China News Service, Beijing, January 31 (Reporter Liu Wenwen) Ren Duanping, Director of the Registration Bureau of the State Administration for Market Regulation, revealed in Beijing on the 31st that as of the end of 2023, there were 124 million registered individual industrial and commercial households nationwide, accounting for 6.74% of the total number of business entities. %, supporting the employment of nearly 300 million people. Throughout the year, 22.582 million individual industrial and commercial households were newly established, a year-on-year increase of 11.4%.
Ren Duanping introduced at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office that day that individual industrial and commercial households are the largest business entities in China and play an important role in stabilizing growth, promoting employment, and benefiting people's livelihood. The State Administration for Market Regulation continues to take effective measures to support and promote the healthy and orderly development of individual industrial and commercial households.
He introduced that the State Administration for Market Regulation has established a normal communication and exchange mechanism with individual industrial and commercial households, and has worked with 13 departments to build a diversified assistance mechanism. The second "National Individual Industrial and Commercial Household Service Month" event will be launched in July 2023, with a total of We held 29,200 symposiums for individual industrial and commercial households, visited 4.2963 million individual industrial and commercial households, and coordinated and resolved 174,600 problems, appeals and practical difficulties.
With the joint efforts of various regions, relevant departments and all sectors of society, the development of individual industrial and commercial households across the country has been generally stable and positive, with "double improvement" in activity and revenue levels. Ren Duanping said: "As the 'capillaries' of the industrial chain and consumption chain and the 'nerve endings' of the market, the stable development of individual industrial and commercial households has kept the smoke and fire in the streets and maintained the livelihood of hundreds of millions of families, showing the progress of China's economy. Strong vitality and resilience." (End)