Ordos has consistently optimized its business environment and elevated service efficiency, implementing a series of business-friendly measures such as "no-face-to-face" project bidding, "full-coverage" electronic guarantees, "differentiated" reductions in security deposits, and "zero-cost" bidding documents, significantly enhancing market vitality and competitiveness.
Since pioneering the "no-face-to-face bidding" system, Ordos has saved over 6,600 bidding projects and 160,000 market entities more than 650 million yuan ($94 million) in transaction costs. Bidding now fully supports three types of electronic guarantees—insurance, bank, and surety—with handling fees reduced to between 1‰ and 3‰, achieving a 94% usage rate and relieving over 104,000 bidding companies of 13.7 billion yuan ($1.98 billion) in cash deposit pressure.
Additionally, the city has introduced a "differentiated deposit" policy, exempting bidding deposits for survey, design, and supervision projects, and reducing the cap for construction and procurement projects to 1% (with a maximum of 400,000 yuan and 250,000 yuan, respectively, approximately $57,000 and $36,000). Pilot programs using credit commitment letters to replace deposits further alleviate corporate cash flow pressures. Since 2020, the city has eliminated bidding document fees entirely, saving over 100,000 companies more than 100 million yuan ($14.5 million) and significantly lowering corporate costs, enhancing market participation, and fostering a unified and open public resource trading market system.