Commodity circulation and commercial order are accelerated to resume (State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism Press Conference)
Our newspaper, Beijing, March 28 (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi) As of 24:00 on March 27, 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps currently have 3128 confirmed cases, of which 921 are severe cases; a total of 74971 cured cases were discharged. Cases, a cumulative total of 3,295 deaths, 81,394 confirmed cases, and 184 suspected cases. On March 27, 54 newly diagnosed cases in China were imported cases. According to WHO, the cumulative number of confirmed cases worldwide has exceeded 500,000. It is also necessary to prevent the import of overseas epidemics and the rebound of domestic epidemics, and strictly implement prevention and control.
On the 28th, the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism held a press conference to introduce the work of restoring commodity circulation and commercial order. According to Wang Bin, head of the Department of Consumer Promotion of the Ministry of Commerce, as of March 27, the resumption rate of agricultural product wholesale markets in China reached 99.4%, and the transaction volume increased by more than 50% from the beginning of February; the resumption rates of large chain supermarkets and brand convenience stores reached 99.5 respectively. % And 95.4%, sales exceeded the level of the same period last year; all e-commerce platforms have begun operations, with merchants returning to work at 84.5%; department stores have resumed work at 95.8%, and sales have returned to about 50% last year. Resumption rates of catering, accommodation, housekeeping and other companies reached 80%, 60% and 40% respectively, and sales recovered to about 35% of the same period last year.
"Since March, the prices of essential commodities such as grains and oils, meat, poultry, eggs, and vegetables have fallen. The sales of key retail enterprises monitored by the Ministry of Commerce in mid-March have increased by 7% compared with mid-February," said Wang Bin.
Wang Shiyu, deputy director of the Department of Policies and Regulations of the State Administration of Taxation, said that the Party Central Committee and the State Council have issued four batches of preferential policies on taxes and fees, many of which support the development of small shops. "It is clear that taxpayers who are still unable to process tax returns or deferred returns due to the impact of the epidemic situation can promptly explain to the tax authorities in writing the valid reasons and can complete the relevant formalities and apply for tax returns. The tax authorities do not increase the late payment of taxes and do not grant administration Penalties do not lower the tax credit rating and are not recognized as abnormal households. The tax payment period for March declaration was extended to March 23 in accordance with the law, and after expiration, they were still in the first-level response area for epidemic prevention and control. Properly extend the tax return period. "
In order to support enterprises and promote consumption, various regions have introduced a series of policies and measures. For example, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and other places are exempt from renting small and medium-sized enterprises for renting state-owned properties, and small and medium-sized enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households are exempted from sewage treatment fees and urban road occupation taxes; Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Changsha and other places have been introduced to increase Policies on passenger cars, subsidies for purchasing new cars or new energy vehicles; local government enterprises such as Nanjing and Ningbo joined forces to launch consumer vouchers to guide consumption rebound.
Ma Jihong, deputy minister of the Ministry of Economic Development and Reform of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, introduced that most of the enterprises in the supply and marketing system such as agricultural market, chain supermarkets, e-commerce platforms, and community food stores were operating normally during the epidemic, and the production and sales docking was strengthened. The new cooperative company affiliated to the China Supply and Marketing Group has leveraged the advantages of more than 90,000 operating outlets in 19 provinces to carry out on-site acquisitions to solve the problem of slow sales of agricultural products.
In addition, the Ministry of Commerce and other relevant departments have carried out in-depth e-commerce into rural areas and e-commerce poverty alleviation work, and have cumulatively supported 1,180 counties and cities to carry out related work to achieve full coverage of national poverty-stricken counties.