Enterprises' rating of China's business environment has increased year by year.
At the press conference held yesterday, Yu Yi, spokesperson and office director of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, introduced that the "202 1 China Business Environment Research Report" showed that enterprises had a good evaluation of China's business environment, and their scores showed an upward trend year by year. Respondents' evaluation of the national business environment in 20021year was 4.38 points, 0.03 points higher than that in 2020. Among them, the eastern region, Sino-foreign joint ventures and traditional manufacturing industries have a high evaluation of the business environment, while the western region, resource industries and service industries have a slight decline in their evaluation of the business environment.
According to the report, under the influence of COVID-19 epidemic, more than 70% of enterprises have achieved income growth. More than 50% of foreign-funded enterprises regard China as the top investment target in the world. 28% of foreign-funded enterprises said that the global economic contraction, the rise of trade protectionism and the COVID-19 epidemic were affecting the additional investment in China.
According to reports, the evaluation index system of the business environment of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade includes 12 first-class indicators such as infrastructure, living facilities, policy and government affairs, and social credit. In the 20021annual survey, the policy and government environment have become the first-class indicators that enterprises are most concerned about for five consecutive years, and 53% of enterprises hope to continuously optimize. It is worth noting that among the four secondary indicators of policy and government environment decomposition, the interviewed enterprises have the highest evaluation of officials' integrity, reaching 4.52 points. From the nature of enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises scored the highest in policies and affairs.
The report puts forward some suggestions according to the demands reflected by enterprises, including accelerating the construction of a high-quality and efficient service-oriented government; Further improve the scientific nature of relevant policies; Make overall plans and take multiple measures to effectively reduce the production and operation costs of enterprises; Through policy innovation and guidance, help enterprises break the bottleneck of attracting, retaining and using talents.
Half of European enterprises in China: the "freezing" of investment agreements does not affect investment plans.
At the same time, the Research Report on the Implementation Prospect of China-EU Comprehensive Investment Agreement shows that half of EU enterprises in China said that the "freezing" of China-EU comprehensive investment agreement would not affect their investment plans in China. 33% of China enterprises surveyed said that the "freezing" of the agreement would affect their investment plans in the EU, 37% were not sure, and less than one third made it clear that it would not be affected.
China-EU comprehensive investment agreement was declared "frozen" by the European Parliament on May 20th, 20021. At the 23rd China-EU Leaders' Meeting held on April 6th this year, both sides agreed that the China-EU Comprehensive Investment Agreement was a mutually beneficial and win-win agreement, and agreed to push forward the ratification process of the agreement.
Yu Yi said that the Chinese and European enterprises participating in the survey generally believe that the signing of the China-EU comprehensive investment agreement will bring new opportunities for bilateral investment and industrial development. 74% of China enterprises and 67% of EU enterprises indicated that the signing and entry into force of this agreement would be beneficial to the development of manufacturing industry in this economy, while nearly half of China-EU enterprises believed that the signing and entry into force of this agreement would be beneficial to the development of service industry in this economy. Private enterprises are becoming an important force for China to invest in the EU. According to Yu Yi, according to the survey in the Research Report on the Implementation Prospect of China-EU Comprehensive Investment Agreement, the interviewed enterprises have great expectations for the formal signing of China-EU Comprehensive Investment Agreement, and believe that its entry into force will bring benefits to China-EU bilateral investment, and the opportunities outweigh the challenges. A large amount of EU advantageous industrial capital will enter China, which will promote and force China's industrial transformation and upgrading in related fields. China enterprises will also get more opportunities to enter the EU.