China News Service, May 8. According to the National Development and Reform Commission website on the 8th, the National Development and Reform Commission released the “China Business Environment Development Report (2026)” (hereinafter referred to as the “Report”).
The “Report” is structured in five parts, following the full lifecycle of an enterprise from establishment to exit. Part One, “Market Entry,” focuses on improving the market access system and enhancing convenience in areas such as enterprise registration and relocation, project commencement and acceptance, real estate registration, and electricity service guarantees. Part Two, “Factor Guarantees,” focuses on ensuring business entities’ access to production factors such as land, capital, labor, technology, and data. Part Three, “Business Environment,” focuses on advancing the construction of a unified national market, regulating the order of bidding and procurement markets, strictly regulating administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, improving the basic credit system and rules, strengthening intellectual property protection, promoting direct and swift access to tax and fee policies, optimizing customs clearance models for goods and personnel, improving the comprehensive overseas service system, and creating a clean and orderly business network environment. Part Four, “Dispute Resolution,” focuses on continuously improving the litigation service system, perfecting diversified dispute resolution mechanisms, and optimizing public legal services. Part Five, “Enterprise Exit,” focuses on fully leveraging the function of bankruptcy reorganization and facilitating enterprise deregistration.
The “Report” presents a comprehensive overview of China’s significant achievements in improving the business environment. Focusing on key links, it introduces the positive progress of the business environment in 2025 with detailed data. At the same time, it sets up 10 “Data Talks ’14th Five-Year Plan” columns to showcase the trend changes and cumulative achievements in related fields over the past five years.
The “Report” centrally showcases China’s innovative measures in promoting business environment construction. Focusing on key concerns such as breaking down market access barriers, comprehensively rectifying “involution-style” competition, and regulating administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, it lists the main laws, regulations, or policy documents implemented in 2025, and sets up a local case column to introduce the vivid practices of 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government) in improving the business environment according to local conditions.
The “Report” fully demonstrates China’s confidence and determination to continuously optimize the business environment. The business environment can always be better, never the best. Based on summarizing past work and aligning with the requirements of the “15th Five-Year Plan” Outline, the “Report” proposes to continue creating a more dynamic market environment, a fair and just legal environment, a more attractive trade and investment environment, and a high-quality and efficient government service environment, demonstrating China’s firm confidence and determination to deepen reforms in all areas of the business environment.
Next, the National Development and Reform Commission will thoroughly implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on optimizing the business environment. It will work with relevant departments to focus on the concerns of business entities, break through bottlenecks and blockages, shore up weaknesses and shortcomings, consolidate and expand advantages, and actively create a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized first-class business environment, providing broad space and solid guarantees for various business entities to invest and start businesses.
