That's settled! Rent reduction for three months

The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) recently issued a circular to help small and medium-sized enterprises solve their problems. The notice made it clear that for small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry that lease houses in central enterprises, the rent for three months should be generally reduced in 2022; For small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry, which were listed as epidemic-prone areas in 2022 and located in county-level administrative areas, the rent for three months will be reduced or exempted.

Notice on matters related to central enterprises helping small and medium-sized enterprises solve problems and promote coordinated development

Central enterprises:

In order to implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, support the healthy development of small and medium-sized enterprises, focus on building a good ecology of interdependence, mutual promotion and common development of large and medium-sized enterprises, and continuously enhance the resilience of national economic development and the stability of industrial chain and supply chain, relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:

First, pay the accounts in full and on time to help ease the financial difficulties of SMEs.

Strictly implement the Provisions on Payment Guarantee for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, adhere to the principle of "full payment and fast payment" for small and medium-sized enterprise accounts, and put an end to the malicious default of accounts by abusing market dominance from the aspects of system, mechanism, process and information control.

1. Pay the small and medium-sized enterprises in full and on time in strict accordance with the time and manner agreed in the contract. For subsidiaries with temporary cash flow difficulties, the group company or the superior unit should give temporary funds or credit support to ensure timely and full payment of the accounts of SMEs.

2. For small and medium-sized enterprises with long-term cooperation, good reputation, timely performance and real difficulties, under the premise of ensuring the safety of funds, they can pay or prepay part of their accounts in advance upon the written application of the other party and strict implementation of internal decision-making procedures.

3. Strengthen compliance management, clean up overlord clauses, and do not set unreasonable payment terms and time limits. Strictly control the "back-to-back" payment terms, strengthen the collection of upstream payment, and timely pay the upstream payment to small and medium-sized enterprises.

4. Strictly manage non-cash payments such as bills, and enterprises with abundant cash flow should give priority to using cash to pay the accounts of SMEs. In principle, non-cash payment shall not be used without prior written consent. The issuance period of commercial acceptance bills and supply chain debt certificates shall not exceed 6 months in principle.

The second is to effectively speed up rent reduction and help support small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry to tide over the difficulties.

Conscientiously implement the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Rent Reduction and Exemption for Small and Micro Enterprises and Individual Industrial and Commercial Households in the Service Industry in 2022 (No.29 [2022] of State-owned Assets, hereinafter referred to as Document No.29), adhere to the principle of "exemption, exemption and inevitability", and effectively accelerate the implementation of the rent reduction and exemption policy.

5. For small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry that lease houses of central enterprises, it is necessary to generally reduce the rent for three months in 2022, and strive to complete the reduction and exemption in the first half of the year. If the lease term in 2022 belongs to different lessees, it will be reduced or exempted in proportion according to the actual lease term of different lessees.

6. For small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry that are listed as high-risk areas of epidemic in 2022 and lease houses of central enterprises, the rent will be reduced for three months, and the supplementary reduction and exemption will be completed within two months after the high-risk areas of epidemic appear in county-level administrative areas.

7. For subletting or subletting the houses of central enterprises, efforts should be continuously intensified to ensure that the rent reduction policy is effectively transmitted to the actual tenants. For subsidiaries with diversified equity, we should actively communicate and coordinate, strive for the understanding and support of minority shareholders, standardize internal decision-making procedures and reduce rents as soon as possible.

8. If the local government of the rental house issues a rent reduction policy stronger than that required by Document No.29, it is necessary to conscientiously implement the territorial policy and ensure that the policy is not discounted. For houses owned by joint-stock enterprises, we should actively assume the responsibilities of shareholders and negotiate with other shareholders for support. Small and medium-sized enterprises that do not belong to the object of rent reduction and exemption stipulated in Document No.29 apply for rent reduction and exemption, and encourage central enterprises to give necessary help within their capacity on the principle of mutual benefit, friendly consultation, standardized decision-making and overcoming difficulties.

Third, vigorously implement cost reduction and quality improvement to help reduce the operating costs of SMEs.

Give full play to the supporting role of central enterprises, strengthen the guarantee of production factors, actively implement the requirements of reducing costs and improving quality, and provide accurate, efficient and convenient services and sufficient, reliable and high-quality supply for small and medium-sized enterprises.

9. Resolutely cooperate with the local government price departments and market supervision departments to clean up the unreasonable price increase in the power transfer link. If the internal property rights are clear and have the conditions for transformation, the work of "straightening" will be promoted in an orderly manner. In accordance with the relevant requirements of the state, clean up and standardize urban power supply charges, and further standardize charging items and standards.

10. Implement relevant relief and support measures for poor industries such as catering, retail, tourism, civil aviation, highways, waterways and railway transportation, and actively cooperate with local price departments to do a good job of phased preferential electricity consumption for small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in poor industries. Small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households affected by the epidemic that have temporary difficulties in production and operation are given "uninterrupted supply arrears" for water, electricity and gas, allowing them to pay off the arrears within six months.

1 1. Accelerate the integration and application of innovative technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, Internet of Things, big data and blockchain with physical industries, and support the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises. Accelerate the development of 5G and Gigabit broadband networks, improve the quality and level of service, open up the "last mile" of broadband access, and ensure that the average tariff of broadband and private lines for small and medium-sized enterprises will drop by 10% in 2022. Increase the incentives for cloud office products such as cloud disk and cloud conference, and reduce the impact of the epidemic on the offline office of SMEs.

12. Innovate service means, provide water, electricity and gas sunshine services, and accelerate the realization of "one network service" such as payment and warranty. Actively build a cloud platform, vigorously promote "cloud procurement", "cloud contract", "cloud settlement" and "cloud logistics", strive to make more information run, save the "foot" cost of small and medium-sized enterprises as much as possible, and actively reduce the cost of using the cloud and platform for small and medium-sized enterprises that are greatly affected by the epidemic.

13. provide high-quality basic services such as coal, electricity, oil and gas transportation, do a good job in the supply of bulk raw materials and price stability, and strictly prohibit illegal acts such as colluding with price increases and driving up prices, and take the lead in maintaining market price order. Give full play to the basic guarantee function of logistics enterprises, coordinate transportation capacity, optimize routes, speed up the creation of smooth, safe and efficient logistics transportation channels, and promote the smooth circulation of logistics.

Fourth, vigorously support financing to help ease the financing difficulties of SMEs.

Give full play to the advantages of market resources of central enterprises, use big data, blockchain and other technical means to promote production with finance, realize the enjoyment of their own high-quality credit and small and medium-sized enterprises in the industrial chain supply chain, and smooth the flow of upstream and downstream funds.

14. Increase the support for commercial vehicle consumption loans, and effectively alleviate the repayment pressure of logistics enterprises and individual truck drivers. The financial subsidiary of the central automobile enterprise should play a leading and exemplary role, and extend the policy support for commercial vehicle consumption loans issued before June 30, 2022 for six months.

15. Actively play the role of "core" enterprises in the industrial chain, support and cooperate with upstream and downstream SMEs to carry out supply chain financing, and strive to achieve their own high-quality credit and share it with upstream and downstream SMEs. Small and medium-sized enterprises need to handle financing business with accounts payable, commercial bills and supply chain debt certificates held by units in central enterprise groups. , and shall promptly confirm their rights, prohibit high interest arbitrage.

16. Actively play the role of supply chain service platform, empower the credit of upstream and downstream SMEs based on real business data, help SMEs expand financing channels, obtain low-cost funds and reduce capital occupation. Learn from the experience of supply chain platforms such as Yirong "e-loan" and Zhongchu Zhiyun "freight loan" to serve small and medium-sized enterprises, and base on their own innovative ways of serving small and medium-sized enterprises.

17. Continue to promote the substitution of letter of guarantee (insurance) for cash deposit, and do not charge unreasonable deposit from small and medium-sized enterprises disproportionately or in disguised form, and do not restrict the way for small and medium-sized enterprises to provide guarantee and return the due deposit in time.

Verb (the abbreviation of verb) continues to increase innovation support and focus on promoting innovation in large, medium and small enterprises.

Based on building a new pattern of development, give full play to the leading and leading role of central enterprises in the field of science and technology, support the growth of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises as an important birthplace of innovation, carry out in-depth "joint action" of integrated innovation of large and medium-sized enterprises, and promote the integration and innovation of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the industrial chain.

18. Give full play to the role of the industrial fund and venture capital fund of central enterprises, base on the main business, attract and drive all kinds of capital to support the innovation and development of small and medium-sized enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain supply chain, which are in line with the national strategy and have technological advantages and development potential, promote scientific and technological innovation and break through key core technologies, cultivate strategic emerging industries, and serve the transformation, upgrading and development of industries.

19. Continue to hold the Bright Star Innovation and Creative Competition of Central Enterprises for the whole society, strengthen the supply of innovative resource elements and services for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, carry out innovation management training and entrepreneurship counseling, and promote the transformation of the results of the competition projects.

20. Improve the collaborative innovation system, give full play to the role of research institutes in transforming enterprises, build an open, collaborative and efficient technology research and development platform, actively participate in the construction of national laboratories, establish a number of high-level innovation consortia, industrial technology innovation alliances and public research and development platforms, create a high-level "double innovation" platform, and increase innovation support for small and medium-sized enterprises.

2 1. Accelerate the creation of original technology sources, actively connect with major national strategies, and work together with various entities including small and medium-sized enterprises to tackle key problems and strive to break through the blocking points in the supply chain of the industrial chain. Support the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain supply chain to cultivate a large number of leading enterprises and specialized new "invisible champion" enterprises.

Six, constantly strengthen leadership, and strive to achieve coordinated development of large, medium and small enterprises.

Give full play to the leading role of state-owned capital, implement the chain length action plan of modern industrial chain, continue to lay out key links with high-end leading and basic supporting functions in the industrial chain, and do our best to stabilize, supplement and strengthen the chain, so as to provide more application scenarios and market opportunities for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

22. Promote the implementation of various measures to stabilize growth, continue to exert efforts, actively expand effective investment, land a number of major projects clearly defined in the Tenth Five-Year Plan as soon as possible, form more physical workload as soon as possible, release upstream and downstream order demand in advance, and stabilize the expectations of SMEs.

23. Actively purchase high-quality products and services from small and medium-sized enterprises, improve the management level of supply chain, deepen the accurate matching of supply and demand, standardize the purchase transaction behavior, and do not set unreasonable conditions to restrict and exclude the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises.

24. Focus on the main business, strengthen cooperation with small and medium-sized enterprises with high matching, high identity and high synergy, and actively support and promote the coordinated development of small and medium-sized enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain through investment cooperation, project cooperation, industrial construction and alliance building.

25. Give play to the core role of the industrial chain, give better play to the leading role of central enterprises in smoothing the industrial cycle, market cycle and economic and social cycle in a special critical period, and provide necessary support for the upstream and downstream SMEs affected by the epidemic to resume work and production.

Seven, strengthen organizational security, and strive to promote the implementation of various measures.

All central enterprises should implement various support policies from the perspective of doing a good job of "six stabilities", implementing the tasks of "six guarantees" and giving full play to the strategic supporting role of the state-owned economy, so that the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises in the upstream and downstream can "see, feel and benefit" and demonstrate the responsibility of central enterprises at critical moments.

26. Establish and improve the working mechanism, vigorously strengthen the organization and leadership, improve the internal assessment and reward and punishment requirements, and refine the operation process in light of its own reality. In accordance with the requirements of relevant departments and localities to promote the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, actively organize and participate in the activities of SME service month, unblock the channels for accepting the demands of small and medium-sized enterprises, and better publicize and implement the relevant policies and measures for state-owned central enterprises to serve small and medium-sized enterprises.

27. If the implementation of policies to help SMEs solve problems, such as rent reduction and exemption, has an impact on the current operating performance, SASAC will consider it realistically in the performance evaluation.

SASAC will strengthen the supervision and inspection of the implementation of relevant policies. If the policies such as timely settlement of accounts of small and medium-sized enterprises, rent reduction and exemption for small and micro enterprises in service industry and individual industrial and commercial households are not implemented in place, or go through the motions, or the complaints are verified to be true, SASAC will seriously pursue responsibility and accountability in accordance with relevant regulations.

SASAC

May 2022 19

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