China Standardizes Government Investment Funds to Drive Strategic Innovation
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China is taking a decisive step to optimize government investment funds, steering capital toward high-priority national strategies, fostering innovation, and supporting industrial upgrading. Experts say the move marks a shift from expanding fund size to investing with precision, enhancing efficiency and long-term impact.
Authorities, through a joint document by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and three other departments, clarified that government investment funds should prioritize sectors with competitive strengths and distinctive features, early-stage startups, small enterprises, hard technology, and areas where private capital is limited.
“This initiative channels resources to the real economy’s most strategic and higher-risk segments, filling gaps while attracting private investment,” said Liu Guoyan, researcher at the Chinese Academy of Macroeconomic Research.
The document also sets explicit boundaries for fund operations, prohibiting equity-in-name debt structures, unrestricted guarantees, speculative derivatives trading, and other activities that could amplify financial or local government debt risks. Liu Naijin, senior partner at Grandall Law Firm, emphasized that these measures safeguard fund stability and reinforce disciplined management.
In parallel, a trial regulation on performance evaluation links fund outcomes to national priorities, including technological innovation, commercialization of research results, and development of a unified national market. Evaluation results will inform credit-building and be appropriately disclosed, strengthening accountability.
Together, the framework and evaluation system form a coherent management model designed to modernize macroeconomic governance, improve fund efficiency, and ensure government investment plays a strategic role in fostering new quality productive forces.
The move complements recent initiatives such as the State-backed venture capital guidance fund, which channels long-term capital into strategic emerging industries while leveraging government investment to attract private capital. Experts view these measures as critical steps in aligning public finance with national priorities and sustaining high-quality economic growth.
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