China News Agency, Guangzhou, March 2 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) The Guangdong Provincial People's Government Information Office held a press conference on the 2nd. Hu Hong, Deputy Secretary-General of the Guangdong Provincial Government, said that Guangdong has comprehensively sorted out the bailout policies issued last year. Focusing on boosting confidence, stimulating vitality, and boosting the high-quality development of market players, policy revisions were carried out, and the first batch of nine policies were issued.
In the past year, Guangdong has comprehensively strengthened the supply of policies to help enterprises bail out and stabilize growth, implement 33 national growth stabilization policies and 19 follow-up policies, and timely implement two batches of 214 specific measures, which have produced very considerable policy effects.
Last year, the total number of market entities in Guangdong Province exceeded 16 million, of which more than 7 million were enterprises, achieving growth against the trend.
According to Hu Hong, the nine policies issued by Guangdong this time include a comprehensive package of policies dedicated to promoting the overall improvement of the economy, as well as special measures in key areas and key links such as industry, agriculture, finance, investment, and foreign trade. Reform measures to implement major national strategies and accelerate the construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone.
Among them, the "Several Policies and Measures for Stimulating Enterprise Vitality and Promoting High-quality Development in Guangdong Province" formulated by the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission has a total of 59 specific measures.
From the perspective of specific provisions, 12 are the continuation of the effective policies and measures last year, including the reduction and exemption of value-added tax for small-scale taxpayers, etc.; 22 are to update and revise the original policies, including continuing to implement phased exemptions for the purchase of new energy vehicles. Taxes, etc.; 25 new measures have been added, including the implementation of a gradient cultivation plan for high-quality enterprises, the promotion of the standardization of the preliminary work of investment projects in seven major areas, and the implementation of preferential measures for expressway tolls.
At the same time, the "Several Measures of Guangdong Province to Promote the Steady Growth of Foreign Trade" formulated by the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province is a special policy to deal with the current foreign trade situation and promote the stable scale and optimal structure of foreign trade.
It is reported that Guangdong will organize 242 "Guangdong Trade Global" overseas exhibitions this year to help enterprises grab orders; arrange an export credit insurance coverage of 100 billion U.S. dollars throughout the year, an increase of 40 billion U.S. dollars compared with last year, to protect enterprises' exports.
In addition, Guangdong has also issued policy documents such as "Several Measures for Cultivating and Supporting Individual Industrial and Commercial Households in Guangdong Province", "Several Measures for Building a High-Standard Credit Service Market to Promote the High-quality Development of Credit Guangdong", and "2023 Guangdong Financial Support Economic High-quality Development Action Plan".
Hu Hong said that Guangdong is actively preparing follow-up policies, which will include increasing support for the development of private investment, promoting the opening of major scientific and technological infrastructure and large-scale scientific research instruments to the society, coordinating the integration of domestic and foreign investment, promoting the development of individual industrial and commercial households, and strengthening market players. In areas such as appeal response platform services, these follow-up policies will be issued as soon as possible.
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