First of all, you enter the "Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances in China" inquiry interface from the CRC-SEPA home page. For the first inquiry, you have to make the new user registration by providing a user name and password. After you get the E-mail acknowledgement, you can make future inquiries through your own registered user name and password. Please remember your registered user name and password. Capital letters and small letters in English have different implications. When you are making an inquiry, enter your key character or character set and the information will appear on the screen if it is available in the inventory bank.

(2) Computer disk edition

The applicant can buy the computer disk version of the "Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances in China" (2000 Edition) from the CRC-SEPA by mail.

Instructions for the use of the computer disk version are as follows:

(i) Requirements on hardware and software

(a) Compatible computer over 386

(b) Internal memory 4M or over

(c) Hard disk 10M

(d) 3” Drive (used only in installation)

(e) Chinese version of Windows 3.x/95/98/NT, or English version Windows 3.x/95/98/NT plus a Chinese platform (such as ChineseStar or RichWin; Chinese information can not be accurately displayed without a Chinese environment.)

(ii) Methods for installation and use

(a) If your computer has installed any previous version of the inventory, you have first of all to uninstall it (using Uninstall Inventory in the program package) and then start installation step by step.

(b) Installation: You only have to start with “Setup.exe” in No. 1 installation disk under Windows 3/95/98/NT and then follow the instructions. The installation program will automatically generate “Inventory” program package and program item.

(c) Use: You can use “Inventory” program item under Windows 3/95/98/NT to enter the search interface, put in any character, word, words (key words) at the block “Search”, press “Enter” (or the button “Search”) and start your search.

(d) The button “Search” is to search any records containing key words. The button “Accurate Search” is to search records whose contents are completely the same as key words.

(e) The character set for search supports both “?” and “+”. “?” represents any character or number. “+” means that all conditions for search have to be satisfied (logical add).

(iii) Data in the computer disk version are from the data during and before the supplementary application of the "Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances in China" (1999 Edition), totaling more than 2,6000 entries of chemical substances. Compared with the previous version, this version has made a re-examination to the data in and before 1996.