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China sees net increase of nearly 20 mln enterprises during 14th Five-Year Plan

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China sees net increase of nearly 20 mln enterprises during 14th Five-Year Plan

2025-08-22 11:13 Last Updated At:13:07

China has seen a net increase of nearly 20 million enterprises since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025) with business environment continuously improved, said a senior market regulation official in Beijing on Friday.

Luo Wen, head of the State Administration for Market Regulation, said at a press briefing on the country's high-quality fulfillment of targets set for the 14th Five-Year Plan that China has continued to improve its business environment and fully stimulated the entrepreneurial vitality of the whole society.

"The business environment continues to improve. We have fully completed the reform of 'separating operating permits from business licenses', established a unified business entity access system, implemented a unified negative list for market access, and achieved 'one-stop service' for business start-up, fully stimulating entrepreneurial vitality across society. We have improved the regulatory system for fees related to businesses, continuously reducing the costs of business entities, and strengthened the protection of intellectual property rights and trade secrets, which effectively enhanced the innovation momentum of business entities. Since the 14th Five-Year Plan, China has seen a net increase of 19.999 million enterprises and 33.946 million individual businesses," said Luo.

China sees net increase of nearly 20 mln enterprises during 14th Five-Year Plan

China sees net increase of nearly 20 mln enterprises during 14th Five-Year Plan

China's outstanding aggregate social financing -- the total amount of financing to the real economy -- reached 442.12 trillion yuan (about 63.4 trillion U.S. dollars) as of the end of 2025, up 8.3 percent year on year, central bank data showed on Thursday.

The country's aggregate social financing stood at 35.6 trillion yuan (about 5.1 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2025, up by 3.34 trillion yuan (about 479 billion U.S. dollars) from the year 2024, said the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank.

According to the data, the M2, a broad measure of money supply that covers cash in circulation and all deposits, increased 8.5 percent year on year to 340.29 trillion yuan (about 48.8 trillion U.S. dollars) as of the end of December.

In addition, outstanding yuan loans stood at 271.91 trillion yuan (about 39 trillion U.S. dollars) at the end of 2025, up 6.4 percent year on year.

China's aggregate social financing maintains high growth in 2025

China's aggregate social financing maintains high growth in 2025

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