A year-long nationwide campaign to standardize administrative law enforcement targeting enterprises has concluded with significant results, recovering substantial financial losses for businesses. The campaign, which ran from March last year to the end of March this year, focused on rectifying prominent issues such as arbitrary fines, excessive inspections, improper asset seizures, and irregular or profit-driven cross-regional enforcement actions.
During this period, authorities investigated and addressed over 66,000 cases related to problematic administrative law enforcement involving enterprises. The corrective actions taken have helped businesses recover economic losses totaling 30.7 billion yuan. A key focus was the crackdown on arbitrary fines, with more than 5,500 such cases involving approximately 790 million yuan being handled. Measures were strengthened to monitor abnormal increases in administrative penalty revenues, eliminate performance evaluation metrics tied to such revenues, and improve the management systems for confiscated income.
To protect the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises, a special supervision initiative was conducted regarding 120 past administrative reconsideration decisions that had not been lawfully implemented. This effort recovered over 220 million yuan for affected businesses. Since the beginning of 2025, administrative reconsideration authorities at various levels have corrected over 6,400 illegal or improper enforcement actions that infringed upon enterprise rights, substantially resolving a number of administrative disputes.
Furthermore, a comprehensive review was conducted, leading to the revision or repeal of more than 11,000 local regulations, rules, and policy documents containing discriminatory or unequal treatment clauses. The campaign also promoted reforms such as consolidated inspections to reduce the burden on enterprises, resulting in a 34% year-on-year decrease in the total number of administrative inspections.
Other achievements include investigating over 5,900 cases involving unauthorized fee collection or improper service charges, leading to refunds of more than 1.3 billion yuan to businesses; rectifying over 440 cases of improper asset seizures, releasing nearly 2 billion yuan in funds; and identifying over 600 cases of irregular cross-regional enforcement, prompting the establishment of more than 610 inter-regional law enforcement coordination mechanisms.
Officials noted that the campaign has yielded tangible outcomes, with many entrepreneurs reporting that enforcement actions have become more standardized, considerate, and that the overall business environment has grown more stable. Looking ahead, the focus will shift to establishing a long-term mechanism for standardizing enterprise-related law enforcement. This includes strengthening the professional development of enforcement personnel, refining administrative discretion guidelines to prevent disproportionate penalties, and enhancing oversight mechanisms to promptly identify and correct unlawful or inappropriate administrative actions.