Jingzhou Municipal Party Committee and JingzhouMunicipal Governmentstrive to build a city with most preferential investment environment, optimizethe investment environment, and accelerate the enterprises settlement in theregion. Jingzhou Municipal Party and theMunicipal Governmentgreatly advocate the concepts of "commerce prior topolitics, foreign prior to domestic", "Development and services prior toother factors", and "Openness andinclusiveness,win-wincooperation",to create a cultural atmosphere of "emphasizing, supporting, protecting and benefiting commerce". Itmade the following commitment to the incoming merchantsand enterprises:“zero obstacle” for project settlement, “zero charge” for administrative approval, “zero distance” for enterprise services, and “zero tolerance” for laws and regulations violation. Greatefforts have been made to reduce registration formalities, procedures, durationand charge, with 138 administrativeapprovalrights delegated to lower-levelgovernment departments, the industrial projects approval procedures reduced from 67 steps to23 steps, the number of required approval documents reduced from 226 to 91, andthe duration from application to project start reduced from 156 days to lessthan 60 days. Theadministrative windows are required to give all notices at one time, to processthe application at a specified duration, and the chief and the execution workerwill be held responsible in case of faults, with the goal to discipline lazyand disqualified public servants. All those measures are highly praised by theinvestors.