Regulations of People's Republic of China (PRC) Municipality on Information Disclosure
Article 38 The information provided by the administrative organ to the applicant shall be the government information that has been produced or obtained. Except in accordance with the provisions of Article 37 of these regulations, if the administrative organ needs to process and analyze the existing government information, it may not provide it.
Article 39 Where an applicant conducts letters, visits, complaints, reports and other activities in the form of an application for government information disclosure, the administrative organ shall inform the applicant not to treat it as an application for government information disclosure, and may inform the applicant to submit it through corresponding channels. Where the contents of the application put forward by the applicant require the administrative organ to provide government bulletins, newspapers, books and other public publications, the administrative organ may inform the way of obtaining them.