Methods for the Administration of Travel Expenses of Central State Organs and Institutions
Contents
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Chapter 2 Intercity Transportation Expenses
Chapter 3 Accommodation Expenses
Chapter 4 Meal Subsidies
Chapter 5 Miscellaneous Expenses
Chapter 6 Travel Expenses for Participating in Meetings and Conferences, Etc
Chapter VII Travel Expenses for Transfers and Relocations
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These measures are formulated in order to ensure the needs of work and life of the travelers, to regulate the management of travel expenses, and to improve the system of reception for official activities.
Article 2 These Measures shall apply to state organs and institutions of the Central Government, including those outside Beijing.
Article 3 The scope of travel expenses includes inter-city transportation, accommodation, meal subsidies and official miscellaneous expenses.
Article 4: Inter-city transportation and accommodation costs shall be reimbursed on the basis of documents within the stipulated standards, and meal subsidies and miscellaneous expenses shall be lump-sum.
Article 5 The units should establish and improve the approval management system for business trips, and strictly control the number of business trips and the number of days. Serious financial discipline, strengthen the integrity of the construction, shall not be transferred to the lower units or other units of travel expenses.
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Chapter II Intercity Transportation Expenses
Article 6 The travelers shall take the transportation in accordance with the stipulated rank, and reimburse the inter-city transportation expenses with the documents. Those who do not take the transportation according to the prescribed class shall bear the over-expenditure at their own expense.
(a) the rank of the traveler to take the transportation is shown in the following table:
(b) the traveler to take the plane to be strictly controlled, travel long distances or urgent mission, by the unit of the directorate or above the approval of the leadership can take the plane. Unit level in the division level below, need to be approved by the leadership of the unit before taking the plane.
(3) vice ministers and equivalent positions on business trips, due to work requirements, accompanying a person can take a soft seat on the train or ship first class, first class airplanes.
Article 7 If a person travels by train for more than six hours from 8:00 p.m. of the same day to 7:00 a.m. of the next day, or travels for more than 12 consecutive hours, he may purchase a sleeping ticket for the same seat. Those who comply with the regulations but do not purchase a sleeping-bed ticket shall be subsidized at 80% of the hard-seat fare actually traveled. If you can take a soft sleeper and change to a hard sleeper, no further subsidy will be given.
Article VIII of the airplane, the cost of special buses to and from the airport, civil aviation airport management and construction costs and air passenger accident insurance (limited to one per person per trip), reimbursement of documents.
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Chapter III Accommodation Expenses
Article IX The Ministry of Finance in accordance with the level of economic development and price levels of various regions, respectively, to determine the upper limit of the standard of expenditure on accommodation for all levels of personnel.
Article 10: The staff of the central state organs on business trips shall be provided with fixed-point accommodation. Accommodation standards: vice-ministerial staff live in suites, division-level staff live in standard rooms, and staff below the division level live in a standard room for two people.
The staff must go to the designated hotel accommodation, accommodation costs in accordance with the designated hotel charges reimbursement. Due to special circumstances do not go to the fixed-point hotel accommodation, in the place of travel within the upper limit of the standard accommodation expenses reimbursement vouchers.
When a business trip is made to a place where there is no designated hotel, the accommodation fee shall be reimbursed on the basis of the documents within the upper limit of the accommodation expense standard of the place, city or state where the business trip is made.
The fixed-point hotels are determined through bidding and negotiation, and the list is announced separately.
Article XI of the central institutions of the staff on business trips do not implement the fixed-point lodging, its accommodation costs in the place of business trips within the upper limit of the standard lodging expenses reimbursement on the basis of documents.
Article 12: No reimbursement of accommodation expenses shall be made without an invoice for accommodation expenses.
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Chapter IV Meal Subsidies
Article 13 The meal subsidies of the travelers shall be fixed according to the number of natural (calendar) days of travel, and shall be 50 yuan per person per day.
Article 14: If a traveler's meals are uniformly arranged by the receiving unit, the lump-sum approach shall not be applied. Travelers should pay for meals to the hospitality unit, back to the unit truthfully declared, within 50 yuan per person per day with the hospitality unit receipts and reimbursement. The food expenses collected by the reception unit shall be used to offset the hospitality expenses.
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Chapter V Miscellaneous Expenses
Article 15 The official expenses of travelers shall be fixed according to the number of natural (calendar) days of travel, and shall be 30 yuan per person per day for the purpose of subsidizing the expenses of intra-city transportation and communication.
Article 16 If the traveler is provided with free transportation by his/her unit, reception unit or other units, he/she shall declare truthfully and the public miscellaneous expenses shall be reduced by half.
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Chapter VI Travel Expenses for Participating in Conferences and Meetings
Article 17 If a staff member goes out to participate in a conference or meeting, and if the conference or meeting makes unified arrangements for food and lodging, the lodging, meal subsidies and miscellaneous expenses during the conference or meeting shall be uniformly expended by the conference or meeting organizer in accordance with the regulations on conference fees, while lodging, meal subsidies and miscellaneous expenses during the period of in-transit travel back to his or her home unit shall be reimbursed in accordance with the regulations on travel expenses. Small-scale investigation and research conference does not uniformly arrange room and board, during the meeting and in transit during the lodging, meal subsidies and miscellaneous expenses are reimbursed back to their units in accordance with the provisions of the travel expenses.
Article 18 of the grass-roots units to practice (see), work exercises, support work and various task forces, such as personnel, during the period in transit, accommodation, food subsidies and miscellaneous expenses in accordance with the provisions of the travel expenses; in the grass-roots units during the period of work, per person per day meal subsidies of 15 yuan, not reimbursement of accommodation and miscellaneous public expenses.
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Chapter VII Travel Expenses for Transfer and Relocation
Article 19: Intercity transportation, lodging, meal subsidy and miscellaneous expenses incurred by a staff member for the purpose of transferring to a new job shall be implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions on business trips.
Staff members mobilizing for work are generally not allowed to travel by air.
The cost of transporting luggage and furniture incurred by staff members for the purpose of mobilization shall be reimbursed on the basis of receipts up to RMB 1 yuan per kilometer per person, and the excess shall be borne by the staff member himself/herself.
All the above expenses incurred shall be reimbursed by the transferring organization.
Article 20 The family members (parents, spouses, children under 16 years of age and family members who must be supported) living with the staff member, if accompanied by the transfer, their inter-city transportation, accommodation, meal allowance and miscellaneous expenses, as well as baggage, furniture and other consignment fees, etc., shall be reimbursed by the unit of transfer according to the standards of the transferred personnel. Children who have reached the age of 16 shall be reimbursed at the standard rate for staff members in general for expenses incurred in connection with the transfer of the transferee.
The family members living with the transferred person shall travel with the transferred person. If they are temporarily unable to travel with them, they may stay in their original place of residence with the consent of the unit to which they are transferred. The travel expenses for their subsequent relocation, as well as the travel expenses of the transferred person's non-resident family members who are approved to move to the location of the transferred person's work unit, shall be reimbursed by the transferred person's transferring unit.
Article 21: Travel expenses for employees' relocated family members. In accordance with the relevant provisions, and with the approval of the organization, the staff member's unit shall be reimbursed travel expenses in accordance with the provisions of Article 20 for the relocation to the place of the work unit of the spouse (non-employed) and his or her relatives residing with him or her, who have not resided with him or her.
Article 22 Cadres transferred from the army to local work, their travel expenses in accordance with the relevant provisions of the General Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army, by the unit in which they are calculated according to reasonable routes, the prescribed standards issued, and settled upon arrival at the unit to which they are transferred, the more refunded, less made up for the less, as an increase or decrease in the unit's travel expenses to be dealt with.
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Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Article 23 During a staff member's business trip or transfer to a new job, the staff member is approved in advance by the head of the unit to go home to his family nearby to do his work, and his transportation costs for the detour, minus the straight-line one-way transportation costs of the business trip, and the extra expenses are to be taken care of by the individual himself. No reimbursement of lodging, meal allowance and miscellaneous expenses will be made during the detour and at home.
Article 24 During a staff member's business trip, the expenses incurred for excursions or non-work-related visits shall be borne by the individual. Travelers are not allowed to accept invitations, gifts and excursions paid for with public funds in violation of the regulations. Each reception unit shall make appropriate arrangements in accordance with the standards for the limit of lodging expenses for various types of business travelers and the lump-sum standard for meal subsidies, and shall not exempt or undercharge for food and lodging expenses in any name. For falsehoods, false claims and violations of the regulations, shall be dealt with seriously in accordance with the relevant provisions.
Article 25 of the State Council Organs Affairs Administration may formulate supplementary measures in accordance with these Measures, and report to the Ministry of Finance for the record. Each unit may formulate specific regulations in accordance with these Measures, taking into account the actual situation of the unit. The implementation of vertical management system of the department can be based on these measures, combined with the actual situation of the department to formulate specific provisions, and reported to the Ministry of Finance for the record.
Article 26 of the Chinese **** Producers Party, the democratic parties, the people's organizations directly under the implementation of these Measures; the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Chinese People's Armed Police Force travel management methods, the General Logistics Department with reference to the Measures to be separately stipulated.
Article 27 These Measures shall come into force on January 1, 2007 onwards. The Ministry of Finance "on the issuance of & lt; central state organs, public institutions staff travel expenses & gt; the notice" (Caiwen [1996] No. 2) shall be repealed at the same time.
Article 28 These measures shall be interpreted by the Ministry of Finance.