This circular is formulated to meet the requirements of China's Internet economic development, to differentiate and standardize business activities on the Internet, to enhance government's sense of service, to protect the lawful rights and interests of enterprises and consumers, to crack down on illegal business activities, to maintain the socioeconomic order and to establish an ecommerce operations registration system.

I. Ecommerce activities refers to profit-making activities on the Internet of market subjects within the jurisdiction of Beijing municipality which have obtained a business license in accordance with state laws (hereinafter referred to as "ecommerce dealers"), as well as the acts of image designing, product publication, auctions and advertising for economic organizations. Ecommerce dealers engaged in the following activities should apply for an ecommerce operations registration: 1. Signing contracts, doing business and trading on the Internet; 2. Releasing commercial advertisements on the Internet; 3. Carrying out image designing and product publication activities on the Internet; 4. Specializing in providing Internet-access service, network technical support service, ecommerce and information source service on the Internet; and 5. Other profit-making activities.

II. The Beijing Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce is the registering office for ecommerce operations. Ecommerce dealers should apply to register their ecommerce operations at http://hd315.com http://hd315.com, which was established by the Beijing Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce.

III. The major types of information needed to register include: the type of ecommerce involved, the name of the ecommerce dealer, the registration number (or the number of a valid certificate), location (family address), legal representative, registered capital, type, business scope, the person in charge of the network management, network business scope, mailing address, telephone number, email address, registered domain name, Internet protocol address and network supplier, network address, name and location of the server, and other information.

IV. After the registration office receives the application of an ecommerce dealer, the office will complete the registration online, and, meanwhile, arrange the coding of the registration and provide a registration seal via the Internet. The ecommerce dealer should then post this registration seal on the homepage of its Web site.

V. Where changes occur in the major registration information, the ecommerce dealer should apply to the registry office to update these, and the registry office should change the related registration after receiving the updated application.

VI. Where an ecommerce dealer wants to cancel or stop its business operations, the said dealer should apply to the registry office to remove its registration. The registry office, after receiving the application, should withdraw its network sign. If the statutory qualification of an ecommerce dealer is revoked according to the law, the registry office has the power to terminate its registration and to withdraw the network sign.

VII. Ecommerce dealers who have already completed the registration of their ecommerce operations are still required to obtain lawful business qualifications before beginning actual commercial operations.

VIII. There shall be no charge to register to carry out ecommerce operations.

IX. Ecommerce dealers shall be subject to the supervision of the registry office in accordance with state laws, regulations and the provisions of these rules. The registry office exercises supervision over the activities of ecommerce dealers according to the law and punishes lawbreakers in accordance with the relevant laws and administrative regulations.

X. As for ecommerce operations in existence prior to the release of this circular, the party concerned should apply to the registry office within 180 days after this circular is issued.