Beijing, April 14 news (reporter Men Tingting) On April 12, Luohu District of Shenzhen held the signing ceremony of the first batch of small and micro enterprises in the service industry and individual industrial and commercial households to reduce rent. It is reported that 32 enterprises in Luohu's jurisdiction have obtained the first batch of rent-free, with a total reduction amount of 3.85 million yuan.
Small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households are an important part of the national economy, and recently affected by unfavorable factors such as the impact of the epidemic, many small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households have experienced operational difficulties, especially in the service industry. Since the beginning of this year, the central government and many places have issued relevant policies, requiring central enterprises and state-owned enterprises at the provincial, municipal, district and other levels to reduce or waive the rent of small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry that lease their houses, so as to promote enterprises to get out of the predicament as soon as possible, resume normal operations, and help the economy to boost.
The reporter interviewed some real estate central enterprises and state-owned enterprise insiders, who said that after the policy was issued, the enterprise quickly began to formulate plans, and internal reports have been carried out recently, and will be implemented as soon as possible.
The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council has promoted rent reduction and reduction for central enterprises
On March 28, the General Office of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in rent Reduction and Reduction for Small and Micro Enterprises and Individual Industrial and Commercial Households in the Service Industry in 2022 (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), urging central enterprises to pay close attention to the rent reduction and reduction work in 2022, and effectively helping difficult industries in the service industry to recover and develop and tide over difficulties.
The Notice clarifies that all central enterprises should reduce or waive the rent for 6 months in the current year for small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry that are listed as high-risk areas in the epidemic in 2022 (with reference to the national administrative division standards) that rent the houses of central enterprises in the county-level administrative regions listed as high-risk areas in the epidemic in 2022 (in the fourth quarter, if they are listed as high-risk areas in the epidemic, they should fully reduce or reduce the rent for 6 months through the withdrawal of rent in the current year or the reduction or reduction of the next year), and the rent of other regions for 3 months. Compared with the similar policies issued by the SASAC at the beginning of the epidemic in 2020, the reduction and exemption are greater.
The "Circular" requires that all central enterprises should pay close attention to studying and determining the specific implementation rules of the rent reduction and reduction policy and implement it well, so as to enhance the sense of market entities as soon as possible. The work of generally reducing or waiving 3 months of rent should strive to actually complete the main work in the first half of the year, and the work of supplementary 3 months of rent reduction and reduction should be completed within 2 months after being listed as a medium- and high-risk area. For subleases and subleases of central enterprise housing, it is necessary to continue to increase the intensity of work and promote the effective transmission of rent reduction policies to actual tenants.
As for which entities can enjoy rent reductions, the Notice clarifies that the classification standards of service industries can refer to the National Bureau of Statistics' Classification of National Economic Industries (in principle, the tertiary industry can be regarded as a service industry), and give priority to the reduction and reduction of industries involved in the "Several Policies on Promoting the Recovery and Development of Difficult Industries in the Service Industry". For the definition of the scope of small and micro enterprises, please refer to the Notice on Printing and Distributing the Provisions on the Standards for the Classification of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (No. 300 [2011] of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) or the "Small and Micro Enterprise Directory Inquiry" module of the website of the State Administration for Market Regulation.
Yan Yuejin, research director of the Think Tank Center of Yiju Research Institute, said that the policy of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council has positive significance, which fully reflects the orientation of reducing rents to support small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households, and has a positive effect on supporting industries or enterprises such as retail, catering, and tourism.
Various localities have followed up on rent reduction and burden reduction
Local governments at all levels have also followed up, promoting state-owned enterprises to reduce rents for small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry, and flexibly implementing policies to help market entities alleviate difficulties according to local conditions.
In early April, Jilin Province, which has recently been more severely affected by the epidemic, issued the Notice on Several Policy Measures to Further Help Market Entities Relieve Difficulties in Response to the Impact of the COVID-19 Epidemic, which clearly stated that a total of 22 specific measures such as rent reduction, tax reduction and fee reduction, and reduction of water, electricity and gas costs will be implemented to help market entities tide over the difficulties and strive to reduce the impact of the epidemic on economic and social development.
Wang Guofeng, secretary general of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Jilin Province, said: "According to preliminary statistics, this year, the enterprises supervised by the Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission can reduce the rent of small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry that lease the housing of state-owned enterprises by a total of more than 27 million yuan, which will benefit more than 550 enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households." ”
On the basis of the implementation of the action by state-owned enterprises, on April 11, Jilin Province issued a new policy to encourage department stores, supermarkets, professional stores, commercial complexes and commodity trading markets to reduce or reduce rent and management fees for business owners, and for house owners who have difficulty in paying taxes in 2022, they will reduce real estate taxes and urban land use taxes in accordance with relevant regulations.
Shanghai has also recently issued a number of policies and measures to help enterprises promote development by fighting the epidemic to fully support relevant industries and enterprises to overcome difficulties and resume development. It is worth noting that Shanghai has expanded the scope of rent reduction from the service industry to small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in all industries. At the same time, large commercial buildings, shopping malls, parks and other types of market operators are encouraged to appropriately reduce or waive rents for tenants operating entities on the basis of consultation, and various government support policies give priority to supporting market entities that take the initiative to reduce rent.
Cities such as Chengdu and Harbin are similar to Shanghai, and there is no restriction on the scope of rent reduction and reduction. Feng Qing, second-level inspector of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Chengdu, introduced that the main body of chengdu's current round of reduction and exemption includes state-owned enterprises at the municipal and district levels; the reduction industry will further expand the coverage on the basis of the national policy clearly targeting the service industry, and the whole industry will be included in the scope of support. "According to preliminary calculations, the state-owned enterprises in Chengdu alone are expected to reduce by more than 300 million yuan in this round." Feng Qing revealed.
Harbin will waive the 2022 3-month rent or extend the lease period for another 3 months free of charge for small and medium-sized enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households that lease real estate belonging to municipal, district, county (city) government administrative institutions and state-owned enterprises. At the same time, municipal industrial parks and entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration bases that reduce rents for small and micro enterprises will receive subsidies.
According to its own industrial structure, Putian chooses to reduce or waive the rent of state-owned asset-owned operating properties leased by small and micro enterprises in manufacturing, small and micro enterprises in the service industry, individual industrial and commercial households and private schools; and stipulates that other areas outside medium- and high-risk areas will be exempted from 3 months' rent and then halved for 3 months.
In addition, Tianjin, Nanjing, Xiamen, Shenzhen and other places have introduced similar rent reduction measures to effectively help difficult industries recover and tide over difficulties. Small and micro business owners and individual industrial and commercial households can learn more about the relevant policies on the official websites of governments at all levels or the official websites of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.
The central and state-owned enterprises have actively implemented: plans have been formulated
In order to implement the rent reduction measures as soon as possible, many localities have formulated and published implementation rules. Taking Shanghai as an example, according to Chen Dong, chief economist of the Shanghai Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Shanghai will earnestly do the following three aspects:
The first is to strengthen publicity. Shanghai will announce the rent-free policy and open consultation telephone number in the "Bailout Service Zone for Enterprise Assistance" on the city's "One Netcom Office" platform, as well as the rent reduction column of the Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission portal. Municipal and district SASAC, entrusted supervision units, and relevant state-owned enterprises will be responsible for policy answers and business guidance.
The second is to pay close attention to implementation. The city's state-owned enterprises have pre-arranged the housing rental situation, formed a work plan, and will publish information such as the scope of reduction and reduction, the handling process, and the acceptance department through a combination of online and offline methods. Relevant state-owned enterprises will take the initiative to provide services, timely inform the tenants through announcements, telephones, networks and other means, and accelerate the review and reduction of tenants that meet the scope of the policy.
The third is to standardize operations. As the main body responsible, each state-owned enterprise group will comply with relevant laws and regulations, strengthen internal control, standardize operational processes, and do a good job in rent reduction and reduction in a sound and orderly manner.
Most other regions have taken similar steps to speed up the implementation of the reduction policy and ensure that everything should be known and guaranteed.
In this policy, central enterprises and state-owned enterprises, as the main body of implementation, have great responsibilities, among which real estate enterprises that develop and hold many shops, office buildings, warehouses and other business premises will play an important role. Yan Yuejin believes that for central enterprises in real estate development business, it is more necessary to actively implement such policies, take the initiative to reduce the rent of commercial squares and office buildings, and further reduce the cost of tenants. Although this will affect the rental income in the short term, it can objectively reflect the responsibility of the central enterprises, and also help stabilize the operation of the relevant tenants. Similar to the actions of central enterprises, it is also worthy of the attention of other private enterprises and individual landlords, only the whole industry takes the initiative to reduce rents and share costs to resolve difficulties, in order to truly promote the healthy development of the service industry.
In the early stage of the outbreak of the epidemic in 2020, many central enterprises and state-owned enterprises such as China Resources, Sino-Ocean, Poly, Jinmao, and China Merchants Shekou have taken the initiative to introduce measures such as rent reduction and reduction, including private enterprises such as Wanda, Longhu and Xincheng, and some enterprises have reduced rent by billions of yuan.
In view of the implementation of this year's policy, the reporter learned from the relevant responsible persons of several real estate central enterprises that after the release of the policy, enterprises have stepped up the formulation of specific implementation plans, which will be implemented as soon as possible, and actively play the leading role of central enterprises to effectively help small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households tide over difficulties and resume normal operations. One of the central enterprises said that the plan has entered the internal reporting stage and is expected to actually complete the main work in the first half of the year.