On the first working day of the Year of the Snake, several provinces held the first meeting of the Chinese New Year. It is worth noting that both major economic provinces along the eastern coast and emerging players in the central and western regions have made improving the business environment an important topic of discussion at the conference. Taking Liaoning as an example, on February 5th, the theme of the first session of the Chinese New Year in Liaoning was "Provincial Optimization of Business Environment and Three Year Action Winning Mobilization Conference". The meeting proposed that Liaoning has made comprehensive arrangements for the work in 2025 at the Provincial Party Committee Economic Work Conference and the Provincial Two Sessions. This meeting is a re mobilization, re deployment, and further promotion after the Lunar New Year, fully reflecting the belief and determination of Liaoning Province to charge forward at the beginning and fight decisively at the beginning of the war. The "New Year's First Party" in Shanghai was also held as scheduled on February 5th and released the Action Plan for Optimizing the Business Environment 8.0. Since 2018, holding a city wide conference at the end and beginning of the year to discuss the direction of optimizing the business environment for the new year has become an important tradition in Shanghai's economic development. For the first time in this year's plan, the popular phrase 'enhancing corporate experience' has been included in the headline. As early as the first working day after New Year's Day, Fujian held a provincial conference on optimizing the business environment, deploying key tasks to create a first-class business environment and promoting the "strength" of business entities through the "excellence" of the business environment. To compete in the economy is to compete in the business environment. The importance of the business environment goes without saying. During the Chinese New Year, a video was widely circulated. A scenic spot in Datong, Shanxi, asked merchants to turn on the lights 24 hours a day. However, they were refused and forcibly broke the lock to enter the store to turn on the lights and install a new lock, causing the merchants to be unable to operate normally. The conflict between public and private rights in this way demonstrates the lack of standardization in local law enforcement and the neglect of merchant rights, which will inevitably shake the confidence of business entities in the local business environment. It is not accidental that various regions have put improving the business environment on the agenda during the first New Year's meeting. Against the backdrop of profound changes in the current domestic and international environment, the economies of various regions are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities. On the one hand, the competition in domestic and international markets is becoming increasingly fierce, and various regions need to continuously optimize their business environment and enhance their regional competitiveness; On the other hand, with the vigorous development of new technologies, industries, and formats, various regions need to create a more open, inclusive, and innovative business environment to attract and cultivate more emerging industries. For the government, emphasizing the improvement of the business environment at the beginning of spring indicates that the government is increasingly valuing the feelings of enterprises. The business environment has become an "infrastructure" for high-quality development. Optimizing the business environment requires not only policy incentives, but also the ability to govern in a legal and humane manner. Only when enterprises live well can the economy be dynamic, employment be stable, and everyone's life be more stable. This is also a concrete manifestation of the government's transition from a "management oriented" to a "service-oriented" approach, solidifying the administrative concept of "enterprise demand-oriented" through institutional design. For enterprises, annual investment plans are often formulated at the beginning of the year. At this time, optimizing the business environment can maximize the window period for enterprise investment decisions and facilitate a positive interaction between policy supply and enterprise response. Of course, just having a meeting is not enough, the key still depends on actual actions. For example, is it really convenient for businesses to handle affairs? Has the cost really decreased? Is there anyone to take care of when encountering problems? These are the issues that companies are most concerned about. (New Society)