China News Service, February 5 (Reporter Li Jinlei) Building a market-oriented, legal and international first-class business environment is an important measure to cope with the downward pressure on the economy and boost the confidence of business entities. Focusing on further optimizing the business environment, various departments in China have made new moves.
Get rid of local protection and ownership discrimination, solve a number of outstanding problems in the legalized business environment, and intensify special rectification of illegal charges related to enterprises... At the State Council's regular policy briefing held on February 5, many departments introduced Next steps for optimizing the business environment.
On February 5, China’s State Council Information Office held a regular briefing on State Council policies in Beijing. Photo by China News Service reporter Yang Kejia
"Five better" solves the pain points, difficulties and stuck points of enterprises
The recently held executive meeting of the State Council pointed out that more attention should be paid to responding to the outstanding concerns of business entities, accelerating the construction of a unified national market, strengthening the consistency assessment of macro policy orientations, and creating a stable, transparent and predictable policy environment.
Meng Wei, director of the Law and Regulation Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that in the next step, we will focus on the outstanding concerns of business entities, take effective measures to effectively solve the pain points, difficulties and stuck problems of enterprises, and strive to achieve "five better".
First, efforts should be made to eliminate various unreasonable restrictions and better maintain fair competition. The second is to strive to improve the top-level design and better protect legitimate rights and interests. The third is to strive to promote cross-border investment facilitation and better expand institutional openness. The fourth is to strive to promote the optimization of government services and better facilitate enterprises and people. Fifth, we should strive to play an advanced and exemplary role to better achieve overall improvement.
Meng Wei pointed out that in view of the various "revolving doors" and "glass doors" that still exist, we will further improve the market access system, promote full coverage of market access effectiveness assessment, innovate and improve the bidding system and mechanisms, and clean up unequal treatment. Enterprise laws, regulations, rules, and normative documents eliminate local protection and ownership discrimination.
In view of the shortcomings of insufficient legal protection, she also said that this year will focus on the legal business environment, promote the issuance of policy documents, promote the simultaneous development of legislation, law enforcement, judiciary, and law-abiding, and solve a number of legal issues. Outstanding issues in the business environment.
Guo Qiwen, head of the Second Legislative Bureau of the Ministry of Justice, said that the revision of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law will be accelerated. In view of the prominent problems reported by business entities such as commercial confusion, false propaganda, commercial bribery, and unfair competition on the Internet, we will further improve the anti-unfair competition system and rules, increase the illegal costs of unfair competition, and strengthen the supervision of the legitimate rights and interests of various business entities. Strength of protection.
RMB information map. Photo by China News Network reporter Li Jinlei
Increase special efforts to rectify illegal charges involving enterprises
Data show that as of the end of 2023, there were 184 million operating entities in my country, and 32.727 million new operating entities were established, a year-on-year increase of 12.6%. 10.029 million new enterprises were established, a year-on-year increase of 15.6%.
Market order is the core element of the business environment, and enterprise-related charging issues are related to the core interests of enterprises. Addressing arbitrary charges and fines is an important measure to reduce the burden on business entities.
Ren Duanping, director of the Registration Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation, pointed out that in the next step, the State Administration for Market Regulation will intensify the special rectification of illegal charges involving enterprises, comprehensively promote strict standards, fair and civilized law enforcement, focus on enhancing the vitality and endogenous power of business entities, and promote the release of high-quality development kinetic energy.
Among them, special rectification actions involving illegal charging by enterprises will continue to be carried out. The State Administration for Market Regulation will take the issue of illegal charging by enterprises as a key measure to optimize the business environment, take special rectification actions as the focus of solving illegal charging, study and formulate rectification action plans and a list of expected results, and focus on reducing costs and burdens for enterprises. produce greater results.
Ren Duanping also pointed out that we should study and formulate guiding opinions on "service-oriented law enforcement" and promote the introduction of institutional norms such as a list of "no punishment for first offenders and reduced penalties" in various localities.
The “Four Ones” further stimulate the vitality of private investment
Private investment accounts for a high proportion of fixed asset investment in the whole society and is an important material basis for the development of the private economy. It is crucial to further optimize the private investment environment and enhance the willingness of enterprises to invest.
Meng Wei revealed that the National Development and Reform Commission will focus on achieving the "Four Ones", that is, making good use of a new platform, building a project library, implementing a new mechanism, and unblocking a good channel, and strive to achieve these "Four Ones" Further stimulate the vitality of private investment.
In September last year, the National Development and Reform Commission established a national unified platform to promote projects to private capital. As of the end of January this year, it had attracted private capital to participate in 1,591 projects with a total investment scale of 1.9808 billion yuan. The National Development and Reform Commission will continue to do a good job in this work, unblock the channels for obtaining project information, and attract more private capital to participate in the construction of major national projects.
The National Development and Reform Commission will implement a new mechanism to standardize the implementation of government-private capital cooperation.
It is reported that the National Development and Reform Commission will promptly issue supporting documents such as franchise management measures, franchise plan preparation outline, and franchise agreement templates, build an information system for government and social capital cooperation projects, provide overall guidance, and effectively expand the participation of private enterprises in infrastructure There is room for investment, and private capital is encouraged to participate in government-social capital cooperation projects to the greatest extent. (over)