I. General Requirements

(1) Guiding Principles

Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we will thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth plenary sessions of the 19th Central Committee. We will thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches delivered during his inspection tour of Yunnan, focusing on the survival and long-term development of all types of market entities.we will firmly establish the clear orientation that “to promote development, we must focus on industries; to focus on industries, we must foster market entities.” We will continue to solidly and thoroughly advance the “Six Stabilities” and implement the “Six Guarantees,” focusing on implementing policies to alleviate difficulties and benefit enterprises, coordinating solutions to development challenges, effectively responding to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, revitalizing confidence in development, and accumulating momentum for growth;We will focus on building a group of industry-leading enterprises, supporting a group of high-tax, high-profit enterprises, cultivating a group of high-tech enterprises, supporting a group of listed and publicly traded enterprises, increasing the number of growing enterprises meeting statistical reporting standards, and creating a group of well-known brand enterprises; we will focus on developing new technologies, new products, new business formats, and new models, promote the transition from old to new growth drivers, accelerate the establishment of a new industrial development pattern, and achieve high-quality development;Focus on optimizing the business environment, enhancing the quality of government services, and fostering a close yet clean relationship between government and business; with greater intensity, stimulate new vitality among all types of market entities and further promote their innovative development.

(2) Basic Principles

— Prioritize development while balancing quantity and quality. Firmly uphold the new development philosophy, promote high-quality development, preserve existing capacity, expand new capacity, and improve quality, continuously enhancing the competitiveness of market entities to achieve a harmonious integration of development speed, quality, and efficiency.

— Adhere to a market-oriented approach while leveraging the role of government. Properly handle the relationship between government and the market, fully leverage the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, and better utilize the government’s role in formulating market rules, maintaining market order, and providing public services.

— Uphold industrial leadership and strengthen targeted policies. Follow the laws of industrial development and market dynamics, and resolutely foster industries and strengthen enterprises. Adopt a problem-oriented, goal-oriented, and results-oriented approach, improve industrial support policies, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, and coordinate the advancement of industrial optimization and upgrading with the cultivation and expansion of market entities.

— Combine deregulation with effective oversight to optimize government services. We will continue to advance reforms to streamline administration, delegate power, and improve government services, creating a first-class business environment that makes market entry more convenient, regulation more effective, and services more efficient, thereby fully unleashing the vitality and endogenous momentum of market entities.

— Uphold fair competition and promote equitable development. Focus on creating a market environment, policy environment, and legal environment characterized by fair competition, ensuring equal rights, equal opportunities, and equal rules for all types of market entities to achieve equitable development.

(3) Main Objectives

By 2025, the number of market entities per 1,000 people will reach the national average. Building on this foundation, we will strive to double the number of market entities.

— Increase the number of market entities. By 2025, the total number of market entities in the city will reach 750,000, with an average annual growth rate of over 15% (including a net increase of 65,000 market entities in 2021), and the number of market entities per 1,000 people will reach 130;The number of enterprises in the city will double, reaching 190,000 with an annual growth rate of over 25% (including a net increase of 11,778 enterprises in 2021), with 33 enterprises per 1,000 people.

— Market entities will grow in scale. By 2025, the number of “four-above” enterprises in the city will reach 2,753, with an average annual growth rate of 11.2%, and we will strive to double this figure. We will vigorously support “chain-leading” enterprises, actively promote the extension, supplementation, and strengthening of industrial chains, and support the development and expansion of “chain-leading” enterprises.

— Market entities will become more dynamic. By 2025, the activity rate of market entities across the city will reach 70%; the value added by the private sector will account for over 50% of the city’s GDP; and newly established market entities will create approximately 240,000 jobs.

——Strengthening Market Entities.By 2025, the city will achieve breakthroughs in having enterprises listed on the Fortune Global 500, with more companies making the China 500 list, and the number of listed companies will reach 10 or more; the “Triple Growth” Action Plan for high-tech enterprises will be implemented, bringing the total number of high-tech enterprises in the city to 160 and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises to 200; the number of valid registered trademarks will exceed 33,810, and the number of agricultural products certified under the “Three Products and One Standard” program will reach 750.

II. Focus on Optimizing the Business Environment to Further Stimulate the Vitality of Market Entities

(1) Improving Registration Efficiency. We will streamline the registration process for market entities by promoting same-day completion, one-stop completion, and time-limited completion. We will implement centralized, nearby, online, and cross-regional registration options to enhance the convenience of market entity registration.We will continue to improve the “One-Window” platform for business establishment, establish and improve interdepartmental coordination mechanisms for business start-ups, and promote standardized, regulated, and convenient business establishment procedures. We will achieve “one-stop online processing” for matters such as business registration, official seal engraving, invoice application, social security registration, housing provident fund registration, and bank account opening, streamline bank account opening procedures, and further reduce the time required to establish a business. While issuing physical licenses and certificates, we will simultaneously issue electronic business licenses to facilitate online business operations.Implement the commitment-based registration system for business addresses (operating locations) and fully promote the “one address, multiple licenses” and “one license, multiple addresses” policies. Implement the suspension of business operations system and the market supervision credit repair mechanism to support the extension of market entities’ lifecycles. Fully implement the “One-Stop Mobile Service” for individual business registration.(Lead Departments: Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, Municipal Administrative Service Bureau; Responsible Units: Municipal Public Security Bureau, Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Commerce Bureau, Municipal Taxation Bureau, People’s Bank of China Qujing Central Sub-branch, and other relevant departments and units; People’s Governments of all counties, cities, and districts; Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee).

(2) Optimize Administrative Approval Services. Focusing on the principles of “no need to seek favors, contactless approval, and one-visit resolution,” strictly implement the city’s basic catalog of government service items, intensify efforts to streamline administration and delegate power, and clean up and standardize pre-approval conditions and approval criteria by industry and sector. Expand the scope of system interconnectivity and data sharing across departments and regions, vigorously promote the reduction of procedures, documentation, processing times, and fees, and further lower institutional transaction costs.Prudently advance the reform of relatively centralized administrative licensing authority and implement the “single-seal approval” system. Dynamically adjust the list of investment project approval items, further optimize and streamline investment approval processes, and advance the reform of the enterprise investment project commitment system. Continuously deepen the reform of the engineering construction project approval system, promoting the integration of multiple planning documents, the consolidation of multiple forms, the unification of multiple reviews, joint surveying, and joint acceptance.We will deepen the “separation of business licenses and operating permits” reform to achieve full coverage. We will categorize and advance reforms of business operation licensing approval systems for enterprises using four approaches: direct cancellation of approvals, conversion of approvals to record-filing, implementation of the notification and commitment system, and optimization of approval services. We will focus on reducing post-licensing permits to effectively resolve the issue of “access without the ability to operate.” We will strictly implement the city-wide list of intermediary services for administrative approvals; any intermediary service not included on the list shall not be used as a prerequisite for accepting administrative approval applications, and we will resolutely eliminate “government-backed intermediaries.”. Continuously optimize and upgrade the city’s online government service platform and the “One-Stop Mobile Government Services” app, promote the standardization, normalization, and convenience of government services, thoroughly implement the “Good or Bad Evaluation” system for government services, and continuously improve the efficiency of government services. (Responsible Units: Relevant municipal departments, people’s governments of all counties, cities, and districts, and the Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee).

(3) Enhance the Level of Fiscal, Tax, and Financial Services. Strengthen the coordinated use of industrial funds, implement targeted allocation, and guide and incentivize localities and relevant departments to further integrate resources to prioritize support for the cultivation and development of market entities. Improve the online public processing system for fiscal funds supporting market entities, and establish a comprehensive online processing mechanism covering the entire process from policy release, application review, to the disclosure of results. Further streamline the procedures and formalities for enjoying tax and fee preferential policies, and continuously expand the scope of “self-assessment, self-declaration, and ex-post supervision.”Implement consolidated filing of Value-Added Tax (VAT) and Consumption Tax with Urban Maintenance and Construction Tax, Education Surcharge, and Local Education Surcharge, respectively, to enable online tax and fee payment for enterprises and mobile tax and fee payment for individuals. Promote the construction of a municipal credit information platform, iteratively upgrade the functions of enterprise service platforms such as “One-Phone Cloud Enterprise Loan,” facilitate the launch and operation of the “Credit-Easy Loan” platform, and strengthen the collection, sharing, and application of enterprise credit information to effectively enhance creditworthiness for loans to small, medium, and micro enterprises.Accelerate the development of the government-backed financing guarantee system and guide government-backed financing guarantee institutions at all levels to reduce fees and offer preferential terms while ensuring sustainable operations. Implement “one-on-one” and “face-to-face” financing coordination mechanisms for financial services to private enterprises, and encourage financial institutions to develop “tailored” financing service plans for eligible private enterprises. Implement simplified account opening services for small and micro enterprises and encourage banking institutions to reduce account service fees for these enterprises.Actively establish collaboration mechanisms among banks, government, and enterprises to create convenient loan channels for market entities, and encourage and guide the allocation of credit funds to support the cultivation of market entities. (Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, Municipal Financial Affairs Office, Municipal Tax Bureau, People’s Bank of China Qujing Central Sub-branch, Qujing Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau, and other relevant departments and units; People’s Governments of all counties, cities, and districts; Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee).

(4) Strengthen the Supply of Key Resources. Coordinate the integration of territorial spatial planning with industrial layout, new quotas with the optimization of existing quotas, and the upgrading of industrial parks with land supply guarantees for key projects to effectively resolve the issue of insufficient land supply for projects. Support market entities in increasing the land use intensity and floor area ratio of existing industrial land in accordance with laws and regulations, provided that such actions comply with planning requirements and do not alter land use purposes; no additional land premiums will be levied on such entities.Pilot programs will be launched in eligible counties (cities, districts) to explore a standard system for the transfer of “standard plots” for industrial projects and to supply new industrial land through the “standard plot” model. Land costs for enterprises will be reduced, and industrial projects will be encouraged to utilize land through long-term leases, lease-to-own arrangements, combined lease-and-own models, and flexible-term land grants.Enterprises that utilize their own existing and idle land, factories, warehouses, and other facilities to upgrade traditional industries and develop advanced manufacturing, production-oriented and high-tech services, and entrepreneurship and innovation platforms may be eligible for transitional policies allowing the continued use of land under its original purpose and land rights classification. In eligible regions, organize and carry out regional assessments covering multiple matters such as the impact on important mineral resources, environmental impact assessments, and energy conservation evaluations to enhance the convenience of investment and construction.Strengthen the standardization of human resources services, further reduce the number of entry-level professional qualifications, enhance vocational skills training, promote the orderly flow and optimal allocation of human resources, and effectively ensure labor supply for market entities. Encourage public utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and telecommunications to publicly disclose service standards and fee schedules, simplify application procedures, optimize processing workflows, and provide convenient and efficient services to market entities.Fully implement “Internet Plus Real Estate” registration and promote the simultaneous processing of utility transfers (water, electricity, gas, and internet) with real estate registration. (Responsible Units: Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau, Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Commerce Bureau, Municipal Energy Bureau, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Qujing Power Supply Bureau, and other relevant departments and units; People’s Governments of all counties, cities, and districts; Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee).

(5) Support Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Strengthen the consolidation of business-friendly policies, increase the frequency of updates to the policy inventory, and ensure enterprises can promptly understand and equally benefit from these policies. Expand support through the “Loans, Exemptions, Assistance, and Subsidies” entrepreneurship guarantee policy. Facilitate the sharing of employment services among government departments, universities, industrial parks, enterprises, and intermediary agencies. Improve the policy chain covering skills, facilities, projects, and funding. Cultivate and optimize entrepreneurship and innovation platforms to provide comprehensive, high-quality startup services to entrepreneurs.Support enterprises in independently conducting skill-based talent assessments in accordance with national vocational skills standards; where no national standards exist, enterprises may independently develop evaluation criteria. Strengthen the role of enterprises as the primary drivers of innovation and promote the aggregation of various innovation factors within enterprises. Launch the Leading Enterprise Innovation Capacity Enhancement Project, support innovative small, medium, and micro enterprises in becoming key hubs of innovation, and promote integrated innovation across the upstream, midstream, and downstream segments of industrial chains as well as among large, medium, and small enterprises. Encourage enterprises to increase R&D investment and implement tax incentives for corporate investment in basic research.Explore market entry and operation standards that accommodate the development of new business formats and models. (Responsible units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Commerce Bureau, Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, Municipal Taxation Bureau, and other relevant departments and units; people’s governments of all counties, cities, and districts; and the Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee).

(6) Reduce the operational burden on market entities. Establish a long-term mechanism to curb arbitrary charges, fines, and levies.Strictly implement national, provincial, and municipal policies regarding the cancellation, suspension, exemption, and reduction of administrative and public service charges; no government funds or administrative and public service charges may be collected outside the scope of the relevant catalogs. Dynamically adjust the “Qujing Municipal Catalog of Administrative and Public Service Charges” and the “Qujing Municipal Catalog of Government-Priced Business Service Charges.” Investigate and punish, in accordance with the law, acts such as the illegal establishment of charge items using administrative resources, charging fees without providing services, and failure to implement fee reduction and exemption policies.Fully implement tax and fee reduction policies; strictly regulate charges in sectors such as administrative approval intermediary agencies, industry associations, and commercial banks; comprehensively clean up business service charges in logistics, certification, and inspection and testing; eliminate unreasonable charges for water, electricity, gas, and heating supply; and prohibit internet platform enterprises from abusing their dominant market positions to charge unfairly high service fees.No unit or individual may compel or implicitly compel market entities to participate in evaluations, standard-setting, commendations, training, assessments, examinations, or similar activities, nor may they charge or implicitly charge market entities for such activities. We will improve long-term mechanisms and continue to advance efforts to clear overdue payments owed to private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises. Unless otherwise stipulated by laws or regulations, market entities have the right to autonomously decide whether to join or withdraw from social organizations such as industry associations and chambers of commerce, and no unit or individual may interfere.(Responsible entities: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, Municipal Taxation Bureau, People’s Bank of China Qujing Central Sub-branch, Qujing Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau, and other relevant departments and units; people’s governments of all counties, cities, and districts; and the Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee).

(7) Safeguarding Fair Market Competition.Strictly implement the nationally unified negative list system for market access, comprehensively identify and systematically eliminate hidden market barriers, and remove unreasonable restrictions on enterprises’ cross-regional operations as well as discriminatory treatment in areas such as qualification acquisition, bidding, and government procurement. Effectively dismantle “glass doors,” “spring doors,” and “ Revolving doors.” For industries, sectors, and businesses not included in the negative list for market access, all types of market entities may enter on an equal footing in accordance with the law.Strengthen the binding nature of fair competition reviews, establish systems for random inspections, performance evaluations, and public disclosure of such reviews, and establish and improve coordination mechanisms for fair competition review work as well as third-party review and evaluation mechanisms.Comprehensively strengthen “double-random, public disclosure” regulation, supervision in key sectors, and credit-based regulation. Intensify anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition enforcement, strictly investigate and punish monopolistic practices, unfair competition, and the abuse of administrative power to exclude or restrict competition in market economic activities, thereby fostering a fair competitive market environment. Ensure that all market entities have equal access, in accordance with the law, to various factors of production—including capital, technology, human resources, land, and other natural resources—as well as public service resources.(Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Justice Bureau, Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, and other relevant departments; People’s Governments of all counties, cities, and districts; Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee).

(8) Safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of market entities. No unit or individual shall interfere in matters such as pricing, internal governance, and business models that should be decided autonomously by market entities in accordance with the law. Protect the property rights and other legitimate rights and interests of market entities in accordance with the law, and safeguard the personal and property safety of business operators. Comprehensively strengthen intellectual property protection and implement the punitive damages system for intellectual property infringement.It is prohibited to impose levies on market entities—such as demands for financial, material, or human resources—beyond what is stipulated by laws and regulations. Efforts to protect the rights and interests of small and medium-sized investors shall be intensified; mechanisms for protecting their rights and interests shall be improved; and the convenience for small and medium-sized investors to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests shall be enhanced. Public legal service resources—including legal counsel, notary services, judicial appraisal, mediation, and arbitration—shall be integrated to further strengthen legal services for market entities. Administrative penalty discretion benchmarks shall be formulated in accordance with laws and regulations to standardize the exercise of administrative penalty discretion.Encourage local governments and relevant departments to establish a management system for lists of flexible law enforcement measures in accordance with laws and regulations, exercising caution and restraint in applying administrative enforcement measures for minor violations, and preventing the practice of simply shutting down businesses or substituting penalties for management. Relying on the national unified service platform for market entities’ rights protection, promptly address the rights protection appeals of market entities and provide them with efficient and convenient rights protection services. (Responsible Units: Relevant municipal departments, people’s governments of all counties, cities, and districts, and the Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee).

(9) Strengthen services for investment promotion projects. Improve the quality and efficiency of investment promotion by focusing on extending, supplementing, and strengthening industrial chains, and attracting a batch of flagship industrial projects characterized by large investment scale, high industrial level, strong innovation capabilities, and good alignment with Qujing’s industrial structure. Improve the coordination and promotion mechanism for key investment projects, and establish a monthly review, dynamic tracking, and supervision mechanism for the progress of key investment projects.For municipal-level major investment projects recognized by the Municipal People’s Government, establish a work promotion mechanism based on the principle of “one project, one promotion team, one work plan, and one set of preferential policies” to coordinate and resolve issues arising during the introduction and implementation of major projects and key enterprises within key industrial chains. For major investment projects coming to Qujing, local governments and relevant departments shall provide full-process services from project negotiation and matching to project implementation and commencement of construction.(Lead Department: Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau; Responsible Units: Relevant municipal departments, people’s governments of all counties, cities, and districts, and the Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee).

(10) Improve and refine the policy framework for fostering the development of market entities. Relevant municipal departments, including the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, the Municipal Rural Revitalization Bureau, and the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, as well as the people’s governments of all counties (cities, districts), shall conduct thorough research based on local conditions and rigorously review and screen all local regulatory documents. Those that hinder the development of market entities shall be resolutely eliminated and abolished to prevent administrative regulations from interfering with or impeding the growth of market entities.All localities and departments must promptly eliminate self-imposed policies and regulations—such as those stipulating that holders of business licenses are ineligible to apply for public rental housing or subsidized housing, or to receive minimum living allowances—that are impractical or unscientific, and further refine and improve the relevant policy and regulatory framework. During the application and approval process for housing security (such as public rental housing and subsidized housing) or social security, holding a business license or the registered capital of a business license shall not be used as a basis for assessing an applicant’s household assets or income.Strict reviews must be conducted on all local regulatory documents to be formulated and issued to avoid adverse impacts on the growth of market entities. (Lead Departments: Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs, Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Municipal Bureau of Rural Revitalization; Responsible Units: Relevant municipal departments, people’s governments of all counties, cities, and districts, and the Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee).

(11) Establish and improve a mechanism for market entities to directly evaluate the business environment. Further facilitate communication channels between government and enterprises, thoroughly implement the system for responding to complaints and reports regarding the business environment, and proactively strengthen communication with market entities while respecting their wishes. Through various methods such as research, symposiums, and questionnaires, improve the routine communication mechanism with market entities, industry associations, and chambers of commerce.regularly listen to the feedback and demands of large and medium-sized enterprises, small and micro enterprises, individual business operators, and enterprises entering Qujing, identify the pain points, difficulties, and bottlenecks constraining the cultivation and development of market entities, and assist in resolving them in accordance with laws and regulations.Leveraging the city’s online government service platform, we will continuously improve the comprehensive service functions for the business environment. We will establish permanent channels for business environment surveys and complaint reporting, ensuring the entire process—including surveys, complaint submission, case assignment, and feedback—is handled online, thereby enabling market entities to monitor the business environment 24 hours a day.(Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, Municipal Administrative Service Bureau, Municipal Association for Science and Technology, Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce, and other relevant departments and units; People’s Governments of all counties, cities, and districts; Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee).

III. Focus on Industrial Development to Cultivate and Strengthen Market Entities

(1) Cultivate and Strengthen Agricultural Enterprises and Farmers’ Cooperatives. Comprehensively advance rural revitalization and build a modern rural industrial system. Adhering to the development approach of “major industries + new entities + new platforms,” implement the project to cultivate new types of agricultural business entities. Foster a group of modern agricultural industrial parks, towns with strong agricultural industries, and clusters of advantageous and distinctive industries that possess strong radiating and driving capabilities. Actively strive to establish municipal-level agricultural modernization demonstration zones and forestry demonstration zones.Launch the “Ten Thousand Enterprises Revitalizing Ten Thousand Villages” initiative to vigorously develop primary and deep processing of agricultural products at their places of origin, foster and expand specialized and socialized agricultural service industries, and promote the formation of a group of green, standardized, and digital agricultural production, processing, and service enterprises. Strongly support migrant workers in starting their own businesses, establish a number of municipal-level rural entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration parks (bases), and continuously advance the construction of such parks (bases).Launch the campaign to standardize and upgrade farmers’ professional cooperatives, optimize support policies, strengthen guidance and services, and promote the high-quality development of farmers’ professional cooperatives. By 2025, the number of agricultural enterprises in the city will reach 16,100, with an average annual growth rate of 15.3%, including 1,028 key leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, with an average annual growth rate of 15.2%.(Lead Departments: Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Municipal Bureau of Government Services Administration, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau; Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Commerce Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Forestry and Grassland, Municipal Bureau of Rural Revitalization, Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, and other relevant departments; People’s Governments of all counties, cities, and districts; Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee).

(2) Cultivate and Strengthen Industrial Enterprises. Strengthen infrastructure development in industrial parks, promote the establishment of projects, enterprises, talent, and technology within these parks, and prioritize the allocation of resources such as capital, land quotas, and power supply to industrial parks. Focus on transforming industrial parks into key platforms for fostering and expanding market entities and promoting industrial clustering, thereby expanding and strengthening the park economy. Build industrial chains centered on leading industries based on local conditions and create industrial clusters.Focusing on key industries such as green aluminum materials, green silicon materials, green energy, advanced equipment manufacturing, electronic information, biomedicine, new materials, green food, and specialty consumer goods, organize, plan, and reserve a batch of major projects based on local resource endowments, industrial foundations, and comparative advantages.Leverage the supporting and driving role of leading enterprises. Encourage major projects in green aluminum, green silicon, and green food, as well as large state-owned industrial backbone enterprises, to open their supply chains to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Cultivate and attract a group of supporting enterprises that extend, complement, and strengthen industrial chains. Promote the formation of strategic emerging industries and support the introduction of low-energy-consumption, high-value-added industrial enterprises. Accelerate the coordinated development of upstream and downstream sectors within industrial chains, as well as production, supply, and sales, and foster synergy among large, medium, and small enterprises. This will result in industrial and enterprise clusters characterized by distinct features, comprehensive support systems, and a healthy ecosystem.With a focus on the Industrial Internet, we will accelerate the development of the Industrial Internet, deepen the integration of next-generation information technology with key industrial sectors, and expedite the digital transformation of traditional industries. Adhering to the principles of “attracting enterprises with resources, exchanging industries for market access, and promoting development through application,” we will attract top-tier enterprises to establish multi-site information technology and innovation industrial bases in Qujing. We will implement the Industrial Enterprise Growth Program, refine routine support policies for the growth and scaling up of industrial enterprises, accelerate the commissioning and inclusion of projects in statistical reporting, and continuously foster the development of a group of small and medium-sized enterprises into industrial enterprises above designated size.Accelerate technological, product, management, and business model innovation among small and medium-sized industrial enterprises to foster more high-quality enterprises such as “single-champions,” service-oriented manufacturing enterprises, and “unicorns.” By 2025, the city’s industrial enterprises will reach 4,000, with an average annual growth rate of 9.8%, of which 800 will be industrial enterprises above designated size, growing at an average annual rate of 5.0%.(Lead Departments: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Bureau of Government Services; Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Municipal Energy Bureau, Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, and other relevant departments; People’s Governments of all counties, cities, and districts; Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee).

(3) Cultivate and Strengthen Construction Enterprises. Accelerate the implementation of major projects such as urban renewal and transformation, the construction of “Beautiful Counties,” the “Full Connectivity” and “Interconnectivity” of county-level expressways, the “Network Expansion and Speed Enhancement” of railways, and water network infrastructure construction. Leverage these major projects to generate a batch of large-scale projects, and use these large-scale projects to cultivate and strengthen a group of construction enterprises, while supporting the development of related enterprises in interior decoration, installation, supervision and consulting, and design. Strictly implement national real estate regulation policies to promote the healthy development of real estate enterprises.Encourage construction enterprises and engineering general contractors to establish operations in Qujing. Support Qujing-based construction enterprises in forming consortia and project companies with central state-owned enterprises and large construction firms from outside the city to jointly participate in key municipal projects. Increase support for leading and backbone construction enterprises to enhance their market competitiveness. Strengthen cooperation between the city and prefecture, accelerate the implementation of the “going global” strategy, and encourage and support enterprises to legally undertake projects in construction, municipal works, power, water conservancy, and transportation sectors outside the city and province.Support private capital in participating in the construction of urban infrastructure, municipal public utilities, and rural gas supply projects. Optimize the management of qualifications and certifications, and streamline the classification and grading of construction enterprise qualifications. By 2025, the total number of construction enterprises in the city will reach 9,100, with an average annual growth rate of 14.3%, of which 882 will be qualified construction enterprises, growing at an average annual rate of 11.0%.(Lead Departments: Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Municipal Bureau of Government Services; Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Transportation Bureau, Municipal Water Affairs Bureau, Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, and other relevant departments; People’s Governments of all counties, cities, and districts; Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee).

(4) Foster and expand commerce and trade enterprises. Deepen policies to expand domestic demand, align with trends in consumption upgrading, improve the consumer environment, and promote innovation, transformation, and cross-sector integration in the physical retail sector. Implement measures to boost bulk and key consumption, carry out action plans to foster new forms of consumption, accelerate the improvement and expansion of traditional rural consumption in food, clothing, housing, daily necessities, and transportation, and foster and expand enterprises in wholesale and retail, accommodation, and catering to further unleash consumption potential.Actively establish e-commerce incubation platforms, attract well-known e-commerce enterprises to establish operations in Qujing, promote the coordinated development of local enterprises, and vigorously incubate e-commerce market entities.Strengthen the tracking and cultivation of small-scale commerce and trade enterprises, enhance support through resources such as funding and projects, and ensure that enterprises meeting the threshold are promptly included in statistical reporting. By 2025, the total number of enterprises in the city’s wholesale and retail, accommodation, and catering sectors will reach 49,600, with an average annual growth rate of 14.8%. Specifically: the number of enterprises in these sectors meeting the threshold will reach 884, with an average annual growth rate of 11.5%; and the number of foreign-invested enterprise legal entities will reach 100.(Lead Departments: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Bureau of Government Services; Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, and other relevant departments; People’s Governments of all counties, cities, and districts; Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee).

(5) Cultivate and Strengthen Service Sector Enterprises (excluding wholesale and retail enterprises and accommodation and catering enterprises). Accelerate the development of production-oriented services in key sectors, focusing on building a group of enterprises in fields such as freight transportation, warehousing and logistics, R&D and design, inspection and testing, energy conservation and environmental protection, and the digital economy. Strengthen the construction of the national postal backbone network, continue to advance the “Two Entries and One Exit” project for express delivery, and accelerate the development of infrastructure for the postal and express delivery industry.Strengthen the implementation of policies regarding the establishment of financial institutions, vigorously attract domestic and foreign banks, securities and futures firms, insurance companies, and other financial institutions, and support banks in setting up specialized branches. Develop financial service enterprises such as financial leasing, financing guarantees, pawnbroking, and factoring in a prudent manner in accordance with laws and regulations. Seize major projects such as urban renewal and the renovation of old residential communities to improve property management services for residential housing, cultivate a group of branded property service enterprises, and foster the formation of service enterprises in fields such as urban renewal, smart community operations, and housing rentals.Advance the transformation and upgrading of the exhibition and convention industry, promote the innovative “dual-track” development of exhibitions, and cultivate a group of specialized and distinctive exhibition and convention enterprises with high service standards, prominent professional strengths, and strong core competitiveness. Fully tap into the potential of the city’s cultural and tourism resources, promote the integrated development of ethnic culture with creative design, modern fashion, and digital technology, and refine, optimize, and specialize leading cultural and tourism enterprises as well as small, medium, and micro-sized cultural and tourism enterprises, fostering a cohort of new-type cultural enterprises, cultural and creative enterprises, and smart tourism innovation enterprises.Actively attract health and wellness service brands to establish operations locally, build a world-class high-altitude sports training base integrating sports training and competitions, fitness and wellness, and sports tourism, and foster new types of sports and sports wellness service enterprises. Accelerate the development of family services such as elderly care, childcare, and domestic services, and foster standardized, branded, chain-based, and networked family service enterprises.By 2025, the total number of service enterprises in the city will reach 39,900, with an average annual growth rate of 15.2%. Among these, production-oriented service enterprises will reach 19,000, with an average annual growth rate of 15.2%; and large-scale service enterprises will reach 187, with an average annual growth rate of 11.0%. (Lead Departments: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Administrative Service Bureau;Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Bureau of Education and Sports, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs, Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Municipal Bureau of Transportation, Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Municipal Health Commission, Municipal Financial Office, Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, Municipal Postal Administration, People’s Bank of China Qujing Central Branch, Qujing Branch of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, and other relevant departments and units; People’s Governments of all counties, cities, and districts; and the Administrative Committee of Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone).

(6) Fostering Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Individual Businesses. Implement all policy measures to promote the development of the private economy and accelerate its growth. Improve the municipal policy framework for cultivating “specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative” SMEs to foster more “Little Giant” enterprises. Establish a municipal-level special fund for SME development, focusing on nurturing market entities across the upstream and downstream segments of key industrial chains, and supporting the enhancement of SMEs’ innovation capabilities as well as the development of public service platforms and financing systems.Strengthen the role of the coordination mechanism for SME development, ensure the implementation of policies and measures to stabilize economic growth, optimize support policies for SMEs, and continue to ensure that relief and business-friendly policies—such as tax and fee reductions, rent and interest rate cuts, and inclusive finance—reach the grassroots level and directly benefit market entities. Further improve the system where leading officials maintain direct ties with private enterprises, accelerate the establishment of a close yet clean government-business relationship, and vigorously promote the entrepreneurial spirit.Establish a joint departmental meeting system to support the development of individual businesses, accelerate the improvement of service systems, strengthen guidance on entrepreneurship, and actively coordinate solutions to prominent issues faced by individual businesses regarding rent, taxes and fees, social security, financing, and labor.Implement preferential policies for the transition of individual businesses to enterprises, guiding individual business owners to upgrade and transform into corporate entities. By 2025, the city’s total number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will reach 120,000, with an average annual growth rate of 15.2%, and the number of individual businesses will reach 504,100, with an average annual growth rate of 10.0%.(Lead Departments: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Bureau of Government Services Administration, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau; Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, Municipal Tax Bureau, People’s Bank of China Qujing Central Sub-branch, and other relevant departments and units; People’s Governments of all counties, cities, and districts; Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee).

IV. Support Measures

(1) Strengthen Organizational Leadership. The Municipal People’s Government has established the Qujing Municipal Leading Group for Promoting the Doubling of Market Entities (hereinafter referred to as the Leading Group) to comprehensively advance the work of doubling market entities and coordinate the resolution of major issues encountered. The Leading Group’s Office is established within the Municipal Market Regulation Bureau to promptly track and monitor the progress of key tasks, strengthen overall coordination, and study solutions to specific issues. The people’s governments of all counties (cities, districts) and the Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee must fulfill their local responsibilities and establish sound working mechanisms.The principal leaders of all localities and departments must earnestly shoulder the responsibility for rigorous implementation, understand their duties and bear their responsibilities, recognize the weight of their tasks and carry them with determination, enhance their proactive service mindset, press the “fast-forward button” for the cultivation of market entities, and make every effort to advance the work of optimizing the business environment to promote the doubling of market entities.At present, the people’s governments of all counties (cities, districts) and the Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee must attach great importance to the 2021 plan to optimize the business environment and double the number of market entities. They must closely monitor the 2021 net growth targets for market entities (see Attachment 2), innovate approaches, strengthen measures, and ensure implementation to guarantee the completion of this year’s tasks.The Municipal Market Regulation Bureau is responsible for leading, supervising, and guiding the city-wide efforts to achieve net growth in market entities, while the Municipal Administrative Services Bureau is responsible for leading, supervising, and guiding the city-wide efforts to achieve net growth in enterprises. Each department must fulfill its respective duties and responsibilities, regularly analyze and assess the progress of the work, study effective measures to resolve issues, strengthen overall coordination, supervision, and guidance, and make every effort to complete all targets and tasks.

(2) Formulate Supporting Measures. The lead departments for market entity cultivation—including the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, the Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, the Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the Municipal Market Regulation Bureau—as well as departments such as the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau and the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, shall thoroughly analyze and study national and provincial policies, current development conditions, and future goals. They shall refine work arrangements and formulate and issue market entity cultivation plans within two weeks of the issuance of this opinion;Relevant municipal departments shall formulate specific measures in accordance with their respective responsibilities. The people’s governments of all counties (cities, districts) and the Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee shall formulate and issue implementation measures within one month of the issuance of this opinion. After the supporting measures of relevant municipal departments, the people’s governments of all counties (cities, districts), and the Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone Administrative Committee are issued, they shall be submitted to the Municipal Government Office.

(3) Strengthen Assessment and Monitoring. The Office of the Municipal Leading Group for Optimizing and Improving the Business Environment shall further refine the business environment evaluation mechanism, incorporating the progress of market entity cultivation as a key indicator in business environment assessments. The Municipal Government Inspection Office shall include market entity cultivation work within the scope of key inspections and conduct regular follow-up inspections. The Office of the Municipal Leading Group for Promoting the Doubling of Market Entities shall take the lead in establishing a statistical monitoring system, develop a comprehensive statistical monitoring indicator system, strengthen daily monitoring, and enhance work coordination.

(4) Strengthen Publicity and Guidance.All localities and departments shall make full use of various media to publicize the important status and role of market entities in economic and social development, the significance of fostering market entities, and the policy measures for optimizing the business environment to promote the doubling of market entities. They shall effectively publicize and interpret these policy measures to increase public awareness, support, and participation, promptly address public concerns, and ensure the comprehensive implementation of the policy measures. They shall promptly summarize exemplary experiences in the cultivation and development of market entities that can be replicated and promoted, boost the confidence of market entities, and foster a favorable public opinion environment.