A few days ago, the General Administration of Market Supervision held a press conference to introduce the "Guiding Opinions on Revoking the Company Registration by Using Other People’s Identity Information" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guiding Opinions"). After clarifying the "legal person" and "shareholder", I can conduct remote identity verification on the Internet and submit materials. After 45 days of publicity, no other people raise objections and no lawsuits appear, the market supervision department can directly determine that the impersonation registration is established.
Since 2014, China has continuously promoted the reform of the commercial system, which has facilitated the investment and entrepreneurship of market players. However, there are also a few lawless elements who fraudulently use other people’s identities to defraud registration. At present, there are 36.154 million registered enterprises in China, and the number of reports received by market supervision departments at all levels for fraudulent use of other people’s ID card information for registration is about 29,000, accounting for 0.08%.
This kind of illegal behavior has brought great trouble to the parties concerned and caused negative social impact. We must crack down severely, increase the illegal cost and disciplinary punishment for dishonesty, so as to nip in the bud.
Since 2016, the General Administration of Market Supervision has vigorously promoted the electronic registration of enterprises. Combined with the actual situation, various localities have basically established online identity verification and electronic signature mechanisms by purchasing services, which has prevented the problem of fraudulent use of identity and false registration to a certain extent.
In order to improve the real-name verification method for offline enterprise registration, from 2018, the General Administration of Market Supervision promoted the construction of the "National Real-name Verification System for Enterprise Registration Identity Information" based on the unified identity authentication system of the national government service platform, which was officially put into operation on March 1, 2019. At present, nearly 4 million users in China have registered the "Enterprise Registration Related Natural Person Authentication APP", and the normal pass rate of face recognition is about 98%, which has played an important role in curbing fake registration.
Chang Yu, director of the Credit Supervision Department of the General Administration of Market Supervision, said that the Guiding Opinions minimized the reporting threshold in view of the difficulties, materials and high costs of complaints after the "legal person" and "shareholder" were generally reflected by the masses. For example, if I can’t be present in person, I can conduct remote identity verification online to avoid running back and forth; It is not required to provide handwriting identification materials, which greatly saves the cost of reporting. The fraudulent person only needs to verify his identity, make a simple registration and submit a copy of the existing ID card to complete the process of reflecting the situation.
Chang Yu said that a national database of persons responsible for false registration will be established, and the persons directly responsible will be entered into the database. As long as these people register with the market supervision department again, the market supervision department will strictly examine them, increase their illegal costs, and cooperate with relevant departments to implement joint credit punishment.
The market supervision department will strengthen coordination and cooperation with public security, taxation and other relevant government departments and judicial organs to jointly crack down on illegal and criminal acts of fraudulently using other people’s identity documents.