China's State Council issues new public-institution registration rules effective 1 December, stressing Party leadership.
Xinhua on 26 October released State Council Order No. 849 promulgating the Regulations on the Registration and Administration of Public Institutions, effective 1 December 2026 and replacing the interim regulations. Adopted at a State Council executive meeting on 28 September, the 34 articles in six chapters require registration work to uphold Communist Party leadership and Party organisations to be set up in public institutions. According to Xinhua, institutions may not stray from their core public-service duties, set up businesses in violation of rules, breach non-profit legal-person rules or engage in false advertising; sector regulators must step up oversight of conduct in teaching, medicine and research integrity; unregistered bodies may not act as public-institution legal persons, and abolished or merged institutions may use a simplified deregistration procedure.
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