BeijingJune 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — According to a release from the Yizhuang Innovation Conference on the 17th, the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (also known as Beijing E-Town or Beijing Yizhuang) has implemented over 200 innovative measures to optimize its business environment, with nearly 30 of these achievements being promoted nationwide or citywide. Li Quan, a member of the Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area Management Committee, stated that the development area consistently treats the business environment as the lifeline for high-quality development. Guided by the “Yizhuang Creates the Future” brand, it focuses on four key areas: institutional innovation, enterprise services, resource guarantees, and digital empowerment, effectively serving as a pilot zone and demonstration area for business environment reform in the city.
Establishing “Sandbox Approval” to Improve Access Norms for “Four New” Economies, Boosting the Development of New Quality Productive Forces
Pang Yan, Director of the Administrative Approval Bureau of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, explained that the development area closely aligns with industrial development realities and focuses on core enterprise needs. It has cautiously explored and pioneered the city’s first “sandbox approval” mechanism for new quality productive forces, addressing bottlenecks in the entry of emerging business formats. Adopting a “trial before approval, inclusive and prudent” model, it has opened a green channel for the entry of new business formats. Guided by one overarching plan and implemented through N specific innovation scenarios, it has built a new administrative approval management system characterized by “inclusive entry, strict oversight during operations, precise guidance, and closed-loop standardization.” This shifts approval services from “standards first” to “parallel development with new business formats,” accumulating practical experience and improving institutional supply for the entry regulation of emerging fields, providing replicable and scalable pilot demonstrations.
Pang Yan noted that in terms of mechanism operation, the development area centers on “full-process closed-loop management” to ensure the pilot work is standardized and controllable. “We always prioritize safety and controllability in sandbox approval, establishing a full-chain workflow of ‘application for entry—compliance review—sandbox trial—exit approval,’ ensuring inclusiveness without indulgence and delegation without negligence.” “Currently, sandbox approval has been implemented in two areas: medical device vending machines and robot (digital human) performances. The development area has issued the first sandbox entry certificate to a pilot digital human company and plans to review related offline commercial cultural performances within the year, exploring a path for the standardized development of the digital human industry.”
“Based on the actual development of new business formats and industries, we remove institutional bottlenecks, using pioneering institutional supply to unleash space for enterprise innovation and development,” Li Quan introduced. In terms of innovating entry for new business formats, following the issuance of the nation’s first “Food Business License” for hot food (pancake) robots and the city’s first “Food Business License” for full-category beverage robots, the development area pioneered the “sandbox approval” pilot reform in the city this June, constructing a full closed loop of “entry—review—trial—exit” to support the vigorous development of the “Four New” economies. In terms of diversified production empowerment, the development area issued the city’s first production license for co-production of regular food and health food, meeting enterprises’ diversified production needs through “minimalist approval.” In terms of accelerating and improving market entry, the development area took the lead in launching the “OPC Enterprise Establishment One-Stop Service” reform, integrating full-chain services such as enterprise registration, seal engraving, tax affairs, social insurance and housing fund filing, and bank account opening, achieving “one-window processing, certificate issuance in 30 minutes.”
Creating a New Government Service Ecosystem with “One Category of Matters,” Promoting Deep Integration of Value-Added Services and Government Services
In the past, a newly established enterprise had to shuttle between various windows for industry and commerce, social security, tax, and policy implementation, consulting separately. Now, in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, from enterprise establishment to growth, all lifecycle service needs can be met by “entering one door to handle all matters.” Data shows that the new model can directly save enterprises 60%-70% in time costs and reduce the number of trips by 50%-92%.
Shi Yu, Director of the Business Environment Construction Bureau of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, introduced that the development area is creating a new government service ecosystem with “one category of matters.” First, breaking service boundaries to build a new integrated service model for “one category of matters.” Based on high-frequency enterprise needs, the development area initially launched three scenarios: “Breaking Ground and Cultivating Seedlings – Entrepreneurship One Category of Matters,” “International Talent – Business Development One Category of Matters,” and “Cross-Border Expansion – Going Global One Category of Matters.” For example, in the “Entrepreneurship One Category of Matters” scenario, services such as entrepreneurship guidance, policy support, and investment and financing required for market entity registration are deeply integrated, forming 42 service items across 10 aspects. In the “Business Development One Category of Matters” scenario, targeting the development needs of foreign talents in China, services such as entry-exit and residence services, housing security, and cultural integration are systematically integrated, forming 36 service items across 7 aspects. In the “Going Global One Category of Matters” scenario, services such as trade and investment facilitation, foreign-related commercial law, international intellectual property, and cross-border data are comprehensively organized, forming 48 service items across 9 aspects.
These scenarios are integrated offline at the Business Welcome Center. Here, enterprises are no longer “passive inquirers” but become “leaders” of services—they can freely choose “package-style” bundled services or “à la carte” self-selected services based on their needs, completing all cross-domain matters in one go. “To date, we have provided nearly 15,000 services to over 10,000 small and medium-sized enterprises. Going forward, we will continue to launch more ‘one category of matters’ scenarios based on the core needs of different types of enterprises at various development stages, effectively providing precise, high-quality, and efficient comprehensive service support,” Shi Yu stated.
“The Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area focuses on the lifecycle service needs of enterprises, implementing and refining enterprise-benefiting services through systematic integration and full-process closed-loop management. In terms of improving the comprehensive service network, we have established an industrial organization system of ‘science and technology industry coordination departments + industry bureaus + industry task forces + platform companies + factor support,’ assigning ‘one-to-one’ service stewards for key projects and setting up 11 ‘Yizhuang Service Ports,’ forming a service network of ‘one port integration, multi-port linkage,’ allowing enterprises to handle matters nearby with services at their fingertips. Second, we innovate integrated service models, creating a new paradigm for grassroots implementation of the ‘Efficiently Handle One Thing’ reform, achieving ‘one-time processing’ for 188 scenarios and innovatively launching 32 district-level key special matters such as road openings and enterprise going global. With ‘one category of matters,’ we create a new government service ecosystem, promoting deep integration of value-added services and government services. Third, we improve closed-loop handling of demands, pioneering the ‘Yizhuang Office’ dual closed-loop enterprise complaint handling mechanism, integrating all online and offline demand channels, maintaining a 100% response rate throughout the year, ensuring every matter has a response and every case is resolved,” Li Quan stated. The Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area continuously optimizes enterprise services, enhancing corporate satisfaction through integration and closed-loop measures.
Pioneering Pilot Reform of Flexible-Term Land Transfer for Industrial Land Citywide, Enhancing Resource Guarantee Capabilities
Zhai Qian, Director of the Development and Construction Bureau of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, introduced that the development area took the lead in issuing the “Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area Management Measures for Flexible-Term Transfer of Industrial Land (Trial)” citywide. This mainly includes differentiated flexible transfer terms, a unified land price determination mechanism, linkage with industrial departments for precise land supply, full lifecycle supervision, clear renewal rules, and clear rules for land price determination upon recovery.
“Before the issuance of the ‘Management Measures,’ the general transfer term for industrial projects was 20 years. If key industrial projects required a term exceeding 20 years, special approval from the municipal government was needed. The ‘Management Measures’ relax the term limit, implementing classified and graded term transfers based on the development area’s industrial conditions. That is, general projects still use a 20-year term, while key industrial projects that indeed require a term exceeding 20 years can use a 30-50 year term after decision by the management committee,” Zhai Qian further explained.
More crucial is the innovation in the land price mechanism. The development area uniformly clarifies that the base land price for a 50-year term is used, with term correction based on the ratio of the flexible term to the 50-year term to determine the starting price—i.e., the starting price for a 20-year term is uniformly set at 40% of the 50-year land price, implemented at the city policy’s minimum standard to maximize cost reduction for enterprises.
The Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area precisely targets three key factors—land, policy, and finance—to effectively reduce enterprise operating costs. Li Quan stated, “First, we ensure precise policy implementation, building a policy system of ‘industry-specific + common factors.’ In 2025, we issued 23 special policies covering science and technology innovation, biomedicine, and data. We took the lead in establishing a ‘pre-assessment + post-evaluation’ full lifecycle policy evaluation mechanism citywide, creating the city’s first comprehensive policy implementation service platform, with 100% of policy matters implemented on the platform and 100% intelligently matched, with the proportion of policies requiring no application for benefits exceeding 25%. Second, we tap into the potential for intensive land use, taking the lead in issuing policies for improving the quality and efficiency of industrial land citywide, revitalizing existing land through mechanisms such as mixed-use and purpose conversion, with relevant experience promoted nationwide by the Ministry of Natural Resources. We pioneered the pilot reform of flexible-term land transfer for industrial land citywide, using mechanisms such as differentiated land supply and flexible land price calculation to effectively reduce enterprise land costs and enhance investment confidence. Third, we broaden industrial financing channels, establishing a total scale of 20 billion yuan in government investment guidance funds, launching the Zhongguancun Science and Technology Innovation Financial Service Center, and taking the lead in introducing the ‘Yizhuang Industrial Park Loan’ citywide, with a cumulative application amount exceeding 20 billion yuan.”
Truly Useful, Practical, and Effective, Using AI + Comprehensive Law Enforcement to Support “Yizhuang Creates the Future”
Li Ning, Director of the Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau of the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, introduced that the development area insists on building “truly useful, practical, and effective” AI applications, deeply embedding artificial intelligence into the entire process, all scenarios, and full chain of comprehensive law enforcement, driving iterative upgrades from institutional innovation to smart leadership.
It is reported that since the launch of the nation’s first comprehensive law enforcement AI large model for all case-handling stages, the accuracy of evidence analysis and identification has approached 100%, and case filing review has been compressed from 3 hours to 5 minutes. The system integrates a legal database, sentencing benchmarks, evidence verification, and document generation, completing evidence sorting and legal clause matching within 5 minutes, automatically identifying “minor exemption” and “first violation non-penalty” situations, and automatically reviewing nine core types of documents throughout the cycle, including filing, punishment, and case closure, ensuring consistent punishment for the same case and unified standards. To date, it has analyzed 1,929 clues, handled 540 cases online, and improved overall case-handling efficiency by 1.5 times.
Li Ning stated that construction sites are a key focus of safety supervision, a difficult point for law enforcement, and a critical link in enterprise production and operation. In the past, law enforcement required stopping vehicles for inspection, manual queries across multiple systems, and manual comparison, which was time-consuming, affecting enterprise efficiency and leaving regulatory blind spots. The development area took the lead in introducing AI+AR smart law enforcement glasses citywide, breaking down data silos across emergency management, housing construction, and other fields, achieving full-process automatic identification, real-time verification, and closed-loop archiving. When law enforcement officers wear the glasses, they can automatically capture license plates from 5 to 8 meters away, compare registration status in seconds, completing the entire process in just 3 seconds, truly ensuring drivers don’t wait and enterprises face zero disruption. Real-time connection to databases for special operation certificates, personnel registration, and construction permits provides instant feedback on authenticity and registration status, preventing violations from slipping through while ensuring compliant enterprises are not mistakenly inspected or harmed, using precise supervision to safeguard enterprise peace of mind in production.
“We continue to deepen digital empowerment, using ‘smart government’ to accelerate enterprise service efficiency.” In addition, Li Quan introduced that in terms of building smart government services, the development area released the city’s first government large model service platform, “Yizhi,” launching the “Business Welcome Digital Human” and “Smart Government Assistant,” achieving automation in smart guidance, policy consultation, and material pre-review. In terms of empowering refined urban governance, it pioneered the full-stack domestic visual large model “Yicheng Smart Eye” scenario, capable of intelligently detecting over 180 types of urban governance incidents, significantly improving urban governance efficiency. In terms of expanding digital livelihood applications, it built the city’s first smart elderly care health monitoring scenario, establishing a tripartite linkage instant warning mechanism involving street offices, community elderly care stations, and guardians; it launched a digital elderly care meal service platform to address the inconvenience of home dining for elderly people living alone.
“The Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area will adhere to the original intention of reform, closely align with enterprise needs, continuously deepen business environment reform and innovation, and strive to form more replicable and scalable ‘Yizhuang experiences,'” Li Quan said.