By end-2025, Zhongshan registered 739,500 business entities, up 59.75% from end-2020 with a net increase of 276,600. The 2025 year-on-year growth of 7.22% ranked first among Pearl River Delta prefecture-level cities.

Zhongshan has been cultivating a pro-business atmosphere through continuous reforms. The "2024-2025 Shenzhen-Aligned Business Environment Task List" outlines 26 measures across seven key areas, including market access optimization, fair competition promotion, institutional framework strengthening, commercial dispute resolution improvement, legal service enhancement, open industrial innovation ecosystem construction, and trade safeguard mechanism upgrading.