Henan introduced 13 measures to help foreign trade and economic enterprises resume work and production.

Phoenix Net Real Estate Zhengzhou Station News? 18, the Henan Provincial Department of Commerce and the Provincial Department of Finance issued the Notice on Several Measures to Actively Respond to the COVID-19 Epidemic and Do a Good Job in Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. Through the policy of 13, the foreign trade and economic cooperation enterprises have been reassured from the aspects of epidemic prevention and control, resumption of work and production, opening up the international market and innovating investment methods. Specific measures are as follows:

First, actively guide enterprises to prevent and control the epidemic. Commercial departments at all levels should, in accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, guide enterprises to implement the main responsibility, establish and improve the epidemic prevention management system, formulate epidemic response plans, reserve daily protective materials, strengthen the health monitoring and screening of people returning to work and new employees, give priority to protecting the protective equipment of front-line employees of enterprises, do a good job in ventilation and disinfection of business premises, and strictly prevent and control internal and external input and internal diffusion. Encourage foreign trade enterprises to use overseas channels to further expand the import of masks, protective clothing and other scarce materials.

Second, actively support enterprises to return to work as soon as possible. The competent commercial departments at all levels should set up a special service class for enterprises to resume work and production, and keep abreast of the plans and situations of foreign trade and economic enterprises in the region to resume work and production. Actively participate in local coordination and assistance for resumption of work and production, help enterprises to coordinate and solve difficulties and problems such as shortage of epidemic prevention materials, difficulty in recruiting workers, poor logistics and transportation, inadequate supply chain and shortage of funds, and guide enterprises to resume work and production as soon as possible on the premise of ensuring prevention and control safety. Ensure the rapid implementation of import and export and service outsourcing contracts, smooth construction of major investment projects, and orderly dispatch of expatriates to avoid interruption of industrial chain and supply chain. Actively guide qualified enterprises to apply to local social departments for the implementation of special working hours system. According to the needs of enterprises, relevant certificates can be issued as appropriate to help enterprises resume work and production.

Third, support enterprises to explore the international market. The "Measures for the Organization and Management of International Exhibition Projects in Henan Province" was promulgated to support enterprises to participate in overseas exhibitions in different categories and proportions. For exhibitions with overseas participation conditions, enterprises are encouraged to participate as much as possible on the premise of improving prevention and control plans and taking protective measures. We will increase financial subsidies, and give subsidies according to a certain proportion to the expenses that enterprises can't go abroad to participate in the exhibition because of the epidemic, but have paid before the epidemic response period and can't be recovered.

Fourth, give play to the role of policy export credit guarantee. Actively coordinate China Xinbao Henan Branch, and increase support services for enterprises affected by the epidemic in information, underwriting and policy financing. Actively provide import prepayment insurance for imported epidemic prevention and control materials, and give a certain percentage of subsidies to foreign trade enterprises that import epidemic prevention and control materials during the epidemic period. Encourage enterprises to avoid the buyer's default risk by increasing pre-shipment insurance. Open a green channel for fixed loss claims, give priority to the claims of enterprises affected by the epidemic, simplify relevant procedures, speed up the progress of fixed loss claims, appropriately relax the claims conditions under the real background, and pay in full.

Five, reasonable planning and adjustment of economic and trade activities. According to the development of epidemic prevention and control situation, timely and scientifically adjust the time, scale and mode of arranged domestic and foreign trade and investment promotion activities. Do a good job in the aftermath of major economic and trade activities that have been started but terminated due to the epidemic. Guide and encourage enterprises to expand export channels through cross-border electronic commerce and online participation to realize online digital marketing; Support service trade enterprises to carry out telecommuting, online trading and offshore business. According to the needs of investment targets, adhere to the result orientation, actively carry out online investment docking, scientifically plan and refine, and coordinate and implement various investment activities. Change the original mode of holding conferences and exhibitions, explore the establishment of "cloud investment promotion" system, and hold "online investment fair" and other activities.

Six, increase the promotion of key foreign-funded projects. Commercial departments at all levels should closely follow up and provide services for key foreign-funded projects. For investment projects with clear partners and clear investment intentions, actively seek overseas target companies to negotiate, stimulate the willingness to cooperate, and ensure that investment attraction will not stop, cool down and be ineffective during the epidemic. Actively promote the projects under discussion, keep abreast of the progress of foreign decision-making, and continuously deepen investment cooperation through online negotiation, video conference and online signing. Establish a fast track of government services for projects under construction, optimize online government services, coordinate relevant departments to increase the protection of land use, employment, water and electricity, help enterprises coordinate epidemic prevention materials, improve epidemic prevention measures, and help project builders return to their posts in time, start work as soon as possible, and resume work to ensure that enterprise investment is carried out as planned.

Seven, actively innovate investment methods. It is necessary to further consolidate the foundation of investment promotion, study and refine the road map of investment promotion in the industrial chain, enrich and improve the investment promotion project library, and explore the establishment of carrier resource library, whole industrial chain database, leading industrial chain target enterprise library and so on. , sub-regional, sub-industry planning and layout. Intensify project collection, planning and packaging, sort out and plan a number of industrial projects around local industrial characteristics, especially for the network economy and health industry that have been born in epidemic prevention and control, and reserve a number of biopharmaceuticals, medical rehabilitation, medical care and other projects in combination with local basic conditions. Improve the investment information platform and professional investment network platform. , integrate all kinds of resources, improve the project release, docking, signing, service and other functions. Guide all areas of the Pilot Free Trade Zone and national and provincial economic and technological development zones to formulate investment guidelines, fully publicize the advantages of the platform and industrial characteristics, and enhance their attractiveness. In view of the current special situation of difficult personnel flow, we will build new channels for investment promotion, and conduct investment promotion without meeting each other through portals, self-media platforms, domestic and foreign-funded associations, overseas institutions, official accounts of Weibo and WeChat, and micro-videos. Actively adopt flexible and diverse investment promotion methods such as "directional" investment promotion, precise investment promotion, entrusted investment promotion, business investment promotion and industrial chain investment promotion to ensure the actual effect of investment promotion.

8. Continue to optimize the business environment for foreign investors. We will fully implement the Foreign Investment Law and its implementing regulations, the State Council's Opinions on Further Improving the Utilization of Foreign Capital (Guo Fa [2019] No.23) and other legal policies, strengthen publicity and interpretation, and create a more stable, fair, transparent and predictable investment environment. Strengthen communication and coordination with market supervision, foreign exchange and other departments, implement the information reporting system for foreign investment, and ensure that information is submitted in a timely, true, accurate and complete manner. Give full play to the role of the enterprise "service officer" system, continue to carry out service days for foreign-funded enterprises, maintain close ties between the government and foreign-funded enterprises, and timely transmit information such as epidemic prevention and control, national and provincial policies and measures to support enterprise development, enhance the confidence of foreign-funded enterprises, and stabilize foreign investment expectations.

Nine, increase corporate legal aid. Improve the early warning mechanism of trade friction, timely and publicly issue early warning of international trade risks during the epidemic period, and find and handle trade disputes as soon as possible. If the international trade contract cannot be fulfilled as scheduled or cannot be fulfilled due to epidemic situation and other reasons, the enterprise shall be instructed to apply to the import and export chambers of commerce of the relevant countries for proof of force majeure. Establish a convenient channel for handling force majeure facts, and handle it as soon as it is accepted to help enterprises minimize losses. Set up a working group on foreign-related legal services, set up a column on the website of the Provincial Department of Commerce, and provide timely and effective compliance physical examination and legal consulting services for enterprises through online publishing information and answering questions.

Ten, strengthen the project financial support. Promulgated the Measures for the Administration of Provincial Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Funds in Henan Province, and allocated some special funds for the development of provincial foreign trade and economic cooperation in 2020. Use factor method to allocate funds to all localities, support the development of foreign trade and economic cooperation, stabilize business and boost confidence. Guide all localities to put forward the use plan as soon as possible, clarify the key points of funds, strengthen performance appraisal, ensure that funds are allocated to relevant enterprises within one month, and give full play to the efficiency of fund use as soon as possible. We will effectively speed up the progress of fund evaluation of small and medium-sized enterprises' market development, export credit insurance, investment attraction, regional headquarters of multinational companies, foreign trade and other foreign trade projects, and ensure that "funds are like projects".

Eleven, help enterprises to cope with financing problems. Strengthen contact with banks, financing guarantee and other financial institutions, carry out online bank-enterprise docking, guide financial institutions to increase credit support for foreign economic and trade enterprises, reduce financing costs, strengthen financing guarantee services, and ease financial pressure. Support all localities to implement policies such as export tax rebate fund pool, small and medium-sized micro-foreign trade enterprises' bail-out fund pool, and small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises' loan interest subsidies as soon as possible, and timely cash rewards. Actively coordinate The Export-Import Bank of China Henan Branch to increase investment in policy loans, guide more foreign trade enterprises to use policy loans, and reduce financing costs; Promote the Export-Import Bank and commercial banks in the province to carry out the business of transferring policy credit funds to loans for small and micro enterprises, and support a number of small and micro foreign trade enterprises at interest rates lower than those quoted in the loan market during the same period; Make good use of the special refinancing funds of the People's Bank of China for epidemic prevention and control, and give preferential interest rate support to key enterprises for epidemic prevention and control.

Twelve, improve the ability of online government services. Vigorously promote paperless office, and carry out online application submission, license application, audit and filing; Support the network transmission of scanning contracts. For contract texts with more contents, the key pages of network transmission can be processed first, and the complete contract can be supplemented and reviewed after the outbreak if necessary. For products that are not paperless, enterprises can submit applications by mail or uploading scanned copies. Provide postal services for enterprises to apply for and update electronic keys and paper import and export licenses. We will continue to provide convenient and efficient certificate of origin services, and enterprises can apply immediately, open immediately and print by themselves, so as to realize the whole process of "applying without meeting". Enterprises with a large number of certificates and meeting the relevant requirements of independent printing are encouraged to open the independent printing function of certificates of origin. For the business of issuing business certificates, handling consular certification, applying, filing and writing off outbound ATA documents, the online application review and certification will be completed in the shortest time.

Thirteen. Improve the service guarantee mechanism. Strictly implement the policies and measures of the provincial government to support the stable development of foreign trade and foreign-funded enterprises, set up special service classes for enterprises listed in the provincial key white list, provide accurate and personalized services, and ensure the implementation of policies. Flexible use of epidemic prevention and control support policies, the difficulties and problems encountered by enterprises, the implementation of "one enterprise, one policy" and "one thing, one discussion", and actively coordinate and solve. Establish and improve the system of contacting enterprises, improve the mechanism of joint cadres and enterprises, joint office of departments and joint operation of enterprises, timely understand the demands of enterprises, and actively coordinate and help enterprises solve problems. Guide enterprises to make full use of fiscal, financial, taxation, social security, employment, government procurement and other policies to help solve difficulties, so as to treat domestic and foreign-funded enterprises equally and minimize the impact of the epidemic.