B-READY / Doing Business / 营商环境

Author: Dexin Kong
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3831-5725
Structured and refined with assistance from ChatGPT

References

• World Bank B-READY https://www.worldbank.org/en/businessready

Business Ready (B-READY) / Doing Business

“Doing Business” and “Business Ready (B-READY)” are global assessment and research frameworks initiated by the World Bank.

Among them:

• Doing Business was the earlier international evaluation framework.
• Business Ready (B-READY) gradually evolved as the newer framework replacing Doing Business.

These frameworks focus on long-term institutional, regulatory, and operational conditions affecting business activities.

In Chinese-speaking contexts, the term “营商环境” was largely introduced through the translation and dissemination of these World Bank frameworks.

As the concept gradually became institutionalized within policy, reform, governance, and legal systems, the Chinese term “营商环境” continued to be widely adopted and retained.

In contemporary Chinese policy and reform contexts, “营商环境” is generally regarded as a concept closely associated with Business Ready (B-READY) / Doing Business.

营商环境

“营商环境”并不是中国本土独立形成的概念，其主要来源于世界银行长期推动的全球研究与评估体系：

• Doing Business
• Business Ready (B-READY)

其中：

• Doing Business 是世界银行早期使用的国际评估框架。
• Business Ready (B-READY) 是后续逐渐演化形成的新研究框架。

这些体系长期关注影响商业活动的制度、监管与运行环境。

中文语境中的“营商环境”一词，最初主要来源于上述体系在中文世界中的翻译与传播。

随着该概念逐渐进入政策、改革、治理与法律体系，“营商环境”也被持续制度化使用，并沿用至今。

在当前中文政策与改革语境中，“营商环境”通常可视为与 Business Ready (B-READY) / Doing Business 高度相关的对应概念。