Circular of the Ministry of Civil Affairs on the Issues Concerning the Registration of Sino-foreign Cooperative Educational Institutions

Circular of the Ministry of Civil Affairs on the Issues Concerning the Registration of Sino-foreign Cooperative Educational Institutions

December 12, 2003

To the departments and bureaus of civil affairs of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Government, the bureaus of civil affairs of the cities directly under state planning and the Bureau of Civil Affairs of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:

The Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Chinese-foreign Cooperative Education as promulgated by the State Council (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations) were implemented on September 1 of this year. In order to regulate the administration on the registration of Sino-foreign cooperative educational institutions, we hereby inform you of the relevant issues as follows:

Article 1 Those Sino-foreign cooperative educational institutions that apply for registration as private non-enterprise entities may, after obtaining the licenses of Sino-foreign cooperative education, be registered as private non-enterprise entities in accordance with Article 20 of the Regulations and Article 12 of the Tentative Regulations on the Administration of Registration of Private Non-enterprise Entities.

Article 2 The application for registration as a private non-enterprise entity submitted by a Sino-foreign cooperative institution shall be handled by the department of civil affairs at the same level as the administrative department of education of the government and the administrative department of labor of the government that issued the license of Sino-foreign cooperative education.
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