Optimizing the business environment is a key lever for deepening economic system reform and enhancing economic governance capabilities, as well as an urgent need to cope with current economic pressures and boost the confidence of business entities. Recently, multiple regions including Gansu, Hunan, Jilin, and Fujian have focused on optimizing the business environment by holding special meetings or introducing new policies to study and deploy key tasks for 2025. For example, according to the official website of the People's Government of Fujian Province, on January 2nd, the Provincial Conference on Optimizing the Business Environment was held in Fuzhou. At the meeting, Zhou Zuyi, Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, emphasized the need to deeply implement the strategy of strengthening the private economy in the new era, summarize the work of optimizing the business environment in the province, further clarify the overall goals and tasks, and strive to be the first in promoting the construction of a first-class business environment. Professor Lan Rixu from Central University of Finance and Economics told reporters that the business environment is the soil for the survival and development of enterprises, and a good business environment is productivity and competitiveness. Deploying it in multiple regions at the beginning of the year can ensure that the work of optimizing the business environment throughout the year has direction and focus, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent investment promotion and further reduction of enterprise operating costs. A good business environment can attract more capital inflows, guide talent gathering, and promote technological innovation. With the constantly changing domestic and international economic situation, optimizing the business environment has become a top priority for local governments. From a content perspective, many regions have implemented a new round of measures tailored to local conditions, each with its own focus. However, overall, there are three aspects that have received much attention: first, promoting business through a market-oriented business environment; second, protecting and securing business through a rule of law business environment; and third, gathering and connecting businesses through an international business environment. Song Xiangqing, Vice President of the China Society of Business Economics, told reporters that creating a market-oriented business environment emphasizes fairness and efficiency. Specifically, we need to better promote fair competition and treat all types of enterprises equally; Better optimize resource allocation to ensure the financing, land use, employment and other needs of enterprises; Strictly implement the negative list system for market access, and improve the convenience of market access and exit. Several interviewed experts expressed that in building a rule of law business environment, attention should be paid to good laws and good governance, especially in promoting law based administration and strictly regulating fair and civilized law enforcement, strengthening supervision and management of administrative law enforcement behavior, and effectively enhancing the credibility and transparency of administrative law enforcement. The core measure to create an open and inclusive international business environment is to continuously expand opening up to the outside world. Relevant departments in various regions should further enhance the level of trade and investment facilitation and liberalization within the existing institutional framework in China, accelerate the integration of local institutional rules with international standards, and especially establish high-level talent recruitment, assessment, management systems, and service mechanisms that are in line with international standards. In addition, we need to strengthen the integration of innovative resources and information, and expand scientific and technological exchanges and cooperation with overseas institutions and organizations Lan Rixu analyzed that. For a long time, China has attached great importance to and continuously promoted the construction of a business environment, with significant results. However, there are still shortcomings in the current domestic business environment, such as the need to improve the efficiency of government services and insufficient standardization of administrative inspections. The policy side has taken active action in this regard. On January 3, 2025, the General Office of the State Council officially issued the "Opinions on Strictly Regulating Administrative Inspections Related to Enterprises" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), aiming to implement the decision and deployment of the Party Central Committee to further regulate law enforcement related to enterprises, strictly regulate administrative inspections related to enterprises, resolutely curb disorderly inspections, and effectively reduce the burden on enterprises. The issuance of the 'Opinions' will help create a stable, fair, transparent, and predictable market environment, which is highly in line with China's current requirements for creating a first-class business environment and promoting high-quality development He Daixin, Director of the Finance Research Office at the Institute of Financial Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, stated in an interview with reporters that optimizing the business environment is a systematic project that requires strengthened coordination and cooperation at both the national and local levels to form a joint force and jointly promote the implementation of work. (New Society)