Foreign -funded enterprises look at the Chinese business environment: temperature, speed, valuable

According to the latest data from the Ministry of Commerce, from January to May 2022, the actual amount of foreign investment in the country was 564.2 billion yuan, an increase of 17.3%year -on -year, equivalent to 87.77 billion US dollars, a year -on -year increase of 22.6%. In the first four months of this year, my country's absorption of foreign capital growth reached 20.5%. On the basis of last year, double -digit growth was still achieved.

Regarding the steady growth of foreign capital, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce gave three reasons: the gravity of the Chinese market has not diminished, the open policy is effective, and the investment environment has continued to optimize.

Regardless of domestic and foreign capital, the business environment is the most important thing for enterprises. The business environment is good or bad, and the market entity has the most right to speak. At the third multinational company leader Qingdao Summit held recently, a number of leaders of a number of multinational companies expressed their views on the construction of China's business environment and the willingness to invest in China in China. The huge changes in China's business environment left a deep impression on them.

Under the impact of the epidemic and the uncertainty and complex situation brought about by geopolitics, the confidence of multinational companies in China's economic development has been repeatedly talked about. "But we still think that China is still impossible and cannot be missed.‘ I miss China ’s development by missed China’. This sentence is still established. "Said Wu Chun, executive partner of the Chinese area of ​​Boston Consulting, said.

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1. How do foreign companies look at the Chinese market? Temperature and value become keywords

If you want to give a key word to China's business environment, Zhao Bingdi, vice president of Northeast Asia Company of Panasonic, gives "temperature".

As a century -old shop, Panasonic entered the Chinese market in 1978 and was a participant, witness, and beneficiary of China's reform and opening up. "Panasonic's annual output value in China exceeds 110 billion yuan. In the past two years, our sales performance also increased double -digit growth, and the share of the headquarters continued to increase. When it comes to today, I think it is completely beneficial to the Chinese environment."

In addition to the "Foreign Investment Law" and related guidance, Zhao Bingdi specifically mentioned the government's temperature. What makes him feel most obvious is that a problem that is expected to be solved for half a year has only been one month in China.

"For example, the" double carbon economy 'recently talked about, we are actively investing, but on the one hand, we are also worried that the epidemic will affect the speed of empirical tests. " The global first empirical test in power generation, "After the local government learned about our project, it provided channels in all aspects, including high -efficiency office, so that this project far exceeded our expected rhythm."

This also reflects China's speed. "The huge volume of China's economy and the high speed of innovation and development, almost all multinational companies have positioned China as an economy that cannot be ignored in strategic and tactics, and an indispensable market." Wu Chun believes that except for except for Beyond China, China's execution and open new pattern are equally unlike.

In the "2020 Business Environment Report" released by the World Bank last year, China has ranked 31st among 190 economies around the world. Within two years, China's ranking has increased by 47.

"In the short term, China's market development has increased, which is a very admirable development." AGC Executive Director and Chinese General Representative Uesoda said "heart talk". "As a foreign company," I hope to develop with China and achieve a win -win situation. "

Liu Lijia, vice president of La Fahirui Group and head of global partnership, attributed China's environment to "value". "China's market is valuable, and the future development is still valuable. The embodiment of this value is the overall manifestation of China's business environment and the value of future investment."

2. What are the importance of foreign companies? Intellectual property has been mentioned many times

In the past two years, the optimization of the business environment has been continuously mentioned and promoted.

In January 2020, the "Optimized Business Environment Regulations" was officially implemented. The purpose of the introduction was to adapt to international advanced experience and continuously optimize the business environment.

Last year, the State Council was deployed in 6 cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen to carry out a pilot of business environment innovation, clarifying 101 reform measures for 10 aspects of innovation pilot work, and creating first -class marketization, legalization, and internationalization. Business environment.

At the two sessions of various places this year, "optimizing the business environment" became a high -frequency hot word. In many places, the optimization of the business environment also mentioned the height of the local government project No. 1.

"More rule of law, internationalization, and standardization, and more enhanced the attraction of investment promotion, more people will gather in China." "Kung Fu" in the business environment.

Liu Guoping said that many local governments have established a business bureau, and Olix is ​​officially hired as inspectors in some places. He himself can deeply feel that the government serves the change and improvement of the government's ruling concept. In his opinion, a good "political and business relationship" is an important part of the business environment.

If it was said that in the past, it was simply completed the investment promotion, then the government now comes to the door and empowers it. "For example, we set up companies, investment projects, and landing. They all set up special classes to discuss with us and solve some difficulties and problems together to help us achieve investment and implement projects.

Another attracted much attention is the protection of intellectual property rights. "Some of the forward -looking technologies of multinational companies get locally and establish an exhibition center. We must have good intellectual property to protect Shanghai in order to dispel the concerns of the enterprise and save a lot of construction costs and time." Liu Lijia said.

"Especially for small and medium -sized enterprises abroad, high -essence and strong enterprises, they have great expectations for the protection and application of China's intellectual property rights." Liu Guoping emphasized that the problems that large multinational companies can solve them are not placed on SMEs. It is easy to make a lot of improvements in this regard, and they will dispel some of their concerns.

3. China's business environment still needs to be improved, and the rule of law is a fundamental guarantee

Promoting the protection of high -standard intellectual property rights is also the direction of the long -term efforts of China's business environment.

2022 At the high -level forum in China Intellectual Property Protection, Shen Changyu, director of the State Intellectual Property Office, pointed out that strengthening intellectual property protection is an important aspect of shaping a good business environment. The "Global Innovation Index Report 2021" released by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows that China ranks 12th, an increase of two in 2020.

Wang Xiaohong, deputy minister of the Information Department of the China International Economic Exchange Center, mentioned at the summit that my country is the world's second largest economy and move towards innovative countries to promote the protection of high standards of intellectual property rights. adapt. It is necessary to promote the reform of the intellectual property system and law enforcement in accordance with the requirements of high standards, and to accelerate the revision of copyright protection periods and patent applications for novelty width.

At the same time, Wang Xiaohong pointed out that compared with high -standard international economic and trade rules, there is still a gap in China's business environment. Among them, the fair competition environment needs to be improved, and discrimination is still existed. "Adhere to the principles of fair competition, and in terms of subsidy, government procurement, and major project bidding, internal and foreign investment will be colleagues, and the government procurement is open, transparent and market -oriented."

Many experts told the Hongxing Capital Bureau that optimizing the business environment should start from marketization, rule of law, and internationalization. "The rule of law is a fundamental guarantee, the business environment system system that builds the rule of law, and gives all kinds of opportunities and rights for fair competition in various types of capital." Wu Qi, Executive Dean of the Wuxi Digital Economic Research Institute, said.

Wu Gangliang, a researcher at the Chinese Enterprise Reform and Development Research Association, also believes that optimizing the business environment should strengthen the basic status of competitive policy, adhere to the principle of competition neutrality and ownership, and create a variety of ownership subjects to use resource elements equally in accordance with the law, openly fair and fair participation in competition. The market environment that is protected by law.

The "Foreign Investment Law of the People's Republic of China" reviewed and approved by the National People's Congress in March 2019 provides a stronger protection guarantee for the use of foreign capital in the new era. The introduction of the law is also an important milestone in the construction of the rule of law of foreign investors.

"The adaptability of foreign investment law is more adaptable, eliminating some discriminatory policies for foreign companies." Liu Lijia used government procurement and bidding and bidding processes as an example. "Whether we are from foreign -funded enterprises or private enterprises, they are very open and fair and fair. The judgment system, the final judgment of these three dimensions, technology, business, and services has also been publicized. Each detail of the whole process is shared. "

Zhao Bingdi also pointed out that the "Foreign Investment Law" replaced the "Three Laws" in the past (the "Law of the People's Republic of China, the China -Foreign Foreign Institute of Foreign Enterprises", "The Law of the People's Republic of China" and "The Law of the Chinese and Foreign Cooperation Operations Enterprises of the People's Republic of China"). The changes in the "hard conditions" of the business environment, "We also hope that China's business environment can be further improved, and we are very confident in the Chinese market."

Red Star News reporter Wang Tian

Editor Ren Zhijiang

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