China News Service, Wuhan, May 25 (Reporter Liang Ting) Hubei has introduced a series of measures to accelerate the promotion of consumption replenishment and the release of potential.

The Information Office of the Hubei Provincial Government held a press conference on the 25th, and Hu Zhonghai, a member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Hubei Provincial Department of Commerce, introduced relevant measures.

  It is understood that the measures introduced by Hubei this time include encouraging automobile consumption, promoting housing and household consumption, supporting accommodation, catering, retail, cultural tourism, and sports consumption, lighting up nighttime consumption, encouraging sales through exhibitions, expanding new consumption, and enhancing consumption development. 18 measures in eight aspects, including comprehensive capabilities, and helping market entities to relieve difficulties.

  Hu Zhonghai introduced that for key areas such as automobiles, housing, home appliances, and furniture, which account for a relatively high proportion of residents' consumption expenditure, and difficult industries such as accommodation, catering, retail, cultural tourism, and sports consumption that have been greatly affected by the epidemic, Hubei uses "real money and silver." "Introduce supporting policies.

"Hubei Consumption · Automobile Renewal" will be carried out to provide subsidies for car trade-ins; "Hubei Consumption · Automobiles Going to the Countryside" will be carried out to support various localities to hold special events for new energy vehicles to go to the countryside; new energy vehicle promotion activities will be carried out to boost and expand automobile consumption .

  At the same time, consumer coupons will be distributed in batches in areas such as accommodation, catering, retail, cultural tourism, and sports.

In 2022, "Huibu Hubei" consumer coupons will continue to be issued in the form of electronic consumer coupons. It is initially scheduled to be issued in 3 rounds and 9 batches from June to October.

An announcement will be made to the public through the website of the Hubei Provincial Department of Commerce and the media before each batch is released.

  For the cultural and tourism industries seriously affected by the epidemic, Hubei has introduced a series of policies and measures to help cultural and tourism enterprises relieve difficulties and restore the development of the industry.

According to Chen Wubin, member of the party group and deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, as of May 20, financial institutions in the province have contacted 235 key cultural and tourism enterprises with reasonable bailout appeals and financing needs, and have handled the deferred repayment for enterprises. 138 interest payments, involving 1.784 billion yuan in finance, with an average delay of 23 months and 8.4 months for principal repayment and 8.4 months respectively; 93 loan renewals (including loan renewals without principal repayment) with an amount of 10.92 RMB 100 million; a total of 143 financing supports were provided to enterprises in the form of project loans, credit loans, and loans in the “loan and repay” model, with a total amount of RMB 19.438 billion.

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