Forty legal actions enforced in Zibo – located in East China's Shandong province – are said to have helped safeguard the city's high-quality economic and social development last year, according to a news conference held on Jan 11.
The justice bureau of Zibo has been on the job, dedicated to improving the business environment of the metropolis by fully implementing its administrative guidance and regulations.
Moreover, municipal departments have helped the local governments of the districts and counties – and 35 municipal law enforcement agencies – to establish a registration system for administrative guidance items cases with 167,127 items being registered last year in the city.
What's more, a document-free policy released in Zibo has streamlined previously cumbersome procedures and canceled non-essential documentation that many say shouldn't be required when people need services from government departments.
Last year, Zibo released a company list that can be free from inspections and published a total of 10,439 inspection results, as well as 269 penalty cases.
The justice bureau is understood to have trained more than 1,200 companies on compliance management, inviting leading compliance management experts to give lectures and seminars.
More than 1,200 enterprises have benefited from legal aid services, with 9,364 legal cases handled in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 58.8 percent.
Zibo also set up 154 specialized mediation committees for disputes that occurred in the pre-litigation period between companies and in the securities and futures industries in the region.
Last year, the committees in the city managed 42,000 conflicts and disputes of various types.
