Chinanews.com, March 12th. According to a report by Qiaobao.com, New York Mayor Bai Sihao held a regular media briefing meeting recently. Jonnel Doris, director of the Municipal Bureau of Small Business, said that the city has a series of small businesses. Assistance programs and projects encourage small minority businesses to apply. For example, the Flushing Barbecue Restaurant "Niu Horn" in Queens has obtained a $100,000 interest-free loan through the help of the Municipal Small Business Bureau, which injects new life into the restaurant.

　　Charles Donglin, a Chinese-style barbecue restaurant in Flushing, Queens, said that the restaurant opened in May 2017 and employed more than 40 employees at its peak. However, it encountered the epidemic after two and a half years of opening, and it was promulgated by the government. The epidemic prevention and control measures were suspended for about 3 months.

Later, the restaurant was allowed to reopen and only part of the business resumed.

　　"Barbecue is not good for takeout, and business is difficult." Lin Charles said, only from the perspective of business, in fact, the loss of closing the door is smaller, but in this way, the employees lose their jobs and lose their jobs, so he decided to overcome Difficulty, continue to operate.

In addition to applying for the funds provided by the Salary Protection Program (PPP), through the help of the Municipal Small Business Bureau and City Councillor Gu Yaming, etc., I applied for a $100,000 interest-free loan provided by the bank. This fund has brought the storefront New life.

　　Lin Charles said that the business needs to pay store rent, purchase goods, and pay employees' salaries. Loans have helped.

At present, the number of employees in Niujiao Restaurant has reached 14. After the weather improves, he intends to resume outdoor dining operations. It is expected that one or two employees can be hired to solve the job problem of the employees.

At the same time, restaurants in New York City can expand their indoor dining operations to 50% from March 19th. He hopes to hire more employees and work with the restaurants to help them tide over the difficulties.

　　Regarding the experience of obtaining loan assistance, Lin Charles said that at the beginning of the epidemic, he had registered on the official website of the government. Once there was a new loan or assistance project, he could know this information as soon as possible.

Some small Asian businesses, including ethnic Chinese, are unwilling to cooperate with the government or provide relevant information due to various factors, but they are actually bringing losses to themselves.

"Businessmen can choose and learn more about whether or not to apply, whether they are eligible for application, but only by knowing more resources and information can they bring themselves more choices and outlets." He said, from his personal experience of applying for a loan From a point of view, businesses don’t have to worry too much about exposing financial or other information when applying for a loan, and don’t choke and lose the financial assistance they need.

　　Since the outbreak, the New York City Bureau of Small Business has provided more than 5,000 New York City small businesses with $135 million in funding.

In January 2021, the City Small Business Bureau launched the "Fair Share NYC" (Fair Share NYC) project to help family-run small businesses and minorities who did not apply for assistance in the first round of the salary protection program Descent small business.

(Liu Yiling)