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mechanisms for assessing China’s business environment. We will formulate an
action plan for improving the business environment in key areas and industrial

parks and promote integrated development of the business environment in city
clusters, metropolitan areas, and other key regions.
We will push for the establishment of long-term supervision mechanisms for
charges on enterprises. We will see that the national online platform for
government services fully plays its role in making more of these services available

online. We will move ahead with reform measures for one-stop government
services, accelerate the application of electronic certificates and licenses, and work
to see that government services are better and more efficiently provided across
provincial lines. We will develop a system for comprehensively appraising

enterprise credit, strengthen categorized management of business credit risks,
improve the unified social credit code system, and step up the sharing and
application of credit information to facilitate fundraising for MSMEs.
4) We will make steady headway in reforms of key areas.
To deepen reform of the fiscal and tax systems, we will improve the system of

transfer payments, put in place a sound fiscal system at and below the provincial
level, further optimize the structure of the tax system, improve local tax systems
and the individual income tax system, and make sure that local governments have
the basic fiscal resources to pursue self-development. We will also modernize the

budget system and strengthen performance evaluations for key spending policies.
To deepen structural reform in the financial sector, we will modernize the central
bank system, guide large banks to shift their focus of service downward and to
improve inclusive finance and financial services for private enterprises, and push
small and medium financial institutions to refocus on serving the real economy

and their local communities. We will further reform the capital market to improve
its functions and multi-tiered system and to increase the proportion of direct
financing.
We will steadily deepen reform in the oil and gas sector, advance market-based

integration of provincial-level oil and gas pipeline networks into the national
network in an active and prudent manner, and extend the coverage of the national
pipeline network to more areas. We will improve the reform of mechanisms for oil
and gas network operations, conduct cost oversight and auditing of natural gas
transmission through trans-provincial pipelines and carry out relevant pricing

work, and develop sound mechanisms to adjust urban end-user prices of natural

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