Given the imbalance of local economic development and culture around the country, a uniform code governing the establishment of retail dispensaries does not seem feasible. Therefore, these provisional rules issued by State Medicine Supervision & Administration Bureau are generally used to grant local governments authority to govern the establishment of retail dispensaries on their own. Under this principle, local Medicine Supervision & Administration Bureaus may formulate their own detailed regulations based on the population, culture and economic situation in its territory. The State level provisional rules simply provide the local government direction for local legislation.
──Helen Hu