Jin Guanping

  The executive meeting of the State Council held on September 8 deployed to launch pilot business environment innovations in 6 cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen.

The new pilot of the old subject is by no means a new bottle of old wine, but a more far-reaching and comprehensive consideration.

  Simple governance, complicated and perishable governance.

While implementing the "Regulations on Optimizing the Business Environment" and promoting the creation of a market-oriented, legalized and international business environment across the country, it is necessary to further deepen the reform of "decentralization, management, and service", optimize and upgrade the "old policy", with a more open depth, More extensive efforts will be made to enhance market vitality and create a business environment in line with the current economic development situation.

Before decentralization, we must focus on market players and the concerns of the masses, optimize measures to be more precise, and benchmark internationally advanced standards, and improve services without losing the standard.

  The new pilot is adapted to new needs.

From a national perspective, the total number of market entities in my country has increased from 55 million in 2012 to 146 million at the end of July this year, with an average annual net increase of over 10 million, and the overall activity of market entities has stabilized at around 70%.

The booming market entities put forward higher target requirements for the business environment, and are more eager for equality, fairness, integrity, and the rule of law.

The pilot cities this time are all cities with a large number of market entities, and their reflections are also the most prominent.

For example, for the food, medicine, vaccine, safety and other industries and fields that are of concern to the people, the pilot cities will improve and innovate supervision, and improve the long-term mechanism to curb arbitrary fees, fines, and arbitrary apportionment; for intermediary agencies to monopolize operations and compulsory services Relevant departments will promptly correct and cancel the differentiated treatment of enterprises in terms of qualification acquisition, bidding, and rights protection, and maintain fair competition in the market.

  The new pilot solves old problems.

Prior to this, many measures to optimize the business environment have been introduced, both at the national level and at the local level.

Although the policy is layered, some stubborn diseases are still there, such as local protection, data barriers, and new officials ignoring old accounts. They are widely criticized by the market and are difficult to eradicate.

The introduction of policies has its adaptability and flexibility. If there is an imbalance in the specific implementation, the effect will be greatly reduced.

This time the State Council put forward a series of hard measures to further eliminate regional division and local protection, and promote the construction of a unified, open, and orderly competitive market system.

These include the removal of unreasonable restrictions on companies' cross-regional operations, the removal of hidden barriers to foreign companies in areas such as government procurement, and the establishment of a compensation and relief mechanism that damages the legitimate interests of companies due to policy changes and planning adjustments.

In particular, breaking information islands and expanding the scope of system interconnection and data sharing between departments and localities is also the only way to strengthen the construction of digital government.

  The new pilot program pursues new results.

With the implementation of various measures to create an "upgraded version" of the optimized business environment, a series of "chemical reactions" will occur, making it easier for market entities to enter and exit, and tailor access standards for the development of new business models and models. Further strengthen the protection of investors' rights and interests.

Taking land development as an example, government departments will carry out a package of assessments on geological disasters and soil and water conservation before the supply of land to strengthen responsibilities.

This means that individual market players no longer have to run around for such assessments.

After the enterprise obtains the land, it can start construction, and there is no need to deal with rounds of "making things difficult" and avoiding repeated arguments.

  One point for deployment, nine points for implementation.

If the pilot cities implement these policies and measures in detail, they can set a benchmark and demonstrate for the optimization of the business environment in other parts of the country, provide reproducible and popularized experience, and bring tangible gains to more market players.