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Provisional Regulations on
Administration of Insurance
Statistics
（04-09-30）
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in accordance with the
Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China, the
Insurance Law of the People's Republic of China, the Detailed
Rules for Implementation of the Statistics Law of the People's
Republic of China and other relevant laws and administrative
regulations for the purposes of strengthening administration
of insurance statistics and ensuring the authenticity,
completeness, accuracy and timeliness of insurance statistical
information.
Article 2
Insurance statistics in these Regulations refer to the
following activities:
1. The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (hereinafter
referred to as "the CIRC") and its local offices conduct
statistical surveys, collect, process and analyze information
reflecting the operating status of insurance institutions
according to law, provide statistical information and
statistical advisory comments and exercise supervision and
administration of insurance statistics;
2. An insurance institution conducts statistical surveys,
collects, processes and analyzes information reflecting its
own operating status according to law, provide statistical
information and statistical advisory comments and exercise
administration of its own insurance statistical work.
Article 3
“Statistical information” in these Regulations refers to
reports, report forms, documents and materials reflecting the
operating status of the insurance institution that submits
them to the CIRC and its local office according to law,
including statistical data reflecting financial and business
status, analysis of operating status and other statistical
materials specified by the CIRC.
Article 4
The basic statistical responsibilities of the CIRC and its
local offices include collecting, reviewing, aggregating,
analyzing and releasing statistical information of insurance
institutions in accordance with the law, making statistical
forecasts, providing reference and basis for decision making
in implementation of insurance supervision and administration
and promoting the healthy development of the insurance
industry.
The basic statistical responsibilities of an insurance
institution include completing all insurance statistical work
according to law, making statistical analyses and statistical
forecasts, and submitting relevant truthful, complete and
accurate insurance statistical information in time.
Article 5
Insurance statistical work shall adhere to the principle of
being objective, scientific, consistent and timely.
Article 6
An administrative system with centralized administration and
hierarchical accountability is to be adopted in insurance
statistical work.
The CIRC is responsible for supervision and administration of
the national insurance statistical work and the administration
of statistical information of the national insurance industry.
A local office of the CIRC is responsible for supervision and
administration of the insurance statistical work in the area
under its jurisdiction and the administration of statistical
information of the insurance industry in the area under its
jurisdiction.
An insurance institution is responsible for exercising
administration of its own insurance statistical work.
Article 7
Statistical institutions and statistical staffs are obligated
to keep confidential the State secrets and the business
secrets of the insurance institutions being surveyed in
insurance statistical work.
Article 8
“Insurance institutions” in these Regulations refer to
commercial insurance companies and their branches established
with the approval of the CIRC or its local offices and
registered according to law.
Chapter 2 Statistical Institutions and Staffs
Article 9
The CIRC shall perform the following statistical
responsibilities:
1. To formulate insurance statistics system and statistical
standards, establish and perfect insurance statistics index
system;
2. To design, develop, maintain, manage and upgrade the
statistical information system of the CIRC.
Article 10
The CIRC and its local offices shall perform the following
statistical responsibilities:
1. To organize, coordinate and administer the statistical work
of insurance institutions, formulate and implement statistical
work plans of insurance institutions;
2. To collect, review, aggregate and analyze insurance
statistical information, work out statistical analysis report
and release relevant insurance statistical information;
3. To manage insurance statistical information, set up and
maintain the database of statistical information about the
insurance industry;
4. To organize and implement statistical survey, supervision
and inspection of statistics about the insurance industry;
5. To organize vocational training of insurance statistical
staffs.
Article 11
An insurance institution shall establish or designate a
functional department to be responsible for statistical work,
set up statistical positions and provide corresponding
statistical staffs.
Article 12
An insurance institution shall perform the following
statistical responsibilities:
1. To exercise administration of its own statistical work;
2. To formulate its own insurance statistics system;
3. To collect, aggregate, compile and manage its own
statistical information and submit statistical information to
the CIRC, its local offices and other relevant institutions
according to law;
4. To complete tasks of statistical survey assigned by the
CIRC and its local offices, conduct internal statistical
surveys, analyses and forecasts;
5. To strengthen the development of automation system for
statistical information, establish and perfect statistical
information management system;
6. To organize inspection of implementation of statistical
laws and regulations and statistical quality within itself;
7. To organize vocational training of insurance statistical
staffs.
Article 13
Statistical staffs shall be provided in accordance with the
following requirements:
1. Statistical staffs shall abide by the principle of seeking
truth from facts and have strong professional ethics and
expertise necessary for completing statistical work;
2. The number of statistical staffs shall be kept appropriate
in accordance with the demands of statistical work;
3. Statistical staffs shall be kept relatively stable.
Chapter 3 Collection and Submission of Statistical
Information
Article 14
Statistical information may be collected and submitted through
network system and fax, etc. in forms such as consulting forms
and questionnaires.
Article 15
A statistical year is a Gregorian year. It starts at 0:00 of
January 1 each year and ends at 24:00 of December 31 of the
same year.
Article 16
An insurance institution shall submit monthly quick reports,
monthly reports, quarterly reports, semiannual reports, annual
reports and irregular reports on statistical information to
the CIRC and its local office.
The CIRC may change the submission frequency of statistical
information according to the demand of supervision and
administration.
Article 17
Statistical information shall be submitted within the first 2
working days of the next month for monthly quick reports, the
first 10 days of the next month for monthly reports and the
first 12 days of the next quarter, the next half year and the
next year for quarterly reports, semiannual reports and annual
reports respectively. Irregular reports shall be submitted at
the time specified by the CIRC.
If falling on a statutory holiday including May 1, October 1
and Spring Festival, the above time for submission of monthly
reports, quarterly reports, semiannual reports and annual
reports may be postponed by 3 days.
The CIRC may change the submission time of statistical
information according to the demand of supervision and
administration.
Chapter 4 Statistical Survey and Statistical Analysis
Article 18 The CIRC and its local offices may conduct statistical survey
of insurance institutions as needed. The contents of
statistical survey mainly include business operating status,
financial status and staffs of insurance institutions.
Article 19 The CIRC and its local offices shall regularly analyze and
study the developments of the insurance market and
macro-economy and conduct surveys and researches on their
impact on the development of the insurance industry.
An insurance institution shall regularly analyze its own
insurance operating status.
Chapter 5 Statistical Information Release
Article 20
The CIRC shall regularly release statistical information about
the national insurance industry through its website.
A local office of the CIRC shall regularly release statistical
information of the insurance industry in the area under its
jurisdiction according to relevant stipulations of the CIRC.
Article 21
Statistical information released by a local office of the CIRC
shall not contain the following contents:
1. Statistical information outside the area under its
jurisdiction that has not been released;
2. Results of comparative analyses of the aforementioned
statistical information.
Article 22
An insurance institution shall release relevant statistical
information according to law.
Release of statistical information by an insurance institution
shall not harm the legitimate interests of other units or
individuals.
Article 23
No unit or individual shall release insurance statistical
information related to the State secrets without approval.
Insurance statistical information related to the State secrets
shall be released and administered in accordance with laws,
administrative regulations and other rules concerning
confidentiality.
Chapter 6 Statistical Supervision and Administration
Article 24
An insurance institution shall submit truthful, complete and
accurate statistical information according to stipulations of
the CIRC and its local offices.
Article 25
Any delay or rejection of submission, insufficient submission,
concealment, overstatement, or counterfeiting or falsification
of statistical information are prohibited. The statistical
information submitted shall not contain misleading statement.
Article 26
An insurance institution shall take measures to ensure the
consistency of statistical information.
Article 27
The CIRC and its local offices shall conduct a review of the
statistical information submitted. In case of any doubt,
inquiry shall be made to the institution submitting the
information.
Article 28
Where the statistical information submitted by an insurance
institution contains any error, the CIRC and its local offices
have the right to order the insurance institution to make
correction and to offer an explanation on paper.
Article 29
The person in charge of an insurance institution shall
neither, in violation of relevant stipulations, alter the
statistical information submitted by a statistical institution
and statistical staffs in accordance with relevant
stipulations nor force or instruct the statistical institution
and statistical staffs to falsify or counterfeit statistical
information. Where the aforementioned person in charge finds
any error in the calculation of statistical information or in
data source, he shall indicate such error. The statistical
institution concerned shall conduct verification and make
correction according to relevant stipulations.
Article 30
The legal person institution and a branch of an insurance
institution shall respectively designate a person in charge as
the person responsible for insurance statistics.
The legal person institution and a branch of an insurance
institution shall respectively designate an internal
functional department as a department for contact. The main
person in charge of this department is a contact for insurance
statistics.
A local office of the CIRC shall specify the specific scope of
branches mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs according
to the actual conditions in the area under its jurisdiction.
Article 31
An insurance institution shall report to the CIRC or its local
office within 10 working days after designating or changing
the person responsible for insurance statistics or the contact
for insurance statistics.
Article 32
The statistical information submitted by an insurance
institution shall be reviewed and confirmed by its legal
representative or the main person in charge of the branch that
submits the information.
Article 33
The CIRC and its local offices shall establish a circular
system for the submission of statistical information, inspect
the delay of submission of statistical information, the number
of times for alteration of statistical information submitted
and the quality of statistical data, and regularly release
the inspection result.
Article 34
The CIRC and its local offices are responsible for exercising
statistical supervision and inspection of insurance
institutions. The contents of statistical supervision and
inspection mainly include the implementation of statistical
system, the setup of statistical positions, the statistical
staffs provided, the quality of statistical information and
other relevant aspects of an insurance institution.
An insurance institution shall accept the statistical
supervision and inspection exercised by the CIRC and its local
offices according to law.
Article 35
An insurance institution shall regularly inspect and summarize
its own statistical work. Where any problem is found,
correction should be made in time.
Chapter 7 Awards and Penalties
Article 36
The CIRC shall assess the statistical work of the CIRC system.
It shall award the statistical staffs or units that meet one
of the following criteria in the way of commendation, merit
recording, outstanding merit recording, promotion of title,
promotion of position or conferment of an honorable title and
bonuses may also be granted:
1. Those who make outstanding contribution to reforming and
improving insurance statistical system and methodology;
2. Those who make outstanding achievements in accomplishing
insurance statistical survey, or ensuring timely and accurate
reporting of statistic materials;
3. Those who make important achievements in renovation of
statistical analysis, forecast and supervision;
4. Those who achieve significant outcome in utilizing and
promoting modern information technology in statistical work;
5. Those who make important contribution to improving
insurance statistical education and vocational training,
making statistical research, or upgrading statistics;
6. Those who adhere to the principle of seeking truth from
facts, abide by laws and have outstanding performance in
fighting against violations of insurance statistical laws,
regulations or insurance system;
7. Those who contribute to reporting and disclosing of
statistical violations.
Stipulations of the preceding paragraph shall, mutatis
mutandis, apply to the self-assessment of an insurance
institution on its insurance statistical work.
Article 37
Where an insurance institution violates these Regulations and
commits one of the acts set forth in Article 38 and Article
39, the CIRC or its local office may conduct a supervisory
conversation with it.
Article 38
Where an insurance institution violates these Regulations and
commits one of the following acts, it shall be given a warning
and ordered to make correction. Where it fails to make
correction within the prescribed time limit, it shall be fined
between RMB 10,000 and 100,000:
1. Failure to submit relevant statistical information at the
prescribed time;
2. Statistical information has material omission;
3. Statistical information contains misleading statement.
Article 39
Where an insurance institution violates these Regulations and
commits one of the following acts, it shall be given a
warning, ordered to make correction and fined between RMB
100,000 and 500,000. Where the circumstances are serious, its
business scope may be restricted, or it may be ordered to stop
accepting any new business, or its license for conducting
insurance operations may be revoked:
1. Providing false statistical information;
2. Rejecting or hampering inspection and supervision in
accordance with the law.
Article 40
A statistical staff of the CIRC or its local offices who has
any of the following behaviors shall be disciplined by his
working unit or superior one in the way of warning, severe
warning, demerit recording , severe demerit recording and
demotion:
1. Overstate, counterfeit or falsify insurance statistical
information;
2. Violate the confidentiality articles in these Regulations,
breach his authorization and release insurance statistical
information on his own decision, which cause serious
consequences.
Chapter 8 Supplementary Provisions
Article 41
Where there are stipulations concerning insurance statistical
work of the following institutions in laws, administrative
regulations or regulations of the CIRC, such stipulations
shall apply. Where there are no such stipulations, these
Regulations shall apply:
1. Insurance intermediaries;
2. Insurance group companies;
3. Insurance holding companies;
4. Public-policy-oriented insurance companies;
5. Insurance asset management companies. .
Article 42 Stipulations of these Regulations concerning statistical work
of the legal person institution of an insurance company shall
apply to the statistical work of a foreign insurance branch
company.
Article 43 A local office of the CIRC may formulate detailed rules for
implementation according to these Regulations.
Article 44 The CIRC is responsible for the interpretation of these
Regulations.
Article 45 These regulations shall come into effect as of November 1,
2004. Temporary Measures on Administration of Insurance
Supervision Statements promulgated by the CIRC on February 23,
1999 shall be repealed simultaneously.
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