(Vibrant China Research) Beihai, Guangxi: Business services have shifted from “fast approval” to “long-term support”

China News Service, Beihai, Guangxi, October 16th (Yang Chengchen, Zhai Liqiang) The "Vibrant China Research Tour" interview team recently entered the Tieshan Port (Linhai) Industrial Zone in Beihai, Guangxi. There are many cranes on the wharf, and the construction of offshore wind power, green new materials and other projects has been stepped up. At present, the focus of Beihai's business environment work is shifting from "speeding up approvals" to "accompanying enterprises to grow."

In June 2024, the Beihai Business Environment Construction Bureau was established. It is the only government department in the country's districted cities dedicated to business environment construction. Beihai's business environment reform began in 2018. The municipal party committee and the municipal government regarded the business environment as the "No. 1 reform project". The coordinating agency was successively established in the Municipal Development and Reform Commission and the Municipal Party Committee Office. In the 2024 institutional reform, the discussion and coordination agency was transferred to a government work department.

On October 15, the 200,000-ton high-pile bulk cargo terminal in the Shitou Port operation area of ​​Tieshan Port District, Beihai, Guangxi, is a supporting project of Guangtou Beihai Green Ecological Aluminum, and is only more than 300 meters away from the alumina production line. Photo by Zhai Liqiang

Today, Beihai ranks first in the third-party assessment of Guangxi's business environment for eight consecutive years, and four articles on its reform experience have been published in the National Development and Reform Commission's business environment briefings and promoted nationwide.

"Whatever enterprises think about and worry about, we will focus on solving." said He Ruqing, director of the Beihai Business Environment and Construction Bureau. The local government has established a government-enterprise communication mechanism and built a global enterprise problem database to promote the shift from "solving one thing" to "solving a category of things"; issues left over from history such as the certification of factory buildings in the park have been resolved within the policy framework through methods such as "certification by letter". The "Beihai Business" service enterprise code, which will be launched in 2025, will deliver mobile policy packages and consultation and complaint express trains to enterprises, and the appeal settlement rate will reach 100%.

Entering the "15th Five-Year Plan", Beihai will leverage the advantages of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, the Pinglu Canal and Xianghai to promote customized industrial services, coordinated allocation of factors, smart supervision, legal protection, and institutional opening up. In Tieshangang, key projects are followed by dedicated teams, and procurement, storage, construction application, and approval are all linked together; "construction starts as soon as the land is obtained" is being upgraded to "people will manage the project after it is implemented, and people will accompany it when it grows."

On October 16, the "Vibrant China Research Tour" interview team visited Beihai Yongxing Electronics Co., Ltd. located in Galaxy Chip Industrial Park, Beihai High-tech Zone, Guangxi for an interview. The company focuses on the full-process R&D and production of high-precision displacement sensors, sensor chips and precision chip resistors. Its customers include Huawei, Siemens and other Fortune 500 companies. Photo by Zhai Liqiang

He Ruqing pointed out that the construction of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor and the creation of a "convenient location for domestic and international dual circulation market operations" have significantly improved policy convenience and market expectations in Guangxi and Beihai. This channel has opened up the large logistics system and facilitated the export of products from the southwest and western regions of the country and the introduction of ASEAN products, becoming an important bonus in attracting corporate investment.

From the "eight consecutive championships" to the new start in the "15th Five-Year Plan", the key words of Beihai's business environment have changed from "convenient" to "predictable". When a business comes, it can clear its accounts, find people when it comes to work, and make ends meet when it's in trouble.