Modern Logistics News: National Development and Reform Commission and other four departments: Cancel or reduce some highway civil aviation port charges
The website of the National Development and Reform Commission
reported on May 10，Ministry of Public
Security, Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Human
Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of Ecological
Environment, Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, Ministry of
Transportation, Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Aural
Affairs, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Emergency Response, SASAC, General
Administration of Customs, State Administration of Taxation, State
Administration of Market Supervision, National Bureau of Statistics, China
Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, China Securities Regulatory
Commission, Energy Administration, Forestry and Grassland Administration, Civil
Aviation Administration，State Administration of Foreign
Exchange, China Intellectual Property Administration, China National Railway
Group Co., Ltd, all Provinces, Autonomous Regions,
Municipalities Directly Under the Central Government and Municipalities with
Independent Planning Status under the National Social and Economic Development,
Vice Provincial Capital City, Development and Reform Commission of Xinjiang
Production and Construction Corps, Department of
Industry and Information Technology (Commission of Economy and Information
Technology, Department of Economy and Information Technology, Bureau of Economy
and Information Technology, Bureau of Industry and Information Technology),
Department of Finance (bureau),
People's Bank of China Shanghai
Headquarters, branches, business management departments, central sub branches
of provincial capitals and sub provincial central sub branches:
In the past year, in the face of the unexpected outbreak of
COVID-19, all regions and relevant departments have made in-depth efforts to
reduce the cost of enterprises in the real economy in accordance with the
decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council,
and achieved remarkable results. In 2021, in order to
fully implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference, implement
the key tasks of cost reduction put forward in the Government Work Report,
continue to solve the difficulties for market subjects, the inter-ministerial joint conference on reducing the cost of
real economy enterprises will focus on organizing and implementing 19 tasks in
8 aspects.
I.
General Requirements
Guided by Xi Jinping's socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics
in the new era, fully implement the spirit of the 19th session of national congress of the communist party of
China and the 2nd,3rd,4th,5th plenary meeting
of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China,
adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability,
base on the new development stage, implement the new development concept, build
a new development pattern, take promoting high-quality development as the
theme, take deepening the supply side structural reform as the main line,
maintain the continuity, stability and sustainability of macro policies, take
effective measures to reduce the cost of real economy enterprises, and optimize
the development environment of enterprises. Adhere to the combination of overall planning and highlighting key
points, the combination of phased policies and institutional arrangements, the
combination of consolidating achievements and improving quality and expanding
scope, the combination of reducing explicit costs and recessive costs, maintain
the necessary rescue support, promote the policy dividend to reach the main
body of the market, and enhance confidence in development.
II Continuously
and Reasonably Reduce the Tax Burden
（1） Further optimize the tax reduction
policy. Continue to implement the institutional tax reduction
policy, extend the implementation period of some phased policies such as the
preferential value-added tax for small-scale taxpayers, and implement new
structural tax reduction measures, increase the value-added tax threshold for
small-scale taxpayers from 100000 yuan to 150000 yuan per month, reduce the
annual taxable income of small and micro enterprises and individual businesses
whose annual taxable income is less than 1 million yuan by half on the basis of
the current preferential policies, and refund the full amount of incremental
VAT allowance to advanced manufacturing enterprises on a monthly basis,
continue to implement the policy of 75% deduction for enterprise R & D
expenses, and increase the proportion of deduction for manufacturing
enterprises to 100%.
（2） Standardize and reduce enterprise related
charges in key areas. Continue to carry out the work of
speeding up broadband and dedicated lines to benefit enterprises, in which the
average charges of broadband and dedicated lines for small and medium-sized
enterprises will be reduced by another 10%, continue to reduce the cost of
cloud for enterprises to use networks, clean up and standardize the charges for
urban water, electricity, gas and heating industries, and improve the quality
and efficiency of water, electricity, gas and heating products and services.
（3） Carefully implement the dividend of tax
and fee reduction. Continue to optimize tax services,
streamline the procedures for handling tax and fee policies, resolutely refrain
from overcharging taxes and fees, resolutely prevent the collection of tax
arrears and arbitrary charges, reduce policy dividends, and strictly control the
unreasonable growth of non -tax revenue, strengthen the supervision and inspection of charges in key areas
such as intermediary agencies, trade associations, chambers of commerce,
transportation and logistics, continue to intensify efforts to rectify all
kinds of illegal charges related to enterprises, and resolutely stop all kinds
of illegal behaviors that increase the burden of enterprises.
III
Deepen Financial Profit Transfer and Effectively Support the Real Economy
（4） Create an appropriate monetary and
financial environment. Comprehensively use a variety of monetary policy tools
to keep the growth rate of money supply and social financing basically matching
the nominal economic growth rate, reasonable and abundant liquidity, basically
stable macro leverage ratio, and basically stable RMB exchange rate at a
reasonable and balanced level. Continue to release the reform potential of the quoted rate
(LPR) in the loan market, consolidate the results of the decline of the real
loan interest rate, and promote the steady decline of the comprehensive
financing cost of enterprises.
（5） Guide the accurate drip irrigation of
financial resources. Continue to use inclusive refinancing and rediscount policies to
support key areas and weak links of the national economy. Further solve the financing
difficulties of small and medium-sized enterprises, guide banks to expand
credit loans, continue to increase the number of first loan users, and promote
the loan with repayment mode, so as to make more funds flow to small and micro
enterprises, individual businesses, and new agricultural management subjects,
and give targeted support to industries and enterprises continuously affected
by the epidemic. Continue the policy of extending the repayment of principal and
interest of loans generally benefiting small and micro enterprises, extend the
incentive and subsidy policy of financing guarantee fee reduction for small and
micro enterprises, and improve the loan risk sharing and compensation
mechanism.
（6） Optimize enterprise financial services. Give full play to the role of
multi-level capital market and expand the financing channels of market
subjects. Innovate
the supply chain financial service mode, take the industrial chain and supply
chain as the breakthrough point, promote the confirmation of bills and accounts
receivable in the supply chain, and enhance the integration and coordination
between the bank and the industrial chain. Implement unified registration of
chattels and security of rights. Promote credit reference and rating agencies to provide
high-quality credit reference and rating services for enterprise financing. Appropriately reduce the service
charge that small and micro enterprises need to pay.
IV Focus
on reducing institutional transaction costs
（7） Further promote the reform of "Streamline
administration and delegate power, improve regulation, and upgrade
services". Incorporate all administrative licensing items into the list
for management. Continue to deepen the reform of "Separation of certificates
and licenses" and vigorously promote the reduction of links, materials,
time limits and fees in the examination and approval of enterprises. Further improve the withdrawal
mechanism of market subjects and implement a simple cancellation system for
small, medium and micro enterprises. Revised and issued the Negative List of Market Access (2021
edition), continued to relax the restrictions on access, and further reduced
the negative list of foreign investment access. Implement the reform of the access system for industrial
products, promote the reform of the whole process of production access and
circulation management in automobile, electronic and electrical industries, and
promote the expansion of the application field of electronic licenses and the
nationwide mutual recognition.
（8） Maintain the market environment of fair
competition. Protect the property rights of all kinds of market subjects
equally according to law and strengthen the protection of intellectual property
rights. Strengthen
effective supervision and promote the survival of the fittest by fair
supervision. Establish and improve a long-term mechanism for improving the
business environment in tendering and bidding. Promote the disclosure of service conditions, procedures,
time limits and charging standards by all kinds of intermediaries.
V
Reasonably Reduce Labor Costs of Enterprises
（9） Continue the phased policy of reducing
the labor cost, Continue to implement the policy of reducing the rates of
unemployment insurance and employment injury insurance by stages, and extend
the implementation period for one year to April 30, 2022. Expand the scope of unemployment
insurance return and other periodic job stabilization policies and the
implementation period of the policy of replacing training with work.
（10） Strengthen vocational skills training to
improve the quality of workers. Continue to organize and implement vocational
skills promotion activities, broaden the scope of funds for vocational skills
training, carry out large-scale and multi-level vocational skills training, and
build a number of training bases for highly skilled talents.
VI
Reduce the Cost of Energy and Land for Enterprises
(11) Reduce electricity costs for enterprises. Steadily implement the newly approved
transmission and distribution electricity price and sales electricity price in
2021, further rectify the phenomenon of unreasonable price increases, and
continue to promote the reduction of general industrial and commercial
electricity prices. Continue to deepen the reform of electricity marketization and
allow all manufacturing enterprises to participate in electricity
marketization.
（12） Reduce land costs for enterprises. Study and issue regulations on the approval
and management of construction land, and continue to promote the reform
experience of "Standard Land" transfer. Improve the policy system for the allocation of state-owned
construction land, and revise and improve market competition and trading rules.
Organize and implement the national coordination of trans-provincial
supplementary cultivated land.
（13） Reduce housing rental costs. Encourage the places that are greatly
affected by the epidemic, and reduce the rents of small and micro service
enterprises and individual businesses that rent state-owned housing.
VII
Promote Logistics Cost Reduction and Efficiency Increase
（14）Cancel or reduce some highway civil
aviation port charges. Comprehensively promote differentiated toll collection on
expressways. Cancel
the port construction fee and reduce the collection standard of civil aviation development
fund airlines by 20%. Temporarily continue to implement the preferential policies of
airport charges, air traffic control charges and aviation kerosene price
difference until June 30, 2021.
（15） Continue to reduce the cost of railway
freight. Strictly implement the railway cost reduction policies and
measures, continuously standardize the railway freight related charges, and
promote the reduction of the whole logistics cost. Promote the market-oriented reform of competitive links in
the railway industry, open up the access to competitive business, and further
introduce the market competition mechanism.
（16） Improve transportation and logistics
infrastructure. Improve the national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation
network, ease the "Blocking point" of the comprehensive
transportation channel, and improve its operation efficiency. Promote the construction of national
logistics hub, national backbone cold chain logistics base and comprehensive
freight hub (logistics park), and improve the collection and distribution
system of port and station hubs.
（17） Optimize the transportation structure. Actively promote multimodal transport,
guide and promote the networking of key lines of multimodal transport
demonstration project, improve quality and efficiency, and form network effect.
Promote a year-on-year increase of more than 10% in container, railway and
waterway multimodal transport.
VIII
Improve the Capital Turnover Efficiency of Enterprises
（18） Ensure timely payment of funds by small
and medium-sized enterprises in accordance with the law. Strictly implement the regulations on
the protection of payment for small and medium-sized enterprises, and improve
the long-term mechanism for preventing and resolving arrears of accounts for
small and medium-sized enterprises. Give full play to the role of the registration (complaint)
platform for defaulting payment to small and medium-sized enterprises, and
speed up the research and issuance of complaint handling methods for
guaranteeing payment to small and medium-sized enterprises.
IX Encourage
Enterprises to Tap Internal Potential
（19） Support enterprises to tap potential and
increase efficiency. Encourage enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency with
digital technology. Promote the construction of intelligent manufacturing
demonstration plant, support enterprises to carry out intelligent
transformation, and continuously promote the upgrading of process equipment and
the intelligent improvement of production process. Guide enterprises to benchmark international advanced
level, strengthen cost control and improve management level.
All parties concerned should constantly improve the promotion mechanism of cost reduction work, strengthen coordination and consultation, strengthen publicity and interpretation, carefully implement various cost reduction policies and measures, promote policy implementation, continuously track the implementation results, and timely study and solve outstanding problems. The inter-ministerial joint conference on reducing the cost of real economy enterprises will continue to strengthen the sorting of good experiences and practices, and do a good job of publicity and promotion.
(Source: Modern Logistics News)
