Shanghai's food businesses now can seamlessly renew their food business permits without specific applications, thanks to the Shanghai Municipal Administration for Market Regulation's efforts to streamline application processes and foster a more conducive business environment.

Previously, a food business permit could be applied for only after the renewal of a business license. However, the surge in demand for license renewals in recent years highlighted the inefficiencies and challenges posed by the cumbersome application procedures.

In response, authorities have implemented measures to simplify the intertwined processes of managing business licenses and food business permits. When applicants process changes to business license names and legal representatives, the information is simultaneously shared with the food business permit system.

Subsequently, the system autonomously verifies the correspondence between the business entity name, legal representative, and its data, triggering automatic updates following business license renewal.

According to data from the market regulatory authority, as of now, a total of 1,109 enterprises have renewed their information in the system.

Furthermore, the new policy extends its services to the post-approval phase. According to relevant regulations, food business operators are mandated to report online operations, external warehouses, and related activities to the local market regulatory department within 10 working days of commencing operations.

To streamline this reporting process, enterprises are now encouraged to voluntarily provide website URLs and warehouse addresses during the application for a food business permit or filing.

Upon administrative approval, the system automatically compiles a comprehensive report using the pre-existing information, serving as the official food business activity report for the enterprise.

This optimization not only alleviates the burden of repetitive operational submissions by enterprises, but also eliminates the need for redundant data retrieval, effectively reducing time and manual effort.

Source: Jiefang Daily