China News Service, May 29, according to the Hubei Provincial People's Government website, recently, the Hubei Provincial People's Government issued "Several Measures to Promote Consumption and Promote Stable Economic Growth" (hereinafter referred to as "Measures") to expand retail catering consumption and release major 30 relevant measures have been formulated in terms of consumption potential, promotion of cultural tourism and sports consumption, promotion of digital consumption expansion, and implementation of consumer poverty alleviation actions. It is mentioned that local governments are encouraged to issue inclusive consumer vouchers to ordinary residents and shopping vouchers to groups in need and special groups, mainly for catering, retail, department stores, culture, tourism and other industries.

  The specific measures are as follows:

1. Expand retail catering consumption

  (1) Encourage all regions to issue inclusive consumer vouchers to ordinary residents, and issue shopping vouchers to groups in need and special groups, mainly for catering, retail, department stores, culture, tourism and other industries. (Responsible unit: municipalities, prefectures, municipalities and Shennongjia Forest District People's Government)

  (2) Holding the "June Shopping Festival" activities, organizing key business districts, special shopping streets, commercial enterprises, and brand enterprises to carry out promotional activities in June. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Commerce, municipalities, prefecture-level cities and Shennongjia Forest District People's Government)

  (3) Hold the "Jingchu Night" night economy theme consumption season activities, and carry out night night, night entertainment, night food, night shopping, night accommodation, night health and other special night economic consumption in the province. Temporary parking spaces shall be set up at night consumption places, and inclusive management shall be implemented for temporary parking due to consumption needs. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Public Security Department, Provincial Cultural Tourism Department)

  (4) Support China Food Expo to grow bigger and stronger. Support Wuhan City to create an international consumption center city. Organize the first Hubei Consumer Expo, showcase high-quality physical consumption, service consumption, and promote new consumption patterns and new formats. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Wuhan Municipal People's Government)

  (5) The mainstream media in the province will give free publicity to the well-known domestic and foreign brands to open their first stores, hold their first exhibitions, establish their first platforms, release for the first time or release new products on the market at the same time. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Commerce, Hubei Daily Media Group, Hubei Radio and TV Station)

  (6) Accelerate the implementation of duty-free shops in cities and airports in major cities of the province. Set up a domestic product area in duty-free shops to sell and promote provincial brand products. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Department of Finance, Wuhan Customs, Provincial Taxation Bureau)

2. Unlock the potential of bulk consumption

  (7) Implement preferential policies such as new energy vehicle purchase subsidies, exemption from vehicle purchase tax policy for 2 years, and VAT reduction and exemption for used car sales. Organize and carry out the activities of "swapping the old for the new" and "going to the countryside to benefit the farmers". (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Science and Technology Department, Provincial Department of Finance, Provincial Taxation Bureau)

  (8) Encourage qualified places to give certain allowances to consumers who transfer out and scrap “National IV” and below emission standards before the end of 2020 and locally registered auto sales companies purchase new vehicles that meet the required “National VI” emission standards subsidy. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Finance, Provincial Public Security Department, Provincial Ecological Environment Department, Provincial Department of Commerce, municipalities, prefectures, municipalities and Shennongjia Forest District People's Government)

  (9) Support financial institutions to speed up the approval of personal housing loans and meet the reasonable financing needs of residents for house purchase. Encourage home improvement companies to carry out promotional activities and accelerate the innovation of home improvement consumer credit products. (Responsible unit: Provincial Local Financial Supervision Bureau, Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Wuhan Branch of People's Bank of China)

  (10) Support the key home appliance manufacturing and distribution enterprises in the province to carry out price discounts and preferential activities. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Department of Economics and Information)

  (11) Reasonably increase public consumption, improve public service supply capacity, and increase fiscal expenditures on education, medical care and social security. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Finance, Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Education, Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, Provincial Health and Health Commission)

3. Promote cultural tourism sports consumption

  (12) Carry out Huimin tourism activities such as "Huiyou Hubei" and encourage tourist attractions to send free admission tickets to tourists. Encourage scenic spots, travel agencies, hotels, etc. to adopt product packaging and price bundling to launch "concessional packages" and "big gift packages." (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, municipalities, prefectures, municipalities and Shennongjia Forest District People's Government)

  (13) Develop a series of short-distance tourism products for residents in the province, encourage all regions to issue tourism consumption vouchers (cards) to the citizens, and vigorously promote "Hubei people travel to Hubei". (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, municipalities, prefectures, municipalities and Shennongjia Forest District People's Government)

  (14) Holding the Yangtze River Cultural Tourism Expo and the Jingchu Rural Cultural Tourism Festival, focusing on the promotion of extended consumption in food, housing, transportation, travel, shopping and entertainment. Implemented the "Cultural Development of Scenic Spots, Cultural Advancement of Scenic Spots" action plan and the three-year action plan for the integration of cultural tourism to promote rural revitalization, and launched "Top Ten Demonstration Brands" of famous towns and famous villages in Hubei's cultural tourism. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism)

  (15) Implement a paid vacation system, encourage employees to take vacations in stages and peak shifts, and advocate for travel vacations in combination with legal holidays. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Human and Social Affairs, Provincial Party Committee Organization Department, Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, municipalities, prefectures, municipalities and Shennongjia Forest District People's Government)

  (16) Encourage qualified localities, government agencies, enterprises and institutions to optimize and adjust the summer rest schedule in accordance with the law to create favorable conditions for employees to travel on Friday afternoons and weekends. (Responsible unit: Provincial Government Office, Provincial Cultural and Tourism Department, municipalities, prefectures, municipalities and Shennongjia Forest District People's Government)

  (17) Trade unions at all levels organize model workers and employees to recuperate in the province, carry out spring and autumn theme tours, summer summer vacations, winter special tours and other activities, and use union membership fees to apply for cultural travel annual tickets for employees. (Responsible unit: Provincial Federation of Trade Unions)

  (18) Start the construction of supporting facilities for a new type of cultural tourism business consumption gathering area, and encourage various places to build a consumption gathering place that integrates cultural and creative shops, characteristic bookstores, small theaters, cultural and entertainment places and other formats. (Responsible unit: Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism)

  (19) Temporarily refund 80% of the deposit for tourism service quality to travel agencies. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism)

  (20) Actively expand sports consumption, lead emerging fashion sports, hold various sports events in due course, and enrich sports consumption products. (Responsible unit: Provincial Sports Bureau)

4. Promote the expansion of digital consumption

  (21) Accelerate the development of "online food market", "online restaurant" and "online supermarket", cultivate a number of online economic demonstration platforms, and vigorously promote agricultural products "fresh e-commerce + cold chain home delivery" "central kitchen + food cold chain distribution" And other new consumption patterns. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Commerce, Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs)

  (22) Encourage enterprises to use IoT, big data, AR / VR (augmented reality / virtual reality) and other technological means to start new models such as "cloud shopping", "cloud tourism", "cloud viewing exhibition" and "cloud reading". Provide users with online and offline integration, personalization, efficient and convenient consumer experience. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology)

  (23) Implement the 5G "Ten Thousand Station Project" to promote new information consumption. Provincial, municipal and county finances allocate a total of 200 million yuan a year at a ratio of 1: 2: 2, and provide subsidies to newly built 5G macro base stations for three consecutive years. Arrange special government bonds to support the construction of 5G base stations. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Finance, Provincial Communications Management Bureau, municipalities, prefectures, municipalities and Shennongjia Forest District People's Government)

  (24) Create a national information consumption demonstration city, actively plan and hold information consumption festivals, information consumption city trips, information consumption experience weeks and other activities to create a digital consumption atmosphere. For those who are rated as the National New Information Consumer Experience Center (Experience Center), an operating subsidy of 1 million yuan will be granted each year; for each project that won the National New Information Consumer Pilot Demonstration Project and the National New Information Consumer Contest Award, each project will be given a one-off Awards make up 500,000 yuan. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Economics and Information, Provincial Department of Finance)

  (25) Implement a new round of broadband speed-up project, and further promote the "Double G and Double Lift" action plan. In response to the development needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, on the basis of an average 15% reduction in tariffs in 2019, the introduction of higher bandwidth and more Targeted preferential tariff plan. Encourage basic telecom operators to provide information consumption preferential activities. (Responsible unit: Provincial Communications Administration)

  (26) Organize telecommunications infrastructure operators and cloud service providers to provide enterprises with free cloud office services and speed-up services for 3-6 months, and provide network support for the promotion of a new online consumption model. Continue to promote the "10,000 enterprises on the cloud" project, select about 50 benchmarking enterprises on the cloud every year, and each enterprise will make a one-time award of 200,000 yuan. (Responsible unit: Provincial Communications Administration, Provincial Department of Economics and Information, Provincial Department of Finance)

V. Implementing consumer poverty alleviation actions

  (27) Organize budget units at all levels to increase the procurement of agricultural and sideline products in poverty-stricken areas in the province by giving priority to purchases and reserving procurement shares. The amount of agricultural and sideline products purchased in poor areas is not less than the total annual consumption of agricultural and sideline products of the unit 25%. (Responsible unit: Provincial Department of Finance, Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office, Provincial Supply and Marketing Cooperative, municipalities, prefectures, municipalities and Shennongjia Forest District People's Government)

  (28) Trade union organizations at all levels carry out poverty alleviation activities for employees through consumer love, and give priority to purchasing poverty alleviation catalog products and products produced by poor households through the Hubei Special Pavilion of the Chinese Social Poverty Alleviation Network and the "Poverty Alleviation 832" consumer poverty alleviation platform. (Responsible unit: Provincial Federation of Trade Unions)

  (29) Carry out Internet promotion activities for poverty-relief products, hold live-streaming poverty-relief products, e-commerce consumer poverty alleviation and other online consumer poverty alleviation actions, and increase the scale of network sales of poverty-relief products. (Responsible unit: Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office, Provincial Department of Commerce)

  (30) Carry out offline public welfare activities to help farmers, organize "optimized base tours, happy rural trips" and "Jingchu excellent products, preferred on the ridge" into institutions, enterprises, schools, hospitals, scenic spots, and communities , Enter the trading market and other exhibition activities to build a new model of consumer poverty alleviation. (Responsible unit: Provincial Radio, Film and Television Bureau, Hubei Radio and TV Station)