It is difficult to describe Guangzhou with a label. Here flowers are in full bloom all the year round, called "Flower City"; It is famous for "eating" and is known as "eating in Guangzhou"; Since ancient times, it has been the main harbor of the maritime Silk Road and an important business portal in China, known as the "Millennium Business Capital". The coastal city and open city at the southern tip of the Chinese mainland have encountered new challenges in recent years: the overcrossing of the East and West passageways, which is overlooking the Pearl River Estuary, is increasing. The traffic pattern of Guangzhou as the hub is breaking down and the flow of goods and funds is diverted. The Canton Fair, which has gone through more than 60 years, is competing with "rookies" such as Shanghai entry Expo and Beijing clothing trade fair Be prepared for danger in times of peace. At the beginning of 2022, Guangzhou not only strengthened the infrastructure construction related to opening-up and development, such as airport and rail, but also stepped inward, iteratively upgraded, promoted the reform of business environment, cultivated the soil for the survival and development of enterprises, seized the new opportunities brought by the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP), and brought this open city closer and closer to the world. Urban gene: business pulse is still a hot land for investment in the Millennium Since ancient times, Guangzhou has been close to the world. Southeast Asian and Arab businessmen come by boat from the South China Sea, and Guangzhou is often their first stop in China. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, 100000 overseas merchants gathered in Guangzhou, making it an oriental port with goods all over the world. At the beginning of 2022, the gene says that Guangzhou is open. It will seize the opportunity of RCEP's entry into force and play a big role in the world's largest free trade zone. In the early morning of January 1, the certificate processing hall of Guangzhou Council for the promotion of international trade was brightly lit. Many enterprises took the lead in receiving the first batch of certificates of origin under RCEP, which is the key certificate for enjoying preferential policies such as tariff reduction and customs clearance convenience. Yang Yong, director of Guangzhou Council for the promotion of international trade, said that in order to fully serve enterprises to take RCEP express and help foreign trade enterprises alleviate problems such as rising international shipping costs, Guangzhou has formulated targeted benefit sharing schemes for enterprises to help enterprises make good use of policy dividends and enhance international competitiveness. With its geographical advantages adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao and its vast industrial hinterland, Guangzhou has always been a hot place for foreign investment in China. From January to November last year, 3788 foreign direct investment enterprises were newly established in Guangzhou, with an actual use of foreign capital of 50.451 billion yuan. There were 330 Fortune 500 enterprises investing in Guangzhou, an increase of 21 over last year. Conghua District, located in the northernmost part of Guangzhou, is favored by Unilever because of its green mountains and green waters. As the largest project invested by Unilever in China in recent years, the company will spend 130 million euros to build the first phase plant of South China production base, which is based on the development considerations of Guangzhou and radiating the market in Dawan district. From west to East, from north to south, Guangzhou's goods rotate, and the flow of funds, information and people gather and disperse here. Under the impact of the epidemic, the passenger throughput of Guangzhou Baiyun Airport exceeded that of Atlanta Airport in the United States, and became the busiest airport in the world. Guangzhou, which actually manages and serves a population of far more than 22 million, is a well deserved "city of traffic". In the Nansha free trade area in the southernmost part of Guangzhou, high-rise factories are under construction, and giant ships shuttle from Nansha port wharf. Among the three areas of Guangdong pilot Free Trade Zone, Hengqin and Qianhai were given new missions by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council last September. The whereabouts of Nansha attracted social attention for a time. "Nansha's answer is still opening up. The region will build multi-level channels and high-level platforms for opening up, forming a new pattern of all-round opening up with a wider scope, wider fields and internal and external linkage." Lu Yixian, member of the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou municipal Party committee and Secretary of the Nansha District Party committee, said. Breaking through the city: cultivating soil and consolidating capital, attracting Phoenix habitat "Visiting the flower market before celebrating the new year" -- the Centennial flower market has become the Spring Festival folk custom with the strongest festival atmosphere in Guangzhou. The spread of COVID-19 is not only a holiday atmosphere, but also a necessity for flower farmers and flower companies. On January 12, Guangzhou once again opened the "cloud flower market", and about 12 million pots (plants) of annual flowers in the city's annual flower production base officially welcomed customers, adding a sales guarantee to flower enterprises. If the "cloud flower market" is a "small profit" sent by Guangzhou to small and micro enterprises to continue the traditional customs of the new year, then promoting the reform of the business environment in Guangzhou in the new year is a "big profit" for all market players to solve the problems of unreasonable restrictions such as regional segmentation and local protection, and improving the convenience of investment and construction. Business environment is the soil for enterprise development. Guangzhou has been rated as the national benchmark for business environment assessment for two consecutive years, and has been listed as the hottest investment city by the American Chamber of Commerce in South China for four consecutive years. From offline to online, the city's 1846 government service items were stationed in the municipal government service hall, "one door" rate reached 100%, the number of items stationed in the comprehensive service window was 1818, and the "one window" rate reached 98.48%. The market-oriented environment makes enterprises go "faster", and the legal environment makes enterprises go "more stable". The regulations of Guangzhou Municipality on optimizing the business environment came into force last year. During a routine inspection in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, law enforcement officers found that the labels of six bottles of "peach juice drinks" sold in a supermarket did not use standard words as required, but they did not give administrative punishment. The reason is that the product does not affect food safety and does not mislead consumers. The merchant shall correct it in time after being ordered. The "inclusive and prudent" supervision implemented in Guangzhou provides enterprises with a warmer and more inclusive market environment. Guangzhou city's "software" is being upgraded synchronously to meet the needs of internationalization. As the core city of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, Guangzhou explores the construction of a business environment system connected with international prevailing rules. Guangzhou has successively launched commercial services "Guangzhou Hong Kong Link" and "Guangzhou Macao link", extending mainland commercial services to Hong Kong and Macao, so as to facilitate Hong Kong and Macao investors to settle in Guangzhou quickly. With a complete urban industrial system, a large scale of market players and the Reform Foundation accumulated in the early stage, Guangzhou was identified as the first batch of pilot cities for business environment innovation by the State Council last year. Compared with the leading cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Guangzhou has pacesetters in front and pursuers in the back. The overall reform of firmly grasping the business environment in the new year is a breakthrough move for Guangzhou to strengthen the city of opening up and shorten the distance from the world. "Guangzhou continues to iterate and upgrade the business environment reform, and some list items reform is entering a no man's land. We need to promote the reform with a more open mind." Li Haizhou, director of Guangzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission, said: "in the first quarter of this year, the situation of six stability and six guarantees is still grim, but as long as we plant soil and cultivate more market players, we can provide a foundation for ensuring employment, basic people's livelihood and grass-roots operation." City ambition: blossom and share opportunities with the world A single flower does not make spring, while one hundred flowers in full blossom bring spring to the garden. Over the past two years since the global epidemic spread, Guangzhou is still an important window connecting the world and China, allowing "made in China" to fly into the homes of global consumers and allowing world merchants to share the dividends of the Chinese market. Opening up allows "Guangzhou goods" to travel all over the world and attract customers all over the world. Tianhe Road Business District, where commercial complexes live next to each other, is still the brightest area overlooking Guangzhou at night, with an average daily passenger flow of 1.5 million. The dazzling signboards complement Guangzhou Flower City, reflect the fireworks of a city, and become a vivid footnote for Guangzhou to build an international consumption center city. The concept of openness has also made Guangzhou the largest "Automobile City" in China. In 2021, the sales volume of Xiaopeng automobile headquartered in Tianhe District, Guangzhou reached 98000, a year-on-year increase of 263%. Guangzhou has an annual output of nearly 3 million vehicles, ranking first in China for two consecutive years. Because the large output value is conducive to improving GDP, automobile is an industry with prominent local protection. Among the vehicles in some cities, the models produced by local automobile enterprises account for a large proportion. In Guangzhou, vehicles produced by GAC group account for only 10% of the city's car ownership. Behind the "no calf protection" is the consistent principle of openness and competition in Guangzhou. At present, as an important part of the open city, Terminal T3 of phase III expansion project of Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is under construction in full swing. In the construction of "Dawan district on track", Guangzhou metro network has been extended to Qingyuan and Foshan, and will shake hands with Dongguan, Zhongshan and Zhuhai. The construction of Guangzhou metropolitan area is an arrow off the string. The urban agglomeration composed of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao is showing a picture of the Great Bay area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and the world-class Bay area is growing. Last October, the 130th Canton Fair was held after 65 years. *** This is not only the new mission of the Canton Fair, but also a new opportunity for Guangzhou. In the spring of 2022, the 131st Canton Fair will arrive as scheduled. The door of China's opening up is opening wider and wider. Guangzhou is bound to bloom new vitality in working with countries around the world to promote the construction of a high-level open world economy. (Xinhua News Agency)