Qingdao's Laoshan streamlines, boosts its business environment

Laoshan district in the city of Qingdao in eastern Shandong province has made great progress in optimizing its business environment, in the wake of the local government's innovative launch of one-to-one personalized services for companies - as well as action taken to tackle and solve the problems of local enterprises, officials said.

They said the Laoshan government identified 328 problem areas and made 599 adjustments to cut red tape, to improve services for local enterprises.

Qingdao Yufang Robot Industry Co is one of the beneficiaries. With increasing numbers of orders this year, the company felt restricted by its limited production area and planned to move out of Laoshan.