(Combating new crown pneumonia) Hubei measures to accelerate economic and social development

China News Service, Wuhan, March 20 (Reporter Guo Xiaoying) Hubei Province held a press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic on the 20th, explaining "Several Policies and Measures to Promote Economic and Social Development in Hubei Province". Cheng Yongwen, director of the Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission, introduced that the policy measures included eight specific measures, including increasing financial support and reducing costs and burdens for market players, totaling 30 specific measures.

Stabilizing enterprises: reducing costs and burdens for market players

Cheng Wenwen stated that specific measures for reducing costs and burdens for enterprises include reducing tax burdens, reducing fees and rents, and reducing financing costs.

In terms of reducing the tax burden, from March 1 to May 31, Hubei was exempted from the value-added tax levied at the 3% rate by small-scale taxpayers across the province; taxpayers were unable to pay taxes due to the epidemic situation with the approval of tax authorities The payment can be postponed for a maximum of 3 months. If the taxpayer has suffered serious losses due to the impact of the epidemic, it is indeed difficult for the taxpayer to pay this year's urban land use tax and real estate tax, which can be reduced or exempted according to law upon approval by the tax authority.

In terms of reducing fees and rents, Cheng Yongwen introduced that in addition to high-energy-consuming industries, the company's electricity price will be reduced by 5% in stages. In addition, from the end of the epidemic to the end of 2020, based on the original preferential policies, 22% discount on transportation fees for Class II ETC trucks and 14% discount on transportation fees for Class III ETC trucks.

In terms of reducing financing costs, Wang Yuling, president of the People ’s Bank of China Wuhan Branch, introduced that the financial sector will increase credit support for small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing chain and other industrial chains, strengthen financial institutions ’support for the real economy, and ensure that Hubei Province ’s new The loan balance is not less than last year, the growth rate of inclusive small and micro enterprises loans is higher than 20%, not less than the average loan growth rate, and the comprehensive financing cost is 1 percentage point lower than last year.

According to Zhong Zhiqing, deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Department of Finance, the financial department subsidized the purchase of equipment for the key expansion of supply and production capacity during the epidemic prevention and control period, and the provincial government first arranged 1 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) to support the prevention and control. Expansion, conversion and new construction of materials. For enterprises that have been supported by special preferential loans from the central government, the provincial fiscal co-ordination will discount interest at 50% of the actual loan interest rate of the enterprise to reduce corporate financing costs.

Stabilizing the industry: repairing and consolidating the industrial chain

Cheng Yongwen stated that Hubei strengthened the overall coordination of various types of government-owned asset industry funds, established a rescue mechanism around key industries, accelerated the technological transformation of traditional industries, and supported big data, Internet of Things, 5G, artificial intelligence and other new formats and new technology companies in society. Integrated innovation and development in areas such as governance, epidemic prevention and control, unmanned logistics, and remote office.

Wu Fangjun, deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology, said that in January-February, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size in Hubei Province fell by 46.2% year-on-year. How to maintain and stabilize the industrial chain is an important task to restore economic order.

Hubei Provincial Economics and Information Department set up special work service classes to speed up the resumption of production and production of key enterprises and industrial chains in accordance with the requirements of zoning, classification, and time sharing under the prerequisite of epidemic prevention and control. The cooperation of the credit department helped to establish a cross-regional and cross-department communication and coordination mechanism to help solve problems such as people flow and logistics in the resumption of work and production. At the same time, a new round of technological transformation was launched, and an advanced industrial cluster cultivation plan was introduced to actively cultivate new industrial growth points.

Wu Fangjun said that Hubei will further strengthen the planning, striving for and starting construction of major projects in the field of industry and informatization, accelerate the orderly start of 195 major projects of more than 1 billion yuan, and add 100 new shortcomings projects.

Stable employment: 558 million yuan in subsidies for job stabilization

Liu Yanhong, director of the Human Resources and Social Security Department of Hubei Province, said that Hubei has implemented the strongest unemployment insurance return policy to support enterprises to stabilize their positions and employment.

She introduced that if the reduction rate of enterprises is not higher than 5.5%, 70% of the unemployment insurance premiums actually paid by the enterprises in the previous year will be returned to 100%. For the insured enterprises with less than 500 employees, the reduction of staffing rate will not be assessed, and 50% of the unemployment insurance premiums actually paid in the previous year will be refunded, and the policy benefit will be greatly improved. As of now, the province has audited and issued more than 100,000 companies with less than 500 employees to 558 million yuan in job security subsidies, involving more than 2.3 million employees.

Liu Yanhong said that, while increasing the rewards for enterprises, Hubei will also openly recruit a group of rural teachers, doctors and social workers to the grassroots, and expand the organization and implementation of grassroots service projects such as "three branches and one support" for college students and volunteers in the west. At the same time, we will promote entrepreneurship and return to work in a safe and orderly manner. (Finish)