To thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important directives on the development of the private sector, fully carry out the “Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting the Development and Growth of the Private Sector” as well as relevant national and provincial policy requirements, vigorously promote the entrepreneurial spirit, further stimulate the vitality of the private sector, and foster the development and growth of our city’s private sector, the following measures are hereby established.
I. Further Optimizing Government Services
1. Facilitate Market Entry and Business Operations for Private Enterprises. Fully implement the negative list for market access; in sectors not included on the negative list, private economic entities may enter on an equal footing in accordance with the law. Continuously expand the scope of private investment and strictly prohibit the imposition of any additional entry conditions for private capital in any form.Advance the implementation of the “Implementation Plan for the Pilot Reform of ‘Individual Businesses to Enterprises’ in Nantong City,” relax restrictions on business location registration requirements, and explore the continuity and coordination of unified social credit codes, registration records, relevant administrative permits, annual report disclosure information, and creditor-debtor relationships before and after the transition. (Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Administrative Approval Bureau, Market Regulation Bureau)
2. Ensure that private enterprises participate equally in market competition. Fully implement the fair competition review system; strictly prohibit the use of administrative power to exclude or restrict competition; and eliminate discriminatory policies and measures against small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and individual businesses in areas such as qualification licensing, project applications, government procurement, and bidding and tendering.Conduct a special campaign to address prominent issues in the field of construction project bidding and tendering, focusing on investigating and penalizing the inclusion or disguised inclusion of unreasonable additional conditions—such as company size, years in operation, or ownership structure—that are unrelated to business capabilities in bidding documents, as well as unreasonable restrictions based on ownership discrimination or local protectionism against private enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises, non-local enterprises, and small and medium-sized enterprises in bid evaluation and award rules.Strengthen supervision and verification of project contracting practices by construction units of government-invested projects. Encourage general contractors to prioritize qualified private enterprises when selecting subcontractors, and resolutely prevent multi-tiered subcontracting and illegal subcontracting in engineering projects. (Responsible Units: Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Transportation Bureau, Water Resources Bureau, Commerce Bureau, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Administrative Approval Bureau, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and relevant municipal departments)
3. Regulate intermediary services. Establish and improve a list-based management system for intermediary services related to business-related administrative permits. Implement list-based management for intermediary services related to administrative approval that are established in accordance with the law; those without legal or regulatory basis shall not be used as conditions for accepting administrative approval applications under any circumstances. Where laws, regulations, or rules clearly define the scope of intermediary services related to administrative approval, such services must be strictly implemented within the defined scope and shall not be arbitrarily expanded. Regulate market competition in other business-related intermediary services and prohibit the formulation or implementation of discriminatory policies or measures.Optimize and enhance the quality of intermediary services; organize targeted thematic training sessions by industry sector; and guide third-party institutions in establishing industry self-regulatory codes. (Responsible Units: Municipal Administrative Approval Bureau, Market Regulation Bureau, and relevant municipal industry authorities for intermediary institutions)
4. Improve the quality of approval services. Continue to deepen the reform of government services, vigorously promote diversified service measures such as reducing certification requirements for public convenience, paperless approvals, integrated services, and assistance and proxy services, and advance the standardization, normalization, and convenience of government services, focusing on building the “Everything Goes Smoothly? Government Services” brand. Improve the mechanism for dedicated personnel to provide full-process services for investment promotion in industrial parks, strengthen business training for assistance and proxy service staff, establish a list of assistance and proxy services, and implement full-process proxy services for project approvals.Implement pre-approval services and parallel approval processes in departments involved in project approvals, such as Housing and Urban-Rural Development and Ecology and Environment, to further enhance approval efficiency. Fully implement the simplified and standard business deregistration systems and improve the “One-Stop Online Service” platform for business deregistration. Provide specialized training for staff stationed at government service halls to proactively address enterprises’ concerns and resolve difficulties during service delivery.Any behavior during the project approval process—such as procrastination, exceeding processing deadlines, shirking responsibility, abusing power, or using one’s position for personal gain—will be subject to severe disciplinary action once verified. (Responsible Units: Municipal Administrative Approval Bureau, Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Ecology and Environment Bureau, Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, People’s Governments of all counties (cities, districts), and Management Committees of all municipal-level direct-affiliated industrial parks)
5. Continuously optimize business-friendly services. Continue to build the “Wanshi Haotong” business environment brand, promote the enactment of the “Nantong Municipal Regulations on Optimizing the Business Environment,” and roll out follow-up measures to upgrade “Wanshi Haotong.” Enrich and refine the resource supply and information lists for the “Wanshi Haotong” Investment Cooperation Heat Map, and complete and optimize the Heat Map platform system.Improve the service system for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and actively promote the development of various public service platforms that provide SMEs with services such as testing and inspection, entrepreneurship guidance, and training and consulting. Further expand the scope of application for electronic certificates and electronic seals, accelerate their mutual recognition in government services, and ensure that materials which relevant departments can retrieve through the public data platform are no longer required to be resubmitted. Implement government procurement policies supporting SMEs, and guide procuring entities to comprehensively utilize measures such as overall quota reservation, procurement package allocation, consortium bidding, and price deductions to promote SME participation in procurement activities.Continuously improve the system for listing government-priced fees related to enterprises, ensure regular public disclosure, and accept supervision from enterprises and the public. Establish monitoring posts for enterprise-related fees at key enterprises, and implement a supervision system for enterprise-related fees in financial and public utility sectors to prevent illegal charging practices. (Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Commerce Bureau, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Administrative Approval Bureau, Market Regulation Bureau, and relevant municipal departments)
6. Targeted Delivery of Policy Services. Leverage the role of municipal and county-level private enterprise service centers and fully utilize the “Huiqi Tong” platform to provide comprehensive services—including policy information, procedural guidance, and supply-demand matching—to private enterprises and individual business operators.Comprehensively promote the “Huiqi Tong” policy delivery platform and direct feedback platform throughout the city; encourage all types of enterprises above a certain scale and active business entities to register and use the “Huiqi Tong” platform; continuously improve the accuracy of policy matching, delivery, and interpretation; and gradually achieve full coverage of policy delivery through “Huiqi Tong.”(Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Finance Bureau, Science and Technology Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Market Regulation Bureau, Commerce Bureau, Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, and other relevant municipal departments)
7. Direct and Swift Access to Policy Benefits. Comprehensively promote the “Huiqi Tong” policy application and disbursement platform; refine the list of required application materials and process flowcharts; simplify application procedures; and clearly define and publicly announce the milestones, steps, and timelines for application and disbursement. Increase transparency regarding enterprise-related subsidy funds and accept public oversight. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Finance Bureau, and relevant municipal departments)
8. More Considerate Policy Formulation. Strengthen preliminary research and feasibility studies; except where confidentiality is required by law, the formulation and revision of business-related policies should fully incorporate the opinions and suggestions of entrepreneurs. Simplify the application processes and documentation for business support and benefit policies, further expand the scope of “automatic eligibility” and “streamlined application for rapid access,” and ensure that all eligible businesses can fully and promptly benefit from various burden-reduction and business-support policies.Reasonable transition periods should be established for adjustments to business-related policies. Improve the policy evaluation mechanism to continuously enhance overall policy performance. Significantly increase attention and support for start-up and growing small and micro enterprises, and better leverage the role of business support policies in providing incentives, guidance, and relief from difficulties. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, and relevant municipal departments)
9. Closed-loop management of business-related requests. Incorporate matters raised by enterprises into government service platforms such as the “12345” hotline and the “Huiqi Tong” direct reporting platform. Establish a “collection—processing—tracking—feedback” mechanism to provide private enterprises with 24/7, cross-regional, full-lifecycle consultation and management services, thereby building a closed-loop management system for enterprise requests.(Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Command Center for Modernization of Social Governance, Municipal Big Data Administration, and relevant municipal departments)
II. Further Promoting the Healthy Development of Private Investment
10. Encourage private capital to participate in major project construction. Leveraging the online approval and supervision platform for investment projects, promptly introduce infrastructure and public service construction projects with favorable conditions and stable returns to private capital, attracting more private capital to participate in major engineering projects and projects addressing shortcomings. Provided that risks are controllable and rights and responsibilities are clearly defined, encourage multiple enterprises to form consortia to jointly invest in, construct, and operate large-scale infrastructure projects. (Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Transportation Bureau)
11. Encourage private enterprises to revitalize existing assets. Actively support eligible private enterprises in issuing Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) in the infrastructure sector. Based on the development needs of industrial parks, encourage and guide private capital to participate in industrial park construction. Private enterprises may utilize existing land reserves to build industrial standard factories and supporting infrastructure, with the parks implementing unified management and usage. Reasonable returns for private capital shall be determined by taking into account factors such as investment costs and market conditions.(Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
12. Promote the Upgrading and Efficiency Enhancement of Industrial Land. Based on the requirements of various industries regarding building forms, production spaces, floor load capacities, and other aspects, reasonably identify sub-sectors suitable for “industrial vertical integration” and promptly formulate a guidance catalog for industrial classification. Encourage pilot programs where conditions permit, advance initiatives in batches, and explore approaches at multiple levels; localities should pilot the construction of a number of “industrial vertical integration” demonstration parks and buildings.(Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Administrative Approval Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission; People’s Governments of all counties (cities, districts); Management Committees of all municipal-level directly-administered industrial parks)
13. Optimize industrial land use models. Promote the “standard land + customized land + dual-trust land” supply model for industrial land and advance flexible-term land grants. Explore the use of irrevocable, unconditional on-demand payment performance bonds and other methods for paying bid security deposits.For land designated for the five major priority industries, strategic emerging industries, and future industries that align with the city’s industrial development orientation, upon approval, the minimum land transfer price may be set at no less than 70% of the minimum industrial land price standard corresponding to the local land grade, thereby reducing enterprises’ land costs. In land supply for small, medium, and micro private enterprises, actively promote various land supply methods such as long-term leasing, lease-to-own, and flexible-term land grants.Local authorities are encouraged to prioritize the allocation of high-standard factory space for lease to small, medium, and micro private enterprises and to offer appropriate rent concessions. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Administrative Approval Bureau, Nantong Regulatory Branch of the National Financial Regulatory Administration, Nantong Branch of the People’s Bank of China, People’s Governments of all counties (cities, districts), and Management Committees of all municipal-level direct-affiliated industrial parks)
III. Further Strengthening Financial Support
14. Strengthen credit support. Implement the “Work Plan on Financial Services to Promote a Comprehensive and Leading Improvement in the City’s Economic Operations,” ensuring that policies, products, and services reach enterprises directly, and promoting an average guarantee fee rate of no more than 1% for government-backed financing guarantee institutions. Encourage financial institutions to innovate pledge-based financing methods to broaden financing channels for private enterprises.Strengthen the collection of enterprise credit information, implement “cloud-based credit repair” without in-person visits, establish mechanisms for prompting and warning business entities regarding credit defaults, and promote service models such as “Credit-Easy Loan” and “Su-Quality Loan.” Banking and insurance institutions shall focus on resolving urgent and pressing issues faced by private enterprises, refine credit management requirements for different industries, establish differentiated classification management mechanisms, and avoid indiscriminate loan withdrawals, terminations, or reductions.(Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Local Financial Supervision, Market Regulation Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Big Data Administration Bureau (Public Credit Information Center), People’s Bank of China Nantong Branch, Nantong Regulatory Sub-bureau of the National Financial Regulatory Administration)
15. Expand direct financing channels. Support eligible private enterprises in going public and engaging in mergers and acquisitions; support eligible private enterprises in raising funds through corporate bond issuances; and encourage the issuance of specialized bonds such as convertible bonds, exchangeable bonds, and green bonds to broaden financing channels. Provide subsidy support to private enterprises in the urban area participating in intellectual property securitization.Strictly implement the monthly progress meetings of the city-wide Joint Conference on Enterprise Listings and NEEQ Listings, as well as the “Three Ones” work system. Relying on the “Enterprise Listing Service Window” and the “Haotong” one-stop service platform for enterprise listings, strengthen the identification, cultivation, and support of potential listing candidates. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Local Financial Supervision, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, and all member units of the Municipal Joint Conference on Enterprise Listings and NEEQ Listings)
IV. Further Strengthening Talent Support for Enterprises
16. Intensify efforts to attract talent. Implement the “Nantong Talent New Policy 4.0,” promote the development of comprehensive talent service complexes across all regions, and upgrade a batch of talent reception centers. Focusing on the needs of industrial innovation cluster development, continuously increase the cultivation of urgently needed highly skilled talent and innovatively carry out talent recruitment activities.Organize events such as the Jianghai Talents Entrepreneurship Week to high standards, continuously enhancing the platforms’ international influence and effectiveness in attracting talent, and establish a new batch of international and domestic maker incubation centers and joint postdoctoral training platforms. Explore solutions to the issue of prominent talent from private enterprises participating in municipal-level talent evaluations. (Responsible Units: Municipal Party Committee Organization Department (Talent Office), Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau)
17. Intensify Talent Development Efforts. Vigorously promote school-enterprise cooperation and the integration of industry and education; advance the development of the industrial workforce in the private sector; and optimize the environment for career development.Continue to implement school-enterprise collaborative education projects, actively align with industrial development and corporate needs, and cultivate technical and skilled professionals through customized training programs. Leverage the role of provincial and municipal-level entrepreneurial demonstration bases, and strengthen the construction of internship and practical training bases at vocational schools (including technical schools). Strengthen incentive mechanisms and performance evaluations for school-enterprise joint training programs at vocational schools. (Responsible Units: Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Education Bureau, Science and Technology Bureau, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Federation of Industry and Commerce, Federation of Trade Unions)
18. Optimize talent circulation mechanisms for private enterprises. Facilitate talent flow to private enterprises by improving policy mechanisms for seamless transitions in personnel management, personnel file management, and social security. Establish a platform to match employment needs of private enterprises and individual businesses with job seekers.Streamline professional title evaluation channels for private enterprises; establish a “green channel” for title evaluation; support outstanding young talent in private enterprises to directly apply for intermediate-level professional titles; and support high-level overseas talent recruited by private enterprises, talent who have made outstanding contributions to breakthroughs in key core technologies, and professional and technical personnel who have long worked on the front lines of production and service to directly apply for senior-level professional titles. Strengthen incentive and evaluation mechanisms for vocational school graduates to remain and find employment in the region. (Responsible Units: Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Education Bureau)
V. Further Enhancing the Market Competitiveness of Private Enterprises
19. Promote the transformation and upgrading of private enterprises. Make effective use of municipal-level special funds for industrial transformation and upgrading to support private enterprises in accelerating their development toward key industrial clusters—such as shipbuilding and offshore engineering, high-end textiles, high-end equipment, next-generation information technology, new materials, and new energy—as well as strategic emerging industries such as biomedicine and energy conservation and environmental protection.Thoroughly implement the “Nantong Three-Year Action Plan for Intelligent Upgrading and Digital Transformation of Manufacturing (2022–2024)” to support private enterprises in their intelligent upgrading and digital transformation. Focusing on key industries such as electronics and high-end home textiles, leverage the leading role of model enterprises to guide other small and medium-sized enterprises within the sector to follow suit and improve. Further deepen the comprehensive evaluation of resource-intensive utilization in industrial enterprises, increase the application of evaluation results, strengthen categorized guidance, promote green and efficient enterprise development, and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing sector.Accelerate the adoption of cloud computing by private enterprises, cultivate star-rated cloud-based enterprises, and support the digital transformation of private enterprises. Guide private enterprises to actively advance standardization efforts and enhance product quality management. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau)
20. Implement tiered cultivation of private enterprises. Support the development of specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative private SMEs; implement the Three-Year Action Plan for Cultivating Specialized, Refined, Distinctive, and Innovative Enterprises; and carry out the “Flagship Leadership” Three-Year Action.Accelerate the cultivation of a group of “Little Giants” among SPEC-T-N enterprises, manufacturing single-champion enterprises, and flagship-level quality benchmark enterprises. Deepen the implementation of the “Nantong Three-Year Action Plan for the Registration and Revenue Growth of Small and Micro Industrial Enterprises (2022–2024),” and accelerate the transformation, upgrading, and scaling up of small and micro industrial enterprises across the city. Enhance the supply capabilities of private enterprises in key links of industrial and supply chains, and foster a number of distinctive industrial clusters of small and medium-sized enterprises.Implement the Municipal Science and Technology Start-up Incubation Plan and improve the full-cycle science and technology incubation and growth system. Continue to build a tiered structure of technology enterprises based on science and technology-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises, with high-tech enterprises as the main body, and unicorn and gazelle enterprises as benchmarks. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau)
21. Enhance the innovation capacity of private enterprises. Deepen the implementation of the Nantong Three-Year Action Plan for Cultivating High-Tech Enterprises, support private enterprises in playing a leading role in scientific and technological innovation, strengthen brand building, increase R&D investment, actively participate in major scientific and technological projects, and strive to break through critical “chokepoint” core technologies. Prioritize support for the cultivation of innovative enterprises, the development of core industrial technologies, the commercialization of major scientific and technological achievements, and the construction of an innovation ecosystem. Implement the Municipal High-Value Patent Cultivation Plan to support private enterprises in developing high-value patents.Integrate science and technology innovation resources to provide comprehensive online and offline services throughout the entire process for science and technology-driven private enterprises, and offer tailored “one-enterprise-one-policy” services to unicorn-in-the-making enterprises. Support private enterprises in participating in major scientific and technological research efforts, and lead the undertaking of research tasks in fields such as industrial software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, industrial internet, gene and cell therapy, and new energy storage. Launch a campaign to upgrade quality management system certification for small and micro enterprises to help private enterprises improve their quality management standards.Continue to carry out the “Metrology Services for SMEs” initiative to improve private enterprises’ metrology management standards and testing capabilities. (Responsible Units: Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau)
22. Promote the steady and healthy development of the construction industry. Support construction enterprises in participating in major infrastructure projects in our city through consortiums. Encourage local construction firms to establish strategic partnerships with central state-owned enterprises and large enterprises from outside the city to jointly undertake high-tech and high-difficulty projects, thereby facilitating the industry’s transition toward large-scale infrastructure sectors.Financial authorities will strengthen coordination with higher-level departments to increase financing support for enterprises in the real estate and construction sectors. Judicial services will be reinforced to crack down on all types of illegal and criminal activities in the construction sector in accordance with the law, and multiple measures will be taken to coordinate the resolution of legal issues encountered by enterprises. (Responsible Units: Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Finance Bureau, Administrative Approval Bureau, Transportation Bureau, Water Resources Bureau, Municipal and Landscape Bureau, Local Financial Regulatory Bureau, Justice Bureau, People’s Bank of China Nantong Branch, Nantong Regulatory Sub-bureau of the National Financial Regulatory Administration)
VI. Further Improving the Legal Environment for Equal Protection
23. Protect the lawful rights and interests of private enterprises in accordance with the law. Strengthen judicial protection for private enterprises, improve the efficiency of judicial adjudication and enforcement, establish and improve mechanisms for the rapid filing, trial, and resolution of litigation cases involving private enterprises, strengthen supervision of long-pending cases, and alleviate the litigation burden on enterprises. Uphold the strictest judicial protection of intellectual property rights, and implement systems such as punitive damages for intellectual property infringement and preliminary injunctions. Intensify criminal crackdowns on illegal and criminal acts involving intellectual property infringement.Strictly crack down on unfair competition practices such as trade secret infringement and counterfeiting that causes confusion. Improve the rapid resolution mechanism for intellectual property infringement disputes. Support “Specialized, Refined, Distinctive, and Innovative” (“Little Giant”) enterprises and high-tech enterprises in filing for expedited patent examination at the city’s National Intellectual Property Protection Center to achieve rapid preliminary examination, rapid title confirmation, and rapid rights protection.Build an intellectual property big data platform. Improve the guidance mechanism for addressing overseas intellectual property disputes. (Responsible Units: Municipal Political and Legal Affairs Commission, Municipal Intermediate People’s Court, Municipal People’s Procuratorate, Municipal Bureau of Justice, Municipal Public Security Bureau, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau)
24. Deepen strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement. Conduct a special review of fine provisions in local regulations, local government rules, and normative documents; eliminate regulations, rules, and normative documents that violate the principle of equal protection for all forms of ownership; and strengthen protection and support for the development of the private economy. In accordance with the Administrative Penalties Law of the People’s Republic of China and other relevant laws, regulations, and rules, strictly implement the “three systems” of administrative law enforcement.Deepen the concept of flexible law enforcement, implement a system of inclusive and prudent regulation, optimize the exercise of administrative discretion, formulate, optimize, and implement the “Five Lists” for exemption from or reduction of penalties, and, in accordance with the principle of combining punishment with education, lawfully implement exemptions from or reductions of penalties, while providing full-process guidance on administrative compliance for enterprises. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Justice; all municipal administrative law enforcement units)
25. Optimize law enforcement and regulatory approaches. Promote the practice of “one visit, multiple inspections,” focusing on high-frequency, high-risk areas involving enterprises. Differentiate between various regulatory scenarios, identify multi-departmental and cross-sectoral law enforcement and regulatory matters, advance integrated supervision, and enhance the efficiency of regulatory enforcement.Comprehensively advance cross-departmental joint “double-random” supervision to resolve the issue of redundant and overlapping enforcement. Actively implement non-site, non-intrusive supervision; avoid measures such as sealing, seizure, production restrictions, or production suspension for rectification unless absolutely necessary, thereby minimizing the impact on enterprises’ production and business operations. (Responsible units: Municipal Bureau of Justice, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, Municipal Administrative Approval Bureau, all municipal administrative law enforcement units, people’s governments of all counties (cities, districts), and management committees of all municipal-level industrial parks)
26. Improve the government’s mechanism for fulfilling contractual obligations in good faith. Strengthen the coordination mechanism between efforts to clear overdue payments to private enterprises and those to eradicate wage arrears for migrant workers. Intensify efforts to clear overdue payments to private enterprises, with a focus on clearing arrears owed by government agencies, public institutions, and state-owned enterprises to small, medium, and micro enterprises. Audit departments shall accept reports of overdue payments from private enterprises and strengthen audit oversight.People’s governments at all levels in the city, as well as relevant departments and public institutions, shall not default on payments for goods, construction projects, or services to enterprises in violation of contractual agreements, nor shall they extend payment deadlines in disguised forms beyond the agreed-upon payment methods.Establish and improve a mechanism of “government commitment + social oversight + accountability for breach of trust,” resolutely correcting acts of government breach of trust such as “new officials ignoring old debts” and “passing the buck.” Conduct special rectification campaigns targeting breaches of contract and trust by government agencies, incorporate the settlement of overdue payments by government agencies, public institutions, and state-owned enterprises into the scope of inspections, audits, and supervisory checks, and establish a record-keeping mechanism for government breaches of trust and contract violations in areas such as public-private partnerships (PPPs), investment promotion, and government procurement.(Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Intermediate People’s Court, Audit Bureau, Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Big Data Administration Bureau (Public Credit Information Center), Finance Bureau, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission; relevant municipal departments; people’s governments of all counties (cities, districts); and management committees of all municipal-level industrial parks)
VII. Further Fostering a Positive Atmosphere of “Respect for and Emphasis on Business”
27. Foster a close yet clean government-business relationship. Improve the system where leading officials are paired with enterprises to provide services, refine routine communication and consultation mechanisms, proactively address enterprises’ concerns and difficulties, and spare no effort in serving as dedicated “concierges” for private enterprises.Establish and improve the system of on-site working meetings for the private sector, and refine rapid-response and efficient service mechanisms. Relying on platforms such as the “Two Health” Salon for the Private Sector and the “Everything Goes Smoothly” Government-Enterprise Exchange Forum, regularly organize exchange activities for private entrepreneurs and conduct satisfaction evaluations of business-friendly services provided by government departments.Encourage industry associations to establish dialogue and cooperation platforms among government, society, and enterprises. Make full use of digital tools such as the National Integrated Government Service Platform to enhance the effectiveness of business-friendly policies and services, and adopt a multi-pronged approach to help private enterprises resolve problems and difficulties. (Responsible Units: Municipal United Front Work Department; Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology; Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce; Municipal Development and Reform Commission; relevant municipal departments; people’s governments of all counties (cities, districts); and management committees of all municipal-level industrial parks)
28. Foster and promote the entrepreneurial spirit. Successfully organize the Nantong Entrepreneurs’ Day thematic activities. Recognize and commend outstanding private entrepreneurs and units that have made significant contributions to the private economy in Nantong. Explore the establishment of a municipal-level mechanism for cultivating and promoting outstanding private entrepreneurs. Leverage the exemplary and leading role of outstanding entrepreneurs, increase the intensity of selection and commendation in accordance with regulations, vigorously foster the entrepreneurial spirit within the private economy, and promptly summarize and promote entrepreneurial growth experiences that embody Chinese characteristics and align with contemporary trends.(Responsible Units: Municipal United Front Work Department, Municipal Publicity Department, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Public Security Bureau, Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce)
29. Promote the healthy growth of private entrepreneurs. Leverage the role of the Zhang Jian Entrepreneurship Academy as the primary platform for education and training, and further intensify training efforts. Improve the training system for private small, medium, and micro enterprises, and build a multi-domain, multi-level training system that integrates online and offline approaches. Strengthen the tiered cultivation of private sector professionals, establish and improve a mentorship system where the younger generation of private sector professionals receives guidance and support from their seniors, and promote the smooth transition and orderly succession of business operations.(Responsible Units: Municipal United Front Work Department, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, Zhang Jian Entrepreneurship Academy)
VIII. Further Strengthening Organizational Guarantees
30. Strengthen organizational leadership. Uphold the Party’s centralized and unified leadership over work related to the private economy, ensuring that Party leadership is implemented throughout the entire process and in all aspects of the work. Fully leverage the role of the Municipal Leading Group for Private Economic Development to coordinate and advance the development of the private economy citywide, regularly study and resolve prominent contradictions and issues encountered in private economic development, and strengthen overall coordination of private economic development. Clarify and reinforce departmental responsibilities, enhance collaborative efforts, and strengthen inter-departmental coordination.Implement the “Three-Year Action Plan for Enhancing the ‘Two Healths’ of Nantong’s Private Economy (2022–2024)” and support the Federation of Industry and Commerce in better fulfilling its role in promoting the healthy development of the private economy and the healthy growth of private entrepreneurs. (Responsible Units: Municipal Leading Group for Private Economic Development and its member units; People’s Governments of all counties (cities, districts); Management Committees of all municipal-level direct-affiliated industrial parks)
31. Strengthen policy support. All localities and departments must take the initiative and coordinate efficiently. Focusing on areas such as private enterprises’ efforts to achieve self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, transformation and upgrading, private investment, fair competition, flexible law enforcement, and financial support, departments including science and technology, industry and information technology, development and reform, market regulation, justice, and finance shall separately organize the formulation of supporting measures. They shall improve the “1+N” policy system, fulfill their respective duties, coordinate effectively, form a collective synergy, and ensure thorough implementation.(Responsible Units: Municipal Leading Group for Private Economic Development and its member units; People’s Governments of all counties (cities, districts); Management Committees of all municipal-level industrial parks)
32. Strengthen Publicity and Guidance. Diligently carry out policy dissemination and implementation. Through various methods such as proactive outreach, categorized guidance, targeted services, and digital tools, ensure that enterprises derive tangible benefits and practical advantages. Make full use of mainstream and new media to launch diverse publicity campaigns, widely publicize policies and guidelines that encourage, support, and guide the development of private enterprises, and foster a positive social atmosphere of respect, care, and support for private entrepreneurs.Continue to carry out special campaigns such as “Cracking Down on Fraud and Extortion,” and crack down in accordance with the law on “online trolls” and “black industrial chains” that deliberately hype up, spread rumors, and smear private enterprises and private entrepreneurs. Further bolster entrepreneurs’ confidence, stabilize their expectations, and give them peace of mind so they can focus on development.(Responsible Units: Municipal Publicity Department, United Front Work Department, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Federation of Industry and Commerce, Public Security Bureau, Nantong Regulatory Branch of the National Financial Regulatory Administration, People’s Governments of all counties (cities, districts), and Management Committees of all municipal-level industrial parks)
