Elephant News reporter Wang Shaoqing, Wang Lin, Zhou Lan
Although individual industrial and commercial households are small, they are related to the overall economic situation of Henan. Compared with enterprises, self-employed people are more vulnerable and need more care from government departments. Concerned about the concerns of self-employed people, Elephant News launched a special report on the two sessions "How to "Protect" Self-employed Individuals", which has attracted much attention, and experts and scholars have put forward specific suggestions on how self-employed people can protect Henan, and called for the same support and respect for self-employed people.
Regularly convene forums for individual industrial and commercial households, and establish a "find the government" consultation and help platform
"The number of individual industrial and commercial households is huge and widely distributed, which is of great significance to economic development and employment stability", Zhang Fulu, editor-in-chief and researcher of the Regional Economic Review of the Henan Academy of Social Sciences, found that for individual industrial and commercial households, on the one hand, they do not understand the government's policies and measures, or they have nowhere to seek help when they encounter problems in their operations.
In Zhang Fulu's view, it is very important and urgent to strengthen the communication mechanism between government departments and individual industrial and commercial households. "On the one hand, the government's support measures should let more individual industrial and commercial households know about the use, and on the other hand, it is a package to solve the problems of individual industrial and commercial households, so that they know where to turn for help when they encounter problems. ”
In this regard, Zhang Fulu suggested that in practical work, we can rely on modern digital technology, combine online and offline, further smooth the communication channels between government and enterprises, establish and improve the working mechanism for listening to the opinions and suggestions of individual industrial and commercial households, try our best to help solve the practical difficulties of individual industrial and commercial households, optimize targeted assistance measures, give full play to the role of policies that have been introduced, and build a normalized and efficient assistance mechanism.
For example, government departments can take the lead in establishing an authoritative online platform for publishing policy information or "seeking government advice" on individual industrial and commercial households' policies, as well as holding regular forums for individual industrial and commercial households, or visiting and exchanging information through grassroots organizations such as offices.
Broaden the fault-tolerant mechanism for self-employed households, and implement the policy of "non-stop supply in arrears" for 6 months of water and electricity
Pei Fangliang, president of the Yellow River Industrial Economic Research Institute, said that self-employed people are the most important force in the main body of the market economy, and in the current context of vigorously reviving the economy, it is more necessary to have more flexibility and goodwill for small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed individuals.
"For example, a small amount of expired food was bought in a small supermarket, and after the buyer found out, he reported the situation to the market supervision department, and finally the small supermarket was fined 50,000 yuan. In addition, according to the requirements of the specification, most of the kitchen cooked food areas and cold food rooms in the catering industry are difficult to comply with in the actual situation, especially the novice catering has a very limited understanding of relevant laws and regulations, and there is basically no way to obtain information. Pei Fangliang believes that self-employed people are in a disadvantaged position, and there is a lack of professional support, and some illegal acts are often unintentional and do not cause social harm.
He suggested that it is necessary to further broaden the fault-tolerant mechanism of self-employed people, and implement the management principle of "no punishment if you can, no stop if you can, and education if you can", so as to create a relaxed development environment for self-employed people. "Fault tolerance is not the same as 'indulging in mistakes', but improving the control methods of government departments on the premise of encouraging self-employed businesses. At the same time, Pei Fangliang suggested that for self-employed households with difficulties in production and operation, they can implement the policy of "non-stop supply in arrears" for 6 months of water and electricity, and waive late fees for arrears during the 6-month deferred payment period to help self-employed households tide over the difficulties.
Implement the social security reduction and exemption policy for self-employed individuals to achieve "enjoy without application"
Sun Zhaogang, a professor and doctor of management at Zhengzhou Institute of Aeronautical Industry Management, said that in 2023, Henan will introduce several policies and measures to promote the development of individual industrial and commercial households, providing a package of policy support for the development and growth of individual industrial and commercial households.
However, he said frankly that due to the small size of a single person, weak anti-risk ability, small financial services, high rent, water and electricity costs, and high labor costs, and a significant decline in operating efficiency, online platform enterprises use the advantages of capital, data and technology to raise the charging standards, attach unreasonable transaction conditions, and further reduce the profit margins of catering, clothing, life department stores and other industries, and seriously reduce the motivation of individual industrial and commercial households to pay social security.
"Our province has given detailed regulations on the scope, base, transfer, inheritance and other circumstances of individual industrial and commercial households paying social security. However, social security, as a livelihood project for the benefit of the public, should return to the essence of benefiting the people, and it is best to promote the dual livelihood projects of promoting employment and popularizing social security at the same time, so that the majority of self-employed and freelancers with flexible employment can purchase social security at a low price, or refer to the reduction and exemption policy for small, medium and micro enterprises. Sun Zhaogang said that in view of the reduction and exemption policy, the realization of "enjoy without application", direct and fast enjoyment, and introduce the continuation measures after the expiration as soon as possible for the phased policies with remarkable effects, high feelings and strong sense of gain for individual industrial and commercial households.
In addition, he suggested exploring the establishment of an integrated and one-stop service platform, using government guidance, market participation, and social sharing to provide services such as policy release, entrepreneurship training, employment docking, market information, and financial support, so as to expand policy awareness and benefit. Implement a fair competition review system, ensure that individual industrial and commercial households participate in market competition on an equal footing, prohibit enterprises with a dominant position from squeezing the living space of individual industrial and commercial households in order to seize market share, and maintain a market environment of fair competition.