Legal basis: Regulations on Individual Industrial and Commercial Households
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of individual industrial and commercial households, encourage, support and guide their healthy development, strengthen supervision and management, and give full play to their important role in economic and social development and employment expansion.
Article 4 The State practices the principle of equal market access and fair treatment for individual industrial and commercial households.
If individual industrial and commercial households apply for registration, and the business scope of the application for registration does not belong to the industry prohibited by laws and administrative regulations, the registration authority shall register it according to law.
Article 6 Local people's governments at all levels and relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall take measures to provide support, convenience and information consulting services for individual industrial and commercial households in business premises, entrepreneurship and vocational skills training, vocational skills appraisal, technological innovation and participation in social insurance.