On 27th November, SAMR issued officially the revised general and concrete measures of production license. 38 concrete measures on production licenses are defined. The new general and concrete measures shall be put into force from the 1st of December instead of the previous version.

http://samr.saic.gov.cn/gg/201811/t20181127_277208.html

SESEC summarizes: in 2018, according to the state council’ decision published on 30th September, the production licenses for 14 industrial products are cancelled. In total by end of 2018, 24 categories of industrial products continually apply production licenses management and only 7 products are directly inspected by SAMR, meanwhile the rest 17 products’ licenses are supervised by provincial-level SAMR.