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This book provides quantitative indicators covering four main areas of business environment in China. The most distinguished feature of this book is that it evaluates Chinese business environment from the perspective of enterprises based on two years' nationwide survey, interviewing 15,000 enterprises in 300 One-Stop Shops across China from 2018 to 2019, which includes: (1) Progress of Chinese business environment in 2019; (2) overview of the facilities and services of China's One-stop Shops; (3) construction and popularity of Chinese digital government system; (4) the effect of Chinese business environment on improving economic performance in terms of entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth.
The quantitative analysis of this book shows that in 2019, China made noteworthy improvements in the process of reducing permits, increasing the availability of digital government, and improving the government efficiency. Challenges such as uneven progress among sub-regions and difficulties for small enterprises to grow were still getting in the way.
The goal of the book is to provide objective data and cases from enterprise survey for use by academics and governments. This book presents Chinese experiences of designing sound business regulatory policies.
List of contents
1. Overview of Business Environment in 2018/2019.- 2. Walking into One-stop Shops.- 3. Using Digital Government.- 4. Measuring Economic Performance.- 5. Doing Business in Zhejiang.- 6. Doing Business in Zhejiang.- 7. Doing Business in Gansu.- 8. Doing Business in Guangdong.- 9. Theory and Indicators.- 10. Chinese Business Environment Survey.- 11. Data Tables.
About the author
Xianxiang Xu is a professor of economics at Sun Yat-sen University. He received his Ph.D. from Sun Yat-sen University in 2004. He began teaching at Sun Yat-sen University in 2004 and was promoted to a full professor in 2008. Today, he regularly teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in Macroeconomics. His current research focuses on economic growth, local officials' behavior, and business environment in China.
Qingmiao Bi is a postdoctoral researcher of economics at Sun Yat-sen University. She received her Ph.D. from Sun Yat-sen University in 2019. Her current research focuses on regulatory reform and business environment in China.
Li Zhang is a professor of economics at Sun Yat-sen University. She received her Ph.D. from Sun Yat-sen University in 2011. She began teaching at Sun Yat-sen University in 2011 and was promoted to a full professor in 2020. Her current research focuses on public economics, regional economics, and urbanland use in China.
