In a bid to help its businesses overcome some of their most challenging development issues, Xinghua city in East China's Jiangsu province has adopted a problem-solving mechanism.
This is said to combine various resources to find solutions through collective brainstorming sessions and discussions.
July is the city's "Enterprise Concentrated Visit Month", when the second round of large-scale business enterprise visits is being conducted by the city this year.
One beneficiary of the problem-solving drive is Xinghua Nissei Metal Products Co Ltd, which is based in the Xinghua Economic Development Zone.
"Thanks to the help of the mechanism, the company's technological transformation project has smoothly entered the environmental impact assessment stage and is expected to be completed by the end of the year," said Han Chengqian, the assistant general manager.
A Japanese-funded business that specializes in precision machining for the global semiconductor industry, the company signed up to work with a leading domestic semiconductor manufacturer in the early stage of its development. But due to incomplete production processes, the product of their joint venture failed to meet customer requirements.
Two months ago, the departments within the Xinghua government that are involved with enterprises organized on-site problem-solving discussions and successfully assisted the company in resolving its outstanding issues.
Since the start of the year, various departments of Xinghua have visited over 2,800 local companies, identified and itemized 454 issues and resolved 269 of them.