Minister of Industry and Information Technology: Strengthening market supervision to ensure fair participation of SMEs in competition_Development

Original title: Minister of Industry and Information Technology: Strengthening market supervision to ensure fair participation of SMEs in competition

Strengthen the supervision of the telecommunications and Internet markets to ensure fair participation of SMEs in competition

——Interview with Xiao Yaqing, Minister of Industry and Information Technology

Our reporter Huang Xin

Strengthening the supervision of the telecommunications and Internet markets and ensuring fair participation by SMEs in competition has always been an important task in the field of industry and information technology. What achievements has the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology achieved in these areas? How to promote the formation of a more fair and competitive market environment in the next step? With these questions, a reporter from the Economic Daily interviewed Xiao Yaqing, Minister of Industry and Information Technology.

Reporter: Could you please introduce how the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology creates a fair and competitive market environment?

Xiao Yaqing: First, strengthen the supervision of the telecommunications and Internet markets in accordance with the law. Mainly to improve market rules, strengthen supervision and law enforcement, resolutely curb unfair competition, and initially solve a number of prominent problems that are of general concern to society.

The second is to effectively ensure that SMEs participate in competition fairly. Actively give play to the coordination role of the Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of the State Council, and work with all member units to unswervingly implement the “two unwavering”, encourage, support and guide the healthy development of small and medium-sized enterprises, protect the legitimate rights and interests of small and medium-sized enterprises, and strive to eliminate Such invisible barriers, eliminate various institutional constraints that affect fair competition and hinder innovation, create a good market environment for the sustainable and healthy development of enterprises, and promote the benign interaction and harmonious development of large and medium-sized enterprises.

The third is to do a solid job of reviewing policies and fair competition. Establish a fair competition review work mechanism to ensure that all policies and measures are “should be reviewed and reviewed” from the source to ensure that all types of enterprises use production factors on an equal footing and participate in market competition fairly.

In the next step, in accordance with the requirements of building a high-standard market system, we will closely follow the key tasks of maintaining the basic stability of the manufacturing industry and improving the modernization level of the industrial chain supply chain, promote the formation of a fair and competitive market environment, and strive to provide various enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises. Enterprises expand the space for development and better protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.

Reporter: What achievements has the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology achieved in creating a good environment and supporting the development of SMEs? What are the next considerations?

Xiao Yaqing: We, together with relevant departments, continue to increase support for the development of SMEs, and the development environment for SMEs is continuously optimized. First, the legal system is basically sound. Second, the policy planning system is becoming more and more perfect. At present, we are still compiling the “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan” for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, deploying seven key tasks such as improving a level playing field, improving financing availability, enhancing innovation capabilities and professionalism, and implementing the cultivation of high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises, and small and medium-sized enterprises. 9 major projects including the improvement of corporate service organization capabilities. The third is the continuous improvement of policy support pertinence. On the one hand, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is taking the lead in revising the standards for SMEs to promote the new standards to be more scientific and reasonable. On the other hand, the introduction of policies and measures closely follows the changes in the economic situation and the practical difficulties faced by the development of small, medium and micro enterprises. They are highly operable and effective. They are concentrated in reducing taxes and fees, increasing credit, cultivating enterprises, and optimizing services.

In terms of tax reduction, policies have been introduced to reduce value-added tax and income tax for small and micro enterprises, and increase the percentage of deductions for R&D expenses. During the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, the nationwide new tax cuts and fees will be about 7.6 trillion yuan, and it is expected that the new tax and fee reductions will exceed 700 billion yuan this year.

In terms of credit increase, we will release liquidity through comprehensive RRR cuts and targeted RRR cuts for inclusive finance, and increase targeted support for small and micro enterprises. Recently, we have added 300 billion yuan of small reloan lines and offered preferential interest rates to small and micro enterprises. Issue. Promote banking financial institutions to strengthen financial services for small, medium and micro enterprises. As of the end of July, the balance of inclusive small and micro loans was 17.8 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 29.3%, and 38.93 million small and micro business entities were supported, a year-on-year increase of 29.5%.

In terms of cultivating enterprises, we have initiated the implementation of a policy to support the high-quality development of small and medium-sized enterprises with specialization, specialization, and innovation, and vigorously cultivated enterprises with specialization, innovation, and “little giants” to promote the professional development of more enterprises. At present, more than 4,700 “little giant” enterprises and more than 40,000 provincial-level “specialized, special and new” small and medium-sized enterprises have been cultivated.