Since the beginning of this year, Zezhou County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province has anchored itself to the direction of high-quality development, unswervingly promoted project construction and investment attraction, gone all out to create an upgraded version of the business environment, accelerated the building of a modern industrial system with greater intensity and more concrete measures, and driven high-quality development through the "fully drawn bow and taut string" of project construction.

Concentrating efforts on key projects to build solid support for high-quality development. Zezhou County adheres to the principle of "projects first, implementation foremost," implements the strategy of seizing dual opportunities, and in the broader context of building a new development pattern, seizes the high-speed rail opportunity, fosters the investment-attraction concept of high-speed rail thinking, integrates into the high-speed rail network, plans a number of major projects in advance, and opens up new tracks for high-quality development. Leveraging local resource advantages, it expands profitable investment, aiming "high" and moving toward "new," implementing 327 key construction projects with a total investment of 145.1 billion yuan during the year, with an annual planned investment completion of more than 15 billion yuan. It carries out a concentrated campaign to handle pre-project procedures in a solid manner, implementing integrated "wall-chart operations" of approval, commencement, and inclusion in statistics for 114 new projects; in the first half of the year, the commencement rate of key projects will reach more than 80%, supporting the "stability" of the economy with the "progress" of projects and igniting the "strong engine" of high-quality economic and social development.

Improving service quality and efficiency, and vigorously pursuing the commencement and operation of investment projects. Zezhou County firmly establishes the concept that "projects not implemented mean investment attraction in vain," persists in treating investment attraction as a strategic project and main lever for promoting high-quality development across the county, persists in treating serving enterprises as its primary responsibility and main task, and persists in making good use of models such as strength-based investment attraction, chain-based investment attraction, door-knocking investment attraction, and hometown-ties investment attraction. It closely tracks central state-owned enterprises, listed companies, leading enterprises in industrial chains, and "specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative" enterprises, attracting large and strong investors with one policy per enterprise, striving to introduce 10 projects of more than 100 million yuan, 3 projects of more than 500 million yuan, and 2 projects of more than 1 billion yuan throughout the year. It strictly controls the quality of introduced projects; for investment projects proposed for implementation, it implements a mechanism under which county-level leaders take the lead in contacting and coordinating key projects, persists in front-line service, advances work from the design stage onward, proactively communicates well with enterprises, clarifies enterprise implementation needs, informs them of local supporting requirements, and makes every effort to guarantee land supply. For particularly major projects, county leaders track and advance them throughout the entire process. At the same time, it always adheres to the principle that "factors follow projects," makes full and good use of safeguard measures such as the "20 Supporting Policies for Industrial Land in Zezhou County," establishes a mechanism for advancing the construction of cleared land and standard land in overlapping phases, and ensures that industrial land remains at more than 2,000 mu; it conducts follow-up evaluations of projects enjoying factor safeguard policies, carries out assessments of implementation, operation, and effectiveness, and strengthens project advancement services. Focusing on the difficulties and high costs of financing for project implementation, it proactively seeks solutions, gives play to the leveraging and amplifying effects of government investment, regularly carries out government-bank-enterprise matchmaking and private capital promotion, effectively uses industrial funds, Zenong loans, and loan repayment revolving funds, and actively seeks various higher-level funds such as central budget investment, special bonds, and government bonds to solve project financing difficulties through multiple channels, going all out to deliver a "combined punch" of factor safeguards and attract more high-quality enterprises and high-quality projects that meet the needs of Zezhou County's economic and social development to locate there.

Strengthening service guarantees and persistently optimizing the business environment. The business environment is the "soil" for the survival and development of enterprises, an important "soft power" in regional competition, and also the "hard support" for promoting high-quality economic and social development. Zezhou County practices the service philosophy of "responding to every request and not disturbing when not needed," seeking the "progress" of development through the "excellence" of the business environment, so that enterprises can develop in Zezhou with greater peace of mind, greater warmth, and greater confidence. It enhances the hard strength of business entities. It implements a full-industrial-chain cultivation project, promotes the integration and extension of key industrial chains such as steel and coal chemical industries, and realizes "one enterprise leading one chain, one chain forming one cluster." It implements a cultivation plan for high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises, adding 8 industrial enterprises above designated size, 6 innovative enterprises, and 6 "specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative" enterprises, and completing 8 "shareholding reform and listing"; it carries out activities for the Year of Deepening Business Entity Development. It improves the public service system, implements enterprise-benefiting policies such as talent support to help private enterprises achieve high-quality development, and helps enterprises recruit talent and attract expertise; it vigorously advocates the entrepreneurial spirit, creates a strong atmosphere of respecting and valuing business, and enables private enterprises to develop better and small shops to be more vibrant. It optimizes the soft environment of government services. It deepens the reform of "streamlining administration, delegating power, improving regulation, and upgrading services," carries out special actions such as minimalist project approval and smart approval to further improve approval efficiency; comprehensively advances the creation of a "no-proof city"; deeply carries out special actions to address the problems of "two non-compliances and one arrears," severely punishes acts that damage the business environment, and strives to maintain a fair and competitive market order; regularly carries out enterprise visitation and assistance services, and builds a new type of cordial and clean unified government-business relationship. It integrates into the national unified large market. It formulates supporting policies, ensures precise direct delivery with "one policy per enterprise," helps all industries and enterprises compete in development, and creates an open and inclusive investment atmosphere that attracts nearby and distant investors alike; implements enterprise-benefiting policies such as structural tax and fee reductions, promptly discloses lists of enterprise-related preferential catalogs, and further reduces market transaction costs; strengthens the building of a high-standard market system, deepens factor marketization reform, standardizes the service processes of public resource trading platforms, and realizes "one platform managing transactions."