to regulating the effective use of government information resources, promoting the sharing of government information, improving the government’s overall administrative efficiency and advancing the social management level and social services level, in light of the specific situation of the municipality and in accordance with the Regulations of Guangzhou Municipality on Promoting Informatization.
Article 2 These Provisions are applicable to the acts of providing and sharing government information by the administrative authorities of the municipality.
These Provisions shall apply to the acts of providing and sharing government information by the organizations in the municipality which exercise the administrative powers authorized by laws and regulations or delegated by the administrative authorities.
Reference shall be made to these Provisions for the acts of providing and sharing government information by the public enterprises and institutions and social organizations in the sectors of education, healthcare, family planning, supply of water, electricity, gas and heat, finance, telecommunication and public transport which are closely related to public interest within the administrative division of the municipality when they are exercising the administrative powers authorized by the State.
Article 3 For the purposes of these Provisions, “baseline information” means the basic, stable and identifiable government information which is generated in the process of implementing administration or providing public services by the administrative authorities at all levels and used to identify objects and used for general reference.
For the purposes of these Provisions, the “government information sharing platform” (government information resources directory system and exchange system) means the information platform which provides support for information sharing among the government agencies.
Article 4 Government information sharing shall follow the principles of regulated, effective, timely and complete function-based sharing, legitimate use and guaranteed security.
Government information sharing among the administrative authorities shall be free of charge.
Article 5 The people’s governments of the municipality and all of its districts and county-level cities are responsible for organizing and leading the effects in government information sharing within their respective administrative divisions and for coordinating and resolving key issues related to government information sharing.
The competent departments for informatization of the municipality and all of its districts and county-level cities are responsible for the daily administration of government information sharing within their respective administrative divisions, organizing the building of the technology platforms for government information sharing, management of the infrastructure for sharing administration information resources, formulating relevant standards and specifications together with the administrations of quality and technology supervision and conducting inspection and assessment of the efforts in government information sharing on a regular basis.
Other administrative authorities shall do well their job of collecting, updating and sharing government information within the scope of their respective duties and responsibilities and use the shared information acquired in legal ways according to laws and regulations.
Article 6 The funding involved throughout the information sharing process including information collection, directory preparation, exchange, sharing and operational maintenance shall be incorporated into the e-government expenditure and guaranteed by the departments of finance at all levels.