Ordos carries out market-oriented, rule-based and internationally compatible business environment reforms.
Its 2026 action plan includes 45 targeted measures to build a coordinated service system covering the full enterprise lifecycle and all production factors. The city has ranked first in Inner Mongolia autonomous region's business environment assessment for six straight years, shifting priorities from cutting red tape to upgrading its overall development ecosystem.
Services respond to enterprise requests instead of preset government services. Officials gather feedback at regular entrepreneur breakfast sessions and appoint independent reviewers to conduct unannounced site visits. Its digital service platform delivers proactive support; big data tools resolve systemic issues rather than addressing individual complaints in isolation. Ongoing programs match local firms with buyers and assign dedicated government liaisons. "Warm merchant insurance" offers customized coverage for self-employed operators.
Ordos runs Inner Mongolia's first pilot for a paperless-verification city: government agencies share data to eliminate repeated certificate submissions by businesses. It has rolled out a streamlined land approval model allowing new energy projects to begin construction within one month after land agreements are signed. Project coordinators provide end-to-end assistance. Remote bidding and electronic bonds lower capital tie-up and transaction costs. Ordos benchmarks top-performing Chinese cities and has earned national recognition for its reform work.
Local ordinances support stable private-sector operations. The city accelerates commercial dispute resolution and debt workouts, and applies data-backed credit oversight to create predictable market rules. Talent incentives, innovation hubs and off-site talent bases attract skilled professionals.
Four globally competitive industrial clusters, a lead-officer system for industrial chain investment promotion and a zero-carbon industrial park facilitate supply-chain collaboration and low-carbon solutions. Ordos will keep upgrading its business environment via systematic reform.
