NDRC to standardize public service fees, no charges outside approved list

The significance here is procedural rather than fiscal: a published fee catalogue plus a ban on off-list charges shifts discretion away from local fee-setters toward disclosure, which matters most for households consuming elderly care and funeral services, where add-ons and forced sales have been flagged. The named sectors signal where enforcement attention is likely concentrated. The open question is implementation — whether dynamic reviews during the 15th Five-Year Plan period produce genuine standard-setting or merely re-catalogued existing charges, and whether unpublished fees are actually penalized.