The market regulation authorities in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, have prioritized high-quality development as their core mission this year, leading to a continuously optimized business entity structure, an accelerated release of intellectual property benefits, and a steadily strengthened quality support system. The optimization of the business entity structure has been accompanied by a more refined market entry and exit mechanism, with efforts focused on enhancing the quality of business entities and systematically advancing the reduction of non-viable entities.

In the first half of the year, the city had 375,000 registered business entities, maintaining its 13th position in the province by total number. New transitions from individual businesses to enterprises reached 278, a year-on-year increase of 25.23%, while the number of registered enterprises grew to 85,600, up 7.53% from the previous year. Private enterprises accounted for 71,131 units, with their share continuing to rise, indicating a positive shift toward corporatization and standardization of business entities. The tertiary sector dominated at 79.43%, remaining the leading industry, with productive service sectors such as scientific research, information technology, and modern logistics becoming the main growth drivers for new entities. The authorities have deepened reforms to simplify market entry and exit, leveraging the "One-Stop Online Platform" for full-process online registration, handling 90,100 registration cases citywide. They have issued a series of systematic documents, including a review key points guide, a conditional acceptance system, and an ex-officio cancellation mechanism, standardizing 168 review points across 48 categories. This resulted in 291 conditional acceptance cases and 3,871 ex-officio cancellations. A "one-stop" approval process for foreign-invested enterprises has been implemented, relocating services like the establishment of Hong Kong and Macau enterprises to the eastern urban district government affairs center, handling 51 cases. Enhanced registration services for listed companies' asset mergers and acquisitions, along with equity pledge financing support, have been provided, processing 202 equity pledges with a pledged amount of 3.28 billion yuan, effectively revitalizing corporate assets.

The empowerment of the real economy through intellectual property has continued to release brand value. Focusing on key industries such as automotive equipment, electronic information, and biomedicine, the authorities have cultivated high-value patents, granting 239 new invention patents in the first half of the year, bringing the total number of valid invention patents to 4,983. They also issued six data intellectual property registration certificates. The city has actively promoted the transfer and application of patent results, achieving 918 patent licensing and transfer transactions, with the industrialization rate of patents from universities and research institutions exceeding the provincial average. Twenty-nine intellectual property pledge financing deals were completed, totaling 1.292 billion yuan, effectively alleviating corporate funding pressures. The city has fully leveraged its geographical indication resources, ranking first in the province for the number of geographical indication products and certification trademarks, achieving full county-level coverage. The comprehensive output value of the entire geographical indication industry chain reached 17.945 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9%. Brands like Deqing Gonggan and Fengkai Xinghua Chicken have played a significant role in driving county-level economies and rural industry development. Support has been provided to Huai Ji, Guang Ning, and Feng Kai in building regional public brands. The authorities have conducted in-depth "Park Entry and Enterprise Assistance" services and strictly cracked down on intellectual property infringement and illegal activities, maintaining a fair and orderly innovation market environment.

Steady progress has been made in quality construction, with tangible results in serving enterprise development. The revised "Zhaoqing Government Quality Award Management Measures" have been implemented, and the selection process for the eighth municipal government quality award has been launched, with 49 enterprises actively participating. The Chief Quality Officer system has been implemented, covering 202 new above-scale manufacturing enterprises. The quality infrastructure one-stop platform has served 237 enterprises, reducing various fees by 256,900 yuan. A quality-based financial product, the "Yue Quality Loan - Yan Du Quality Loan," has been introduced, with credit approvals of 337 million yuan and loan disbursements of 311 million yuan, providing targeted support to small and medium-sized enterprises. Focusing on key industrial chains, the authorities have promoted quality improvement in new energy vehicle key components and carried out special rectification of outstanding issues in the traditional craft market, particularly the Sihui jewelry and jade market, collecting 23 clues and filing eight cases. Active participation in standard creation has resulted in the revision of 22 national standards and one industry standard, the initiation of three "Bay Area Standards," and the addition of one national-level standardization pilot project. The authorities have strengthened supervision and inspection of measurement instruments in key livelihood areas, including wholesale markets, gas stations, optometry shops, and supermarkets, solidifying the quality and safety defense line for people's livelihoods. Moving forward, the city's market regulation departments will continue to focus on enterprise development needs, deepen reform and innovation, strengthen the supply of intellectual property and quality services, and continuously consolidate the foundation for market development, providing solid support for the city's high-quality economic and social development.