Since the beginning of this year, in the face of sustained economic recovery, Jiangsu has responded to the call of the Party Central Committee, implemented the deployment of the provincial party committee, introduced a package of new policies to optimize the business environment, continued to create a market-oriented, legalized, and internationalized first-class business environment, and promoted various business entities to further boost development confidence and enhance development vitality.

At 12 o"clock in the afternoon, an eatery in Nanjing ushered in the busiest time of the day, with customers queuing from the store to the outside. However, last year, this eatery faced a dilemma of scarce passenger flow and tight cash flow.

"Last year, almost no one dines in the store, and the maximum takeout order was around 100 orders per day. The income could only allow me to pay the rent," said Pan Linhu, Owner of Nanjing Xiaopanji Duck Blood Vermicelli Soup Store.

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In the past three years, Nanjing has launched a series of measures to reduce taxes, reduce costs, and increase efficiency to help various small stores survive and develop.

Today, with the accelerated pace of economic and social recovery, Nanjing has launched a more targeted "small store plan" by taking five major actions to benefit more than 100000 urban small stores.

"Tax relief and rent relief have greatly reduced our burden. The officials from the tax bureau came to our store to explain the tax policies. I feel that the government has not forgotten small and micro enterprises, and I have confidence in continuing this business," said Pan Linhu, Owner of Nanjing Xiaopanji Duck Blood Vermicelli Soup Store.

In response to the development needs of self-employed businesses, Jiangsu has taken measures such as financial subsidies, guiding digital upgrades, and implementing "flexible regulation" to help them guide passenger flow, reduce burden, and reduce costs, and promote healthy growth.

Wuxi has fully implemented national treatment for foreign-funded enterprises and continuously optimized services for foreign-funded enterprises.

Nantong Economic Development Zone has employed first batch of 10 "business environment experience officers" from the field of new generation information technology and high-end equipment to supervise the local business environment from the first perspective.

Tongshan District in Xuzhou has established a "one team for one project" mechanism so as to hold project construction coordination meetings and help enterprises accelerate construction progress.

"The "one team for one project" mechanism ensures good service and management within the cycle, implement inventory management and cancellation procedures, and make every effort to ensure progress, improve efficiency, and promote production," said Xie Jingxin, Director of the Economic Development Bureau of Tongshan District, Xuzhou City.

"In the next step, we will continue to institutionalize this work and create a highland for business environment," said Jia Danghui, Director of the Administrative Approval Bureau of Nantong Development Zone.

In recent years, Jiangsu has made every effort to promote policy, market, government, rule of law, and cultural development, continuously deepening market facilitation reform and cancelled or delegated 433 administrative approval items in the past five years.

Jiangsu has also been awarded the title of "Best Business Environment Province" for four consecutive years, with Suzhou, Nanjing, Changzhou, and Wuxi ranking as benchmark cities for China"s business environment.