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SHIJIAZHUANG, Nov. 14-- Li Cuimin, an employee of a 4s automobile sales service shop in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province, still remembers the difficulty she had when trying to apply for a business certificate. "Last year, I went to local office more than 20 times, but was finally told that I did not need to apply for the certificate because our shop had already been qualified based on another certificate," Li said. "While, this year, I went to the new center for a permit of business change, it only took me two visits to the site to do all the procedures." The new service center was established in February this year by the local municipal government in a move to improve administrative approval reform. So far, the city has streamlined 150 items of approval in 25 sectors. Liu Zhanzhong, deputy head of the center, said that the center was working on making it even easier for the public, such as business permit e-certificates. According to the report approved by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the government will strive to "transform its functions, further streamline administration and delegate powers, develop new ways of regulation and supervision, and strengthen its credibility and administrative capacity, building itself into a service-oriented government able to satisfy the needs of the people." Liu Chunzhe, head of Haidian district division of Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce, said that in November 2016, Beijing launched a project to enable enterprises to register online. | 
