(Economic Observation) China's escort industry service industry is stable and far-reaching

　　China News Agency, Beijing, February 19 (Liu Wenwen) In order to further promote the steady growth of the industrial economy and the bailout and development of the service industry with special difficulties, the executive meeting of the State Council of China held this week determined relevant policies and measures. The National Development and Reform Commission and other departments recently issued "Several Policies on Promoting Steady Growth of the Industrial Economy" (hereinafter referred to as "Industrial Policy") and "Several Policies on Promoting the Recovery and Development of Difficult Industries in the Service Sector" (hereinafter referred to as "Service Sector Policy").

In response to the outstanding difficulties in the operation of China's industry and service industries, a number of more targeted policy measures have been introduced.

　　Industry is the main body of the national economy, and a stable industry leads to a stable economy.

In the third quarter of last year, affected by multiple factors such as the epidemic, the operation of China's industrial economy faced greater downward pressure.

With the implementation of a series of measures to invigorate the industrial economy, the effect has gradually emerged.

Last year, industrial investment and industrial export delivery value achieved year-on-year growth of 11.4% and 17.7% respectively, maintaining double-digit growth.

　　Fu Baozong, director and researcher of the Industrial Office of the Industrial Institute of the China Academy of Macroeconomics, told a reporter from China News Agency that China's industrial development has made remarkable achievements so far: large scale, complete system, many advantageous enterprises, and strong domestic demand market.

At the same time, there is still a big gap between China's per capita industrial added value and developed countries. In the long run, China's industry still has considerable growth potential.

However, it must be noted that at present, the domestic epidemic is spreading, the international situation is becoming more severe and complex, the international competition pattern and domestic factor conditions are undergoing some profound changes, and industrial development is at an important juncture between short-term stable growth and long-term transformation and upgrading.

　　In Fu Baozong's view, to solve the current difficulties, first of all, we need to make efforts from various parties and implement precise policies to help industrial enterprises get rid of the current difficulties.

The "Industrial Policy" released this time involves many aspects such as fiscal taxes and fees, financial credit, supply and price stability, investment, foreign trade and foreign capital, land use, energy use and environment. It is practical and highly targeted. The current pain points and difficulties faced by China's industrial economy.

　　Fu Baozong emphasized that it is worth noting that this document not only emphasizes stable growth in the near future, but also focuses on long-term high-quality development, adheres to many red lines and bottom lines, and achieves a combination of short and long.

For example, in the policy of ensuring supply and stabilizing prices, it proposes to adhere to green development and support enterprises in energy conservation, pollution reduction and carbon reduction; in terms of investment and foreign trade and foreign investment policies, it involves a lot of investment in new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection and new infrastructure.

This actually grasps the strategic orientation of the current dual-carbon goal, combines short-term tasks with long-term tasks, promotes long-term high-quality development of the industry while stabilizing short-term growth, and achieves systematic efforts and precise policy implementation.

　　The service industry is the largest "receptacle" of employment, and plays an important supporting role in economic development and stable employment.

However, due to the long duration of the epidemic, the service industry, especially the catering, retail, tourism, road, water and railway transportation, civil aviation and other industries, has been more affected by the epidemic, and the current operation is still relatively difficult.

　　In order to solve the above problems, the "Service Industry Policy" issued this time is strong, targeted and covered.

It specifically proposes the precise implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures, emphasizing the need to resolutely prevent and avoid the two tendencies of "relaxing prevention and control" and "excessive prevention and control", and proposes "four precisions" and "three nos."

　　Lu Yang, a researcher at the Institute of Population and Labor Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that although the service industry is characterized by agglomeration, the spread of the epidemic in different provinces across the country is different. In areas where the epidemic is under control, restrictions should be appropriately relaxed to avoid a "one size fits all" approach. The executive order has unnecessarily hit the service sector in areas where the outbreak is less severe.

　　In order to ensure that market players can actually enjoy the policy dividends, the policy to help enterprises this time includes not only tax and fee reduction measures for targeted assistance, but also measures of "reduction, return and relaxation", aiming to help the service industry in difficulties. Businesses weather the storm.

Among them, the "Service Industry Policy" clearly requires that in 2022, small and micro service enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the county-level administrative regions where the epidemic medium and high-risk areas are located will have some rent reductions or exemptions for renting state-owned houses.

　　In this regard, Cai Zhibing, an associate professor of the Economics Teaching and Research Department of the Central Party School (National School of Administration), told a reporter from China News Agency that this move shows that the decision-making department has accurately grasped the operating pain points and difficult problems of small and micro enterprises under the continuous epidemic situation, and reduced or exempted leases. Part of the rent of state-owned houses not only reflects the government's "real money" concern for small and micro enterprises, but also reflects the important and leading role of state-owned capital in responding to the impact of the epidemic.

At the same time, it should be noted that high rents have become an important issue that restricts the normal operation of small and micro enterprises in the context of the ongoing epidemic. Exploring more general and inclusive rent policies may be one of the priorities of the next macro-control work.

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