interim regulations on annual examination and registration of host institutions

Ⅰ The responsibility of State Administrations of foreign Expert Affairs
1) Every September, it shall issue a notification nationwide on the annual examination of the institution employing foreign cultural and education experts. It also shall dispatch representatives to take part in and direct the annual examination held in corresponding province, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government.
2) It shall collect the statistics of annual examination from various places, examine and approve the outcome of annual examination submitted by the local authorities. In December of the same year, it shall publish the name list of registered institutions and summarize the experiences and problems of various local authorities.

Ⅱ Responsibility of the responsible departments of miniseries and commissions under the State Council
The department in charge of foreign cultural and educational experts affairs of various ministries and commissions under the State Council shall report their initial opinions on the annual examination of their affiliated host institutions to the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs in advance with a copy presented to related provincial level departments responsible for foreign affairs and business.

Ⅲ Joint responsibility of the provincial administrative departments
1) The provincial foreign affairs office shall organize the annual examination together with departments in charge and public security department of entry and exit administration, based on the local conditions in accord with the spirit of the notification on annual examination issued by State Administration of Foreign Experts affairs.
2) They shall jointly discuss and decide the decide the affairs such as examination exemption, registration, award and punishment .but the punishment of the local host institutions affiliated to the central departments shall be approved by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs and the higher departments in charge .

Ⅳ Responsibility of the provincial foreign affairs office
1) It shall complete the local annual examination in every November Before 30th, ssubmit the floppy disks containing statistic data of annual examination collected by the local responsible departments. along with a list of proposed host institutions that shall or shall not pass the examination , and that shall be awarded or punished in the region to the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs for the examination and approval.
2) They shall fill in the qualification certificates of host institutions for foreign cultural and educational experts according to the outcome of the annual examination approved by State Administration of Foreign Experts affairs, affix the seal of provincial foreign affairs office on the annual registration column, and then submit them to the relevant departments . The valid time of the certificate shall commence on January 1st of the following year.

Ⅴ Responsibility of provincial responsible departments.
1) They shall collect the qualification certificates of host institutions of foreign cultural and educational experts in the profession, examine the report of self-examination submitted by each host institution, propose a list of host institutions to be exempted from examination or be the emphasis of examination according to their annual performance, and then submit the annual statistic data and initial opinions to the provincial foreign affairs office.
2) They shall return the valid qualification certificates of host institutions of foreign cultural and educational experts to the corresponding institutions after the annual examination. Meanwhile, they shall give corrective opinion in written form to those institutions that fail to pass the annual examination and require them to rectify within a definite period.
Ⅵ Obligations of the host institutions
1) Every institution shall participate in the annual examination and will be registered after passing the examination. Absence from the examination be regarded as automatic abandonment of qualification.
2) They shall submit the documents for annual examination in floppy disk within the limited time as required by the provincial responsible departments. The local institutions affiliated to the central government shall deliver the documents central responsible departments at the same time.
3) They shall take count measures to the mistakes and defects in annual examination, and shall report them to the responsible department in written form.