[Commentary] On November 23, the Information Office of the State Council held a regular briefing on the State Council’s policies to introduce the situation regarding the strengthening of assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises.

At the meeting, Xu Xiaolan, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that since 2021, policy support for small and medium-sized enterprises has continued to increase, the development environment has continued to be optimized, and production and operations have generally maintained a stable recovery trend.

Among them, specialized and new "little giant" enterprises are favored by the capital market.

  [Concurrent] Xu Xiaolan, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

  From January to September this year (2021), the operating income and total profits of small and medium-sized industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 22.8% and 32.5% year-on-year, respectively, 2.7 and 13.2 percentage points higher than the same period in 2019.

The innovative vitality of small and medium-sized enterprises has continued to increase, especially the outstanding performance of specialized and new "little giant" enterprises.

Recently, 13 projects in the 2020 National Science and Technology Awards were submitted by specialized and new “little giant” enterprises.

On November 15, the Beijing Stock Exchange opened. More than half of the 81 first batch of listed companies were "specialized, special-new" small and medium-sized enterprises, of which 16 were specialized, special-new "little giant" enterprises.

  [Explanation] "Specialized, Specialized, New" refers to small and medium-sized enterprises with specialization, refinement, specialization and innovation characteristics.

Focus on casting expertise, use supporting facilities to strengthen the industry, and win the market with innovation.

The Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of the State Council recently issued the "List of Practical Affairs for "Specialized, Specialized, New" SMEs" (hereinafter referred to as the "List of Practices") to cultivate more "specialized, special and new" small and medium-sized enterprises and accelerate their realization. High-quality development.

  [Concurrent] Xu Xiaolan, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

  The "List of Facts" puts forward 10 practical facts and 31 specific tasks in a targeted manner.

For example, in terms of financing, financial institutions are encouraged to create exclusive credit products for small and medium-sized enterprises with "specialized, special-new," research and development of green channels for "specialized, special-new" small and medium-sized enterprises to apply for listing on the New Third Board; In the event, each “specialized, special-new” SME is equipped with a service specialist; a batch of technical achievement transfer catalogs are collected for universities, scientific research institutes, etc., and a batch of technical R&D demand catalogs are collected for “specialized, special-new” SMEs , To promote the two-way "revealing" of "supply" and "demand".

  [Explanation] In the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will focus on the implementation of the "List of Facts" and continue to increase its efforts to cultivate "specialized, special and new" small and medium-sized enterprises.

Multi-strategies, department coordination, and upper and lower linkages are implemented to strengthen service and support.

  [Concurrent] Liang Zhifeng, Director of the SME Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

  We are formulating methods for the evaluation and cultivation of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and improving the methods for evaluating and fostering “specialized, special-new” SMEs and specialized, special-new, “little giant” enterprises.

Through "Dual Entrepreneurship" activities such as the "Maker China" SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, we will focus on exploring and fostering innovative SMEs.

Vigorously cultivate public service demonstration platforms for small and medium-sized enterprises and demonstration bases for innovation and entrepreneurship of small and micro enterprises.

Build the mobile terminal of the national integrated service platform for small and medium-sized enterprises, and provide more powerful service support for improving the innovation and specialization level of small and medium-sized enterprises.

  Reporting from Beijing by reporter Cheng Yu

Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]