| Doing business environment is an important foundation for the development of a country or a region.It is related to the economic development,the cultivation of industries,the introduction of talents,and everyone’s vital interests.In the normal period,creating a good business environment can better attract investment.In the current global economic downturn affected by the epidemic situation,both countries and regions need to optimize the business environment to promote the resumption of work and production of local enterprises and boost the confidence of enterprises.Therefore,it is more important to conduct in-depth research on business environment policy and better play the leading role of policy.This paper makes a quantitative text analysis on the content and changes of 349 doing business environment policies at the central and provincial levels since January 1,2013 to September 30,2020,that is,since the special policy of optimizing business environment was issued in China.First of all,from the number of policy texts,the types of policy texts,the subjects of policy papers and their intergovernmental relations,the changes of policy themes and policy diffusion and other aspects,this paper makes a qualitative analysis of the quantitative results of China’s policies on optimizing business environment by comprehensively using the methods of content analysis,social network analysis and theme analysis.Secondly,it constructs a two-dimensional analysis framework of policy tools and policy historical stage,codes the policy text based on the framework,and then makes statistical analysis on the use of policy tools.Finally,we collect provincial panel data and use empirical regression to get the factors that affect the choice of provincial policy tools.It is found that the policy diffusion process of optimizing business environment in China is in line with the "s" curve of public policy.Now it is at the inflection point,and it is expected that the diffusion speed will gradually slow down in the future.In the spatial distribution of diffusion,Beijing,Shanghai,Heilongjiang,Jilin and Shandong have a deeper degree of diffusion,while the degree of diffusion in the central and western regions is weak.The annual distribution trend of the policies issued by the central and provincial governments for optimizing the business environment is basically the same.The types are mainly programs,opinions and notices,and there are few regulatory policies.From the perspective of the main body of the papers,the proportion of joint papers is low.The central government and most provinces pay less attention to multi-party coordination in the policy-making stage,and only Beijing and Shanghai have better cooperation.The use structure of policy tools is unbalanced.More than half of the policy tools are from the dimension of government environment,followed by the dimension of market services and financial services.The tools from the dimension of inclusive innovation,human resources and infrastructure are less used.The proportion of central and provincial policies is relatively consistent,but the central government lacks human resources dimension tools.From the perspective of factors affecting the use of policy tools,the choice of goverrnment environment,market service and financial service in each province is affected by the types of policy issuers,while government environment tools are also affected by the proportion of the tertiary industry and economic and financial situation,market service tools are also affected by financial capacity,and the proportion of financial service tools is not only affected by the financial situation In addition to the capacity constraints,it is also negatively affected by the proportion of the primary industry.All provinces need to consider all kinds of influencing factors and flexibly choose policy tools suitable for local development. |
