China News Service, February 5. The State Council Information Office held a regular briefing on State Council policies on February 5 to introduce the situation related to creating a market-oriented, legal and international first-class business environment. Zhu Bing, director of the Foreign Investment Management Department of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced at the meeting that in the six months since the release of the "Opinions on Further Optimizing the Foreign Investment Environment and Increasing Attraction of Foreign Investment", more than 60% of the policy measures have been implemented or have made positive progress. , the overall evaluation of most foreign-funded enterprises is good.
According to Zhu Bing, specifically, of the 59 measures in the "24 Foreign Investment Measures", 10 have been completed. For example, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China issued a document clearly regarding "effectively safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises on the Internet" as online infringement information. In order to focus on the key tasks of reporting, an online reporting area has been opened and the reporting hotline of 12377 has been announced. The Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued an announcement extending the implementation period of the tax exemption policy for foreign individual subsidies and the tax refund policy for the purchase of domestic equipment by foreign-funded R&D institutions until the end of December 2027.
There are 28 items that have made phased progress, including policy documents that have been drafted and are in the process of being promulgated, relevant work has been carried out or work arrangements have been carried out in accordance with the requirements of policy initiatives. For example: the Central Cyberspace Administration of China has formulated the "Regulations on Regulating and Promoting Cross-border Data Flows", which are being studied, improved, and prepared for promulgation. The Ministry of Finance is working hard to formulate standards for "produced in China" for government procurement products.
There are 21 items that are being continuously promoted, including some long-term and sustainable work, such as: the State Intellectual Property Office guides and supports relevant localities to set up intellectual property service guarantee workstations during the exhibition to do a good job in patent priority review and acceptance, intellectual property maintenance, comprehensive Consulting and other exhibition intellectual property service guarantee work.
Zhu Bing pointed out that in the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will continue to promote various measures to accelerate the implementation and effectiveness, promptly report the progress of government procurement, standard setting, investment facilitation and other aspects that are generally concerned by foreign-invested enterprises, and further strengthen the implementation of the "24 Articles on Foreign Investment" assessment of the situation. If foreign-funded enterprises encounter any difficulties or problems when enjoying relevant policies, they can report them to the Ministry of Commerce to help the Ministry of Commerce better promote the implementation of the "24 Foreign Investment Articles".