This plan has been formulated to thoroughly implement the strategies of innovation-driven development, revitalizing the province through science and education, and strengthening the province through talent; to earnestly carry out the municipal Party committee and government’s “136” industrial development initiatives; to ensure that innovation is effectively integrated into industrial development; to clear the path for the growth of technology-based enterprises; and to promote the rapid expansion of high-tech enterprises (hereinafter referred to as “high-tech enterprises”).
I. Work Objectives
Establish a tiered cultivation mechanism for technology-based enterprises—"micro-growth, small-to-high-tech, and high-tech-to-strong"—to foster technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), high-tech enterprises, gazelle enterprises, and leading innovative enterprises at different levels, and accelerate the achievement of full coverage of R&D activities among industrial enterprises above designated size. By 2023, the number of high-tech enterprises in the city will reach 1,200; by 2025, the number of high-tech enterprises will double compared to the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period, reaching 1,600.
II. Main Tasks
(I) Strengthening the Foundation for High-Tech Enterprise Development
1. Continuously Expand the Total Number of Market Entities. Firmly establish the clear orientation that “serving enterprises is serving the city’s overall work priorities,” and make every effort to build a first-class business environment characterized by marketization, rule of law, and internationalization. Adhere to the principle of combining expansion of total volume with fostering strength and excellence, improve mechanisms for cultivating and attracting market entities, and fully implement the “one-stop online processing” and “multiple certificates integrated into one license, and one license for all purposes,” optimize “business start-up + N services,” create the most efficient and time-saving market entity access environment, and improve the policy support system for initiatives such as “individual businesses converting to corporate entities” and “small enterprises upgrading to scale.” By 2025, a cumulative total of 4,000 individual businesses will have converted to corporate entities, and 2,400 small enterprises will have upgraded to scale.
Responsible Units: Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, and People’s Governments of all counties and districts
2. Strengthen the cultivation of science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises. Improve the tiered cultivation mechanism for science and technology-based enterprises, and establish a system for interdepartmental information sharing and collaborative cultivation among science and technology, finance, taxation, market regulation, and statistics departments.Regularly review and analyze existing and newly registered enterprises to identify potential candidates interested in transitioning to technology-based enterprises. Guide them in establishing R&D expense accounting systems, provide targeted support for their transformation, and ensure that all eligible technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises are fully evaluated and included in relevant programs. By 2025, the total number of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises will exceed 3,000.
Responsible Units: Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Finance Bureau, Tax Bureau, Market Regulation Bureau, and People’s Governments of all counties and districts
3. Restructuring and Rebuilding the High-Tech Enterprise Cultivation Pool. Establish the Luoyang City High-Tech Enterprise Cultivation Pool, which will admit approximately 500 enterprises annually. Improve the city-county-district coordination mechanism by delegating the authority to recommend high-tech enterprise candidates to the county and district levels. Standardize admission criteria and selection procedures. After county and district-level selection and reporting to the city for record-keeping, enterprises will be admitted to the pool for focused cultivation.Launch a policy lecture series on high-tech enterprise cultivation, explore the establishment of a “Chief Service Officer” model for enterprise cultivation, and create service ledgers for cultivated enterprises. Provide “one-on-one” guidance to help enrolled enterprises benchmark and improve their performance. Focus on providing specialized coaching on high-tech enterprise certification requirements for key technical and financial personnel, standardize the setup of auxiliary accounts and the accounting of R&D expenses, and implement tailored, precise cultivation strategies for each enterprise.For enterprises in the pool that did not obtain high-tech enterprise certification in the current year, conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the growth rate and increase in annual R&D expenses; the top 200 enterprises will be awarded fiscal subsidies of up to 30,000 yuan.
Responsible Units: Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Finance Bureau, Tax Bureau; People’s Governments of all counties and districts
4. Promote full coverage of R&D activities among large-scale industrial enterprises. Strengthen interdepartmental coordination and policy outreach to establish a technology innovation system centered on enterprises, market-oriented, and featuring deep integration of industry, academia, and research. Encourage large-scale manufacturing enterprises to conduct intellectual property “clearance” initiatives, and guide and support large-scale industrial enterprises in carrying out R&D activities that meet the “four criteria”: having dedicated R&D institutions, R&D personnel, R&D funding, and industry-academia-research collaboration.Strengthen supervision to ensure full coverage of R&D activities among large-scale industrial enterprises, and include whether newly added large-scale industrial enterprises engage in R&D activities as a key performance indicator for evaluating the effectiveness of the “Small-to-Large” upgrade initiative. Implement a new round of higher-level “Three Major Transformations” in manufacturing; by 2025, promote the implementation of the “Three Major Transformations” in more than 1,500 enterprises, and basically achieve full coverage of R&D activities among large-scale industrial enterprises.
Responsible Units: Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, Municipal Finance Bureau, Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Taxation Bureau, and People’s Governments of all counties and districts
(2) Building a Hub for Cultivating High-Tech Enterprises
1. Establish New Incubation Platforms for High-Tech Enterprises.Revise and improve the filing regulations for municipal-level technology enterprise incubators (including maker spaces), delegate the authority for reviewing and approving municipal-level technology enterprise incubator filings to counties and districts, and guide counties and districts to leverage their industrial foundations. Focusing on the development of emerging industries, they should establish a series of incubation platforms—such as technology enterprise incubators and maker spaces—centered around new innovation platforms including technology industry communities, new-type R&D institutions, and industrial research institutes, thereby enhancing the capacity of these platforms to host and nurture enterprises.By 2025, the number of science and technology industrial communities across the city will reach more than 20, and the number of various incubation platforms will reach more than 120, achieving near-complete coverage of incubation platforms across all counties and districts.
Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Science and Technology Bureau, Industry and Information Technology Bureau; People’s Governments of all counties and districts
2. Build a primary base for cultivating high-tech enterprises.Leverage the role of self-innovation zones as the primary drivers and engines of innovation and development, and support eligible provincial-level development zones in applying to establish provincial-level or higher-level high-tech zones. Guide and encourage development zones to build upon their existing foundations, focus on innovation in “trending” industries, make effective use of multi-tiered capital markets, fill supply chain gaps through targeted investment promotion, and strengthen supply chains through innovation-driven development. Accelerate the integrated development of supply chains and innovation chains, build a matrix of high-level innovation platforms, and vigorously foster an innovation ecosystem that attracts innovation capital, talent, and platforms.We will improve incubation platforms, pilot production bases, and other infrastructure; attract and cultivate new types of R&D institutions and technology transfer organizations; aggregate innovation resources on a broader scale; accelerate the cultivation and clustering of a group of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises and high-tech enterprises with core competitiveness; and transform development zones into the main hub for fostering high-tech enterprises. By 2025, we aim to establish at least two new provincial-level high-tech zones.
Responsible Units: Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Commerce Bureau, and People’s Governments of all counties and districts
(3) Establishing Incentive Benchmarks for High-Tech Enterprises
1. Implement tax incentive policies. Ensure that high-tech enterprises continue to benefit from corporate income tax incentives and the policy of additional deductions for R&D expenses, further encouraging technology enterprises to increase R&D investment and rapidly enhance their technological innovation capabilities.
Responsible Units: Municipal Taxation Bureau, Science and Technology Bureau, Finance Bureau
2. Implement Special Fiscal Incentives and Subsidies. Effectively implement incentive policies such as rewards and subsidies for enterprises in the high-tech enterprise cultivation pool and ex-post subsidies for R&D expenses. Encourage counties, districts, and development zones to formulate policies for attracting and cultivating high-tech enterprises based on local conditions, supporting enterprises in the cultivation pool to innovate in new products, technologies, processes, and business models, and to grow into high-tech enterprises as soon as possible.
Responsible Units: Municipal Finance Bureau, Science and Technology Bureau, Taxation Bureau
3. Launch the High-Tech Benchmark Enterprise Initiative. Focusing on key sectors such as advantageous industries, emerging industries, “trending” industries, and future industries, and based on a comprehensive evaluation of indicators including corporate tax contributions, growth potential, overall strength, innovation capabilities, and R&D investment, select and announce 100 high-tech benchmark enterprises from among the existing high-tech enterprises.Support these benchmark enterprises in applying for provincial and municipal “challenge-based” initiatives and major science and technology innovation projects; cultivate innovation-leading enterprises such as provincial-level innovation leaders and gazelle enterprises; actively facilitate the connection of social resources with enterprises; and establish benchmarks for the innovative development of high-tech enterprises.
Responsible Units: Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Finance Bureau, Development and Reform Commission, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Tax Bureau
(IV) Establish a Green Channel for High-Tech Enterprise Growth
1. Streamline the supply of production factors. Encourage high-tech enterprises to utilize their existing industrial land reserves for technological upgrades; where they increase floor area ratios or utilize underground space without altering the industrial land use designation, they will be exempt from paying additional land transfer fees.Thoroughly implement the "Opinions of the CPC Henan Provincial Committee and the Henan Provincial People’s Government on Accelerating the Construction of a First-Class Innovation Ecosystem and Building a National Innovation Hub" (Yu Fa [2021] No. 30). Establish an environmental protection "whitelist" for high-tech enterprises, implement an environmental inspection exemption policy for enterprises on the list, and prioritize the allocation of additional environmental emission quotas required for enterprises to expand production capacity.Promote the “Three Savings” service (saving effort, time, and money) for electricity connection applications by high-voltage users, and achieve “zero in-person visits” and “zero approvals” for water and gas connection applications.
Responsible Units: Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Ecology and Environment Bureau, Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, Finance Bureau
2. Streamline access to financial products. Establish a green approval channel to simplify the approval procedures for high-tech enterprises accessing financial products such as “Startup Guaranteed Loans,” “Technology Loans,” and “Loan Repayment Bridge Funds.” Organize bank-enterprise matchmaking events at least twice a year to expand corporate financing channels. For high-tech enterprises that have been registered with the national authorities and remain within their validity period, the maximum loan amount per enterprise for “Technology Loans” can reach up to 10 million yuan.Establish a dynamic cultivation mechanism for a tiered pipeline of enterprises preparing for listing or stock exchange registration. Include eligible high-tech enterprises in the pool of enterprises being cultivated as candidates for listing. Improve the mechanism for precise matching between enterprises and capital markets. Actively conduct “one-on-one” briefings on capital market policies benefiting enterprises. Increase efforts to coordinate and resolve enterprise-related issues to facilitate more high-quality high-tech enterprises in raising capital through listings on the STAR Market, the Beijing Stock Exchange, and other platforms.
Responsible Units: Municipal Financial Work Bureau, Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Science and Technology Bureau
3. Open up channels for supplying talent in short supply to enterprises. Regularly update and publish the "Luoyang City Key Industries Urgently Needed Talent Demand Guidance Catalog," implement talent recruitment and cultivation policies such as the "Implementation Measures for the Luoyang City '100 Science and Technology Talents into Enterprises Plan' (Interim)" (Luo Shi Ke [2022] No. 6), broaden flexible talent recruitment channels for enterprises, and improve talent evaluation, incentive, and protection mechanisms.and attract and cultivate a group of high-level talents and urgently needed specialized professionals, striving to achieve full coverage of flexible talent recruitment and utilization for industrial enterprises above designated size. Focusing on enterprises’ labor needs, organize recruitment activities that combine online and offline methods, such as comprehensive job fairs and specialized recruitment events, to provide enterprises with convenient and efficient recruitment services.
Responsible Units: Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau
III. Organizational Guarantees
(1) Strengthen Organizational Leadership. The Office of the Municipal Science and Technology Innovation Committee is responsible for coordinating and guiding the city-wide efforts to double the number of high-tech enterprises. It will convene a joint meeting once every quarter to regularly report on the progress of these efforts across counties, districts, and relevant municipal departments.
(2) Strengthen Supervision and Evaluation. Break down and quantify annual targets for attracting and cultivating high-tech enterprises. Include the net increase in high-tech enterprises as a key indicator in the innovation and development performance evaluations of counties and districts; however, enterprises relocating within the city shall not be counted toward the net increase targets of the receiving county or district. All counties, districts, and relevant municipal departments shall treat the high-tech enterprise expansion initiative as a “top-priority project,” with principal leaders personally deploying, coordinating, and driving the effort.
(3) Foster a Favorable Environment. Actively assume provincial-level authority for high-tech enterprise evaluations. Publicly commend departments, counties, districts, and individuals that demonstrate outstanding achievements in the high-tech enterprise expansion initiative. Establish a benchmark for respecting innovation, science and technology, and enterprises; actively identify and vigorously publicize exemplary cases and best practices; encourage enterprises to actively apply for high-tech enterprise status; and foster a favorable environment for cultivating high-tech enterprises.
(4) Dynamic Statistical Monitoring. The municipal statistics department will include the growth rate of high-tech industrial value-added and its proportion of value-added from large-scale industrial enterprises in its statistical monitoring scope. A quarterly reporting and analysis mechanism will be established to provide data support for timely assessment of high-tech enterprise development.
(5) Improving the Error-Tolerance Mechanism. For relevant units and individuals who make errors during the application, cultivation, and management of high-tech enterprises—provided that decision-making procedures comply with laws and regulations, services are performed with due diligence and without seeking personal gain, and efforts are made to actively mitigate losses, eliminate adverse impacts, or effectively prevent harmful consequences—no negative evaluation shall be made, and relevant liabilities shall be waived.
IV. Other Provisions
(1) This Plan shall take effect upon publication and remain valid until December 31, 2025. In the event of any inconsistencies with previous policies, this Plan shall prevail. Should there be adjustments to higher-level laws, regulations, or policies, the latest policy provisions shall apply.
(2) Project entities supported under this plan must have a good credit standing and must not be listed on the “Credit China (Henan)” blacklist.
(3) The incentive funds supported by this plan shall be disbursed according to the administrative region where the enterprise is located. For county-level enterprises, the county government shall bear the full cost; for district-level enterprises, the municipal and district governments shall each bear 50% of the cost, with the municipal government’s share drawn from the municipal applied technology research and development fund. The incentive funds shall be managed and utilized by the implementing entity; government departments shall no longer administer them under the research and development project model.
