Legal basis: Regulations of People's Republic of China (PRC) Municipality on Information Openness.
Article 27 In addition to government information voluntarily disclosed by administrative organs, citizens, legal persons or other organizations may, in their own names, apply to local people's governments at all levels and departments of people's governments at or above the county level that perform administrative functions (including dispatched offices and internal organs as stipulated in the second paragraph of Article 10 of these Regulations) for obtaining relevant government information.
Article 28 The administrative organ stipulated in Article 27 of these Regulations shall establish and improve the application channels for government information disclosure, and provide convenience for applicants to apply for access to government information according to law.
Twenty-ninth citizens, legal persons or other organizations to apply for access to government information, should be submitted to the administrative organ of government information disclosure, and in written form, including letters and data messages; If it is really difficult to use a written form, the applicant may make an oral proposal, and the government information disclosure organ that accepts the application shall fill in the application form for government information disclosure. An application for government information disclosure shall include the following contents: (1) the name, identity certificate and contact information of the applicant; (two) the name and document number of the government information that is applied for disclosure or other characteristics that are convenient for administrative organs to inquire; (three) the form requirements of the government information to be disclosed, including the ways and means of obtaining information.