Authoritative results in the field of county-level credit building were jointly released by chinadevelopment.com.cn and CNR News. After 8 months of compilation and multi-level strict assessments which included local applications, preliminary reviews, and expert evaluations, among others, 165 typical cases with innovation, replicability, and demonstration value were selected from thousands of counties (cities, districts) nationwide to form the County-level Credit Project Release List. Huadu District successfully made the list thanks to its solid practice and innovative achievements in credit building, earning authoritative recognition nationwide and injected strong 'credit' momentum into high-quality development of the region.

Practice lays the foundation for honor, and credit empowers strong development

The recently released County-level Credit Building and High-Quality Development Report (2025) is a systematic review of county-level credit building practices nationwide, focusing on the innovative value and promotion significance of cases, to provide important guidance for county-level credit development. As part of the Report, the County-level Credit Project Release List is the result of multi-level strict evaluations focusing on core dimensions such as policies, platforms, scenarios, and results. Huadu District's successful inclusion in the List stems from its long-term, meticulous work in the field of credit building, in which its continuous exploration creates a practical path aligned with regional development, and credit innovations that have achieved good results and demonstrated promotion value. This honor will further enhance Huadu District's reputation and recognition, sending a clear message of 'Trustworthy Huadu' to the market, which will boost its investment attractiveness and integration into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and continuously strengthen regional development competitiveness.

Huadu's practice sets example by building trustworthiness with multi-dimensional efforts

Huadu District has always viewed the construction of a social credit system as a strategic measure for high-quality development; by taking mechanism improvement and platform building as the lever, the District manages to form a comprehensive, multi-level credit building framework, laying a solid foundation for the implementation of various practices.

Give priority to system and erect the 'Four Pillars and Eight Beams' of credit building Huadu District has strengthened top-level design; with the main leaders of the District Committee and Government taking the lead to coordinate, a cross-department collaborative promotion mechanism has been established to form a good working situation featuring the leadership of the government, support of the departments, and wide participation of circles of the society. In order to meet the development needs of feature industries, the District is optimizing credit evaluation standards for industries, improving relevant norms for regional brand management, promoting cooperation consensus between banks and industrial-cluster towns, and paving the way for credit to empower industry development. With clearly defined annual credit building priorities and division of responsibilities, the District's comprehensive credit index consistently remained among the top in Guangzhou's regional credit construction evaluation in 2025.

Strengthen the 'Digital Base' for data sharing with the support of platforms A full-chain digital credit service architecture featuring "system support + applet sharing" has been created to provide hard-core support for the implementation of credit applications. The District has established and upgraded the Huadu District Credit Code Management System, which integrates in the backend more than 15 million pieces of personal public credit information and more than 1 billion pieces of enterprise public credit information, sets up five major functional modules including advanced screening of personal and enterprise credit data and personalized modeling and evaluation, dynamically updates enterprise maps, builds an evaluation system with regional characteristics for individual and enterprise credit codes, and assigns green, yellow and red credit codes for household registration personnel and market entities in the whole District, so as to achieve a "one-stop view" of personal and enterprise credit status. And relying on the Huadu District Government applet, a column named Credit Huadu has been created, which has 9 modules, including personal credit green code inquiry, enterprise credit green code inquiry, and credit repair, to realize "one code for all purposes"; individuals and enterprises, after completing the authorization verification, can easily check and show their codes to experience the trustworthy incentive scenarios in the fields of public services and government affairs approval. Two platforms have been interconnected to efficiently integrate massive credit data from multiple departments such as market supervision and taxation, providing solid technical support for innovation in various credit scenarios.

The whole chain has made efforts to create a "precise paradigm" for credit supervision. Precise policy implementation throughout the process has built a credit supervision system with closed-loop management before, during, and after the event. Firstly, focus has been placed on improving the quality and efficiency of government services before the event; the Notification and Promise system and the acceptance for processing of application with missing or defect materials in administrative approval have been implemented, with 243 application items in 3 batches being announced applicable; and the "Help Enterprises Speed Up with 'Easy Approval for the Creditworthy' " was rated as a municipal credit innovation case. The District has expanded the application of credit reports to 11 fields, including government procurement and bidding, and embed the credit reward and punishment inquiry function into the government service cloud platform, enabling one-click query and reducing certificate requirements for the convenience of the people. Secondly, efforts have been made to deepen hierarchical and classified supervision and cultivation of honest entities during the event; hierarchical and classified supervision has been carried out in 16 industries, including import and export enterprises, cultural and entertainment industries, and environmental industries, to offer differentiated supervision and services for different industries. The results of Guangzhou comprehensive public credit evaluation have been further used to carry out credit supervision in 15 fields, including cosmetics operation, lightning protection test and supervision, cultural tourism and sports approval supervision, hazardous chemical operation, and agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery industry, to promote the organic integration of public credit evaluation and industry credit evaluation, and mutual recognition of results of each other. Up to now, there are 9,370 enterprises in the District that are rated as "Excellent" in the comprehensive evaluation of public credit, and more than 9,000 A-level taxpayers have been cultivated; and the District ranks with the best in Guangzhou in terms of both core indicators. And thirdly, efforts have been made to strengthen the governance of dishonesty and credit restoration after the event; the one-vote veto system for dishonesty has been implemented in five industries, including city landscape management; a 100% dynamic exclusion rate of seriously untrustworthy entities has been achieved through town (street) interactive governance; and the "Voluntary Fulfillment Certificate" of the District Court was rated as a municipal credit innovation case.

The demonstration effect of the honor-loaded credit green code is known nationwide

As a characteristic business card of Huadu District in credit building, the innovative application of "Farmer Credit Green Code" has won a number of national honors; the "Help Huadu's Rural Revitalization with Inclusive 'Farmer Credit Green Code'" was selected as an excellent case of Xinhua Credit Inclusiveness Benchmark; the innovative application of "Credit + Rural Financial Services" was recognized as a national typical case of "Xinyi +" application, won the most innovative award of the 5th "Xinhua Credit Cup" credit application scenario excellent micro-videos, was recognized as a 4th "Xinhua Credit Cup" national excellent credit case, and won the provincial good faith micro-video excellence award; and the "One Credit 'Code' Empowerment Stimulates New Vitality of Rural Revitalization" won a third prize in the 2nd "Golden Harvest Cup" Work Innovation Competition of the Working Committee of Organizations Directly under the Municipal Government. Relevant experience has been published in such mainstream publications and media as People's Daily Online, Guangming Online, "Reform Internal Reference" of People's Daily, China Reform Net, and CNR News.

Industrial empowerment improves quality and efficiency while brand innovation leads the country

Take "credit + characteristic industries" as the lever to promote high-quality development of the industries. A two-dimensional evaluation model featuring "credit green code + regional brand" is created for the Shiling leather industry, which relies on public credit data to make accurate profiles of market entities; about 1 billion pieces of data in 31 categories from multiple departments such as municipal supervision and taxation is integrated to generate "enterprise credit green code" and realize dynamic grading. The District has built a regional brand credit evaluation model of "Shiling Leather Goods" to generate the country's first leather goods industry version of credit report, which have been issued the first batch of 186 high-quality enterprises for their use in bank financing services. Over 2 billion yuan special credit grants have been given to promoted the transformation of 20 billion yuan of industrial brand value into tangible assets. The District has innovated the full-chain empowerment model of "credit screening-scene bearing-policy nourishment", and relying on the country's only leather and leather goods fast IPR service center, compressed the patent approval cycle to 10 working days, and promoted the "credit + intellectual property" pledge financing.

This inclusion into the national list of county credit-related projects is an affirmation and entails a responsibility. Huadu District's next step is to continuously promote innovations in credit building, upgrade service platforms, and expand application scenarios, make credit a powerful driving force for regional high-quality development, and strive to write a new chapter in the construction of "Trustworthy Huadu".