China News Service, May 8th, Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Bingnan stated at the press conference of the Joint Defense and Joint Control Mechanism of the State Council on the 8th that according to preliminary statistics, since the outbreak, 28 provinces, municipalities and more than 170 prefectures and cities have coordinated local government and With social funds, the cumulative issuance of consumer vouchers has reached more than 19 billion yuan. These measures to promote consumption have achieved significant results, achieving the goals of focusing popularity, enhancing confidence, and boosting consumption. Specifically in:
One is to boost consumption growth, effectively increase consumer confidence affected by the epidemic, promote a rebound in popularity, the market picks up, and increase consumption power. Promoting consumption activities played a role in boosting consumption growth.
The second is to protect and improve people's livelihood. In some areas, targeted vouchers are issued to families in need and low-income groups, giving consumers a real sense of gain.
The third is to help the development of the industry that is seriously affected by the epidemic. These consumption-promoting activities are focused on industries such as catering and retail, which are heavily affected by the epidemic. They have brought significant traffic to these enterprises, increased real income, and played an important role in stabilizing enterprises and industries.
Wang Bingnan also pointed out that the central government has put forward a strategy of insisting on expanding domestic demand. The Ministry of Commerce has resolutely implemented the central government's deployment. In order to expand domestic consumption demand and build a strong domestic market, it will adopt a series of measures to promote China's consumption growth.
One is to accelerate the resumption of business and reinstate the market, guide and urge local commercial departments to promote the resumption of business in all types of shopping malls, markets, and life service companies in accordance with the requirements of coordinating the key tasks of promoting business system consumption promotion, and on the premise of prevention and control measures To restore the popularity and vitality of the market as soon as possible.
The second is to promote the upgrading of urban consumption, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of pedestrian streets, launch a batch of national demonstration pedestrian streets, start the second batch of pedestrian street transformation and upgrade pilots, improve the convenience consumption network, optimize the layout of convenience stores and vegetable markets, and create a convenience life service circle.
The third is to fill up the shortcomings of rural consumption, enhance e-commerce into the countryside, expand coverage, promote agricultural products into the city, and industrial products to the countryside, guide large commercial and commercial enterprises to set up in towns and villages, promote the sinking of the supply chain, improve the backbone network of agricultural products and build new The supply chain of agricultural products should focus on e-commerce and industrial poverty alleviation.
The fourth is to stabilize the consumption of key commodities. In conjunction with relevant departments, we will implement and implement the policies and measures to promote automobile consumption, run the third import expo, expand the import of high-quality commodities, promote the return of consumption, expand online and offline sales channels, and promote foreign trade export products Domestic sales.
Fifth, we will resume expanding service consumption, implement the catering industry revitalization plan, guide enterprises to implement normalized prevention and control measures, advocate meal sharing and use of public chopsticks, so that consumers can enter the store with peace of mind and consume with confidence. Promote quality and capacity expansion in the housekeeping industry, promote the construction of standards and information credit systems, and expand effective supply.
Sixth, nurture and develop emerging consumption, encourage physical retail to accelerate digital transformation, promote the popularization and application of new consumer formats, new models, and new scenarios, promote the in-depth integration of online and offline, and support the orderly development of online and platform economies. Encourage the development of contactless distribution services and keep the new online consumption hot.