Article 4 of the Regulations on Optimizing the Business Environment stipulates that the optimization of the business environment should adhere to the principles of marketization, rule of law and internationalization, be guided by the needs of market participants, and take the profound transformation of government functions as the core.
Business environment is an important soft power of a place. Optimizing the business environment means liberating productive forces and improving comprehensive competitiveness. In recent years, various localities have introduced policies to optimize the business environment, and through the reform of "simplifying administration and decentralization, strengthening supervision and improving services", the vitality of various market players has been stimulated. A few days ago, the Wuhan Conference on Optimizing Business Environment proposed to build a market-oriented, rule-of-law and international first-class business environment with cost control as the core.
Optimizing the business environment with cost control as the core has grasped the "pulse door" of optimizing the business environment, so once the relevant policies in Wuhan were announced, they immediately attracted attention from all walks of life.
For market players, whether it is conducive to controlling costs is the core evaluation to measure the advantages and disadvantages of the business environment. For the competitiveness of a region and a city, the comparative advantage of comprehensive cost is a very important reference value to attract enterprises.
Reducing institutional transaction costs, logistics costs, tax costs, financing costs, energy consumption costs and labor costs, optimizing the legal environment, strengthening service guarantees, and allowing enterprises to enjoy more "real money" benefits and "sincere" services are not only pragmatic measures to help enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, boost their confidence in development, but also lay a long-term solid foundation for a city's high-quality development.
Wuhan's measures to help enterprises control costs include reducing both institutional transaction costs and production and operation costs, and the core is to improve the service level of urban public enterprises. The three support each other, forming an effective starting point for optimizing the business environment with cost control as the core.
Reducing institutional transaction costs is an important measure to reduce the burden on market players and stimulate market vitality.
At present, although the economic operation has stabilized and rebounded, it still faces some prominent contradictions and problems, and there are still many difficulties in the production and operation of market players, especially small and medium-sized enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households.
Only by further breaking the hidden threshold can the access cost of market participants be reduced; Only by further standardizing the fees charged by enterprises can we reduce the operating burden of market players; Only by further optimizing enterprise-related services can the cost of market participants be reduced; Only by further strengthening fair supervision can the legitimate rights and interests of market players be effectively protected; Only by further standardizing administrative power can we stabilize the policy expectations of market players.
It can be said that reducing institutional transaction costs is an inevitable requirement to help market players solve problems, tide over difficulties, restore vitality and strengthen the foundation of economic recovery and development. It is timely for Wuhan to seize this key point and seek innovation and breakthrough. Reducing production and operating costs involves a wider range.
Reduce the toll of qualified expressway transport vehicles and reduce the logistics cost of enterprises; Irregular, unreasonable, non-receivable and overcharged enterprise-related deposits should be reduced as much as possible to reduce the tax cost of enterprises.
It can avoid the transaction cost of private enterprise bonds and reduce the financing cost of enterprises; Providing business guarantee loans and business subsidies for qualified small and micro enterprises and reducing the cost of employing enterprises are all good ways to implement measures to benefit enterprises, strengthen the protection of various factors and reduce the burden on market players.
The key to optimizing the business environment by controlling costs is to continuously improve the service level of urban public enterprises. Only when the government's work style has changed, its service consciousness has been enhanced and it has the courage to take the initiative can the functional quality of the city be improved and a good living and working environment be created for enterprises and talents.