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Jinhua Opens Reporting Channel for Foreign Founders to Flag Problematic Enforcement

Foreign founders operating in Jinhua can now report improper administrative enforcement—such as arbitrary fees, fines, inspections, or seizures—through multiple official channels until September 30, 2025. This guide explains what conduct is covered and how to submit a report.

Jinhua Launches Reporting Mechanism for Problematic Enforcement

Foreign founders running companies in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, now have a formal channel to report improper administrative enforcement. The Jinhua Municipal Justice Bureau has announced a public call for information on prominent problems in enterprise-related administrative enforcement. The initiative aims to standardize enforcement behavior, reduce the burden on businesses, and improve the legal business environment. The reporting period runs from now until September 30, 2025.

For foreign founders, this is a practical tool to address enforcement overreach that can disrupt operations, inflate costs, or create uncertainty. Below is an overview of the conduct covered, the reporting methods available, and key points to keep in mind.

What Conduct Can Be Reported

The call targets eight categories of problematic enforcement. Understanding these categories can help you identify when to consider filing a report.

1. Arbitrary Fees

Creating fee items without authorization, failing to publicize fee standards properly, or raising fee rates, amounts, or scope.
Continuing to collect fees that the government has explicitly canceled.
Coercing parties into paid services or designated product purchases in disguised form.
Shifting the cost of government-mandated services onto enterprises.
Double-charging or privately withholding collected fees.
Failing to implement national or local fee-reduction policies for businesses.

2. Arbitrary Fines

Imposing fines beyond statutory authority or scope.
Ignoring discretion benchmarks and imposing maximum or excessively high fines at will.
Lowering the threshold for identifying violations or expanding the scope of violations arbitrarily.
Failing to apply legal provisions for mitigated or exempted penalties when applicable.
Inconsistent penalties for similar cases, disproportionate penalties, or penalties that are clearly too light or too heavy.

3. Arbitrary Inspections

Inspections conducted by organizations or individuals without enforcement qualifications, including third-party testing institutions, research institutes, and intermediaries.
Inspections disguised as guidance or services.
Inspections beyond statutory duties.
Inspection items that have not been published.
Disruptive enforcement such as multiple inspections, multi-level inspections, or repetitive inspections.
Failure to show credentials or scan codes, illegal inspection procedures, or perfunctory inspections.

4. Arbitrary Seizures

Abuse of administrative coercive measures, including sealing, seizing, or freezing assets beyond authority, scope, amount, or time limits.
Failure to properly store or dispose of property involved in cases according to law.

5. Improper Cross-Regional Enforcement

Dispatching personnel to conduct enforcement outside the statutory jurisdiction or before a jurisdictional dispute is resolved.
Handling cases across regions without proper cooperation procedures or with incomplete procedures.

6. Profit-Driven Enforcement

Issuing or covertly issuing assessment targets for administrative fines, confiscations, or enforcement quantities.
Setting up electronic monitoring equipment arbitrarily, divorced from actual regulatory needs.
Linking administrative fine and confiscation revenue to the enforcement agency's operating funds or welfare benefits.
Illegally pre-collecting or privately withholding fines and confiscations, or violating the separation of penalty decision and payment.

7. Enforcement Quality and Effectiveness Issues

Inconsistent enforcement standards or requirements that increase the burden on enterprises.

8. Other Enforcement Irregularities

Uncivilized, simple, or rough enforcement; soliciting or accepting property; demanding favors.
Handling cases based on personal connections, favors, or money—abuse of power for private gain or rent-seeking.

How to Submit a Report

The Jinhua Municipal Justice Bureau offers four reporting channels:

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0579-82064010
Online: Visit the Zhejiang Enterprise Home website (https://zj87.jxt.zj.gov.cn/zlzq/web/views/consulting/judiciaryAppealForm.html) and submit through the “Direct Channel for Reporting Enterprise-Related Administrative Enforcement Problems” under the enterprise appeals module.
Mobile App: Log in to the “Zheli Ban” app, search for “Zheqi Zhijia,” and submit through the same direct channel.

Key Points for Foreign Founders

Provide details: To facilitate effective verification, submit your report in accordance with the relevant requirements.
Real-name reporting is encouraged: The collection department will keep your information confidential according to your wishes. Please report truthfully; do not fabricate, exaggerate, or invent facts. False accusations or framing will be referred to relevant authorities for legal responsibility.
Exclusions: Matters already accepted by disciplinary inspection or petition departments, or that are subject to administrative reconsideration or judicial proceedings, are not within the scope of this collection.
Feedback: After review and verification, feedback will be provided as appropriate.

Foreign founders are encouraged to use these channels if they encounter enforcement issues that affect their operations in Jinhua. Taking prompt action can help resolve problems and contribute to a more predictable business environment.

For assistance with company registration or ongoing operations in China, foreign founders can contact ChinaMNC on WhatsApp / WeChat at +86 153 1898 8535.

This summary is based on information published by the relevant Chinese government website and is general information, not legal or tax advice.