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Zhaoqing's 2026 Public Safety Work Meeting: What Foreign Founders Operating in the City Should Know
Zhaoqing held its 2026 Safe Zhaoqing construction work meeting on October 25, chaired by Party Secretary Zhang Aijun. The meeting reviewed safety achievements, set priorities including risk monitoring, APEC security, social stability and grassroots governance, and reported 2025 Safe Guangdong assessment results.
Zhaoqing Reviews Safety Priorities for Companies Operating Locally
On October 25, Zhaoqing held its 2026 work meeting on building a higher-level Safe Zhaoqing. Party Secretary Zhang Aijun, who also heads the municipal leading group for Safe Zhaoqing construction, attended and spoke. The meeting implemented directives on building a higher-level Safe China and the requirements of the Safe China and Safe Guangdong work meetings, and set out a full deployment for the city.
For foreign founders registering or running a company in Zhaoqing, the meeting is a useful signal of how local authorities frame risk management, public security and grassroots governance — the operating environment around a business, rather than commercial policy itself.
What the Meeting Acknowledged
The meeting affirmed that over the past year the city had advanced Safe Zhaoqing construction and achieved solid results in preventing risks, safeguarding safety and maintaining stability. It stressed that all departments should study and implement the important expositions on Safe China construction, apply the overall national security concept, coordinate development and security, and speed up building a higher-level Safe Zhaoqing to support high-quality development.
Key Priorities Outlined
- Political security: Guard Zhaoqing's position as the "southern gate" of national political security and improve the ability to monitor, warn, investigate and handle risks and hidden dangers.
- APEC meeting security: Fulfil stability and security work for the APEC meeting, with detailed responsibilities and measures, a dense protection system and full-chain support, serving the national and provincial picture through local security.
- Social stability: Emphasise prevention, regular work and moving the threshold forward; guard against risks in key sectors; uphold and develop the new-era "Fengqiao Experience"; advance the rule of law in petition work; and resolve disputes early and at a small stage to foster a rational, peaceful and positive social atmosphere.
- Public safety: Crack down on prominent illegal and criminal activities according to law, deepen the campaign against gang crime, strengthen safety management in road traffic, construction and forest fire prevention, protect minors and support youth development, and build an all-round public safety protection network.
- Grassroots governance: Promote the integration of self-governance, rule of law and rule of virtue under Party leadership; improve the "1+6+N" grassroots social governance system and the "13331" Party-building-led rural governance system; standardise comprehensive governance centres; cultivate mass prevention and governance forces; and raise the intelligence level of grassroots governance.
- Party leadership: Embed Party leadership throughout safety construction, with Party committees playing a coordinating role, political and legal affairs commissions taking the lead, and all units cooperating to form a joint work pattern.
Assessment Results and Participation
The meeting reported the 2025 Safe Guangdong construction assessment results and the safety construction component of the city's comprehensive assessment. The Cyberspace Administration Office, the Public Security Bureau, the Petition Bureau, Duanzhou District, Gaoyao District and Deqing County gave exchange speeches.
The meeting was held by teleconference to all counties (cities, districts) and Zhaoqing High-tech Zone. Municipal leaders Luo Daxiang and Xu Zhou, the main responsible persons of the municipal court and procuratorate, and responsible persons of member units of the municipal leading group attended.
Practical Reading for Foreign Founders
The meeting does not introduce new registration procedures or tax rules. Its relevance is indirect but practical: it shows local government attention to public order, dispute resolution, workplace and construction safety, and grassroots service capacity — factors that affect day-to-day operations, site safety and community relations.
Founders should continue to follow official channels for company registration, permits and compliance requirements, and treat this meeting as context on the city's governance priorities rather than a source of new business obligations.
This summary is based on information published by the relevant Chinese government website and is general information, not legal or tax advice.