Whether the business environment is good or not, enterprises have the most say. Tesla's China story is not a case. Recently, the improvement of China's business environment was praised by many international organizations and multinational enterprises at the high-level international seminar on optimizing the business environment jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Finance, the Beijing Municipal Government and the World Bank. Participants pointed out that they hope that all measures can be implemented, benchmark the best in the world, and promote the creation of an internationally competitive business environment with greater openness and reform.
Accelerate the optimization of business environment in China.
The deepening of decentralization, strengthening supervision and improving services, the promulgation of the Regulations on Optimizing the Business Environment, the implementation of the Foreign Investment Law from 65438+ 10/0/next year, the large-scale tax reduction and fee reduction of more than 2 trillion yuan throughout the year, and the release of version 3.0 of Beijing's business environment reform this month all indicate that the reform of optimizing the business environment in China is accelerating.
According to the latest Global Business Environment Report 2020 released by the World Bank, the ranking of China's business environment has greatly increased by 15 compared with last year, ranking 3 1 in the world, making it one of the 10 economies with the largest improvement in the global business environment for two consecutive years.
Liu Kun, Minister of Finance, said in his speech at the opening ceremony of the high-level international seminar on optimizing the business environment that in recent years, the Ministry of Finance, in accordance with the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, took the lead with relevant departments and the Beijing and Shanghai municipal governments, took the opportunity of participating in the World Bank's global business environment assessment, aimed at the global frontier, promoted a series of drastic reforms, and successfully upgraded the global ranking of China's business environment.
Liu Kun pointed out that the next step will be to promote relevant parties to take the world as the public, promote reform through opening up, and create a business environment that conforms to internationally accepted rules; Guided by the needs of enterprises, we will implement policies on demand and strive for practical results to further enhance the sense of policy acquisition and satisfaction of enterprises; Guided by the problem, with the help of the weak links reflected in the Global Business Environment Report, we will make precise policies and take more powerful and pragmatic measures to continuously optimize the business environment of our country.
Reform measures at the local level are also accelerating, and optimizing the business environment has become the top priority of local work. Taking Beijing as an example, from 20 17 to 20 18, the Action Plan for Further Optimizing the Business Environment (20 18-2020) was released, and the goal of building a world-class business environment highland was put forward. Subsequently, business environment optimization was released on10. In the past two years, the approval process in Beijing has been streamlined by 32% and the approval time has been shortened by 64%. The policy of tax reduction and fee reduction has been fully implemented, which has reduced the tax and fee costs of enterprises by more than 200 billion yuan, and the business environment reform measures have reduced the cost of enterprises by about 7 billion yuan.
"The changes in the business environment in China are impressive. In particular, the transparency and predictability of supervision are increasing, which is very important, indicating that China is constantly in line with the world's leading countries. " Ed Ming, Vice President and Secretary General of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
China's investment environment is recognized by the world.
Whether the business environment is good or not, enterprises have the most say. Many participants from international business associations and multinational enterprises pointed out that they are optimistic about the investment environment and prospects of China, and hope to strengthen communication and seek a win-win situation.
Peng, vice chairman of u.s.-china business council, said that he was optimistic about China's efforts in deepening reforms in recent years, including tax cuts and opening to foreign investment, and optimizing the business environment, and would continue to pay attention to the implementation of these measures.
Alan Beale, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, said that American companies are very interested in the China market. According to a survey conducted by the Chamber of Commerce, two-thirds of American companies list China market as the three most attractive investment destinations. China government's reform of "simplifying administration and decentralizing power, strengthening supervision and improving services" and foreign investment law have all released good signals. How these measures interact with existing laws may be a key point.
"Since Tesla entered the China market, it has clearly felt the improvement brought by the change of business environment. Tesla's factory in Shanghai is an example. " Tao Lin, global vice president of Tesla, said that Tesla's factory in Shanghai Automobile Factory is the fastest in the world. Without the support of the China government, such a miracle would not have happened.
She said that as an enterprise, the most concerned is the laws and regulations faced by the investment destination, the fairness of the competitive environment, whether the government's behavior is efficient, and whether the innovative behavior of the enterprise can be tolerated and encouraged. In recent years, China has made rapid progress in this respect. She was delighted to find that with the continuous improvement of business environment in China, "Shanghai Speed" is becoming the general speed in China. She expressed the hope to further speed up the process of legalization and gain more perfect room for improvement with greater openness and innovation.
Bona, chairman of Societe Generale (China) Co., Ltd., said that in recent years, he has witnessed great changes in the China market, especially since 20 17, and the pace of financial opening-up has obviously accelerated. He hopes to participate in it and have more exchanges and frank dialogues with his counterparts in China.
The best global reform is still on the way.
The business environment is not the best, only better. Ma Jiantang, Party Secretary of the State Council Development Research Center, pointed out that business environment reform is always on the way. We should vigorously promote the reform to optimize the business environment. First, we will further promote decentralization, realize the extension of decentralization from "reducing things" to "reducing burdens and fees", and transform it from "decentralization" to "combination of decentralization and management". Second, we must comprehensively promote the organic combination of release and management, and realize a new type of supervision from "strict entry and wide management" to "wide entry and strict management, fairness and justice, tolerance and prudence". The third is to further expand and optimize the scope of services, and comprehensively improve the efficiency of government services, the service level of public utilities and the quality of social services.
Ma Jiantang said that the China municipal government attaches great importance to the reform of the business environment and vigorously promotes the deepening of reforms such as decentralization and decentralization. This reform has not only spawned a large number of market players, but also played a key supporting role in stabilizing growth and ensuring employment, and also accelerated the continuous transformation of old and new kinetic energy and the optimization and upgrading of economic structure. Generally speaking, the improvement of the business environment has stimulated the market vitality, enhanced the endogenous power and released the potential of domestic demand.
Wang Yiming, deputy director and researcher of the State Council Development Research Center, put forward seven suggestions on the reform of China's state-owned business environment: attaching importance to the protection of property rights, strengthening the basic position of competition policy, further relaxing the market access of basic industries and service industries, further promoting fair supervision, improving the efficiency of government services, improving the credit system and speeding up the improvement of laws and regulations.
Liu Shijin, deputy director of the 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Economic Commission and vice chairman of China Development Research Foundation, believes that the key to a good business environment is whether small and medium-sized enterprises can develop. Attention should be paid to several shortcomings found in the World Bank assessment, such as credit, taxes and fees, corporate bankruptcy, etc. We should pay more attention to solving the outstanding problems facing our country, such as promoting competition in basic industries, speeding up the reform of land system, and further relaxing the access of service industry.
Icarus, country operations director of the China-Mongolia-Korea Bureau of the World Bank, fully affirmed China's great progress in business environment reform. He also put forward four suggestions for the reform of business environment in China: first, popularize the reform experience of Beijing and Shanghai, and narrow the gap of business environment between regions; Second, learn from international best practice experience to solve some current shortcomings; Third, actively respond to the opportunities and challenges of new technologies; The fourth is to improve the business environment on a larger scale.