QINGDAO, China, Nov. 07, 2024 — Xinhua News Agency’s Oriental Outlook hosted the Entrepreneurs’ Happiness Dialogue 2024 on November 5 in Taicang, Suzhou city. Qingdao was recognized as one of the 2024 Cities with the Highest Entrepreneur Happiness Index (for prefecture-level cities and above).

The 2024 Business Dialogue on Entrepreneurial Happiness focused on “Promoting Entrepreneurial Spirit and Developing New Quality Productive Forces,” sparking discussions on fostering entrepreneurial spirit, developing new quality productivity forces, enhancing entrepreneurial happiness, and optimizing the business environment.

The results of the 2024 Cities (Districts) with the Highest Entrepreneur Happiness Index selection were revealed at the event. Qingdao was recognized as one of the 2024 Cities with the Highest Entrepreneur Happiness Index (for prefecture-level cities and above), alongside Hangzhou, Chengdu, Suzhou, Ningbo, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Changsha, Yibin, and Taizhou. This marks Qingdao’s second win of this title. 

The 2024 survey for selecting “Cities (Regions) with the Highest Entrepreneur Happiness Index” employed a specialized entrepreneur happiness index model. Data collection methods were used to evaluate entrepreneurs’ happiness in the city, bolstering the rankings’ credibility and significance.

Since the start of the year, Qingdao has accelerated reforms in key areas and critical aspects of the business environment. It has innovatively implemented a series of high-quality policies and measures for improving government service efficiency, promoting the sound development of the private economy, advocating social equity and justice, and expanding high-level opening-up. These efforts aim to create a first-class business environment characterized by market orientation, rule of law, and internationalization, thereby building new business environment advantages at a higher level and continually enhancing entrepreneurs’ sense of gain, recognition, and happiness.

Source: Oriental Outlook

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