Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China (2024 Amendment PKULAW Version)

Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China (2024 Amendment PKULAW Version)

(Adopted at the Third meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress on December 8, 1983, amended according to the Decision on Amending the Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China at the 19th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 8th National People's Congress on May 15, 1996, revised at the 9th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress on June 27, 2009, and amended in accordance with the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to Amend the Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China adopted at the 11th Session of the Standing Committee of the Fourteenth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on September 13, 2024)
Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Statistical Investigation Management
Chapter III Management and Publication of Statistical Data
Chapter IV Statistic Institutions and Statistical Personnel
Chapter V Supervision and Inspection
Chapter VI Legal Responsibility
Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted for the purposes of scientifically and effectively organizing statistical work, guaranteeing the authenticity, accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of statistical data, strengthening statistical supervision, leveraging the important role of statistical work in understanding national conditions and strength and serving high-quality economic and social development, and promoting the development of China into a modern socialist country in all respects.
Article 2 This Law shall apply to the statistical activities organized by the people's governments at all levels and the statistic institutions and relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level.
The basic tasks of the statistical work are to make statistical investigations and analyses on economic and social development, provide statistical data and advisory opinions and conduct statistical supervisions.
Article 3 Statistical work upholds the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
The state shall set up a unified statistical system and practice a statistical management system of unified leadership and level-to-level responsibility.
Article 4 The State Council, the local people's governments at all levels and the relevant departments thereof shall strengthen the organization and leadership of the statistical work so as to provide necessary guarantee for it.
Article 5 The state strengthens scientific research in statistics, improves scientific and reasonable statistical standards and the statistical indicator system in accordance with new economic and social developments, includes new economic sectors and fields in the scope of statistical investigation, and enhances statistical investigation methods to make statistical work more scientific.
The state strengthens the development of statistical information technology in a planned way and promotes the deep integration of modern information technology and statistical work to facilitate the modernization of technologies for collecting, processing, transmitting, sharing, and storing statistical data, as well as the statistical database system.
Article 6 The state establishes a complete, coordinated, efficient, binding, authoritative, and reliable statistical supervision system.
Statistics institutions shall conduct statistical supervision on the implementation of major national economic and social policies and measures and the performance of statutory statistical duties by all regions and departments, in accordance with the statistical investigation system and approved plans and arrangements.
Article 7 Statistic institutions and statistical personnel shall independently exercise their powers in statistical investigations, statistical reports and statistical supervisions, and no one may infringe upon such power.
No person who is in charge of a local people's government at any level, the statistics institution or relevant department of a people's government at or above the county level, or an entity, may modify any of the statistical data collected or complied by a statistics institution or statistical personnel, or require any statistics institution, statistical personnel, or any other institution or personnel, to falsify or tamper with statistical data in any manner, or expressly or impliedly require a subordinate entity and its personnel or a respondent to a statistical investigation to submit false statistical data, or retaliate against an entity or individual that performs duties according to the law or refuses or resists statistical violations.
Article 8 State organs, enterprises, public institutions, other organizations, individual industrial and commercial households, individuals and other statistical investigation objects must abide by this Law and the relevant state provisions and authentically, accurately, completely and timely provide the data needed by statistical investigation, and may not provide any unauthentic or incomplete statistical data or delay or refuse the report of statistical data.
Article 9 Local people's governments at all levels and the statistics institutions and relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions issued by the state, include the prevention and punishment of statistical fraud or other fraud in the scope of responsibility for law-based government administration and lawful performance of duties, establish and improve a relevant responsibility system, strengthen the assessment and management of the statistical work of leaders, and hold legally accountable those who commit statistical fraud or other fraud.
Article 10 The statistical work shall be subject to public supervision. Entities and individuals shall have the right to report statistical falsifications and other statistical violations. Entities and individuals that have performed meritorious services in reporting statistical violations shall be commended and rewarded.
Article 11 Statistics institutions and statistical personnel shall keep confidential the state secrets, work secrets, trade secrets, personal privacy, and personal information that come to their knowledge during statistical work, and shall not divulge them or illegally provide them to another person.
Article 12 No entity or individual may use any false statistical data to get any honorary title, material gains or promotion in position or rank, among others.
Chapter II Statistical Investigation Management
Article 13 Statistical investigation projects comprise national statistical investigation projects, departmental statistical investigation projects and local statistical investigation projects.
“National statistical investigation projects” refers to the statistical investigation projects about the basic information of the whole nation. “Departmental statistical investigation projects” refers to the specialized statistical investigation projects of the relevant departments under the State Council. “Local statistical investigation projects” refers to the statistical investigation projects of the people's governments at or above the county level and the departments thereof.
National statistical investigation projects, departmental statistical investigation projects and local statistical investigation projects shall be clearly defined and planned in an overall way so as to avoid repetition.
Article 14 National statistical investigation projects shall be planned by the National Bureau of Statistics either by itself or collaboratively with the relevant departments under the State Council and be reported to the State Council for archival purposes. Key national statistical investigation projects shall be subject to the examination and approval of the State Council.
Departmental statistical investigation projects shall be planned by the relevant departments under the State Council. Projects whose statistical investigation objects are within the jurisdiction of the relevant departments shall be reported to the National Bureau of Statistics for archival purposes. Projects whose statistical investigation objects are outside the jurisdiction of the relevant departments shall be subject to the examination and approval of the National Bureau of Statistics.
Local statistical investigation projects shall be planned by the statistic institutions and the relevant departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level either independently or jointly. In particular, those planned by the statistic institutions of the people's governments at the provincial level either by themselves or jointly with the relevant departments shall be subject to the examination and approval of the National Bureau of Statistics; those planned by the statistic institutions of the people's governments below the provincial level either independently or jointly with the relevant departments shall be subject to the examination and approval of the statistic institutions of the people's governments at the provincial level; and those planned by the relevant departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level shall be subject to the examination and approval of the statistic institutions of the people's governments at the same level.
Article 15 The examination and approval organs of statistical investigation projects shall examine the necessity, feasibility and scientific level of investigation projects. Where any investigation project meets the prescribed conditions, a written decision of approval shall be made and published. Where any investigation project fails to meet the prescribed conditions, a written decision of disapproval shall be made and an explanation shall be made.
Article 16 When making a statistical investigation project, a statistical investigation system shall be made for the project and submitted for examination and approval or for archival purposes under Article 14 of this Law.
A statistical investigation system shall stipulate the purpose, contents, methods, objects, organi......