China News Service, Beijing, October 27 (Reporter Li Xiaoyu) A survey report released by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade on the 27th showed that foreign companies continued to be optimistic about the Chinese market in the third quarter, and nearly 80% of foreign companies in China maintained their existing production business scale.

  The "Report on the Business Environment for Foreign Investment in China in the Third Quarter" shows that foreign companies have generally rated China's business environment and macroeconomic policies well.

In the third quarter, 90.85% of foreign-funded enterprises were rated as "relatively satisfied" or above for obtaining business premises, 89.94% were rated as "relatively satisfied" or higher for market access, and 88.72% were rated as "relatively satisfied" or higher for tax payment.

  According to the report, China's continuous optimization of the business environment has provided a strong guarantee and lasting motivation for foreign companies to take root in the Chinese market.

The satisfaction evaluation of foreign enterprises on market access, promotion of market competition, access to business premises and access to financial services increased by 1.99, 1.84, 1.52 and 1.43 percentage points respectively over the second quarter.

From the investment amount, investment structure and degree of participation of foreign companies in China's economic construction, it can be seen that China's business environment is very attractive.

  According to the report, foreign companies' current policy recommendations on China's business environment mainly focus on improving normalized epidemic prevention and control policies, improving the scientific and completeness of policy formulation, and building a highly efficient service-oriented government.

  In response to the outstanding problems encountered by foreign enterprises in their production and operation in China, the Chinese government has issued new regulations on foreign investment, which clearly proposes to facilitate the exchange of international business personnel, strengthen the smooth flow of freight and logistics, and ensure the smooth transportation of production materials and products of foreign-invested enterprises.

  At present, the scale of China's foreign investment has been rising steadily.

According to official data, in the first eight months of this year, China's actual use of foreign capital was 892.74 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.4% on a comparable basis.

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