Practical Insights and Optimization Paths for China's Business Environment

Abstract

Under the dual dimensions of escalating global competition over business environments and China’s transition toward institutional opening-up, this study seeks to transcend the binary paradigm of traditional institutionalism and technological determinism. It constructs a "Institution-Technology-Ecology" three-dimensional collaborative framework to systematically deconstruct the evolutionary logic of China’s business environment. Based on the dynamic adjustment of the negative list for market access and the implementation of cross-departmental government data platforms, the research finds that institutional innovation not only defines the legal boundaries for technological empowerment but also provides legitimacy for technological governance through the reshaping of rules. Concurrently, technological means reconstruct public governance logic via data-driven approaches, significantly enhancing the granularity and precision of institutional execution. This deep mutual configuration of institution and technology has given rise to a business ecosystem characterized by multi-party synergy; for instance, Zhejiang’s "Zheli Jian" platform has achieved a substantial increase in the rate of independent hazard reporting through process re-engineering. However, structural fractures remain at the operational level of this three-dimensional synergy: legislative lag in data ownership restricts the deep training of technological models, while administrative bureaucratic inertia tends to induce derivative risks of "digital formalism." Coupled with the surge in compliance costs caused by conflicts with international rules, these factors constitute current governance barriers. This study posits that institutional gaps must be filled through legislation on layered data rights, and lightweight technological tools adapted to the capabilities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) must be developed. A more profound breakthrough lies in refining local practices into international rule modules with universal significance through "syntactic translation."