Last year, Beijing’s fiscal revenue reached its best level in eight years, reducing the burden on enterprises by more than 85 billion yuan.

　　China News Service, Beijing, January 21 (Reporter Chen Hang and Lu Shaowei) In 2023, with the continuous optimization of Beijing’s business environment and the implementation of a series of policies to stabilize expectations and promote development, the city’s economy will continue to rebound and improve.

Both the quantity and quality of fiscal revenue increased, reaching 618.11 billion yuan for the whole year, a year-on-year increase of 8.2%. Both the scale and growth rate were the best in eight years; tax revenue accounted for 86.7%, and the quality of revenue has remained first in the country for three consecutive years, which fully reflects the The resilience and high quality of the capital’s economic development.

　　On the 21st, the "Report on Beijing's 2023 Budget Implementation and 2024 Budget (Draft)" was submitted to the second meeting of the 16th Beijing Municipal People's Congress for review.

The scale and growth rate of fiscal revenue reached the best level in eight years

　　In 2023, with the continuous optimization of Beijing's business environment and the implementation of a series of policies to stabilize expectations and promote development, the city's economy will continue to rebound and improve.

The financial department has implemented the national tax reduction and fee reduction policy to the letter, reducing the burden on enterprises by more than 85 billion yuan throughout the year; it has continued to strengthen the construction and conservation of financial resources, and the top seven key industries such as finance contributed nearly 80% of the fiscal revenue, especially technology The service industry and information service industry both maintained rapid double-digit growth, and the construction of an international science and technology innovation center has achieved remarkable results.

Driven by the above factors, the city's fiscal revenue has increased both in quantity and quality, reaching 618.11 billion yuan for the whole year, a year-on-year increase of 8.2%. Both the scale and growth rate are the best in eight years; tax revenue accounts for 86.7%, and the revenue quality has been maintained for three consecutive years. Ranking first in the country fully reflects the resilience and high quality of the capital's economic development.

Investment in people's livelihood remains above 80%

　　In 2023, Beijing's general public budget expenditure will be 797.16 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.7%, effectively ensuring the implementation of major strategies, important tasks, and key reforms.

We will vigorously support and ensure the functional construction of the "four centers" and improve the level of the "four services". The construction of the international science and technology innovation center will be accelerated, the culture of the capital will continue to prosper and develop, the quality of the ecological environment will continue to improve, and the level of urban governance will gradually increase.

　　We have successfully completed the service guarantee for major state events such as the "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, vigorously promoted the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. "Cultural Building" was completed and put into use, continuing to protect and improve people's livelihood, and the investment in people's livelihood remained at more than 80%.

Actively respond to the "23·7" extreme heavy rainfall and make every effort to ensure the financial needs for emergency rescue and disaster relief and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.

Increase support for small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households

　　In 2023, Beijing will comprehensively use tools such as tax cuts and fee reductions, government procurement, fiscal discounts, awards in lieu of subsidies, and government investment funds to give full play to the comprehensive effect of fiscal policy funds, effectively stimulate the vitality of business entities, and promote high-quality economic development in the capital.

Continue and optimize some tax reduction and exemption policies, and further increase support for small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households.

Continue to promote the recovery and expansion of consumption, support increased investment in consumer infrastructure such as electric vehicle charging devices, continue to optimize the vehicle purchase tax reduction and exemption policy for new energy vehicles, and support the launch of a series of consumption-promoting activities.

　　We actively strived for 111.7 billion yuan in government bond funds, which were issued three months earlier than required by the central government, effectively stimulating investment.

Give full play to the function of government procurement policies, award 80% of the contract value to small, medium and micro enterprises, which is 40 percentage points higher than the national requirement, and vigorously support the development of small, medium and micro enterprises.

Government guarantee institutions are encouraged to "reduce rates and expand scale" to guide the flow of financial resources to the real economy.

Focusing on technological innovation and the development of high-precision industries, we will establish new government investment funds in areas such as artificial intelligence, medicine and health, robotics, and information industries to help accelerate the construction of an international technological innovation center.

Continue to reduce “three public expenditures” at a rate of 5%

　　In 2023, Beijing will deepen the reform of full-cost budget performance management and achieve full coverage at the city, district, subdistrict and township levels. 1,515 new optimized expenditure quota standards will be established throughout the year to improve the level of refined management.

Actively invited 418 National People's Congress deputies to participate in 198 financial performance evaluation and pre-performance evaluation projects to improve the efficiency of fund use.

Establish an evaluation indicator system for government departments to live a tight life and make living a "tight life" the norm.

On the basis of consecutive years of reductions, we will continue to reduce general expenditures and non-urgent and non-rigid expenditures by 2.39 billion yuan, and continue to reduce "three public expenditures" at a rate of 5%.

　　We continued to promote the transfer of financial resources to the district level, and the city-to-district transfer payments increased by 10.3% year-on-year throughout the year, supporting each district to secure the bottom line of the "three guarantees".

Strengthen monitoring and early warning of grassroots financial operations to ensure safety and stability.

We continued to improve the management level of the whole chain of "borrowing, managing and repaying" government bonds, and took the lead in launching a pilot program for early repayment of special government bonds in the country, saving over 70% of interest expenses.

Strictly abide by the red lines of financial discipline and carry out in-depth special rectification of financial discipline in key areas.

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