On February 5, the State Council Information Office held a regular briefing on the policy of creating a market-oriented, law-based and international first-class business environment, Xiao Weiming, Deputy Secretary-General of the National Development and Reform Commission, Meng Wei, Director of the Department of Laws and Regulations of the National Development and Reform Commission, and Ren Duanping, Director of the Registration Bureau of the State Administration of Market Regulation, attended the meeting and responded to the next deployment arrangements for the construction of a national unified market. Let's take a look at the key statements:
1. In terms of breaking down local protection and administrative monopolies, the State Administration for Market Regulation has vigorously corrected behaviors such as restricting transactions and hindering the free circulation of commodity elements.
2. In response to unfair market competition and market intervention, the State Administration for Market Regulation will accelerate the promulgation of the Regulations on Fair Competition Review. Strengthen the implementation of fair competition review responsibilities to ensure due diligence. Carry out in-depth special rectification of market segmentation and local protection issues, and improve punishment and restraint methods.
3. Further improve the various systems and rules conducive to the construction of a unified national market, and actively and steadily promote the reform of key areas such as finance, taxation, and statistics, including studying and improving the local tax system, improving the powers of affairs, and the responsibility for expenditure.
4. Carry out in-depth rectification of outstanding problems in key areas, continue to report typical cases, and play a warning and deterrent role.
5. This year, we will focus on the business environment under the rule of law, promote the issuance of policy documents, promote the simultaneous efforts of legislation, law enforcement, justice and law-abiding, and solve a number of outstanding problems in the business environment under the rule of law.
6. In view of the issues of market access and industrial cooperation that foreign-funded enterprises are concerned about, we will promote the introduction of an action plan for attracting and utilizing foreign investment more vigorously, continue to reasonably reduce the negative list for foreign investment access, comprehensively cancel the restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector, promote international industrial investment cooperation, and continue to enhance China's attractiveness to global factor resources.
7. This year, we will further standardize the implementation of ** and social capital cooperation (PPP). The National Development and Reform Commission will pay close attention to the introduction of franchise management measures, franchise program preparation outline, franchise agreement model and other supporting documents.
Carry out in-depth special rectification of local protection issues.
Carry out in-depth rectification of outstanding problems in key areas, continue to report typical cases, and give play to the role of warning and deterrence. Xiao Weiming talked about the work deployment of accelerating the construction of a unified national market this year. At the same time, this year, the National Development and Reform Commission will further improve various systems and rules conducive to the construction of a unified national market, and actively and steadily promote reforms in key areas such as finance, taxation, and statistics, including studying and improving the local tax system, improving administrative powers, and spending responsibilities.
Xiao Weiming pointed out that in the past year, from the perspective of breaking down, we have established a system for rectifying the problem of improper interference in the construction of a large national unified market and interviewing and reporting typical cases, carried out the verification and rectification of clues on the problems that hinder the construction of a large national unified market, organized all localities to clean up the regulations and practices that hinder the construction of a unified market and fair competition, and promoted the special rectification of improper market intervention in the fields of engineering construction and bidding and bidding, and effectively solved practical difficulties for business entities.
Among them, in terms of breaking local protection and administrative monopolies, Ren Duanping introduced that the State Administration for Market Regulation has vigorously corrected behaviors such as restricting transactions and hindering the free circulation of commodity elements, and in 2023, the national market supervision department will investigate and deal with 39 cases of abuse of administrative power to eliminate or restrict competition in accordance with the law. Thoroughly implement the fair competition review system, and guide all regions and departments to revise or abolish policies and measures that hinder the unified market and fair competition1760,000 pieces.
In response to unfair market competition and market intervention, Ren Duanping said that the State Administration for Market Regulation will promote the acceleration of the introduction of the "Fair Competition Review Regulations". Strengthen the implementation of fair competition review responsibilities to ensure due diligence. Carry out in-depth special rectification of market segmentation and local protection issues, and improve punishment and restraint methods.
At the same time, we will focus on key areas closely related to the people, such as medicine, education, and public utilities, and concentrate on investigating and dealing with a number of major typical cases of monopoly violations.
In terms of refining and improving the rules of the anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition system, we will accelerate the revision of the Anti-Monopoly Compliance Guidelines for Business Operators, and study and formulate anti-monopoly guidelines such as the Anti-Monopoly Guidelines for the Pharmaceutical Sector and the Guidelines for the Review of Horizontal Concentration of Undertakings. Accelerate the formulation of the "Norms for the Management of Fair Competition Compliance of Business Operators".
The National Development and Reform Commission discussed the latest arrangements for optimizing the business environment.
On February 2, the executive meeting proposed that it is necessary to benchmark against the international first-class level, focus on the overall optimization goal, and promote the work of strengthening the market to promote fairness, strengthening services to increase convenience, strengthening the rule of law and stabilizing expectations, strengthening opening up and improving quality, and strengthening reform and innovation.
It is necessary to pay more attention to responding to the outstanding concerns of business entities, accelerate the construction of a unified national market, strengthen the consistency assessment of macro policy orientation, and create a stable, transparent and predictable policy environment.
Meng Wei pointed out that the implementation of the latest deployment and arrangements of the executive meeting, will focus on the outstanding concerns of business entities, take effective measures to effectively solve the pain points and difficulties of enterprises, and strive to achieve "five better":
First, efforts should be made to eliminate all kinds of unreasonable restrictions and better safeguard fair competition. In view of the various types of "revolving doors" and "glass doors" that still exist, we will further improve the market access system, promote the full coverage of market access efficiency assessment, innovate and improve the bidding and bidding system and mechanism, clean up the laws, regulations, rules and normative documents involving unequal treatment of enterprises, and eliminate local protection and ownership discrimination.
The second is to focus on improving the top-level design to better protect legitimate rights and interests. In view of the shortcomings and weaknesses of the rule of law guarantee, this year will focus on the rule of law business environment, promote the introduction of policy documents, promote the simultaneous efforts of legislation, law enforcement, justice, and law-abiding, and solve a number of outstanding problems in the rule of law business environment. Strengthen the assessment of the consistency of macro policy orientations, and create a stable, transparent and predictable institutional environment.
Third, efforts should be made to promote the facilitation of cross-border investment and better expand institutional opening-up. In response to the issues of market access and industrial cooperation that foreign-funded enterprises are concerned about, we will promote the introduction of an action plan to attract and utilize foreign investment more vigorously, continue to reasonably reduce the negative list for foreign investment access, comprehensively cancel the restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector, promote international industrial investment cooperation, and continue to enhance China's attractiveness to global factor resources.
Fourth, we will strive to promote the optimization of government services and better promote the benefit of enterprises and the convenience of the people. In view of the optimization of administrative efficiency such as enterprise-related examination and approval, the management of the list of administrative licensing items will be strengthened, and the standardization and facilitation of administrative examination and approval and related intermediary services will be promoted. Deepen the sharing and application of data on investment projects, and further expand the depth and breadth of the pilot cooperation mechanism for investment-loan linkage.
Fifth, we should strive to play an advanced demonstration role and better achieve overall improvement. In view of the imbalance in the construction of the business environment between regions, we will implement actions to improve and upgrade the business environment, and form a number of examples of business environment reform. Released a report on the development of China's business environment, showing the progress and effectiveness of China's business environment in an all-round way, and telling the story of China's business environment.
We should pay close attention to the introduction of supporting documents for the new PPP mechanism.
In September last year, the National Development and Reform Commission established a unified national platform for promoting projects to private capital, Meng Wei revealed that as of the end of January this year, it has attracted 1,591 private capital to participate in projects, with a total investment of 1,980.8 billion yuan.
Meng Wei pointed out that in addition to smoothing the channels for obtaining project information and attracting more private capital to participate in the construction of major national projects, the National Development and Reform Commission will also increase support for key private investment projects.
From the key private investment projects in various places, a number of projects that meet the policy requirements, have a large investment scale, and are highly demonstrative will be selected on a regular basis, and included in the national key private investment project database. At the same time, promote projects to banks and other financial institutions and increase financing support; Incorporate eligible projects into the national land use guarantee mechanism for major national projects, and strengthen the guarantee of land elements; Promote coordination and linkage among all localities and speed up the handling of preliminary procedures. Meng Wei said.
In July 2023, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued the Notice on Further Promoting Private Investment and Striving to Mobilize the Enthusiasm of Private Investment, proposing 17 targeted measures to mobilize the enthusiasm of private investment.
Meng Wei said that this year will further standardize the implementation of ** and social capital cooperation (PPP). The National Development and Reform Commission will pay close attention to the introduction of franchise management measures, franchise plan preparation outline, franchise agreement model and other supporting documents, build a first-class social capital cooperation project information system, do a good job in overall guidance, effectively broaden the space for private enterprises to participate in infrastructure investment, and encourage private capital to participate in social capital cooperation projects to the greatest extent.
On November 8, 2023, the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Standardizing the Implementation of the New Mechanism for Private-Private Partnership, which further regulates the PPP mechanism. Compared with the previous first-class and social capital cooperation mechanism, the "Opinions" make it clear that the new mechanism of ** and social capital cooperation will all adopt the franchise model.
In addition, Meng Wei also said that the National Development and Reform Commission will continue to encourage private investment projects to issue real estate investment trusts in the infrastructure sector**. Actively promote the issuance of infrastructure REITs for private investment projects.
As of the end of January this year, the National Development and Reform Commission has recommended 6 private investment projects to the China Securities Regulatory Commission, 8 private investment projects have been accepted, and 4 private investment projects are being counseled in the early stage, involving clean energy, consumer infrastructure, data centers, warehousing and logistics, industrial parks and other fields.
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