On April 10, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a Unified National Market" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), proposing that China will build a unified national market from aspects such as basic institutional construction and market facility construction.
The Opinions specify key tasks for accelerating the construction of a unified national market from six aspects. Among them, from the perspective of "establishment," the Opinions clearly require focusing on the "five unifications":
- Strengthening the unification of market basic institutional rules
- Promoting high-standard connectivity of market facilities
- Creating unified markets for factors and resources
- Promoting high-level unification of commodity and service markets
- Promoting fair and unified market supervision
From the perspective of "breaking," the Opinions clearly require further regulating improper market competition and market intervention behaviors.
Industry insiders point out that the Opinions provide an action guide for building a unified national market in the coming period, which will inevitably have an important impact on deepening reform and opening up under the new situation, better utilizing and consolidating the huge advantages of China's market resources, and comprehensively promoting the transformation of China's market from large to strong.
What is a unified large market?
A unified large market refers to a large market within the national scope, where the basic institutional rules of the market are unified, market facilities are connected with high standards, factor and resource markets, as well as commodity and service markets, are highly unified, and market supervision is fair and unified, with improper market competition and market intervention behaviors further regulated.
Experts say that the Opinions clearly require handling three relationships: the relationship between a large market and a strong market, the relationship between a unified large market and smooth dual circulation, and the relationship between unity and regionality.
The FMCG industry is a relatively market-oriented industry. New Distribution believes that the issuance of this Opinions will inevitably bring some impact on the FMCG trade circulation and retail fields.
From a macro perspective, the state has proposed some administrative and regulatory solutions to current market problems. Some of these solutions are beneficial to the FMCG industry, especially in the field of trade circulation. On the other hand, some industry-specific accumulated problems may also need to be adjusted according to the issuance of the Opinions. New Distribution, combined with the characteristics of the FMCG industry, provides some interpretations for the questions of FMCG manufacturers:
1. Will regional agency be affected by the policy? Do brand owners need to modify distribution agency contracts according to the policy?
We all know that in the FMCG industry, in order to ensure the stability of the enterprise's distribution value chain, when signing cooperation agreements with distributors, they generally attach corresponding clauses prohibiting cross-regional circulation of goods. On the one hand, this is to protect the interests of the enterprise's distribution partners; on the other hand, it also imposes certain restrictions on the free circulation of goods, which in a sense conflicts with some clauses in the Opinions. However, the Opinions promote regulation through government policy, and do not put forward targeted opinions on the enterprise's own business behavior. Therefore, enterprises can adjust their cooperation terms according to their actual operations and market influence.
2. Are FMCG B2B and regional market city distribution logistics the main targets of policy support?
In the third part of the Opinions, it emphasizes promoting high-standard connectivity of market facilities and building a modern circulation network. Optimize the layout of commercial circulation infrastructure, accelerate digital construction, promote the integrated development of online and offline, and form more new platforms, new formats, and new models for commercial circulation...
Vigorously develop third-party logistics, support the construction of digital third-party logistics delivery platforms, promote technological and business model innovation in the third-party logistics industry, cultivate a number of digital platform enterprises and supply chain enterprises with global influence, and promote the reduction of logistics costs and increase efficiency across society...
In this regard, it is an absolute boon for FMCG B2B enterprises and city distribution logistics enterprises in the commercial field. On the one hand, the traditional commercial circulation distribution chain has opaque data; on the other hand, there are also problems such as multiple distribution levels, low efficiency, and unbalanced supply. The issuance of the Opinions will inevitably lead local governments to provide better support and treatment to B2B and supply chain enterprises in terms of taxation, land use, and local management, which will inevitably promote the rapid development of the industry.
3. After the policy is issued, how should distributors view the policy?
The FMCG commercial circulation field itself is in urgent need of upgrading. The Opinions also encourage distributors to accelerate their transformation and upgrading towards digitalization, supply chain, specialization, and platformization at the national level. Therefore, distributors with certain strength and capabilities should prioritize their own digital application upgrades, carry out digital transformation of their business models, and combine with the Opinions to obtain support and encouragement from local governments.
4. Can some cross-regional administrative regional management policies, such as the logistics supply guarantee issue around Beijing, be adjusted across regions and departments according to the policy?
At present, some regions in China, such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, have issued corresponding supply guarantee policies. However, when similar factors such as epidemics occur, cross-departmental and cross-administrative regional coordination issues also arise, bringing many impacts to the industry. It is believed that the issuance of policies and regulations will also accelerate the government's guidance at relevant levels and provide effective solutions to related problems.
(The following is the specific content of the Opinions)
Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a Unified National Market (March 25, 2022)
Building a unified national market is the basic support and inherent requirement for constructing a new development pattern. In order to accelerate the construction of a unified national market from an overall and strategic height, the following opinions are now proposed.
I. Overall Requirements
(1) Guiding ideology. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 19th Central Committee, carry forward the great spirit of party building, adhere to the general principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, adhere to innovation-driven development, promote high-quality development, adhere to the supply-side structural reform as the main line, take meeting the people's growing needs for a better life as the fundamental purpose, coordinate development and security, fully play the leading, regulating, and guaranteeing role of the rule of law, accelerate the establishment of a unified national market system and rules, break local protection and market segmentation, remove key blockages restricting the economic cycle, promote the smooth flow of commodity factors and resources in a wider range, accelerate the construction of an efficient, standardized, fair competition, and fully open unified national market, comprehensively promote the transformation of China's market from large to strong, and provide strong support for building a high-standard market system and a high-level socialist market economy system.
(2) Working principles
Based on domestic demand, smooth circulation. Create and lead demand with high-quality supply, make production, distribution, circulation, and consumption more smooth, improve market operation efficiency, further consolidate and expand market resource advantages, and make building a super-large domestic market a sustainable historical process.
Establish and break simultaneously, improve systems. From the perspective of institutional construction, clarify phased goals and requirements, push forward the construction of a unified market in a staggered manner, adhere to problem orientation, focus on solving prominent contradictions and problems, accelerate the cleaning up and abolition of various regulations and practices that hinder unified markets and fair competition, and break various closed small markets and self-circulation.
Effective market, promising government. Adhere to the principles of marketization and rule of law, fully play the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, better play the role of the government, strengthen the basic position of competition policy, accelerate the transformation of government functions, make full use of the advantages of the super-large market, let demand better lead and optimize supply, let supply better serve and expand demand, gather resources with a unified large market, promote growth, stimulate innovation, optimize division of labor, and promote competition.
Systematic coordination, steady progress. Continuously improve the unity of policies, consistency of rules, and coordination of implementation, scientifically grasp the steps and progress of market scale, structure, organization, space, environment, and mechanism construction, adhere to the combination of management and release, attach equal importance to release and management, improve government regulatory efficiency, enhance the ability to dynamically maintain market stability and economic security in an open environment, and orderly expand the influence and radiation of the unified large market.
(3) Main goals
Continuously promote the efficient and smooth domestic market and scale expansion. Give play to the advantages of the market in promoting competition and deepening division of labor, further open up the channels between market efficiency improvement, labor productivity increase, residents' income increase, market entity growth, supply quality improvement, and demand optimization and upgrading, strive to form a domestic large cycle with mutual promotion of supply and demand, simultaneous progress of production and sales, smooth and efficient, expand market scale and capacity, continuously cultivate and develop a strong domestic market, and maintain and enhance the strong attraction to global enterprises and resources.
Accelerate the creation of a stable, fair, transparent, and predictable business environment. Guided by the needs of market entities, practice simple administration, adhere to administration according to law, fair and impartial supervision, continuously optimize services, and accelerate the creation of a market-oriented, rule-of-law, and internationalized business environment. Fully play the comparative advantages of various regions, and create a good ecology for various market entities to invest and start businesses according to local conditions.
Further reduce market transaction costs. Give play to the scale effect and agglomeration effect of the market, strengthen and improve anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition law enforcement and justice, remove institutional and mechanism obstacles that hinder the market-oriented allocation of various production factors and the circulation of goods and services, and reduce institutional transaction costs. Promote the construction of a modern circulation system and reduce the circulation cost of the whole society.
Promote scientific and technological innovation and industrial upgrading. Give play to the advantages of the super-large market with rich application scenarios and amplified innovation returns, guide the effective allocation of innovation resources through market demand, promote the orderly flow and reasonable allocation of innovation elements, improve the institutional mechanism for promoting the market application of independent innovation achievements, and support scientific and technological innovation and the development of emerging industries.
Cultivate new advantages in international competition and cooperation. With the support of the domestic large cycle and the unified large market, effectively utilize global factors and market resources, and better connect the domestic market with the international market. Promote institutional opening up, enhance influence in the global industrial chain, supply chain, and innovation chain, and improve the voice in international economic governance.
II. Strengthen the Unification of Market Basic Institutional Rules
(4) Improve the unified property rights protection system. Improve the institutional system for equal protection of property rights of all forms of ownership according to law. Improve the unified and standardized law enforcement and judicial system for property rights dispute cases, strengthen coordination between law enforcement and judicial departments, further standardize the rules and procedures for compulsory measures involving property rights in the field of law enforcement, further clarify and unify administrative law enforcement and judicial adjudication standards, improve the two-way connection mechanism between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice, and protect enterprise property rights and the personal and property safety of entrepreneurs according to law. Promote innovation in intellectual property litigation systems, improve the cross-regional jurisdiction system of intellectual property courts, and smooth the docking mechanism between intellectual property litigation and arbitration and mediation.
(5) Implement a unified market access system. Strictly implement the "one national list" management model, prohibit all regions and departments from issuing negative lists with market access nature on their own, and maintain the unity, seriousness, and authority of the market access negative list system. Research and improve market access effectiveness evaluation indicators, and steadily carry out market access effectiveness evaluation. Carry out market entity registration and filing work according to law, establish a unified national registration and filing data standard and a self-declaration industry word library for enterprise names, and gradually realize the unified expression of business scope registration. Formulate a national universal qualification list, unify and standardize evaluation procedures and management methods, and enhance the effectiveness of national interoperability, mutual recognition, and mutual use.
(6) Maintain a unified fair competition system. Adhere to treating all market entities equally and impartially. Improve the framework of fair competition system and policy implementation mechanism, establish a coordination and guarantee mechanism between fair competition policies and industrial policies, and optimize and improve the implementation methods of industrial policies. Improve the legal rules system for anti-monopoly, accelerate the revision of the Anti-Monopoly Law and the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, improve the fair competition review system, study key areas and industry review rules, improve the review mechanism, unify review standards, standardize review procedures, and improve review efficiency.
(7) Improve the unified social credit system. Compile and issue a national basic catalog of public credit information, improve credit information standards, establish a mechanism for sharing and integrating public credit information with financial information, and form a credit information network covering all credit subjects, all credit information categories, and all regions of the country. Establish and improve a new type of supervision mechanism based on credit, fully promote the credit commitment system, establish a comprehensive evaluation system for enterprise credit status, optimize the allocation of regulatory resources guided by credit risk, and compile and issue a national basic list of disciplinary measures for breach of trust according to laws and regulations. Improve the mechanism for rewarding trustworthiness and punishing breach of trust, and combine disciplinary measures for breach of trust with the fight against corruption. Improve the credit repair mechanism. Accelerate the legislation of social credit.
III. Promote High-Standard Connectivity of Market Facilities
(8) Build a modern circulation network. Optimize the layout of commercial circulation infrastructure, accelerate digital construction, promote the integrated development of online and offline, and form more new platforms, new formats, and new models for commercial circulation. Promote the construction of a national logistics hub network, vigorously develop multimodal transport, and promote the standardized pallet with-board transport model. Vigorously develop third-party logistics, support the construction of digital third-party logistics delivery platforms, promote technological and business model innovation in the third-party logistics industry, cultivate a number of digital platform enterprises and supply chain enterprises with global influence, and promote the reduction of logistics costs and increase efficiency across society. Strengthen the construction of emergency logistics systems, improve the fortification level and disaster-bearing capacity of transportation facilities and logistics stations in high disaster risk areas, and actively prevent the risk of supply shortages of important products such as grain and energy. Improve the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, promote the construction of multi-level integrated comprehensive transportation hubs, and promote the cross-regional integrated development of transportation facilities. Establish and improve infrastructure networks such as telecommunications and energy that integrate urban and rural areas, connect regions, and are safe and efficient.
(9) Improve market information exchange channels. Unify the information release mechanism for property rights transactions, and realize the connectivity of the national property rights trading market. Optimize important information release channels such as industry announcements and public notices, and promote the interoperability and sharing of public information in various fields. Optimize the information disclosure of market entities and facilitate the interconnection and intercommunication of market entity information. Promote the construction of unified interfaces for information certification platforms of the same type and purpose, improve interface standards, and promote the flow and efficient use of market information. Publicly disclose information on market entities, investment projects, output, and production capacity according to law, and guide the dynamic balance of supply and demand.
(10) Promote the optimization and upgrading of trading platforms. Deepen the integration and sharing of public resource trading platforms, and research and clarify the standards and methods for incorporating various public resource transactions into a unified platform system. Adhere to the principle of "everything that should enter must enter," implement and improve the "management and operation separation" system, expand the coverage of public resource trading platforms to all kinds of public resources suitable for market-oriented allocation, accelerate the full-process electronization of public resource transactions, and actively break down regional barriers in the field of public resource transactions. Accelerate the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of commodity markets, and encourage the creation of comprehensive commodity trading platforms. Accelerate the construction of bulk commodity futures and spot markets, and continuously improve trading rules. Encourage trading platforms to cooperate with financial institutions and intermediary agencies, and develop a comprehensive service system covering property rights definition, price evaluation, guarantees, insurance, and other businesses according to law.
IV. Create Unified Markets for Factors and Resources
(11) Improve the unified urban and rural land and labor markets. Coordinate incremental construction land and existing construction land, implement unified planning, and strengthen unified management. Improve the cross-regional trading mechanism for the surplus indicators of increasing and decreasing挂钩 urban and rural construction land and supplementary cultivated land indicators. Improve the national unified secondary market for the transfer, lease, and mortgage of construction land use rights. Improve the unified and standardized human resources market system, and promote the smooth flow of labor and talents across regions. Improve the fiscal transfer payment and the policy of linking the scale of new construction land in cities and towns with the citizenization of agricultural transfer population.
(12) Accelerate the development of a unified capital market. Unify the registration of chattel and rights guarantees, and develop chattel financing according to law. Strengthen the construction and coordinated supervision of important financial infrastructure, unify regulatory standards, and improve access management. Select regional equity markets with safe and standardized operation and strong risk management capabilities, carry out pilot reforms in systems and business, and strengthen cooperation and connection between regional equity markets and national securities market sectors. Promote the interconnection of bond market infrastructure and realize the free flow of bond market elements. Develop supply chain finance and provide financial products that directly reach business entities in all circulation links. Strengthen supervision over the capital market, improve the regulatory system with clear rights and responsibilities, clear division of labor, and smooth operation, and build a safety bottom line to prevent systemic financial risks. Adhere to financial services for the real economy and prevent the economy from turning from real to virtual. Set "traffic lights" for capital to prevent the disorderly expansion of capital.
(13) Accelerate the cultivation of unified technology and data markets. Establish and improve a national technology trading market, improve intellectual property evaluation and trading mechanisms, and promote the interconnection of technology trading markets in various regions. Improve the science and technology resource sharing service system, encourage scientific and technological information exchange and interaction between different regions, promote the opening and sharing of major scientific research infrastructure and instruments and equipment, and increase the intensity of international cooperation in science and technology. Accelerate the cultivation of a data factor market, establish and improve basic systems and standards for data security, rights protection, cross-border transmission management, transaction circulation, open sharing, and security certification, carry out in-depth data resource surveys, and promote the development and utilization of data resources.
(14) Build a unified national energy market. On the premise of effectively ensuring the safe supply of energy, combined with the goals and tasks of achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality, orderly promote the construction of a national energy market. On the basis of overall planning and optimized layout, improve the oil and gas futures product system, standardize the construction of oil and gas trading centers, and optimize the layout of key infrastructure such as trading venues and delivery warehouses. Promote the interconnection of oil and gas pipeline network facilities and open them fairly to all market entities. Steadily promote the market-oriented reform of natural gas, and accelerate the establishment of a unified natural gas energy measurement and pricing system. Improve the multi-level unified power market system, and research and promote the timely establishment of a national power trading center. Further play the role of the national coal trading center and promote the improvement of a unified national coal trading market.
(15) Cultivate and develop a unified national ecological environment market. Relying on the public resource trading platform, build a national unified carbon emission rights and water rights trading market, and implement unified and standardized industry standards and trading supervision mechanisms. Promote the market-oriented trading of pollutant discharge rights and energy use rights, and explore the establishment of systems for initial allocation, paid use, market trading, dispute resolution, and supporting services. Promote the construction of a green product certification and labeling system, and promote green production and green consumption.
V. Promote High-Level Unification of Commodity and Service Markets
(16) Improve the commodity quality system. Establish and improve a quality grading system, extensively carry out quality management system upgrading actions, and strengthen management across the entire supply chain, entire industry chain, and entire product life cycle. Deepen the reform of the quality certification system, support social forces to carry out inspection and testing business, explore the promotion of the construction of metrology regional centers and national product quality inspection and testing centers, and promote the mutual recognition of certification results across industries and regions. Promote the alignment of quality standards for major consumer goods in key fields with international standards, deepen international cooperation and mutual recognition in quality certification, implement product injury monitoring and prevention and intervention, and improve the quality statistics and monitoring system. Promote the same line, same standard, and same quality for domestic and foreign trade products. Further consolidate and expand brand development exchange platforms such as China Brand Day activities, and improve the influence and awareness of Chinese brands.
(17) Improve the standards and metrology system. Optimize the structure of government-issued standards and market self-developed standards, and integrate and simplify national standards and industry standards. Strengthen standard verification, implementation, and supervision, and improve the standard system in fields such as modern circulation, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, fifth-generation mobile communications (5G), the Internet of Things, and energy storage. Carry out in-depth artificial intelligence social experiments, and promote the formulation of relevant standards for intelligent social governance. Promote the unification of standards in fields such as smart home and security, and explore the establishment of a smart device identification system. Accelerate the formulation of national unified standards and safety specifications for intelligent recognition systems such as facial recognition, finger vein, and iris. Closely follow the needs of key fields such as strategic emerging industries, high-tech industries, and advanced manufacturing, break through a number of key measurement technologies, develop a number of new reference materials, and continuously improve the national metrology system. Promote the fair participation of domestic and foreign enterprises in China's standardization work, and improve the transparency and openness of standard formulation and revision. Carry out international exchanges and cooperation in standards and metrology. Strengthen the internationalization of standard essential patents, actively participate in and promote the formation of international intellectual property rules.
(18) Comprehensively improve the quality of consumer services. Improve the consumption environment and strengthen the protection of consumer rights and interests. Accelerate the improvement and strict implementation of the defective product recall system, promote cross-regional and cross-border operating market entities to provide consumers with unified and convenient after-sales services, further smooth the channels for returning and exchanging goods in different places and stores, and improve the consumer after-sales experience. Smooth consumer complaint and reporting channels, optimize the process and feedback mechanism for resolving consumer disputes, and explore the promotion of a departmental linkage mechanism for consumer rights protection. Establish and improve the public disclosure system for consumer complaint information, and promote the source governance of consumer disputes. Improve the management measures for prepaid consumption in the service market. Around key livelihood fields such as housing, education and training, medical and health, and elderly care and childcare, promote the formation of a public list of consumer rights protection matters, and improve dispute negotiation and handling methods.
VI. Promote Fair and Unified Market Supervision
(19) Improve unified market supervision rules. Strengthen administrative legislation for market supervision, improve market supervision procedures, strengthen the standardization and normalization of market supervision, publicly disclose supervision standards and rules according to law, and enhance the stability and predictability of market supervision systems and policies. For key fields directly related to people's health and life safety, such as food and drug safety, implement the strictest standards, strictest supervision, severest punishment, and most serious accountability. For new business formats such as internet medical care, online education and training, and online entertainment, promote integrated online and offline supervision. Strengthen unified and fair supervision in the field of engineering construction, and severely investigate and punish violations of discipline and law according to discipline and law. Strengthen risk monitoring and supervision and random inspection of important industrial products, and urge enterprises to implement the main responsibility for quality and safety. Fully play the role of industry associations and chambers of commerce, establish effective government-enterprise communication mechanisms, and form a new model of diversified governance with government supervision, platform self-discipline, industry self-governance, and social supervision.
(20) Strengthen unified market supervision and law enforcement. Promote the construction of comprehensive law enforcement capacity for maintaining a unified market, and strengthen law enforcement forces for intellectual property protection, anti-monopoly, and anti-unfair competition. Strengthen departmental linkage, establish a working mechanism for linkage between comprehensive supervision departments and industry supervision departments, coordinate law enforcement resources, reduce law enforcement levels, unify law enforcement standards and procedures, standardize law enforcement behavior, reduce discretionary power, promote fair and impartial law enforcement, improve comprehensive law enforcement efficiency, and explore the establishment of authorized entrusted supervision and law enforcement methods in relevant industries and fields according to law. Encourage cross-administrative regions to jointly issue unified regulatory policies, regulations, and standards according to regulations, actively carry out joint law enforcement, innovate joint supervision models, and strengthen cooperation in investigation and evidence collection and case handling.
(21) Comprehensively improve market supervision capabilities. Deepen the reform of streamlining administration, delegating power, strengthening regulation, and optimizing services, improve supervision methods such as "double random, one public," credit supervision, "internet + supervision," and cross-departmental collaborative supervision, and strengthen the connection and cooperation of various types of supervision. Make full use of technical means such as big data, accelerate the promotion of smart supervision, and improve the informatization level of cross-provincial handling and shared collaboration in market supervision government services, online transaction supervision, consumer rights protection, and key product traceability. Establish and improve cross-administrative regional network supervision collaboration mechanisms, and encourage industry associations, chambers of commerce, news media, consumers, and the public to jointly carry out supervision and evaluation. For new business formats and new models, adhere to both supervision and regulation and promotion and development, and promptly fill the gaps in laws, regulations, and standards.
VII. Further Regulate Improper Market Competition and Market Intervention Behaviors
(22) Focus on strengthening anti-monopoly. Improve the legal rules for the identification of monopoly behaviors, and improve the classified and graded anti-monopoly review system for concentration of business operators. Break the problems of data monopoly of platform enterprises, and prevent the use of data, algorithms, technical means, and other methods to exclude and restrict competition. Strengthen the review of concentration of business operators in fields such as finance, media, science and technology, and people's livelihood, and involving start-ups, new business formats, and labor-intensive industries, improve the quality and efficiency of review, and strengthen the identification, early warning, and prevention of monopoly risks. Steadily promote the reform of natural monopoly industries, and strengthen supervision over network-type natural monopoly links such as power grids and oil and gas pipeline networks. Strengthen the protection of original innovation and intellectual property rights of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.
(23) Investigate and deal with unfair competition behaviors according to law. For key industries and fields with strong reactions from market entities and consumers, strengthen whole-chain competition supervision and law enforcement, and ensure fair competition with fair supervision. Strengthen the regulation of unfair competition behaviors in new business formats such as platform economy and sharing economy, rectify the network black and gray industry chain, and govern new types of network unfair competition behaviors. Improve the information sharing and collaborative linkage mechanism for anti-unfair competition law enforcement across departments and administrative regions, and improve the unity, authority, and coordination of law enforcement. Build a mechanism for the transfer, law enforcement assistance, and joint law enforcement of anti-unfair competition cases across administrative regions, and smooth consultation channels and exchange adjudication standards for new, difficult, and typical cases.
(24) Break local protection and regional barriers. Guide all regions to comprehensively consider factors such as comparative advantages, resource and environmental carrying capacity, industrial foundation, and disaster prevention and avoidance capabilities, find their own functional positioning, avoid seeking large and foreign things, low-level repeated construction, and excessive homogeneous competition, do not engage in "small and complete" self-circulation, and even less use the name of "internal circulation" to implement regional blockade. Establish a catalog list of enterprise-related preferential policies and promptly disclose it to the public, promptly clean up and abolish policies in various regions that contain local protection, market segmentation, designated transactions, and other practices that hinder unified markets and fair competition, comprehensively clean up various preferential policies that discriminate against foreign-funded enterprises and foreign-local enterprises and implement local protection, and strictly carry out fair competition review on newly introduced policies. Strengthen coordination and cooperation in cross-regional industrial transfer projects, establish a coordination mechanism for resolving major problems, and promote the rational layout of industries and further optimization of division of labor. Encourage all regions to continuously optimize the business environment, carry out investment promotion activities according to law, prevent vicious competition in investment promotion, and attract more high-quality enterprises to invest with high-quality institutional supply and institutional innovation.
(25) Clean up and abolish regulations and practices that hinder equal access and exit according to law. Except as clearly stipulated by laws and regulations, enterprises shall not be required to register in a certain place, and obstacles shall not be set for cross-regional operation or migration of enterprises. Unreasonable and discriminatory access and exit conditions shall not be set to restrict the free flow of goods, services, factors, and resources. Access barriers shall not be set or disguised in the form of filing, registration, annual inspection, recognition, certification, designation, or requiring the establishment of branches. In terms of qualification recognition and business licensing, foreign-local enterprises shall not be set with qualification requirements, technical requirements, inspection standards, or evaluation standards that are significantly higher than those for local operators. Clean up and standardize the preconditions and approval standards for administrative approval, licensing, filing, and other government service matters, and shall not convert government service matters into intermediary service matters. Without legal and regulatory basis, enterprises shall not be required to conduct self-inspection, testing, certification, appraisal, notarization, or provide certificates before government services, and disguised approval and paid services shall not be engaged in. Without fair competition, franchise rights shall not be granted to operators, and the operation, purchase, and use of goods and services provided by specific operators shall not be restricted.
(26) Continuously clean up regulations and practices in the field of bidding and procurement that violate the construction of a unified market. The formulation of rules for bidding and government procurement shall strictly carry out fair competition review and legality review in accordance with relevant national regulations. In bidding and government procurement, it is strictly forbidden to illegally restrict or designate specific patents, trademarks, brands, parts, origins, and suppliers, and it is not allowed to illegally set qualification, technical, and commercial conditions that do not match the specific characteristics and actual needs of the bidding and procurement project. It is not allowed to illegally restrict the location, ownership form, organizational form of bidders, or set other unreasonable conditions to exclude or restrict operators from participating in bidding and procurement activities. Deeply promote the full-process electronization of bidding, accelerate the improvement of electronic bidding rules and technical standards, and promote the cross-regional and cross-industry sharing of high-quality bid evaluation experts and other resources.
VIII. Organizational Implementation Guarantees
(27) Strengthen the leadership of the Party. All regions and departments must fully understand the significance of building a unified national market for constructing a new development pattern, effectively unify thoughts and actions to the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, achieve a national chess game, a unified large market, and smooth large circulation, and ensure that all key tasks are implemented.
(28) Improve incentive and constraint mechanisms. Explore and research the standard guidelines for the construction of a unified national market, and reward regions that actively promote the implementation of the construction of a unified national market and achieve outstanding results according to relevant national regulations. Dynamically publish a list of problems of improper intervention in the construction of a unified national market, establish a system for notification, interview, and problem rectification of typical cases, and focus on solving problems of improper market intervention and improper competition behaviors that hinder the construction of a unified national market.
(29) Prioritize the promotion of regional cooperation. Combined with the implementation of major regional strategies and regional coordinated development strategies, encourage regions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River city cluster, on the premise of maintaining a unified national market, to prioritize the construction of regional market integration, establish and improve regional cooperation mechanisms, actively summarize and replicate and promote typical experiences and practices.
(30) Form a joint force for work. All regions and departments must, according to their division of responsibilities, implement the requirements of this Opinions without discount, and carry out self-inspection and cleaning of whether there are regulations and actual situations in their own regions and departments that hinder the construction of a unified national market. The National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation, together with relevant departments, establish and improve a departmental coordination mechanism for promoting the construction of a unified national market, increase overall coordination, strengthen follow-up evaluation, promptly supervise and inspect, and promote the implementation of all parties. Strengthen publicity, guidance, and public opinion supervision, and create a good social atmosphere for the construction of a unified national market. Major matters shall be reported to the Party Central Committee and the State Council in a timely manner.
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