In recent times, the central and local governments have introduced various initiatives to promote the optimization and upgrading of the business environment. The executive meeting of the State Council has made arrangements for optimizing the business environment; Shanghai has formulated and issued several policy measures to support the development of private investment in Shanghai; Hefei, Wuhu and Chuzhou in Anhui have officially launched the construction of the business environment reform and innovation demonstration zone as pilot cities; Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone has issued the Work Plan for Deepening the Reform and Innovation of the Mechanism to Continuously Optimize the Business Environment in Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone, Version 4.0; Shantou Shantou City issued the "Work Plan for Strengthening Business Environment Construction" ......


Business environment continues to improve Release policy dividends


"In recent years, China's business environment has continued to improve and maintain the basic trend toward high-quality development, with an increasing number of market players and a significant increase in market vitality." Liu Jintao, associate researcher of the Chongyang Institute of Finance of Renmin University of China, said in an interview with China Trade News that at present, the construction of China's business environment, led by top-level design, has gradually transitioned to synchronizing the quality of the environment and deepening the details of investment service support, releasing policy dividends and gaining high recognition from well-known domestic enterprises on the basis of expanding the market scale and the number of subjects.

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The State Council executive meeting held on June 2, China's economic operation since this year to achieve a good start, but the foundation of economic recovery is not yet solid, to create a market-oriented, rule of law, international business environment in an important position. In the relaxation of market access, promote fair competition, the protection of intellectual property rights, the construction of a unified market and other aspects, in batches to speed up the introduction of targeted, high gold policy measures, and by deepening the business environment reform in key areas to effectively enhance the effectiveness of the policy. Efforts should be made to strengthen the sense of service, increase the implementation of policies, open up policy implementation blockages, ensure that policies are put into practice, so that enterprises have more tangible sense of gain.


Wang Qing, chief macro analyst of Orient Jincheng, said that the deployment of the regular meeting of the State Council to optimize the business environment aims to effectively solve the outstanding problems faced by the current private investment, with strong relevance and operability, and more specific implementation details will be introduced next. "Vigorously boost market confidence, both the need for macro policy camera and do a good job of counter-cyclical and cross-cyclical adjustment, but also the need to focus on deepening reform, continue to optimize the business environment, and effectively guide market expectations."


The State Council executive meeting proposed to increase policy efforts in easing market access and building a unified big market. In Liu Jintao's view, one of the advantages of easing market access is to stimulate the potential vitality of market players, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, further guide social capital to increase investment in new technologies and new enterprises, lower the threshold and improve efficiency, while this policy will also radiate to many aspects of the upstream and downstream of the industry chain, creating a huge leveraging effect. In addition, from the perspective of market opening and external circulation, the construction of a unified market, multi-faceted policy measures to optimize the overall business environment is also conducive to fully enhance the competitiveness of international economic and trade cooperation, the external release of positive signals for investment and cooperation, and strengthen the attractiveness of the domestic market for foreign investment.


"Light up hard moves," "out of the box" "think of a wonderful trick"


Various regions actively optimize the business environment


Liu Jintao said that, from the regional point of view, around the world continue to do a good job by "light hard tricks" "strange tricks" "think magic tricks" way to optimize the business environment, do real work. For example, Zhejiang introduced this year to optimize the business environment "No. 1 reform project", benchmarking world-class, through a series of initiatives covering government, rule of law, market, economic ecology, humanities five-dimensional one to improve market efficiency; Anhui is nearly two years "the first meeting of the New Year" theme Anhui focus on optimizing the business environment, to achieve the optimization of the business environment to improve the quality of the expansion of efficiency; Xi'an high-tech zone to implement the "four-dimensional innovation" whole chain of services to build a new model of enterprise life cycle protection, the formation of replicable and replicable experience model. "All these initiatives show that all places actively build a multi-dimensional, multi-level, systematic business environment optimization policy system, expand the coverage, focus on creating a business environment in line with the characteristics of local markets and resource endowments." Liu Jintao said.


Anhui Province business environment reform and innovation demonstration area construction launch will be held recently, Hefei, Wuhu, Chuzhou three cities as a pilot city officially launched the construction of the demonstration area. It is reported that each pilot city to choose one to two good conditions of the development zone as a demonstration site, demonstration sites to explore the formation of experience in the province to be promoted. The pilot cities will focus on "excellent service, simple approval, digital empowerment, system security" reform exploration, focusing on access to camp, construction (land start), real estate registration, enterprise credit repair and other key areas to promote development and reform, market supervision, financial supervision, data resources and other departments to speed up the quality and efficiency of services to enterprises.

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As the business environment continues to be optimized and improved, more and more investors are investing in Anhui. 2022, fixed asset investment in Anhui Province grew by 9%, higher than the national 3.9 percentage points. Among them, manufacturing investment grew by 21.5%, higher than the national 12.4 percentage points. From January to April this year, the growth of fixed asset investment in Anhui Province continued to be 1.7 percentage points higher than that of the country. In the previously held mobilization meeting of the second batch of major projects in Anhui Province in 2023, a total of 1069 major projects were started, involving manufacturing, infrastructure, people's livelihood projects and other industry fields, of which the investment in manufacturing projects accounted for 71.7% of the total investment. In Hefei, a total investment of 5.6 billion yuan of Yifan pharmaceutical biomedical big health industry base and other projects started construction; in Wuhu, a total investment of 10 billion yuan of Huawei cloud Jiangbei East China data center project (a phase) and other projects started construction ......


A few days ago, the "Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone to deepen the mechanism of reform and innovation to continue to optimize the business environment work program" version 4.0 was introduced. According to the 4.0 version of the program, the Free Trade Zone will implement the negative list of foreign investment access in the financial sector, the implementation of high standards of foreign investment access after the national treatment, promote the financing guarantee institutions to carry out product and service innovation, improve the convenience of enterprise financing and innovation and entrepreneurship activity; focus on cultivating and developing the digital economy, steadily improve the scale of regional physical goods network retail, and promote the digital transformation of industry. The relevant person in charge of the bonded area said that the bonded area will be benchmarked against the highest international and domestic standards, creating a good atmosphere for all kinds of market players to invest and prosper, and forming a service brand with bonded characteristics.