The State Council Inter-Ministerial Joint Meeting on Reducing the Burden on Enterprises Holds the 2026 Work Conference

People’s Finance News, April 8—On April 8, the 2026 work meeting of the inter-ministerial joint meeting under the State Council on reducing burdens on enterprises was held in Beijing. The meeting emphasized that efforts should be taken to unify thinking and actions with the Party Central Committee’s scientific judgment of the situation, uphold the combination of an effective market and a proactive government, and achieve an organic unity of “letting things go” and “regulating effectively,” while carefully planning new ideas and new measures to reduce burdens on enterprises and earnestly do a solid job in reducing burdens on enterprises, so as to provide strong support for the healthy economic development during the “15th Five-Year Plan” period.

Efforts should be made to strengthen the sense of purpose, establish and put into practice the correct view of political performance, and genuinely help enterprises resolve practical difficulties. In-depth research should be conducted with surveys at the grassroots frontline, identifying “small entry points” and effectively responding to and resolving enterprises’ various urgent, difficult, and pressing issues that they are most concerned about.

Efforts should be problem-oriented, focusing on pain points across the entire chain of enterprise operations and implementing comprehensive measures. We should continuously remove institutional and mechanism barriers and hidden market barriers, ensure the stability of industrial and supply chains as well as the safety of enterprises’ production and operations, and keep working with sustained efforts in helping enterprises reduce costs and improve efficiency, stimulating development vitality, and enhancing their ability to guard against risks, so as to effectively strengthen the pertinence and effectiveness of the burden-reduction work.

Efforts should be strengthened in institutional development: systematically improve and optimize the supporting institutional framework for improving the business environment, regulating administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, and ensuring fair competition among business operators; and strengthen smart regulation and credit regulation. By deepening reforms, we should break through bottlenecks and difficulties in burden reduction, and by advancing rule-of-law development, we should build a solid institutional bottom line for burden reduction.