Li Keqiang presided over the executive meeting of the State Council
Listen to the report on the implementation of policies and measures to support the resumption of work and production and help enterprises to rescue
Launch and further improve relevant policies and increase the efforts to stabilize the employment of enterprises
Premier Li Keqiang presided over the executive meeting of the State Council on May 6, listened to the report on the implementation of policies and measures to support the resumption of work and enterprises' rescue, launched and further improved relevant policies, and increased efforts to stabilize enterprises and ensure employment.
The meeting pointed out that according to the deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, all departments around the country have launched 90 policies and measures in 8 aspects in a precise, powerful and timely manner to promote the resumption of work and the rescue of enterprises. It mainly includes: increasing the reduction and exemption of value-added tax for small and micro enterprises and individual businesses; extending the loss carrying forward period from 5 years to 8 years for enterprises in transportation, catering, tourism and other industries greatly affected by the epidemic; reducing the three social security premiums paid by various enterprises for the elderly, unemployment and work-related injuries in the first half of the year to 600 billion yuan, and implementing the unemployment insurance return policy to stabilize posts to benefit more than 84 million employees; exemption Toll road tolls are more than 140 billion yuan, and the reduction of electricity and gas prices in the first half of this year reduced the burden of enterprises by 67 billion yuan. We will release 1.75 trillion yuan of funds by reducing the standard; we will provide 2.85 trillion yuan of low-cost loans to enterprises, especially small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households, through special re loan rediscount, encouraging large state-owned banks to issue inclusive small and micro loans, and increasing special credit lines for policy banks; we will extend the repayment of principal and interest for more than 1.1 million small and micro enterprises. We will increase support for spring ploughing and animal husbandry. The positive effects of the above measures are emerging, the resumption of work and production is gradually reaching the normal level, the difficulties of enterprises have been alleviated to a certain extent, and the economic and social operation is gradually becoming normal.
The meeting stressed that we should make "six guarantees" the focus of the work of "six stabilities" and stabilize the basic economic situation. We will further implement the policies that have been issued by Luoxi to support enterprises, especially small and micro enterprises and individual businesses, to help enterprises get more benefits, stabilize jobs, reduce the impact of the epidemic on the employment and income of migrant workers, and ensure the basic people's livelihood. We will implement the strategy of expanding domestic demand and take multiple measures to promote the recovery of consumption. Focusing on the weak links exposed by the epidemic situation and the short board areas of economic and social development, we will accelerate the construction of major projects that have been clearly defined in the national plan, make good use of the investment within the central budget and the special debts of local governments that have been issued, and form the physical workload as soon as possible. We will continue to optimize the business environment, promptly revise the negative list of market access, remove barriers to access for private enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote the expansion of effective social investment. We will improve foreign trade policies, accelerate the revision of the negative list of foreign investment access and the catalogue of industries that encourage foreign investment, and further ease restrictions on foreign investment access.
According to the requirements of the meeting, relevant policies should be launched and improved in a timely manner according to the changes of the situation and the demands of enterprises. One is to allow small and micro enterprises and individual businesses to delay the payment of income tax and extend the implementation period of relevant tax policies to support the prevention and control of the epidemic. The time of VAT exemption shall be extended for the income obtained by taxpayers from providing public transport services, life services and providing residents with express delivery service of necessary living materials. More efforts should be made to help enterprises overcome difficulties. Second, on the basis of 1.29 trillion yuan of special bonds issued by local governments at the beginning of the year, a new quota of 1 trillion yuan of special bonds will be issued in advance according to the procedures, and the issuance will be completed by the end of May. Third, strengthen financial support measures to stabilize the employment of enterprises. For enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, which maintain basically stable jobs, we should extend the policy of delaying the repayment of principal and interest, support their multi-channel financing, and create policy tools to support banks to issue more credit loans.
Other matters were also examined.