To the People’s Governments of All Counties and Districts, Relevant Departments of the Municipal People’s Government, and All Relevant Units:

To thoroughly implement the spirit of the Provincial Government General Office’s “Notice on Further Strengthening Business Support and Relief Measures to Promote Steady and Healthy Economic Development,” fully promote stable economic operations, and strive to achieve a strong start to the year, we hereby issue the following notice regarding further business support and relief measures to promote healthy economic development:

I. Strictly implement tax and fee reduction policies. Value-added tax (VAT) shall be exempted for small-scale VAT taxpayers with monthly sales not exceeding 150,000 yuan (or quarterly sales not exceeding 450,000 yuan for those paying on a quarterly basis). From January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022, VAT on taxable sales revenue subject to a 3% collection rate for small-scale VAT taxpayers shall be levied at a reduced rate of 1%;VAT small-scale taxpayers may receive reductions or exemptions on the “Six Taxes and Two Fees” (resource tax, urban maintenance and construction tax, property tax, urban land use tax, stamp tax [excluding securities transaction stamp tax], arable land occupation tax, education surcharge, and local education surcharge) within a range of 50% of the tax amount.Production-oriented and daily-life service industries are permitted to offset their VAT payable by adding 10% and 15%, respectively, to their current deductible input tax.Taxpayers facing genuine financial difficulties may be exempted from or granted reductions in urban land use tax and property tax in accordance with relevant regulations; taxpayers unable to pay taxes on time due to special difficulties may be granted tax payment extensions in accordance with relevant regulations. For individual businesses and small, medium, and micro enterprises unable to operate normally due to the pandemic, rent for commercial premises leased from state-owned assets will be waived for three months and reduced by half for six months.Optimize the “Three Zeros” (“zero visits, zero approvals, zero investment”) and “Three Savings” (“effort, time, and money”) electricity connection services; ensure that the online concurrent approval process for power connection does not exceed five working days; and continue to eliminate unreasonable charges in the water, electricity, gas, and heating sectors.

Responsible Units: Municipal Tax Bureau, Finance Bureau, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, Development and Reform Commission, Bureau of Public Affairs, Urban Management Bureau, State Grid Luoyang Power Supply Company

II. Encourage and Support Enterprises to Operate at Full Capacity. For industrial enterprises above designated size that suspended production or operations due to the pandemic, the Spring Festival, or other factors, a fiscal reward of 100,000 yuan will be granted if they resume full-capacity production by February 15, 2022;Industrial enterprises above designated size that maintain continuous full-capacity production throughout the first quarter of 2022 and achieve a year-on-year increase of 10% or more in main business revenue will be granted a fiscal reward of 200,000 yuan. The reward funds will be shared by provincial and local fiscal authorities in a 1:1 ratio. The local fiscal portion will be borne according to the current fiscal system: reward funds for county-level enterprises will be fully covered by the county-level fiscal authority, while reward funds for district-level enterprises will be shared 50:50 between the municipal and district fiscal authorities.By April 8, the industry and information technology departments of each county and district, in conjunction with the finance departments, shall complete the application, review, and fund mobilization processes for enterprises within their jurisdictions. By April 10, the municipal and county-level finance departments shall respectively remit the corresponding incentive amounts to the Provincial Department of Finance, which will then disburse the full amount of incentive funds directly to the enterprises’ accounts.

Responsible Units: Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, and governments (administrative committees) of all counties and districts

III. Strengthen Financing Support for Enterprises. Expand the scale of government loan repayment revolving funds, with an annual revolving quota targeting 4 billion yuan or more. Continue implementing the policy on waiving late fees for revolving funds: the funds may be used free of charge for 5 working days; starting from the 6th working day, a late fee of 0.5‰ per day will be charged, with the maximum usage period not exceeding 30 days.From January 1 to December 31, 2022, late fees incurred due to the inability to conduct business operations as a result of COVID-19 pandemic control measures will be waived. Financial institutions are encouraged to issue unsecured, unguaranteed credit loans of up to 300,000 yuan to market entities such as small and micro enterprises and individual business operators.Deepen cooperation between banks and guarantee institutions, promote bulk guarantee business with shared risk-bearing between banks and guarantee institutions, guide guarantee institutions to relax counter-guarantee requirements, and gradually reduce the average guarantee fee rate for supporting agriculture and small businesses to 1% or below. Make full use of re-lending and rediscounting policies, implement performance evaluations and incentives for financial institutions supporting local economic development, improve online and offline bank-enterprise matching mechanisms, and guide increased credit disbursement. Establish a routine matching mechanism between funds and projects, and leverage the guiding and driving role of private equity funds in industrial cultivation and financing support.

Responsible Units: Municipal Financial Bureau, People’s Bank of China Luoyang Central Sub-branch, Luoyang Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau, Finance Bureau, Bureau of Government Affairs and Digitalization

IV. Strengthen employment services for key enterprises. Organize a series of public employment initiatives such as the “Spring Breeze Action,” and explore joint recruitment models combining “industry + offline + online + live-streamed job fairs” to ensure that over 100 job fairs are held throughout the year, providing more than 200,000 job openings. For-profit human resources service agencies shall provide free services to children from impoverished families (school-age workers from registered impoverished households and those receiving minimum living allowances),college graduates in their final year (including graduates from advanced vocational classes and pre-technician classes at technical colleges, as well as vocational education graduates from special education institutions), recent junior and senior high school graduates in urban and rural areas who have not continued their education, rural laborers seeking employment in urban areas (including registered impoverished working-age individuals), registered urban unemployed persons, and returning migrant workers—and who subsequently secure employment and pay social insurance premiums in accordance with regulations—a subsidy for employment and entrepreneurship services (job placement subsidy) of 300 yuan per person.The policy of temporarily reducing unemployment insurance and work-related injury insurance rates will be extended. Unemployment insurance funds will be utilized to support enterprises in stabilizing employment, and one-time employment absorption subsidies will be implemented. Enterprises facing temporary operational difficulties due to the pandemic or natural disasters and genuinely unable to pay the full amount of work-related injury insurance and unemployment insurance premiums may apply for a three-month deferral; this deferral policy will remain in effect until the end of 2022.During the deferral period, no late payment penalties will be imposed, and the normal receipt of benefits by insured persons will not be affected, nor will their personal entitlement records be impacted. We will study and introduce the "Measures to Strengthen Incentives for New Apprenticeship Training" to support employee skills enhancement training. We will encourage enterprises to strengthen cooperation with educational institutions to conduct new apprenticeship training, providing subsidies at a rate of 5,000 yuan per person per year for intermediate-level workers and 6,000 yuan per person per year for advanced-level workers.

Responsible Agencies: Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Education Bureau, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Market Regulation Bureau

V. Strengthen Support for Service Industry Enterprises. Plan and organize a series of consumption-promotion activities with distinct themes, diverse formats, and rich content, such as the Auto Expo, Time-Honored Brands Carnival, Specialty Food Festival, and the “Flowers in Luoyang” Public Welfare Consumption Season, to achieve the goal of “creating markets through festivals, creating festivals even without specific occasions, having activities every week, and highlights every month.”The implementation period for unspent consumption promotion funds specified in the “Notice of the Luoyang Municipal People’s Government on Issuing the Luoyang Post-Disaster Consumption Promotion Work Plan” will be extended from the originally scheduled December 31, 2021, to June 30, 2022. In coordination with the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the “Henan Residents Tour Henan” campaign will be launched to expand the scope of free admission to scenic spots.Develop signature premium tourism routes; encourage scenic spots and sports venues to extend their evening operating hours; and distribute 20 million yuan in cultural and tourism consumption vouchers, with each voucher having a face value of no less than 50 yuan.Organize real estate developers to hold online or offline property exhibitions during the Peony Festival and the He-Luo Cultural Tourism Festival, guiding enterprises to actively adapt to market changes and promote the sale of commercial housing; implement “contactless” services, improve the real-time online filing of commercial housing pre-sale contracts, and accelerate the implementation of real-time online filing for second-hand housing transactions and mortgage contracts to reduce costs for enterprises and homebuyers;For projects with significant economic and social benefits developed by high-quality enterprises, the pre-sale progress standards may be lowered on a case-by-case basis when applying for pre-sale approval; for real estate projects under construction, when developers apply to use non-priority regulatory funds, the full amount will be disbursed on the same day following review.

Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, and Tourism, Bureau of Sports, Bureau of Finance, Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and governments (administrative committees) of all counties and districts

VI. Strengthen Support for Key Foreign Trade and Foreign-Invested Enterprises. Continue to provide financing support through export credit insurance policies, fully implement the “Notice on Strengthening Work Related to Export Credit Insurance Policy Financing,” guide financial institutions to further increase financial service support for the foreign trade sector, improve online financing services, and actively provide unsecured, collateral-free loans at preferential interest rates to small and micro foreign trade enterprises holding export credit insurance policies.Explore the establishment of a “Foreign Trade Loan” program. Through government-bank-enterprise cooperation, and by introducing credit insurance and risk compensation mechanisms, encourage partner financial institutions to provide unsecured financing to small, medium, and micro foreign trade enterprises, while lowering loan interest rates and improving lending efficiency. This will effectively help our city’s foreign trade enterprises broaden financing channels and reduce financing costs. Support counties and districts in introducing foreign investment support policies aligned with local industrial planning, and further increase the scale of fiscal incentives.Encourage enterprises to establish overseas warehouses in key countries and markets, and guide them in applying for designation as provincial-level cross-border e-commerce overseas warehouse demonstration enterprises to secure financial support. Implement the "Henan Provincial Special Fund Management Measures for Investment Promotion" and actively promote various preferential policies to foreign-invested enterprises.

Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, People’s Bank of China Luoyang Central Sub-branch, Luoyang Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau, and governments (administrative committees) of all counties and districts

VII. Optimize Investment Approval Processes. Leverage the synergistic effects of reform and innovation measures such as “conditional approval,” “regional assessment,” and “joint review and verification,” and fully implement the commitment system in development zones. For general enterprise investment projects subject to filing in development zones, implement the “standard land + commitment system” to achieve “construction commencement upon land acquisition.” Optimize the approval procedures for specific government investment projects; for government investment projects where relevant plans at the county level or above have already been clearly defined, project proposals may no longer require approval;For renovation and expansion projects, as well as projects with a single construction component, small investment scale, and simple technical solutions, the project proposal, feasibility study report, and preliminary design may be consolidated into a single document for approval. Vigorously promote engineering general contracting in the field of building construction and implement phased construction permitting. Increase the frequency of municipal-level joint review and approval for major projects to once a week.

Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Bureau of Government Affairs and Digital Services

VIII. Strengthen the Timely Implementation of Business-Support Policies. Accelerate the allocation and disbursement of government fiscal funds. For transfer payments allocated by higher-level authorities, where specific subsidy recipients and amounts have been clearly defined, funds shall be allocated to relevant municipal or county/district (administrative committee) departments within 5 working days; where specific recipients or amounts have not yet been defined, the Municipal Finance Bureau shall complete the review and allocate the funds within 5 working days of receiving departmental allocation proposals.Establish a fast-track for fund disbursements to research institutes and enterprises of all types; science and technology funds at the municipal level and above shall be disbursed directly to enterprises by the Municipal Finance Bureau.Steadily expand the scope of direct funding, establish and improve a monitoring system for direct funds, strengthen interdepartmental coordination and collaboration, and reinforce full-process, full-chain, and comprehensive supervision from the source of funds to their final use. Ensure that fund supervision extends “all the way to the end,” guaranteeing that funds reach end-users directly, benefit enterprises and the public, and prevent misappropriation, diversion, or accumulation of idle funds.

Responsible Units: Municipal Finance Bureau, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Science and Technology Bureau, Development and Reform Commission

IX. Strengthen the Supply of Key Project Construction Resources. Develop a land quota assurance plan for provincial and municipal key projects, actively secure land quotas and revitalize existing resources to ensure full coverage for key projects. Utilize the “fast-track” system for land approval in provincial-level and above development zones to establish a “green channel” for major project land approvals, ensuring immediate processing and rapid review and approval.Research, formulate, and implement measures for the separate allocation of energy consumption and coal quotas for municipal-level major projects. Prioritize recommending national and provincial-level major projects to the province to secure separate provincial-level energy consumption and coal quotas. For national, provincial, and municipal-level major projects not included in the provincial separate allocation of energy consumption and coal quotas, the municipal government will coordinate a portion of its own energy consumption and coal quotas to implement a municipal-level separate allocation, thereby ensuring the projects’ energy needs are met.Implement differentiated environmental control policies. For key national, provincial, and municipal engineering projects and livelihood projects, provided they meet environmental requirements and strictly implement the “Seven 100%” prevention and control measures, they will be included in the safeguard list upon approval by the municipal government, allowing limited construction during heavy pollution weather alerts.Establish and improve coordination, monitoring, and dispatch mechanisms for coal, electricity, oil, gas, and transportation. Strengthen supervision over the signing and fulfillment of energy contracts to achieve full coverage of medium- and long-term contracts for thermal coal. Comprehensively deepen market-oriented reforms of grid-connected electricity prices for coal-fired power generation. Scientifically and precisely revise emergency response plans for energy supply security to fully ensure social electricity demand.

Responsible Units: Municipal Finance Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, Bureau of Ecology and Environment, Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, State Grid Luoyang Power Supply Company

X. Optimize the Business Environment. Advance the standardized construction of municipal-level government service halls to achieve a “one-stop” service model. Accelerate the implementation of projects to optimize municipal government service capabilities and the development of the “Internet Plus Regulation” system. Promote the comprehensive issuance of electronic certificates and ensure their interoperability and mutual recognition with self-built business systems such as the Municipal Industrial Reform System, thereby expanding the applications of electronic certificates. Fully implement the “One-Stop Service for Multiple Tasks” initiative, with the goal of achieving 80 such service scenarios by the end of the year.Establish a “five-in-one” complaint handling system covering the 12345 hotline, website, SMS, WeChat official account, and mobile app to ensure “immediate response to every complaint.” Organize and conduct business environment evaluations to drive improvements and excellence, continuously enhancing the efficiency of services for enterprises and key projects. Strengthen institutional and mechanism innovation, continuously advance policy upgrades, and strive to become a model city for business environment optimization in Henan Province.

Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Digital Economy, Market Regulation Bureau, Development and Reform Commission

Focusing on strengthening support for enterprises and alleviating difficulties while stabilizing economic operations, we will concentrate on key sectors and critical areas. We will simultaneously implement several measures to support the recovery and development of small and micro commerce enterprises and individual businesses, policy measures to support the high-quality development of “specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative” (SED) small and medium-sized enterprises, and several measures to promote full coverage of R&D activities among industrial enterprises above designated size, thereby forming a “1+3” policy framework.All levels of government and departments must further enhance their sense of responsibility and urgency, establishing and refining a closed-loop system for policy formulation, implementation, feedback, supervision, and enforcement. Relevant municipal departments should strengthen publicity and interpretation, provide operational guidance, and conduct follow-up coordination; they must promptly resolve issues encountered during implementation and adjust and refine policies as needed. All counties and districts must refine implementation measures and improve working mechanisms, working together to ensure the full implementation of policy measures and providing strong support for promoting stable and healthy economic development.

Attachment: 1. Several Measures to Support the Recovery and Development of Small and Micro Commerce Enterprises and Individual Business Operators.docx

2. Policy Measures to Support the High-Quality Development of "Specialized, Refined, Unique, and Innovative" SMEs.docx

3. Several Measures to Promote Full Coverage of R&D Activities in Industrial Enterprises Above a Certain Scale.docx