The General Office of the State Council issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Relief and Assistance to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises"

Recently, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Relief and Assistance for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice")
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Small and medium-sized enterprises are the main force of national economic and social development, and play an important role in promoting growth, ensuring employment, and improving people's livelihood
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Affected by rising raw material prices, insufficient orders, difficult and expensive labor, slow collection of accounts receivable, high logistics costs, the spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and power outages in some areas, SMEs have increased cost pressures and intensified operational difficulties
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In order to implement the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and to further increase the efforts to help enterprises to bail out, the "Notice" proposes policy measures from nine aspects
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The "Notice" clarifies that it is necessary to increase the support of bailout funds, encourage local governments to arrange bailout funds for small and medium-sized enterprises, implement the policy of interest discounts and incentives for start-up guaranteed loans, and make good use of the financing guarantees for small and micro enterprises to reduce fees and incentives
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We will further promote tax reduction and fee reduction.
Small, medium and micro enterprises in the manufacturing industry will defer the payment of some taxes and fees in the fourth quarter of 2021 according to regulations.
We will study and introduce the continuation policy after the expiration of some preferential policies for enterprises in a timely manner, and continue to clean up and standardize enterprise-related fees
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Flexible and precise use of a variety of financial policy tools, making good use of the newly added 300 billion yuan for small and medium-sized re-loans, increasing credit loans, and strengthening the flow of small and micro enterprises that have been seriously affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, floods, and rising raw material prices.
Financial loan support
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The "Notice" emphasizes that it is necessary to promote the alleviation of the pressure of rising costs, strengthen the monitoring and early warning of bulk commodities, severely crack down on illegal acts such as hoarding and price gouging, promote futures companies to provide risk management services for small and medium-sized enterprises, and stabilize the supply of liner companies in China's main export routes.
, to encourage liner companies to launch dedicated line services for SMEs
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Strengthen the guarantee of electricity consumption, scientifically implement orderly electricity consumption, rationally arrange peak-staggered electricity consumption, ensure the electricity demand of small and medium-sized enterprises in key links of the industrial chain, and encourage places where conditions permit to implement phased discounts on electricity consumption by small and micro enterprises
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The "Notice" proposes to support enterprises to stabilize and expand jobs, recruit more key groups such as college graduates for employment, and strengthen the connection of labor supply and demand information
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Guarantee the payment of small and medium-sized enterprises, continue to carry out special actions to clear up arrears of small and medium-sized enterprises, and prevent the formation of "triangular debts" from layers of arrears at the source
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Focus on expanding market demand, increase investment in people's livelihood and new infrastructure construction, further implement the "Administrative Measures for Government Procurement to Promote the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises", promote large-scale enterprises to expand the scale of procurement from small and medium-sized enterprises, carry out cross-border matching services for small and medium-sized enterprises, and accelerate overseas warehouse development
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The "Notice" requires that all relevant departments and regions should strengthen their responsibilities, have the courage to explore and innovate, help small and medium-sized enterprises to cope with difficulties, and promote the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in the direction of "specialization, specialization and innovation"
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All relevant departments should strengthen research and guidance support, and solidly promote the implementation of various policies and measures
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