Measured by the benchmark in the Doing Business issued by the World Bank Group, after establishing enterprise and individual credit information databases, China’s credit information index rose to 4 from 3 in 2005, comparing with the average level of 1.9 for Asia, 5 for OECD countries and 6 for the United States, which was the highest.
Accordingly, China’s access to credit ranked among the top 16 countries in the world, higher than the overall improvement of China’s business environment in 2006.