China News Service, Beijing, April 29 (Reporter Li Xiaoyu) The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade released a report on the 29th, showing that 83% of the interviewed companies still achieved profitability or breakeven despite the epidemic, and companies are generally optimistic about the development prospects in the post-epidemic era.

  CCPIT released the "2021 China Business Environment Research Report" on the same day.

According to the report, more than 70% of enterprises will achieve revenue growth in 2021, and "China's consumption growth and the expansion of the middle class" will replace "digital technology" as the most important business opportunity in the eyes of enterprises.

  The report shows that under the impact of the new crown epidemic, the sales revenue of 10.7% of the companies dropped by more than 50%, and the sales revenue of 31% of the companies dropped by 20%-50%. Only about 30% of the companies were not affected or their sales revenue increased.

In response to the epidemic, 56% of enterprises have already or planned to reduce the scale of production, 20% have or planned to lay off employees, and 17% have or planned to collectively reduce wages.

  Still, 83 percent of the companies surveyed were profitable or break-even, and only 5 percent were pessimistic about their prospects, the report said.

Among them, companies engaged in high-tech industries are the most optimistic about their prospects in the post-epidemic era, and only about 3% are pessimistic.

  The report shows that in 2021, enterprises have a good overall evaluation of China's business environment.

Among them, enterprises have the lowest evaluation of human resources service environment, the highest evaluation of finance and taxation service environment, and higher evaluation of customs service environment, social legal environment and social credit environment.

More than half of the surveyed companies most hope that the government can continue to improve the policy and administrative environment.

  The report recommends that the establishment of on-lending funds should be encouraged to extend or renew loans for companies that are severely affected by the epidemic and have difficulty repaying due, and reasonably extend the repayment period.

In addition, attention should also be paid to the connection and cooperation between upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.

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