Zhongxin Finance, May 31. On the 31st, the National Development and Reform Commission held a press conference to interpret the relevant situation of the package of policies and measures to stabilize the economy deployed by the executive meeting of the State Council.

A reporter asked at the meeting: The State Council's package of measures to stabilize the economy proposes measures such as relaxing car purchase restrictions and reducing vehicle purchase tax. What specific measures does the Ministry of Commerce take to increase car consumption?

  Sheng Qiuping, Vice Minister of Commerce, said that the automobile industry is a pillar industry of the national economy, with a high proportion of automobile consumption companies, large room for growth and strong driving effect, which is a key area to expand domestic demand and stimulate consumption.

At present, my country's car ownership has reached 307 million, surpassing the United States and ranking first in the world, and car sales account for 10% of the total social zero.

  Since the beginning of this year, affected by factors such as the spread of the epidemic and the shortage of chips, the growth of automobile consumption has been under pressure. In particular, the supply and demand of automobiles fell sharply in April. The retail sales of automobiles above the designated size decreased by 31.6% year-on-year, dragging down the social zero of the month. The total growth rate was 2.7 percentage points year-on-year.

Steady increase in automobile consumption plays a very important role in promoting the recovery of consumption and driving the sustainable development of the entire automobile industry chain.

  The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to it. The General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Further Unleashing Consumption Potential and Promoting Sustainable Consumption Recovery" in April, proposing a series of measures to promote automobile consumption. The recent State Council executive meeting reviewed and approved a package of measures to stabilize the economy. To steadily increase the consumption of bulk consumption such as automobiles.

These measures are very timely and powerful, which greatly enhances market confidence and is of great significance to boosting auto consumption.

  In the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will conscientiously implement the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and work with relevant departments to introduce detailed implementation measures to promote the transformation of automobiles from purchase management to use management, to ensure that relevant measures are implemented as soon as possible and effective, and to promote the sustainable and stable development of the automobile market.

The focus is on two aspects: one is to stabilize the increment and increase the consumption of new cars; the other is to revitalize the stock and expand the circulation of used cars.

  In terms of new car consumption, guide auto dealers to make good use of the policy of reducing the purchase tax on passenger cars in stages, and encourage regions where conditions permit to carry out trade-in for old cars to expand the scale of new car sales.

Support the purchase and use of new energy vehicles,

break the local protection of the new energy vehicle market, carry out in-depth activities of new energy vehicles to the countryside

, and actively support the construction of charging facilities.

Support car import port areas to carry out parallel import business, and improve the environmental protection information disclosure system for parallel imported cars.

  In terms of second-hand car circulation,

speed up the removal of unreasonable restrictions on second-hand car transactions, strictly implement the policy of comprehensively canceling second-hand car relocation restrictions

, promote the further abolition of relocation restrictions, and improve the regulations on the registration, filing, and vehicle transaction registration management of used car market entities. Facilitate the development of second-hand car business by enterprises, promote the commercialization and large-scale circulation of second-hand cars, and revitalize the stock of the automobile market.

  Recently, all localities have actively implemented the national plan to steadily increase automobile consumption. Some cities with limited automobile purchases, such as Shanghai and Shenzhen, have increased the number of license plate indicators. Jilin, Chongqing and other places have introduced subsidies for new car purchases, car trade-ins, support for new energy vehicle consumption, Facilitate pickup trucks into the city and other measures.

I believe that with the effective implementation of various relevant measures, auto consumption will continue to stabilize and recover, playing a positive role in stabilizing the macroeconomic market.

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