There is no best business environment—only better ones. Anhui treats optimizing its business environment as a top priority. Targeting challenges faced by businesses and citizens in operations and entrepreneurship, the province persistently deepens reforms, enhances government service capabilities, and strives to build a world-class market-oriented, rule-of-law-based, internationalized business environment. According to the newly released "China Legal Development Report (2025)", Anhui ranked 3rd nationally in 2024 for excellence in business environment optimization indicators.  

At Hefei Hengda Jianghai Co., Ltd.'s production facility, journalists observed massive new-generation intelligent submersible electric pump units—equipped with digital twin technology—capable of extracting water from depths up to 1,200 meters post-assembly. These products now enjoy widespread application across global markets. 

Amid accelerating product globalization, the company achieved a 50% year-on-year revenue growth in the first half of this year. Yet Hengda Jianghai has confronted challenges in recent years—urgently necessitating its international expansion for sustained development.

To elevate global competitiveness, the enterprise embarked on dual tracks within short timeframes: innovating product formats while diversifying application scenarios. Swiftly executing this strategy, Hengda Jianghai invested over hundreds of millions in technological upgrades to establish world-class digital production lines. Simultaneously, with support from commercial and industry departments, the company collaborated with Hefei University of Technology to develop new products such as the "Intelligent Large Submersible Electric Pump Unit," meeting diverse application needs in overseas markets.

To assist traditional manufacturers like Hengda Jianghai in accelerating their transition toward export-oriented models and adapting to diversified market demands, Anhui continues building a world-class international business environment. This year, addressing common challenges faced by most enterprises—such as unfamiliarity with global markets and lack of channels—provincial authorities at all levels proactively conducted site visits to understand needs while rolling out stabilization policies for foreign trade and investment. So far, over 2,000 enterprise participations have been organized in domestic and overseas exhibitions, complemented by twelve events including "Haike Roundtable Forums." In H1 alone, provincial imports and exports reached 458.54 billion yuan, marking a 15.2% YoY increase. 

Anhui persistently refines its open development ecosystem, strengthens service guarantees, leverages the Anhui Business International Trade Cooperation Alliance and overseas commercial service networks, maximizes policy flexibility, ensures rapid implementation with tangible results—making support both perceptible and accessible to entrepreneurs.  

While empowering more Anhui-based enterprises to explore international markets, the province continuously refines and upgrades its business environment benchmarking initiatives to attract greater investment and project launches. From comprehensively advancing reforms for "efficiently handling matters with minimal steps," implementing automatic eligibility checks for corporate benefits without applications, to regularly hosting dialogue sessions with private entrepreneurs—within just a few years, Anhui has introduced over 800 measures to enhance its business climate. Concurrently, cities across the province have created distinctive service brands: Wuhu's "Breakfast Meetings for Open Dialogue," Chuzhou’s "Total Satisfaction Guarantee," all effectively addressing problems faced by enterprises. 

Anhui persistently cultivates a world-class business environment by enhancing efficient, full-lifecycle services and value-added capabilities for enterprises. 

Proactively addressing corporate needs, Anhui hosts monthly private enterprise forums, streamlines project approvals through bundled processing mechanisms, fosters supply chain integration in sectors such as automotive and low-altitude economy, facilitates bank-enterprise collaborations, and develops application scenarios—leveraging upgraded public services to vigorously stimulate market dynamism. 

Source: ANHUI NEWS