Legal basis: Regulations of People's Republic of China (PRC) Municipality on Information Openness.
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated for the purpose of ensuring citizens, legal persons and other organizations to obtain government information according to law, improving the transparency of government work, building a government ruled by law, and giving full play to the service role of government information in people's production, life and economic and social activities.
Article 2 The term "government information" as mentioned in these Regulations refers to information produced or obtained by administrative organs in the process of performing administrative functions, and recorded and preserved in a certain form.
Article 5 When disclosing government information, administrative organs shall adhere to the principles of fairness, justice, legality and convenience, with disclosure as the norm and non-disclosure as the exception.
Article 6 Administrative organs shall disclose government information in a timely and accurate manner. If an administrative organ finds false or incomplete information that affects or may affect social stability and disrupt the order of social and economic management, it shall issue accurate government information for clarification.