Optimizing the business environment is an important starting point for boosting social confidence, stimulating market vitality and enhancing development stamina. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that it is necessary to create a market-oriented, law-based and international first-class business environment. This year's "Government Work Report" requires the creation of a market-oriented, law-based, and international first-class business environment, and promotes the construction of a high-level socialist market economy system.
Recently, many places have intensively introduced measures to optimize and improve the business environment: Beijing announced the key points of comprehensively optimizing the business environment this year and deployed 60 key tasks; The Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau issued an action plan to optimize the business environment, focusing on 5 aspects and introducing 58 measures; Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, released the "Version 5.0" action plan for optimizing the business environment, including 5 special improvement actions, 23 key improvement areas, and 100 specific work measures; For the first time, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, issued an evaluation system for the construction of a law-based business environment, providing important guidance for the city's administrative organs to adopt more scientific business measures.
Liu Cheng, a researcher at the Xi Jinping Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the measures to optimize the business environment launched by various localities are a continuation and upgrade of the existing version, showing that the improvement and optimization of the business environment is being continuously promoted across the country. These measures generally show the characteristics of faster service, fewer windows, and more popular electronic methods, and at the same time, local governments are also actively providing personalized services for enterprises in terms of details.
Since 2022, the Huainan Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Anhui Province has taken the construction of pro-Qing political and business relations as the main entry point, and carried out the pilot work of "pro-Qing monitoring points" in 101 private enterprises, and timely collected problems and suggestions that affect pro-Qing political and business relations and the demands and suggestions of enterprises. The picture shows that recently, the staff of the Shou County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision of Huainan City went deep into Anhui Weika Doors and Windows Co., Ltd. to understand the production and export of enterprise orders, and carried out business environment supervision. People's Vision
Strive for the "new".
Aiming at new quality productivity, many places will promote the business environment to be "new" and excellent.
On May 6, the Jiangsu Provincial Government held a press conference on building a market-oriented, law-based, international, first-class business environment. Lin Kang, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission, mentioned at the press conference that optimizing the business environment is to establish a new type of production relationship and better serve the needs of the development of new quality productivity. Jiangsu Province will build a business environment that is compatible with the new quality of productivity.
Shenzhen has helped the development of new productive forces by creating a business environment based on the rule of law. Recently, the Office of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee of the Municipal Committee for the Comprehensive Rule of Law issued the "Evaluation System for the Construction of a Law-based Business Environment in Shenzhen", which requires accelerating the development of new quality productivity legislation and helping to promote industrial innovation.
Dongying City, Shandong Province, has continued to deepen the reform of the examination and approval system and eliminated various explicit or implicit thresholds that restrict the development of new quality productive forces. Not long ago, the Dongying Municipal Administrative Examination and Approval Service Bureau issued the "Several Measures of Dongying City on Optimizing the Registration of Business Entities, Improving the Enterprise Service Center System, and Promoting the Development of New Quality Productivity". Dongying City focuses on institutional innovation, digital empowerment, service optimization, enterprise satisfaction, etc., to improve the efficiency of examination and approval, serve the development of new quality productivity, serve the transformation and upgrading of the industry, and cultivate the competitiveness of enterprises.
What is the intrinsic relationship between new productivity and business environment?
"The business environment is the soil on which the new quality productivity depends for survival and strengthening, and the new quality productivity is the driving force for the optimization and improvement of the business environment." Song Xiangqing, vice president of the China Business Economics Association, told China City Daily that the cultivation of new quality productivity needs to strengthen innovation, and the core and key to the improvement of innovation lies in the entity enterprise, and whether the entity enterprise has enough innovation to promote the formation of new quality productivity depends on the advantages and disadvantages of the business environment.
Song Xiangqing believes that a good business environment is crucial to the cultivation and growth of new quality productivity, and at the same time, it is beneficial for entity enterprises to achieve cutting-edge technological breakthroughs and overall innovation and development by relying on new quality productivity. In addition, strong new quality productivity can not only enhance the overall competitiveness of real enterprises, but also increase residents' income and national tax revenue. Therefore, we must continue to promote the construction of a market-oriented, law-based and international business environment.
How can the business environment be "new"? Song Xiangqing suggested that localities should adhere to the "three wants" and "three don'ts" in this process. Specifically, first, it is necessary to institutionalize and legalize the creation of a stable, fair, transparent and predictable business environment, create good operating conditions for the innovation of business entities and the cultivation of new quality productivity, and do not just make verbal promises; Second, we must treat state-owned enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises and private enterprises equally, do not favor one over the other, and do not set up "glass doors" and "spring doors" for private enterprises when participating in major government construction projects; Third, it is necessary to establish a management system and operation mechanism for the business environment and new quality productivity to ensure that the combination of the two can form a joint force to promote high-quality and sustainable development.
Empower with "numbers".
Digital empowerment optimizes the business environment, and has gradually become an important force for local governments to create a market-oriented, law-based, and international first-class business environment.
Taking Beijing as an example, recently, the Beijing Municipal Government issued the "Key Points for Comprehensively Optimizing the Business Environment in Beijing in 2024", which mentioned that it will accelerate the construction of a national market supervision digital pilot zone, vigorously promote off-site supervision, and achieve full coverage of the regulatory field.
A reporter from China City Daily noticed that in the construction of a digital business environment, some places have carried out beneficial and effective exploration and practice.
In recent years, the total number of business entities in Chengdu High-tech Zone has continued to grow, but with it, the number of inquiries has surged, and the problem of poor connection of consultation telephones has become increasingly prominent. According to the relevant person in charge of the Market Supervision and Administration Bureau of Chengdu High-tech Zone, in 2023, a total of 588,000 inbound enterprise registration consultation calls will be made, with an average of 49,000 inbound calls per month.
To this end, the Chengdu High-tech Zone Market Supervision and Administration Bureau relies on the construction of the market supervision sub-center of the operation center of the smart Chengdu High-tech Zone to launch the "smart Q&A + manual response" service, which not only answers a variety of business questions in the whole process of registration business for consultants, but also makes efforts to improve the ability to connect to consultations and improve the quality of consultation responses, so as to achieve "one-click response", "one-database check" and "first-line answer".
The construction of a digital business environment is becoming a key measure to create a market-oriented, law-based, and international first-class business environment in various places, and an important starting point for promoting high-quality economic development and unleashing market vitality.
Pan Helin, a member of the Information and Communication Economy Expert Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, told China City Daily that the construction of a digital business environment has greatly simplified the process of enterprises, and enterprises do not need to "run the window", and relevant needs can be handled online. In this way, the operating costs of enterprises and governments are greatly saved.
However, in the opinion of the interviewed experts, there are still shortcomings and weaknesses in the process of building a digital business environment, such as cumbersome operation, insufficient intelligence, and poor interaction. Pan and Lin suggested that in the future, the process should be further simplified and the level of intelligence should be improved, such as optimizing the convenience of operation, increasing the intelligent reminder function, and strengthening the interactivity of the platform.
Liu Cheng believes that although the service time and window have been compressed to the extreme, there are still institutional stuck points that restrict the development of enterprises, such as too much rigid administrative supervision, large social security burden, low operating profit margin, etc. Compared with work efficiency, the above stuck points are the constraints on the development and growth of enterprises. How to examine the environment from a macro perspective and eliminate stuck points on a larger scale is the main challenge in the construction of the local digital business environment.
Adapt to local conditions
The construction of the business environment needs to be explored, and how to optimize and improve the business environment is not a "one-size-fits-all cure". At present, many localities are exploring reform plans in accordance with local conditions to promote the optimization of the business environment in depth.
Taking Jiangsu Province as an example, Lin Kang mentioned at the above-mentioned press conference that grassroots innovation should be encouraged, differentiated exploration should be supported in accordance with local conditions, and excellent cases of business environment reform and innovation should be selected, so as to form a batch of "Jiangsu experience" that can be replicated and promoted.
"To optimize the business environment and create what kind of environment to create, we must follow the 'business' to adjust." Where the business is, there must be environmental optimization. Liu Cheng believes that it is necessary to optimize the business environment in combination with local industries, and adapt measures to local conditions rather than copying the regulations and practices of advanced regions. For emerging industries, it is more necessary to be targeted, rather than simply applying the general practices of the traditional economy.
"Especially in the development of new quality productivity, targeted environmental optimization measures should be taken. As technology advances and the cost of meeting consumer demand is reduced, many unexpected emerging markets and ecosystems are created, and new business models become viable. This requires creating a good business environment and responding flexibly to problems that may arise or have arisen in new business formats and models in a timely manner. Liu Cheng said.
Liu Cheng also mentioned that in recent years, Internet celebrity cities have attracted more and more attention, and their relevant practices can be further institutionalized, with "Internet celebrities" as a breakthrough, and comprehensively promote the construction of the local business environment, from the promotion of tourism business cards to the promotion of investment and intelligence, and integrate into the development of the manufacturing industry. In addition, the successful experience of optimizing the business environment and building the brand of the Internet celebrity city can also be promoted, so as to provide reference and reference for other cities.
Localities also need to be cautious in the process of optimizing and improving the business environment according to local conditions. Song Xiangqing reminded that in the same region and in the same industry, the formulation of differentiated policies to optimize the business environment, no matter what the reason, is to discriminate against enterprises with a relatively poor business environment, which will cause injustice at the institutional level and dissatisfaction at the practical level, which is not conducive to the overall development of the regional economy. The basis of the optimization of the business environment is fairness, openness and justice, and differentiation will make the foundation of the business environment unstable and solid, and it will be difficult to win the trust of capital.
Original title: Cultivate the fertile soil for industrial development and create an "upgraded version" of the business environment in many places
■Source: China City Daily reporter Xing Can