In order to help various industries "recover their vitality", local governments have issued a package of relief policies one after another.
After the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger in 2022, the epidemic began to break out in many places across the country, and the catering industry, tourism and other service industries were deeply affected by this.
In order to help enterprises resume production, relevant relief measures have been introduced across the country to help the society restore production vitality.
Data show that since March, more than 60,000 local infections have been reported nationwide, affecting 28 provinces.
Among them, the epidemic situation in Jilin Province is still at a high level, and the epidemic situation in Shanghai, Hebei Province, Fujian Province, and Liaoning Province has grown rapidly in recent days, and the risk of community transmission in the places where the epidemic occurred continues to exist.
Affected by the epidemic, according to incomplete statistics, catering or hotel associations in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Dalian and other places have successively issued appeals for assistance, earnestly calling on all parties to help the catering industry, calling on owners to appropriately reduce or exempt rents, and significantly reduce or exempt food delivery platforms. Catering takeaway commission rates, etc., help urban catering and hotel companies to overcome the difficulties together.
Liu Yongzhong, president of Shenzhen Culinary Association, previously told Yicai that since the outbreak of the "0215" epidemic in Shenzhen in 2022, the offline operations of catering companies have been affected many times. Enterprises are also facing operating pressures from rent, manpower, food ingredients and the market. If there is no timely introduction of relevant local substantive relief and assistance policies, some small catering enterprises will close and withdraw from the market around May.
In order to help various industries "recover their vitality", local governments have issued a package of relief policies one after another.
Recently, Shenzhen, Wuxi, Tianjin, Quanzhou and other cities currently hit hard by the epidemic have issued a number of relief measures, including "Shenzhen's Measures to Further Help Market Entities in Responding to the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic" and "Wuxi City's Measures to Increase Several Policies and Measures to Help Enterprises Relieve and Promote the Stable and Healthy Operation of the Economy", "Tianjin's Several Measures to Help Enterprises in Relief and Support the Development of Market Entities", "Notice on Several Measures to Support Quanzhou in Actively Responding to the Impact of the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic", etc.
Wuxi's bailout policy mainly includes 50 specific measures in nine areas. It is expected to cash out 11 billion yuan of industrial support funds, and add more than 20 billion yuan in tax and fee reductions to help enterprises boost confidence, reduce losses and tide over difficulties.
Tianjin has a total of 15 relief measures, which focus on tax reduction and exemption, stable employment, financial support and other aspects that are concerned by market players, and invest real money to provide precise support to help enterprises solve difficulties and minimize the impact of the epidemic on the economy and society. developmental impact.
The relief measures for Quanzhou issued by the Fujian Provincial Development and Reform Commission mainly involve Quanzhou's strengthening of epidemic prevention and control capabilities, stabilizing the production and operation of enterprises, helping enterprises maintain the market, increasing financial support, and coordinating guarantee services. 16 articles measure.
Among them, 10.94 million yuan of funds were arranged to subsidize makeshift hospitals and related equipment; 15 million yuan of anti-epidemic relief funds for industrial enterprises were arranged; the establishment of the sixth phase of 10 billion yuan of special fund loans for the relief of small, medium and micro enterprises to increase production and efficiency was accelerated, and given to Quanzhou The city has a special quota of 3.5 billion yuan to support.
Shenzhen's bailout plan involves 30 bailout measures in 8 parts, including not only inclusive bailout support measures, but also industrial manufacturing, catering, wholesale and retail, cultural and sports tourism, transportation and logistics, private kindergartens, etc. Industries hit hard by the pandemic.
At the same time, recently, the executive meeting of the Guangdong Provincial Government reviewed and approved the "Several Measures of Guangdong Province to Promote the Recovery and Development of Difficult Industries in the Service Industry", "Guangdong Province's Action Plan for Promoting the Steady Growth of the Industrial Economy", "Accelerating the Promotion of Guangdong's Pre-fabricated Vegetable Industry" "Ten Measures for Quality Development" and other three incentive policies and measures to bail out enterprises.
On March 25, the Guangdong Provincial Government Information Office held a press conference to interpret the above three policies.
The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission introduced that at present, the situation of epidemic prevention and control is still complicated and severe, especially the catering, retail, tourism, road, water and railway transportation, civil aviation and other industries are more affected by the epidemic.
In this regard, Guangdong has introduced 47 measures, especially for the above-mentioned five industries with special difficulties, respectively, to propose targeted relief and support measures to support the market players of the service industry to tide over the difficulties and resume development.
Among them, for the catering and retail industries, employees of such enterprises will be given subsidy support of not less than 50% of their employees for regular nucleic acid testing, and prefectures and cities with conditions are encouraged to provide subsidies and support for enterprises' expenditure on epidemic prevention and disinfection.
At the same time, precise implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures, resolutely preventing and avoiding the two tendencies of "relaxing prevention and control" and "excessive prevention and control", and creating a favorable environment for the development of the service industry.
Prior to this, on March 23, Yantai City issued the "Several Policies and Measures on Relieving Difficulties and Seeking Progress While Stable" to coordinate the promotion of the city's epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, help market players to solve difficulties and hedge the adverse impact of the epidemic. "Seeking progress while maintaining stability" promotes high-quality development.
According to news on March 17, the General Office of the Gansu Provincial Government recently issued "Several Measures to Further Increase the Relief and Assistance for Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises", proposing to support 10,000 unemployed ordinary college graduates to find employment at the grassroots level.
On the same day, Hohhot City issued the "Several Measures of Hohhot City to Respond to the Impact of the Epidemic to Help Enterprises Relief and Relieve the Burden", which involves reducing or exempting urban land use tax, deferring the payment of housing provident funds, deferring the payment of some taxes, deferring the payment of water and gas fees, and reducing or exempting renting agencies, enterprises and institutions. Seven aspects of housing rent, support for enterprise employment, and reduction of financing costs.
On March 16, the Dongguan Municipal Government issued the "Several Measures on Further Supporting Epidemic Prevention and Control and Assisting the Development of Market Entities in Relief". Relief measures have been introduced in six areas, including reducing the cost pressure of business entities, and providing special subsidies to key towns and streets for epidemic prevention.
On March 10, the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission issued the "Sichuan Province Implementation Plan for Implementing Several Policies to Promote the Recovery and Development of Difficult Industries in the Service Industry" to help difficult industries in the service industry overcome difficulties and resume development.
The plan is divided into eight aspects, including inclusive relief and support measures for the service industry, relief and support measures for the catering industry, retail industry, tourism industry, road, water and railway transportation, and civil aviation industry, as well as precise implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures, guarantees measures, a total of 43 measures.
On March 5, the Suzhou Municipal Government issued "Several Policies and Measures to Further Help Market Entities Relieve Difficulties and Focus on Stabilizing Economic Growth", which includes 8 aspects including increasing fiscal and taxation support, continuing to strengthen financial support, and increasing fee clearance and burden reduction. 46 policy measures were put forward to fully promote the smooth and orderly economic operation.
Author: Huang Qiong