A good business environment is a necessary condition for promoting high-quality economic development.

At the time of inspecting Guizhou, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward new requirements on how to optimize the business environment: on the one hand, we should focus on reform and open up bottlenecks that restrict high-quality development; on the other hand, we should focus on cadre education and management, and guide cadres to enhance their awareness of the overall situation, service awareness, integrity awareness, and integrity awareness.

The new requirements reflect a distinct problem-oriented approach.

Consult in reform: "Only better, there is no best"

"Resolutely break down various obstacles to equal use of production factors in accordance with the law and fair participation in market competition", "Continue to make great efforts to solve the problem of difficulty and high cost of financing for private enterprises", "Focus on solving the problem of arrears of accounts arrears of private enterprises", "Concentrate on rectifying random charges, random fines, random inspections, and random seals", "Seriously implement various relief policies"... At the private enterprise symposium held on February 17, every requirement put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping directly hits the pain points that the current business entities have strongly reflected and concentrated.

"The business environment is only better, but there is no best." For a long time, the Party Central Committee has attached great importance to the construction of the business environment. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized "continue to create a market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment to provide a fair and just market order for Chinese and foreign enterprises."

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, through comprehensively deepening reforms and continuously improving the basic market economy systems such as property rights protection, market access, fair competition, and social credit, China's business environment has been continuously optimized, its economic attractiveness and competitiveness have been continuously improved, and its results have been recognized by the international community. According to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report, China's market access convenience ranks 15th in the world in 2024, digital government services ranks 7th in the world, and cross-border trade facilitation ranks 3rd in Asia.

Optimizing the business environment is both a tough battle and a lasting battle. Taking the construction of a national unified market as an example, during the Guizhou investigation, the General Secretary once again mentioned the bottlenecks and blocks such as local protection, market segmentation, and "intra-roll" competition. As reform enters the deep waters, the number of deep-seated problems touched increases, and the complexity and systematicity of reforms are enhanced. Every task is a difficult and hard bone. It is necessary to insist on seeking motivation for deepening reforms, and to implement reforms with a spirit of nailing down nails.

Reform continues to deepen in solving problems. From transforming government functions to improving service quality and efficiency, from clearing market barriers to promoting institutional integrated innovation... Optimizing the business environment means constantly breaking through ideological constraints and breaking through barriers of interest, using reform thinking and methods to break down accumulated shortcomings and stimulate vitality, so that business entities can truly see changes, get benefits, and truly enjoy the benefits brought by the improvement of the business environment.

Estimate cadre education and management: "Do what to do, don't do what to do"

The development vitality of a place is closely related to the business environment.

In the beginning of spring, many places held meetings, optimizing the business environment has become the "No. 1 reform project" in many provinces. For example, Shanghai has issued an action plan to optimize the business environment for eight consecutive years, taking the "feelings" of enterprises as the starting point and end point; Zhejiang has passed the "Zheliban" ecosystem, and the "one-stop service" rate of government services has reached 98%, and the "intelligent filling" system of enterprises' annual report reduces the amount of manual filling by 70%.

Behind the continuous optimization of the business environment is the improvement of cadres' work style.

"Solidly implement policies and measures to promote the development of the private economy is the focus of the work to promote the development of the private economy." At the symposium of private enterprises, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly demanded: "Everything that the Party Central Committee has decided must be resolutely implemented and cannot be discounted."

How to transform institutional advantages into governance effectiveness depends on people.

It should be noted that in the process of promoting the construction of the business environment, some party members and cadres still have phenomena such as "slow", "cold", and "sitting", and bad work styles such as "drag", "pushing", and "blocking" when facing complex problems have not been completely eliminated. In the process of policy implementation, problems such as "half-understanding", "slow tasting", and "inaccurate grasping" still exist.

Strengthening cadre education and management and guiding cadres to enhance their awareness of the overall situation, service awareness, integrity awareness, and integrity awareness are the key.

Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee issued the "Notice on Carrying out Study and Education in Deeply Implementing the Spirit of the Central Eight Regulations in the Whole Party", and the relationship between government and business is closely related to it. As early as 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping summarized the new type of political and business relationship into the words "close" and "clear". At the private enterprise symposium held this year, the General Secretary once again emphasized "further building a friendly and clean government-business relationship."

"The government should do what it is and not what it is to solve the problems of lack and offside." The key to optimizing the business environment is to handle the relationship between the government and the market, give full and in place the power that should be placed on the market and society, manage and in place what the government manages well, and make good use of the "two hands" of the market and the government to form an economic order that is both "relaxable" and "controlled", and stimulate market vitality, institutional vitality and social creativity.

The "two-hand grasp" of optimizing the business environment is not only a dialectic for dividing the old and establishing the new, but also a methodology for promoting high-quality economic development. Make great efforts and work hard for a long time to create a stable, fair, transparent and predictable environment for the entrepreneurship and innovation of the whole society. The business entities will gradually become deep and rooted, and flourish, supporting the "stability" and "progress" of economic development.

Planning: Du Shangze

Written by: Gao Mu Poster: Chen Xiaojin

Editor: An Bowen

Chairman Inspection: Juli

Editor in charge: An Bowen