“The work of the Shanghai Municipal Government is very pragmatic. Many of the suggestions put forward by the Danish Chamber of Commerce in China and content related to Shanghai were all mentioned at the conference on optimizing the business environment.” Li Ximeng, a Danish entrepreneur and CEO of the Trayton Group, said a few days ago at the 2026 Shanghai Conference on Optimizing the Business Environment. This is the ninth year in a row since 2018 that Shanghai has held a city-wide conference on optimizing the business environment. The difference is that the conference was brought forward from the “first session of the Lunar New Year” in previous years to the “first meeting of the new year”, highlighting Shanghai's determination to speed up the creation of a world-class business environment. The “Shanghai Action Plan to Accelerate Building a World-Class Business Environment” was released at the conference. The plan's four aspects and 26 initiatives, like a carefully woven service network, aim to facilitate the entire life cycle of enterprise development. For example, “expanding 'one thing' integrated service” and “improving full-process services to benefit enterprises” directly point to the pain points of “many links and scattered policies” in enterprise operations; “optimizing supervision and inspection” and “regulating profit-making professional reports” target “hidden costs” and malicious nuisances that interfere with the normal operation of enterprises.

“The work of the Shanghai Municipal Government is very pragmatic. Many of the suggestions put forward by the Danish Chamber of Commerce in China and content related to Shanghai were all mentioned at the conference on optimizing the business environment.” Li Ximeng, a Danish entrepreneur and CEO of the Trayton Group, said a few days ago at the 2026 Shanghai Conference on Optimizing the Business Environment. This is the ninth year in a row since 2018 that Shanghai has held a city-wide conference on optimizing the business environment. The difference is that the conference was brought forward from the “first session of the Lunar New Year” in previous years to the “first meeting of the new year”, highlighting Shanghai's determination to speed up the creation of a world-class business environment. The “Shanghai Action Plan to Accelerate Building a World-Class Business Environment” was released at the conference. The plan's four aspects and 26 initiatives, like a carefully woven service network, aim to facilitate the entire life cycle of enterprise development. For example, “expanding 'one thing' integrated service” and “improving full-process services to benefit enterprises” directly point to the pain points of “many links and scattered policies” in enterprise operations; “optimizing supervision and inspection” and “regulating profit-making professional reports” target “hidden costs” and malicious nuisances that interfere with the normal operation of enterprises.