Article 17 The statistical agencies under the people's governments at various levels must provide good consultancy services in statistical information and serve the community by making full use of all social and economic information that can be made known to the public. Consultancy services in statistical information not controlled by the Statistics Law and statistical systems but provided in conformity with the relevant provisions of the State shall be non-gratuitous. The measures for such non-gratuitous services shall be formulated by the State Statistical Bureau in conjunction with the State Administration for Commodity Prices.

　　Article 18 All localities， departments and units must implement the Measures Concerning Security and Administration of Statistical Data formulated by the State Statistical Bureau so as to strengthen unified administration of statistical data.

　　Article 19 All localities， departments and units must establish systems of statistical data files and these files shall be properly kept， transferred and turned over in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State Archives Bureau.






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