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As 2013 arrives, it coincides with the just-concluded successful closing of the Party's 18th National Congress, which put forward a series of strategic goals that are both inspiring and arduous. In the new year, China's economic growth is trending downward, reflecting that economic development has entered a period of transition and that the orientation of macroeconomic policy is turning toward weakening the emphasis on the GDP growth rate. Instead of pursuing a high growth rate while placing greater weight on structural adjustment, the state will adopt a variety of measures to regulate the growth rate and strive to achieve the goal of "making progress while maintaining stability

[ppzhan abstract] Import tariffs on printing equipment and materials will see three changes in 2013: first, five photosensitive material products, including flexographic printing plates, will shift from specific duties to ad valorem duties; second, commodity tariff lines will be added for two types of printing equipment and materials, including wide-format inkjet printing equipment; and third, the taxation schemes for three types of printing equipment and materials will be adjusted. Recently, the Tariff Commission of the State Council issued the 2013 Tariff Implementation Plan (the Tariff Commiss

In accordance with the Measures for the Administration of National Printing and Reproduction Demonstration Enterprises formulated by the General Administration, the Printing and Distribution Management Department organized an expert review panel composed of experts and scholars from government regulatory departments, industry associations, technical equipment, finance and tax auditing and other fields, to review the applications of 65 enterprises submitted by 10 provincial press and publication bureaus. Review of National Printing and Reproduction Demonstration Enterprises I. Review Workflow The expert panel first studied the Measures for the Administration of National Printing and Reproduction Demonstration

[ppzhan abstract] The Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission, the General Administration of Customs and the State Administration of Taxation recently jointly issued the Catalogue of Imported Commodities Not Eligible for Tax Exemption under Domestic Investment Projects (2012 Adjustment) (hereinafter referred to as the Catalogue), and the adjusted new catalogue took effect on January 1 this year. The Catalogue is the main basis for implementing the tariff exemption policy for related imported equipment. The adjusted Catalogue contains a total of 944 items, and the items adjusted this time number

Recently, the General Office of the General Administration of Press and Publication issued a notice on launching the 2013 annual verification of printing enterprises and reproduction units, which makes keeping abreast of the development trends of green printing and digital printing at printing enterprises a priority of the work. The notice sets out the priorities of the annual verification of printing enterprises. First, all localities should strengthen supervision over printing enterprises' implementation of the "five systems" and over key enterprises and regions, especially in the 2012 special campaign for the supervision of printing, reproduction and distribution

On February 1, the Several Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on the Reduction of Commodity Packaging (hereinafter referred to as the "Provisions") will take effect in Shanghai. This is the first local regulation on commodity packaging reduction in the history of China's campaign against excessive packaging, and it will create a demonstration effect nationwide; therefore, it has attracted close industry attention ever since Shanghai released the draft of the Provisions in July last year. In this battle against increasingly rampant excessive packaging, Shanghai has moved to the forefront by putting it into legislation. The promulgation of the Provisions will change the past

To all printing enterprises in the city: In order to strengthen the supervision and administration of the printing industry, further consolidate the achievements of the 2012 special campaign for the supervision of printing, reproduction and distribution, continuously improve the "four major access" system of press and publication administration, and promote the scaled, intensive and specialized development of the printing industry, in accordance with Article 61 of the Administrative Licensing Law and the Notice of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Press and Publication Bureau on Conducting the 2013 Annual Verification of Printing Enterprises (Guangxi Press and Publication Bureau [2013

On January 23, 2013, the smoggy weather in Hangzhou had already passed. Although this weather did not have too great an impact on the lives of the people of Hangzhou, it is true that during this period the number of patients with respiratory infections at the major hospitals increased. This is undoubtedly another alarm bell rung by environmental pollution. Haze, also known as gray haze (smoke haze), refers to dust, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, organic hydrocarbons and other particles in the air that make the atmosphere turbid, blur vision and cause visibility to deteriorate; if the horizontal visibility can

On January 17, 2013, the National Printing Standardization Technical Committee held the second working meeting of the drafting group for the national standard Requirements and Test Methods for Printability of Coated Paper for Heatset Web Offset Printing in Hefei, Anhui Province. Participants came from Gold East Paper (Jiangsu) Co., Ltd., Hefei Sino-German Printing Training Center, UPM (China) Co., Ltd., Tianjin Toyo Ink Co., Ltd., C&C Joint Printing (Guangdong) Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hunan Yueyang Forest & Paper

The General Office of the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) recently issued the Catalog of Production-Type Digital Printing Machines (2012), in which the number of production-type digital printing machines listed has grown from 151 in the 2011 edition to 247 in the 2012 edition. As a supporting document to the Measures for the Administration of Digital Printing issued by GAPP in January 2011, the Catalog further unifies the criteria for identifying production-type digital printing machines and clarifies the approval basis for digital printing enterprises. The Catalog covers