Legal basis: Regulations on Optimizing the Business Environment

Article 1 These Regulations are formulated for the purpose of continuously optimizing the business environment, continuously liberating and developing social productive forces, accelerating the construction of a modern economic system and promoting high-quality development.

Article 2 The business environment mentioned in these Regulations refers to the institutional factors and conditions for enterprises and other market entities to participate in market economic activities.

Article 3 The State shall continue to deepen the administration of decentralization, the combination of decentralization and administration, and optimize the service reform, minimize the direct allocation of market resources by the government, minimize the direct intervention of the government in market activities, strengthen and standardize the supervision after the event, strive to improve the service capacity and level of the government, effectively reduce institutional transaction costs, stimulate market vitality and social creativity, and enhance development momentum.

People's governments at all levels and their departments should adhere to the openness and transparency of government affairs, with openness as the norm and non-disclosure as the exception, and comprehensively promote decision-making, implementation, management, service and results disclosure.

Article 4 To optimize the business environment, we must adhere to the principles of marketization, rule of law and internationalization, take the needs of market participants as the guide, take the profound transformation of government functions as the core, innovate institutional mechanisms, strengthen coordination and improve the protection of the rule of law, benchmark the international advanced level, and create a stable, fair, transparent and predictable good environment for all kinds of market participants to invest and start businesses.

Article 5 The State shall speed up the establishment of a unified, open and orderly modern market system, promote the free flow of various factors of production according to law, and ensure that all market players participate in market competition fairly.

Article 6 The State encourages, supports and guides the development of the non-public sector of the economy and stimulates its vitality and creativity.

The state further expands its opening to the outside world, actively promotes foreign investment, and treats all kinds of market entities such as domestic-funded enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises equally.