The Assessment Report on Business Environment for Foreign-funded Companies in Zhejiang Province 2025/2026 was released in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, on September 17. The report provides a comprehensive review of foreign-funded enterprises’ assessments of policies, services and the innovation climate in Zhejiang, offering an objective basis for upgrading the province’s business environment. According to the report, Zhejiang received an overall satisfaction score of 4.45 out of 5 for its business environment for foreign-funded enterprises, up 0.22 points from the previous year. The trade environment, human resources supply, financial services and infrastructure are widely recognized by enterprises.

（Assessment Report on Business Environment for Foreign-funded Companies in Zhejiang Province 2025/2026）

Since 2023, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Zhejiang Provincial Committee (CCPIT Zhejiang) has launched the special initiative “Hundred‑Events, Ten‑Thousand‑Enterprises” on foreign-related business environment assessment and compiled the annual assessment report accordingly. This year’s report for the first time incorporates enterprises’ firsthand experience of Zhejiang’s efforts to support talent and enterprise growth, improve collaboration across sectors, and deliver policy services. It adds

hot topics such as forms of industry competition and uncertainty over international trade policies, and collects enterprises’ voices and development expectations. It also provides multi-dimensional profiles by prefecture-level city, source of foreign investment and industry, detailing differences in the demands of various market entities. In addition to last year’s Chinese-English bilingual edition, CCPIT Zhejiang has partnered with Zhejiang Daily Newspaper Group and Zhejiang International Communication Center (ZICC) to roll out German-language and French-language versions, expanding international communication reach.

（Assessment Report on Business Environment for Foreign‑funded Companies in Zhejiang Province (2025/2026) Released in Four Languages）

Over the past year, CCPIT Zhejiang collected 1,252 valid responses from foreign-funded enterprises across the province. It also held 87 symposiums, conducted 1,071 on-site company visits and 4,358 telephone surveys, and collected 695 comments and requests from businesses. The survey sample covered all prefecture-level cities in Zhejiang and took into account different investment origins, industry sectors and enterprise sizes. The annual report was compiled on this basis.

According to the report, foreign-funded enterprises in Zhejiang remained broadly stable in their operations and confident about their investment prospects, while reporting positive views of business support policies. Among surveyed companies, 89 percent reported either revenue growth or stable operations in 2025, while 92 percent expected their investment returns to remain stable or improve in 2026.

Innovation-driven growth has become a key driver for foreign-funded enterprises in Zhejiang. 97% of respondents acknowledged Zhejiang's overarching policy orientation fostering innovation and industrial advancement, as well as its cultural atmosphere that encourages risk-taking and tolerates failure.

Furthermore, 98% of surveyed enterprises hold positive views on China’s domestic-market prospects over the next five years, demonstrating their confidence in the country’s long-term growth potential. Foreign-funded companies show strong willingness to deepen local presence in Zhejiang. Nearly 70% of respondents plan to either stabilise existing production capacity or accelerate localisation, committing more resources and business operations to Zhejiang.

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On the same day, ZICC and CCPIT Zhejiang jointly launched the “Opportunity China: in Zhejiang” Global Partners Cooperation Initiative. The programme aims to showcase the dynamism of China’s economic development to the world through vivid, internationally-oriented expressions.

（The Launch Ceremony of the “Opportunity China: in Zhejiang” Global Partners Cooperation Initiative）

A representative from CCPIT Zhejiang said that, despite a complex and severe external environment, Zhejiang’s two-way opening-up continued to show resilience. CCPIT Zhejiang will work together with all sectors of society to better share Zhejiang’s experience of opening-up to the world and deliver Zhejiang’s message of cooperation.