Strengthen the supervision of the telecommunications and Internet markets to ensure fair participation of SMEs in competition
——Interview with Xiao Yaqing, Minister of Industry and Information Technology
Our reporter Huang Xin
Strengthening the supervision of the telecommunications and Internet markets and ensuring fair participation by SMEs in competition has always been an important task in the field of industry and information technology. What achievements has the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology achieved in these areas?
How to promote the formation of a more fair and competitive market environment in the next step?
With these questions, a reporter from the Economic Daily interviewed Xiao Yaqing, Minister of Industry and Information Technology.
Reporter: Could you please introduce how the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology creates a fair and competitive market environment?
Xiao Yaqing: First, strengthen the supervision of the telecommunications and Internet markets in accordance with the law.
Mainly to improve market rules, strengthen supervision and law enforcement, resolutely curb unfair competition, and initially solve a number of prominent issues that are of general concern to society.
The second is to effectively ensure that SMEs participate in competition fairly.
Actively give play to the coordination role of the Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of the State Council, and work with all member units to unswervingly implement the "two unwavering", encourage, support and guide the healthy development of small and medium-sized enterprises, protect the legitimate rights and interests of small and medium-sized enterprises, and strive to eliminate Such invisible barriers, eliminate various institutional constraints that affect fair competition and hinder innovation, create a good market environment for the sustainable and healthy development of enterprises, and promote the benign interaction and harmonious development of large and medium-sized enterprises.
The third is to do a solid job of reviewing policies and fair competition.
Establish a fair competition review work mechanism to ensure that all policies and measures are "should be reviewed and reviewed" from the source to ensure that all types of enterprises use production factors on an equal footing and participate in market competition fairly.
In the next step, in accordance with the requirements of building a high-standard market system, we will closely follow the key tasks of maintaining the basic stability of the manufacturing industry and improving the modernization level of the industrial chain supply chain, promote the formation of a fair and competitive market environment, and strive to provide various enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises. Enterprises expand the development space and better protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.
Reporter: What achievements has the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology achieved in creating a good environment and supporting the development of SMEs?
What are the next considerations?
Xiao Yaqing: We, together with relevant departments, continue to increase support for the development of SMEs, and the development environment for SMEs is continuously optimized.
First, the legal system is basically sound.
Second, the policy planning system is becoming more and more perfect.
At present, we are still compiling the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, deploying seven key tasks such as improving a level playing field, improving financing availability, enhancing innovation capabilities and professionalism, and implementing the cultivation of high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises, and small and medium-sized enterprises. 9 major projects including the improvement of corporate service organization capabilities.
The third is the continuous improvement of policy support pertinence.
On the one hand, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is taking the lead in revising the standards for SMEs to promote the new standards to be more scientific and reasonable.
On the other hand, the introduction of policies and measures closely follows the changes in the economic situation and the practical difficulties faced by the development of small, medium and micro enterprises. They are highly operable and effective. They are concentrated in reducing taxes and fees, increasing credit, cultivating enterprises, and optimizing services.
In terms of tax reduction, policies have been introduced to reduce value-added tax and income tax for small and micro enterprises, and increase the percentage of deductions for R&D expenses.
During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the nationwide new tax cuts and fees will be about 7.6 trillion yuan, and it is expected that the new tax and fee reductions will exceed 700 billion yuan this year.
In terms of credit increase, we will release liquidity through comprehensive RRR cuts and targeted RRR cuts for inclusive finance, and increase targeted support for small and micro enterprises. Recently, we have added 300 billion yuan of small reloan lines and offered preferential interest rates to small and micro enterprises. Issue.
Promote banking financial institutions to strengthen financial services for small, medium and micro enterprises. As of the end of July, the balance of inclusive small and micro loans was 17.8 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 29.3%, and 38.93 million small and micro business entities were supported, a year-on-year increase of 29.5%.
In terms of cultivating enterprises, we have initiated the implementation of the policy to support the high-quality development of small and medium-sized enterprises with specialization, specialization and innovation, and vigorously cultivated the specialization, specialization and new "little giant" enterprises to promote the professional development of more enterprises.
At present, more than 4,700 "little giant" enterprises and more than 40,000 provincial-level "specialized, special and new" small and medium-sized enterprises have been cultivated.
In terms of service optimization, focus on strengthening the construction of the service system for small and medium-sized enterprises, fostering more than 340 national small and micro enterprise entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration bases, and nearly 600 national public service demonstration platforms for small and medium-sized enterprises, and spurring the cultivation of more than 2500 provincial demonstration bases and demonstration platforms in various regions. More than 3300.
From June to July this year, the "Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Service Month" activities were carried out nationwide, and more than 18,000 service activities of various types were held.
On this basis, we have also compiled a list of practical facts for small and medium-sized enterprises with “specialized, sophisticated, and innovative” to further promote the deepening of services.
Supporting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises is a long-term and systematic task. We will further optimize the environment and prepare policy reserves for the new situations and problems faced by the development of small and medium-sized enterprises; Monopoly and anti-unfair competition related work, to effectively ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises participate in market competition fairly.
In response to the current financing difficulties faced by small and medium-sized enterprises, such as financing difficulties and high financing costs, promote the increase of inclusive financial support for small and micro enterprises, expand the scale of credit loans, first loans, medium and long-term loans, and renewal without repayment, and promote loan-on-demand loans to encourage Financial institutions develop exclusive financial products for high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises such as "specialization, special innovation".
Make full use of the multi-level capital market to promote the listing and financing of more high-quality SMEs.
Give full play to the role of the National Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Development Fund, and increase support for outstanding small and medium-sized enterprises in the seed and start-up stages.
Increase efforts to cultivate high-quality enterprises.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, we will speed up the improvement of the high-quality enterprise gradient cultivation system, through the "Maker China" innovation and entrepreneurship competition, small and micro enterprise entrepreneurship innovation base construction, etc., incubate and cultivate one million innovative small and medium-sized enterprises and cultivate 100,000 enterprises "Specialized, special new" small and medium-sized enterprises, 10,000 specialized, special new "little giant" enterprises.
Reporter: In recent years, the development achievements of China's information and communication industry are obvious to all.
What measures has the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology taken to create a fair and competitive market environment for the development of the information and communication industry?
Xiao Yaqing: Information and communication technology innovation is very active, and the development of the information and communication industry is increasingly integrated with thousands of industries and closely related to thousands of households.
The importance of creating a market environment for fair competition in the information and communication industry is even more prominent.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has always placed the creation of a good market environment in a prominent and important position. The first is to improve the regulatory system and methods.
A series of regulations have been issued successively, and a relatively complete system of competition rules in the telecommunications and Internet markets has been established.
It has clarified the regulatory boundaries of Internet information service operations and market competition behavior compliance, and put forward requirements such as "telecommunications business operators shall not implement unfair competition in any way", which has laid a solid system for promoting corporate compliance operations and strengthening market supervision. Base.
The second is to strengthen supervision and law enforcement.
In terms of key links, in-depth special clean-up actions for "black bandwidth" in the network access market have been carried out, and a number of companies that violate laws and regulations have been investigated and dealt with.
Regarding key locations, we continued to strengthen the standardized management of the campus telecommunications market, and increased the investigation and punishment of unfair competition behaviors in broadband services in commercial buildings, and vicious competition was effectively curbed.
In terms of people's livelihood concerns, we organized a special rectification of APP infringement of users' rights and interests. Since 2020, a total of 1.83 million APPs have been tested.
The third is to innovate the regulatory mechanism.
Continuously improve the Internet collaborative supervision and linkage disposal mechanism, jointly carry out cross-departmental network-related special governance work, and investigate and deal with 73,000 illegal websites and APPs in accordance with the law.
Establish and complete a credit management mechanism based on lists of bad and dishonest telecommunications businesses, and publicize 51,900 companies with bad lists.
In the next step, our department will pay more attention to improving the long-term and after-event supervision mechanism, and strive to achieve new breakthroughs in platform governance, technological improvement, and coordinated and integrated supervision, and actively create a fair and just good for all types of enterprises to participate in the information and communication market. environment.
Reporter: In July this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched a six-month special rectification action for the Internet industry.
How is the current progress?
Xiao Yaqing: The Internet industry's special rectification actions focus on 4 aspects and 8 types of issues, including disrupting the order of competition, infringing on user rights, threats to data security, violation of qualifications and resource management regulations, and involving 22 typical violation scenarios.
Since July, we have adhered to the bottom line of safety, intensified rectification efforts, and promoted rectification work in different categories.
In response to typical violation scenarios, multi-channel collection of problem clues and social complaints and reports, establishment of problem accounts after verification, and strict implementation of responsibilities.
For enterprises with large social impacts and many complaints and reports, we will carry out administrative guidance at multiple levels and in multiple ways, strengthen key supervision, and urge enterprises to rectify and reform strictly and promptly.
We use technical means to carry out online inspections, detect and verify progress in a timely manner, and promote item-by-item rectification.
At present, corporate compliance awareness has generally increased, internal management systems have been gradually improved, and some prominent problems have been initially resolved. For example, the discovery rate of major Internet companies’ open-screen pop-up information "cannot be closed" has dropped from 69% to basically zero. "Chaotic jump" decreased from 90% to 1%.
In the next step, we will continue to deepen the special rectification actions of the Internet industry, take comprehensive targeted measures, and strive to create a fair competition, safe and orderly Internet market environment.
Focus on three aspects of work: One is to compact the main responsibility of the enterprise.
Supervise Internet companies to iteratively improve products and services, and continue to enhance user perception.
The second is to strengthen supervision and inspection.
Comprehensive use of on-site inspections, dial test inspections, technical testing, effect evaluation and other methods to timely grasp the compliance status of Internet companies.
Enforce law enforcement accountability for companies that have not rectified thoroughly, and resolutely investigate and punish violations.
The third is to improve the coordination mechanism.
Strengthen coordination and cooperation with relevant departments to form a supervisory force.
Guide leading companies in the industry to set an example, strengthen mutual communication, take the lead in implementing the Internet industry management standards, and expand more space for the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises, so that all types of enterprises can achieve healthy and orderly development under fair and reasonable rules.