China News Service, Shenyang, September 15 (Liu Jialiang) The construction of the business environment cannot be accomplished in a day. The "Liaoning Business Environment Effectiveness Tracking and Evaluation Report for the First Half of 2026" objectively records the steady progress of the province's business environment, while not avoiding or covering up various pain points, blockages, and difficulties that business entities have concentrated on. Improving data is just a new starting point. If we want to achieve a complete breakthrough and build core competitive advantages, we still need to crack down on many "hard bones" of reform.
Based on feedback from 25,297 business entities and public evaluation questionnaires, the report systematically summarizes the shortcomings of the current business environment in Liaoning into five core areas: policy fulfillment, market fairness, government coordination, law enforcement standards, and government contract fulfillment.
On the policy side, insufficient overall planning and coordination, high entry barriers, and lagging fund redemptions are the areas where companies have most concentrated complaints. During the visit, some electronics companies reported that the chip equipment update subsidy requires an investment of more than 5 million yuan, while the single purchase of enterprises is usually around 3 million yuan. Compared with the coastal "purchase and supplement" model, there are obvious shortcomings in the adaptability of local policies. Out of sight but out of reach is the real dilemma faced by many companies when facing preferential policies.
On the market side, there is a lack of levers to leverage consumption, fluctuating tax and fee enforcement standards, and difficulty for local companies to enter the core supply chain, weakening the confidence of companies in local development. A car sales company bluntly stated that "it is difficult to carry out special consumption promotion activities for new energy vehicles, and the consumption-driving effect has weakened." If the consumer side lacks a fire, the production side will lack a breath.
On the government affairs side, problems left over from the history of land use certificates are slow to circulate across departments, there is insufficient differentiation and convenience in foreign trade customs clearance, and there are gaps in the connection between window services and public utilities. What is exposed is the stubborn problem of overlapping powers and responsibilities and buck-passing between departments. On the legal side, repeated inspections by multiple parties have failed to cure the problem, quantitative judgment standards are missing in areas such as environmental protection, and assets listed for judicial auction have been suspended for a long time, making companies' inspections like an exam without standard answers and high compliance costs. On the contract fulfillment end, high-end talent retention packages are not keeping up, policy publicity and guidance coverage is inaccurate, investment commitments and special fund balance payments are delayed, and repeated waits consume trust in government affairs.
The five types of blocking points run through the entire life cycle of production and operation of enterprises from implementation, expansion of production, implementation of policies to acceptance of inspections. They are the "old accounts" that need to be cleared in the second half of the year to tackle the business environment. Only by clearing out "old accounts" and smoothing out the bottlenecks can we be confident in creating the best reputation for a business environment.
Jiang Jianli, a member of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government Decision-making Advisory Committee and a researcher at the Institute of Local Finance of Liaoning University, made an in-depth analysis of the current status of the province's business environment construction based on the report. He said that since the beginning of this year, the "five environments" of Liaoning Province have continued to be optimized, the business environment has improved significantly, a benign collaboration between government, enterprises and the people has basically taken shape, the urgent, difficult and anxious problems of enterprises and the people have been properly resolved, market confidence has continued to recover, and the people's sense of gain has steadily increased, which has truly accumulated momentum and laid a solid foundation for the comprehensive revitalization of Liaoning. However, in line with the requirements for high-quality development and the higher expectations of business entities and the public, there are still the following problems in the construction of Liaoning's business environment.
The first is the lack of long-term effectiveness of institutional mechanisms, which is the core problem. The current problems such as uneven implementation of policies and poor cross-department coordination are essentially due to the normalization of the business environment and imperfect institutional construction. We must continue to deepen reforms, improve long-term working mechanisms, and promote the business environment from a periodic "treating the symptoms" to a regular "treating the root cause."
Secondly, there are shortcomings in cadres’ style and professional capabilities. The way to break the situation lies in two-way efforts. On the one hand, we should implement rectification of work style; on the other hand, we should improve the supervision, evaluation, reward and punishment accountability mechanism, conduct business training on a regular basis, and improve the performance of cadres in serving new business formats and new markets.
Finally, the effectiveness of the implementation of people's livelihood services needs to be improved. It is necessary to target the pain points of people's livelihood, open up the entire chain of policy promotion and implementation, ensure people's livelihood, and use high-quality public services to build a solid foundation for people's livelihood in the business environment.
The reporter learned from the Liaoning Provincial Development and Reform Commission that according to the problems pointed out in the report, in the second half of the year, accounts will be established, responsibilities will be established, and nodes will be set up one by one to anchor the province to create the best reputation for business environment and promote rectification and reform.
"Scores will fluctuate, and we promise not to discount." Zhou Yiying, director of the Liaoning Provincial Development and Reform Commission, emphasized that every blocking point reported by enterprises must be responded to and closed-loop. "The best reputation is not self-proclaimed. It is saved for us by private enterprises, individual industrial and commercial households, and foreign-funded enterprises after cashing in every account and doing things smoothly every time."
He who observes the situation is wise, and he who controls the situation wins. The "Liaoning Business Environment Effectiveness Tracking and Evaluation Report for the First Half of 2026" not only records the steps forward in Liaoning's reform, but also objectively lays out the issues that need to be solved urgently.
From seeing problems to thoroughly solving them, from the introduction of systems to their implementation, optimizing the business environment has a long way to go. In the future, Liaoning will insist on deepening reforms inward, always taking the experience of business entities as the core criterion, continue to make up for shortcomings, strengthen weaknesses, and consolidate long-term effects, overcome difficulties step by step, improve quality and efficiency over time, and strive to move towards the goal of the province with the best reputation for business environment, injecting sufficient and lasting market vitality into comprehensive revitalization. (over)
