Since the beginning of this year, the Hefei High-tech Zone in Anhui Province has focused on optimizing the business environment for public resource trading and making every effort to ensure that private enterprises participate in bidding activities on an equal footing. From January to May this year, 114 public resource trading projects were completed, with a transaction value of 1.203 billion yuan, of which private enterprises won bids worth 1.008 billion yuan, accounting for 84%.
　　To create equal opportunities, the Public Resource Trading Center of the Hefei High-tech Zone disclosed project trading information to market entities at least 30 days in advance. As of the end of May, it had publicly disclosed more than 150 government procurement intentions and more than 200 construction project bidding plans, and more than 2,000 private enterprises had participated in bids for projects across the zone.
　　To achieve equal treatment, in the first quarter of this year the zone waived bid bonds for small and medium-sized enterprises in more than 1,400 cases, reducing the funds tied up for enterprises by about 240 million yuan, and the proportion of electronic guarantees used for construction projects reached 100%. Together with financial institutions, it launched a number of financial products such as "Procurement Easy Loan" and "Winning Bid Loan," with credit lines of up to 20 million yuan, providing private enterprises with real money.
　　To achieve equal rules, the zone has implemented "cloud-based remote" bid opening 100%. This year it is piloting the selection of experts from other cities to evaluate bids for all five categories of key projects and projects with a tender price of more than 10 million yuan, promoting the cross-provincial and cross-municipal sharing of high-quality expert resources and ensuring that bid evaluation experts treat all market entities equally.
　　To achieve equal rights, the Public Resource Trading Center of the Hefei High-tech Zone revised more than 10 rules and regulations related to public resource trading this year. Before all project documents are posted online, the tendering unit takes the lead in conducting a fair competition review. At the same time, the Finance Bureau of the High-tech Zone conducts monthly "double random, one open" spot checks, correcting and rectifying more than 30 problems, in an effort to create an open, fair and just trading environment.