Beijing has introduced a set of 34 measures aimed at promoting high-quality development of the private economy. The initiatives, outlined in the "Beijing 2026 Work Priorities for Promoting High-Quality Development of the Private Economy," focus on key areas and address concerns raised by private enterprises. Key measures include exploring the establishment of a "Credit-Easy Loan" whitelist, strictly prohibiting imposing additional conditions on private enterprises—such as mandating the establishment of branches or subsidiaries or forcing membership in associations—and preventing irregular cross-regional and profit-driven law enforcement.
The private economy is a vital component of socio-economic development. In 2023, Beijing launched an action plan to foster the growth and expansion of the private sector, and has since formulated annual work priorities for three consecutive years. These efforts have introduced a series of policies covering market access, alleviating financing difficulties and high costs, creating a fair competitive environment, and ensuring equal protection of property rights.
In 2025, under the coordination of the municipal-level private economy joint conference system, Beijing's departments and districts worked together horizontally and vertically to address bottlenecks and challenges faced by private enterprises. The city also integrated private economy initiatives with established mechanisms for optimizing the business environment and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises, encouraging private businesses to play a significant role in the "Five Key Areas" linkage strategy.
Private enterprises have been deeply involved in building an international science and technology innovation hub, demonstrating strong innovation-driven capabilities. Among the 285 key technology攻关 projects launched by Beijing, over 60% involved participation from private enterprises. These firms have also become central players in institutional opening-up under the "Two Zones" initiative, enhancing openness and traction.
Beijing has established the nation's first international law and business integration demonstration zone and rolled out a three-year action plan for innovation service bases supporting digital economy companies expanding overseas. In the development of Beijing as a benchmark city for both digital and green economies, private enterprises are leading the way, continuously unleashing transformational momentum. The city has issued management measures for certifying smart factories, with private enterprises accounting for over 40% of municipally recognized advanced-level smart factories.
Throughout the year, Beijing promoted 239 major projects to private capital, with total investments amounting to approximately 235 billion yuan. Key private commercial facilities, such as those in Tongzhou Wanli and Chaoyang's JD.com Super Experience Store, have been constructed and are operational. In the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, private enterprises have leveraged the regional market to deepen industrial collaboration. Measures have been introduced to facilitate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements within the region, with joint efforts from the three areas collecting enterprise technological needs and matching them with over 1,500 Beijing-based scientific and technological achievements annually.
The newly issued work priorities zero in on critical areas and concerns of private enterprises, arranging annual key tasks accordingly. On institutional safeguards, efforts will address deep-seated conflicts and prominent issues in private economic development through legislative support and mechanism improvements. This includes advancing local legislation related to the private economy and fair competition, standardizing administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, and refining long-term mechanisms for regulation and social responsibility incentives, making institutional safeguards more robust and tangible.
To optimize the fair competition environment, the priorities target key links such as market access and procurement bidding, aiming to dismantle barriers, smooth obstructions, and continuously expand development space for private capital. The goal is to foster a fair competition landscape characterized by equal rights, opportunities, and rules.
Enhancing corporate core competitiveness is another emphasis. The document underscores strengthening the role of private enterprises as main actors in technological innovation, channeling innovation resources toward them, promoting integration between large and small enterprises and collaboration between state-owned and private firms, and activating endogenous growth drivers. This will help convert the latent advantages of private enterprise innovation into developmental momentum.
In terms of factor support, Beijing will leverage its strengths in education, technology, and talent resources, synergize policy tools, and ensure precise alignment of various production factors with the needs of private economic development. Improving factor allocation mechanisms will inject strong impetus into the sector's growth.
A significant portion of the work priorities is dedicated to optimizing the fair competition market environment. Measures include breaking down market access barriers and improving mechanisms for clue collection, verification, handling, and rectification reporting. New market access systems for emerging sectors will be developed, exploring more efficient and convenient entry mechanisms. In bidding processes, existing regulations will be strictly enforced, with a ban on imposing unjustified additional conditions on private enterprises.
To help private enterprises enhance their core competitiveness, Beijing will reinforce their role in technological innovation, improve evaluation and incentive mechanisms for opening major facilities to private enterprises and other entities, and create favorable conditions for innovation. A work plan for cultivating and opening large-scale application scenarios will be formulated, encouraging government bodies, public institutions, and central state-owned enterprises in Beijing to open more scenarios to private firms, thereby driving the application of new technologies and products.
Nurturing a high-quality梯队 of private enterprises is also prioritized. Key common technological needs of enterprises will be a major focus of municipal science and technology plan projects. Encouragement will be given to various types of ownership enterprises to establish long-term, stable cooperative relationships around innovation, industrial, and supply chains. Leading enterprises will be encouraged to support small and medium-sized micro-enterprises' deep integration into these chains through equity investments, resource sharing, channel co-usage, and factor openness.
Addressing financing difficulties—a persistent challenge—the work priorities propose actions regarding capital factor supply. To tackle issues like untimely updates of credit repair information for private enterprises, third-party credit service agencies will be urged to establish information update mechanisms synchronized with government departments. Exploration of a "Credit-Easy Loan" whitelist will guide commercial banks to increase the proportion of credit loans to listed enterprises.
On talent factor保障, Beijing will innovate services for work permits for foreign卓越 engineers and steadily delegate authority for professional title evaluations. Support for two-way flow of talent between enterprises and universities will be enhanced, including selecting university STEM teachers to serve as "科技副总" (Science and Technology Vice Presidents) in key enterprises, participating fully in technical R&D to boost independent innovation capabilities.
Emphasizing that the rule of law is the best business environment, Beijing plans to enact a private economy promotion ordinance this year and advance local legislation promoting market fair competition. Addressing market concerns, administrative law enforcement will shift from rigid to flexible approaches. Private enterprises will be encouraged to evaluate law enforcement and report issues via the "Jingtong" App, forming a comprehensive approach to standardize enforcement involving enterprises.
Safeguarding rights and interests will be strengthened, with mechanisms to prevent irregular cross-regional and profit-driven enforcement. Particular focus will be placed on enhancing joint verification against "distant-water fishing" style enforcement within the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Additionally, comprehensive services for overseas intellectual property rights protection will be optimized, with the compilation and distribution of guidance manuals.
The work priorities also list multiple service optimization measures, such as resolving issues of拖欠 payments to private enterprises, incorporating the clearance of拖欠 enterprise accounts into the performance assessments of state-owned enterprise leaders, and strengthening management and services for private enterprises' overseas investments.
In 2025, Beijing established a comprehensive service platform for the Belt and Road Initiative. This year, efforts will accelerate the construction of the international law and business integration demonstration zone and improve one-stop "online + offline" services for going global. Furthermore, Beijing will intensify the cultivation of private Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) enterprises, supporting them in enjoying customs facilitation measures like reduced clearance costs and shorter processing times.
Integrated comprehensive supervision will be enhanced, promoting standardized construction of non-on-site监管 to practically solve real problems for enterprises. Incentive policies exploring cybersecurity compliance capabilities for small and medium-sized micro private enterprises will be considered. Chambers of commerce and associations will be encouraged to participate in market-based enterprise bankruptcy重组 services, building a service and guarantee system covering the entire enterprise lifecycle.
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