People's governments at all levels and their departments should adhere to the openness and transparency of government affairs, with openness as the norm and non-disclosure as the exception, and comprehensively promote decision-making, implementation, management, service and results disclosure. Article 4 To optimize the business environment, we must adhere to the principles of marketization, rule of law and internationalization, take the needs of market participants as the guide, take the profound transformation of government functions as the core, innovate institutional mechanisms, strengthen coordination and improve the protection of the rule of law, benchmark the international advanced level, and create a stable, fair, transparent and predictable good environment for all kinds of market participants to invest and start businesses. Article 5 The State shall speed up the establishment of a unified, open and orderly modern market system, promote the free flow of various factors of production according to law, and ensure that all market players participate in market competition fairly. Article 6 The State encourages, supports and guides the development of the non-public sector of the economy and stimulates its vitality and creativity.
The state further expands its opening to the outside world, actively promotes foreign investment, and treats all kinds of market entities such as domestic-funded enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises equally. Article 7 People's governments at all levels shall strengthen the organization and leadership over the work of optimizing the business environment, improve policies and measures for optimizing the business environment, establish and improve relevant mechanisms for promoting and supervising the implementation of the overall work of optimizing the business environment, and coordinate and solve major problems in the work of optimizing the business environment in a timely manner.
The relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall do a good job in optimizing the business environment in accordance with the division of responsibilities. Local people's governments at or above the county level may, according to actual conditions, designate competent departments to optimize the business environment.
The state encourages and supports all regions and departments to actively explore original and differentiated specific measures to optimize the business environment within the framework of the rule of law; Errors or deviations in exploration that meet the prescribed conditions may be exempted or mitigated. Article 8 The State shall establish and improve a business environment evaluation system oriented to market participants and public satisfaction, and give play to the leading and supervising role of business environment evaluation in optimizing the business environment.
The assessment of business environment shall not affect the normal work of all regions and departments, and shall not affect the normal production and business activities of market participants or increase the burden of market participants.
No unit may make use of the business environment assessment to seek benefits. Article 9 Market participants shall abide by laws and regulations, abide by social morality and business ethics, be honest and trustworthy, compete fairly, fulfill their legal obligations such as safety, quality, protection of workers' rights and interests and protection of consumers' rights and interests, and follow the internationally accepted rules in international economic and trade activities. Chapter II Protection of Market Subjects Article 10 The State adheres to equality of rights, opportunities and rules, and ensures that all forms of ownership are equally protected by law. Article 11 Market entities shall enjoy operational autonomy according to law. All kinds of matters that should be decided by the market subject independently according to law shall not be interfered by any unit or individual. Article 12 The state guarantees all kinds of market players to use capital, technology, human resources, land use rights, other natural resources and other factors of production and public service resources equally according to law.
All kinds of market players apply the state's policy of supporting development equally according to law. The government and its relevant departments shall treat all kinds of market players equally in accordance with the law in terms of government funding arrangements, land supply, tax reduction and exemption, qualification licensing, standard formulation, project declaration, professional title evaluation, human resources policy, etc., and shall not formulate and implement discriminatory policies and measures. Article 13 Bidding and government procurement shall be open, transparent, fair and just, and market entities of all types of ownership and different regions shall be treated equally according to law, and restrictions or exclusions shall not be made on the grounds of unreasonable conditions or product origin.
The relevant government departments should strengthen the supervision of bidding and government procurement, and correct and investigate violations of laws and regulations according to law. Article 14 The state protects the property rights and other lawful rights and interests of market participants according to law, and protects the personal and property safety of enterprise operators.
It is strictly forbidden to implement administrative compulsory measures such as sealing up, freezing and detaining the property of market entities and the personal property of operators in violation of statutory authority, conditions and procedures; If it is really necessary to implement the aforementioned administrative compulsory measures according to law, it should be limited to the necessary scope.
It is forbidden to ask market participants to provide financial, material or human resources for apportionment outside the provisions of laws and regulations. Market entities have the right to refuse any form of apportionment. Article 15 The state establishes a punitive compensation system for intellectual property infringement, promotes the establishment of a rapid collaborative protection mechanism for intellectual property rights, improves the diversified settlement mechanism for intellectual property disputes and the assistance mechanism for intellectual property protection, and strengthens the protection of intellectual property rights.
The state continues to deepen the reform of trademark registration and patent application facilitation, and improve the efficiency of trademark registration and patent application examination.