Beijing will speed up the construction of a quarter hour convenient life circle, promote the development of community commerce, and provide financial support for new chain supermarkets, vegetable retail, convenience stores, front warehouses, chain pharmacies and other projects. In principle, the amount of support shall not exceed 50% of the approved total actual investment; Support the transformation and upgrading of traditional shopping malls. The proportion of financial support shall not exceed 4.35% of the approved actual investment, and the amount of support for a single project shall not exceed 5 million yuan.
On the 22nd, Beijing issued several measures on continuing to strengthen the assistance of small, medium-sized and micro enterprises and accelerating the recovery and development of difficult enterprises (hereinafter referred to as the measures), proposing 18 measures in four aspects to help difficult enterprises in the service industry tide over difficulties and resume development, which was mentioned by Guo Wenjie, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, when introducing the relevant assistance measures for catering and retail industry.
Guo Wenjie said that catering and retail industries are closely related to the life of Lbx Pharmacy Chain Joint Stock Company(603883) and play an important role in stabilizing employment, promoting consumption and expanding domestic demand. Since the outbreak of this round of epidemic, these industries have been greatly impacted, especially small, medium and micro enterprises.
The Measures specify that in terms of reducing the cost of enterprise epidemic prevention and control, Beijing will carry out regular nucleic acid testing for employees in catering, retail, takeout and other industries free of charge in 2022. If the required expenses meet the requirements, they shall be paid by the medical insurance fund, and the rest shall be shared by the community finance. In the process of implementation, they shall be implemented by relying on the “due inspection and inspection” system. The specific scope of employees includes: employees in all catering industries, employees in food business units such as shopping malls and supermarkets, retail employees selling imported non cold chain goods, farmers’ markets, pharmacies and takeout workers.
The measures pointed out that in terms of relief support for the catering industry, Beijing supported catering enterprises to build new chain restaurants, central kitchens, breakfast shops and cafes this year. In principle, the amount of support should not exceed 50% of the approved total actual investment; Support Internet platform enterprises to carry out assistance activities for small, medium and micro merchants; Encourage Internet platform enterprises to carry out takeout operation support services and improve the digital operation ability of merchants.
In terms of retail rescue support, Beijing has accelerated the construction of a quarter hour convenience life circle, promoted the development of community commerce, and provided financial support for new chain supermarkets, vegetable retail, convenience stores, front warehouses, chain pharmacies and other projects. In principle, the amount of support shall not exceed 50% of the approved total actual investment; Promote the construction of County commercial system, and give certain financial support to key chain enterprises and e-commerce enterprises to transform and upgrade rural convenience stores by means of direct operation or franchise; Support the transformation and upgrading of traditional shopping malls. The proportion of financial support shall not exceed 4.35% of the approved actual investment, and the amount of support for a single project shall not exceed 5 million yuan.
Guo Wenjie said that in the next step, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, together with relevant departments and districts, will do a good job in promoting consumption on the premise of epidemic prevention. While doing a good job in rescuing small, medium-sized and micro businesses and enterprises, it will focus on ensuring the supply and price of daily necessities, improving and upgrading traditional consumption, providing high-quality consumption scenes and building a quarter hour convenient life circle in the community, and strive to cultivate and build an international consumption center city, Better serve market players, promote consumption recovery, and ensure and improve people’s livelihood.
