Shandong: Innovation improves the business environment and cultivates fertile ground for enterprise growth-City Focus-China.com Real Estate
The total investment of 123 projects is 269.8 billion yuan, covering more than ten fields such as new energy, intelligent manufacturing, and agriculture... From September 11 to 13, at the 2023 China Top 500 Private Enterprises Summit held in Jinan, a number of high-quality projects were signed and landed in Shandong.
The influx of high-quality projects is a vote of confidence cast by private enterprises in Shandong’s business environment. "We have signed a cooperation agreement with Jinan City to jointly build a green circular economy system. At present, projects such as the Shandong Times New Energy Industry Cluster, the Fishing and Lighting Complementary National Large-scale Photovoltaic Generator Unit, and Jining's first heavy-duty truck power generation are all progressing smoothly. We deeply feel the efficiency and hospitality of Qilu." said Zeng Yuqun, vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and chairman and general manager of Ningde Times.
A good business environment is like sunshine, water and air, which are indispensable even for a moment. Starting from the immediate needs of enterprises, Shandong has formulated pragmatic and effective measures. Since 2020, it has released four consecutive action plans to optimize the business environment, and has continued to implement innovative breakthroughs and innovative improvement actions in the business environment. The construction of the business environment has taken new steps and achieved new improvements, and its overall level is ranked first in the country. The results of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce’s “Business Environment Evaluation by Tens of Thousands of Private Enterprises” survey show that Shandong has been selected as the ten provinces with the best business environment for three consecutive years.
“You can open a company without an office and save a lot of rent. The cluster registration policy is really good news for entrepreneurs.” Recently, Wang Rui, the person in charge of Shandong Zigao Enterprise Service Co., Ltd., who received a business license at the Zhangdian District Civic Center in Zibo City, said. Zibo City actively explores and formulates access standards for new business forms and new models, implements "cluster registration" registration, and deepens the "one site, multiple licenses" reform, which effectively solves the problem of start-up companies that do not have the conditions for business premises and helps start-up companies grow rapidly.
The key is to unleash the vitality of enterprises and deepen the reform of “decentralization, regulation and services”. Shandong has launched a package plan such as decentralization, certificate reduction, list management, and convenient services, and strives to create a government environment with fewer approval matters, high work efficiency, and excellent service quality. It is at the forefront of the country in the reform of "one industry, one certificate" and the reform of simple enterprise cancellation. Carry out the construction of a "certificate-free province" and focus on promoting the comprehensive application of the top 100 most frequently used electronic license certificates in the fields of government services, administrative law enforcement, and social life. We continue to clean up certification matters. Since 2018, we have canceled more than 1,560 categories of various types of physical certifications, involving more than 4,330 matters, and a total of more than 21.6 million certification materials have been reduced. A series of measures have greatly improved the convenience for enterprises to invest, produce and operate.
In Yantai High-tech Zone, technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises gather. Most of these companies focus on research and development but not on assets. They require large investments but have difficulty obtaining bank loans, and face greater financial pressure. How to solve this problem? Yantai High-tech Zone has taken multiple measures to open up the last mile of corporate intellectual property pledge financing and promote the realization of intangible assets. Since 2022, it has helped 26 companies successfully pass intellectual property pledge financing. Yantai Painuo Biotechnology Co., Ltd., which is engaged in the research and development and production of innovative human vaccine products, is one of them. "We were approved for a credit line of 400 million yuan through patent pledge loans, which greatly eased the company's financial pressure." said Zhang Xiaomei, the company's financial director.
To optimize the business environment, we must meet the needs of enterprises as the starting point and final destination. Shandong focuses on the blocking points and pain points in the development of enterprises, and does a good job of "addition and subtraction" - making "additions" in improving all-factor guarantees and services, insisting on "factors follow the project", implementing a combination of provincial overall planning and hierarchical allocation, opening up green channels for high-quality projects, and effectively allowing "good horses to eat good materials", strengthening supervision services, and organizing the provincial "Four Advances" task force to go deep into the front line and go directly to the grassroots to help enterprises solve problems. In order to reduce the burden on enterprises, while fully implementing the national tax reduction and fee reduction policies, a series of effective local burden reduction policies have been introduced. Only small-scale taxpayers are exempted from the "two taxes" policy, which has reduced the burden on business entities in the province by nearly 20 billion yuan.
Recently, the Shandong Provincial Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics conducted a survey on 727 companies in 16 cities. The results showed that 95.6% of the surveyed companies were satisfied with the legal environment in Shandong. Behind this is Shandong's efforts to create a stable, fair, transparent, and predictable business environment governed by the rule of law. Shandong continues to increase the supply of laws and regulations, and has promulgated local laws and government regulations such as the "Shandong Province Regulations on Optimizing the Business Environment", "Shandong Province Regulations on the Promotion of Private Economic Development", and "Shandong Province Social Credit Regulations" to provide legal guarantee for optimizing the business environment. We will continue to increase law enforcement efforts and severely punish all types of crimes that disrupt the market economic order in accordance with the law. Deeply promote the new credit-based supervision mechanism, implement "investigation of everything, and no disturbance of everything", take the lead in implementing "two books at the same time" across the province, optimize credit repair services, and have completed credit repair for more than 30,000 companies so far.
The business environment continues to be optimized, promoting market vitality. In the first half of this year, the total number of private economic market entities in Shandong reached 14.196 million, a year-on-year increase of 6.9%. The economy shows an overall trend of accelerating recovery and rebounding for the better.
