Regulations on Promoting the Development of Self- employed Businesses. Country/Territory China Document type Regulation Date 2022 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Agricultural & rural development, Livestock, Food & nutrition, Fisheries, Forestry, Cultivated plants Keyword Rural employment Youth Smallholders/peasants Registration International trade Internal trade Geographical area Asia, Asia and the Pacific, East Asian Seas, Eastern Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Abstract This Regulation is formulated for the purposes of encouraging, supporting, and guiding the sound development of the individual sector of the economy, safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of individual industrial and commercial households, stabilizing and expanding urban and rural employment, and maximizing the important role of individual industrial and commercial households in national economic and social development. The Regulation consists of 39 Articles. Where a citizen with capacity for operations is engaged in industrial and commercial operations in the territory of the People's Republic of China and legally registered as an individual industrial and commercial household, this Regulation shall apply. Full text Chinese Website www.gov.cn