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The National Development and Reform Commission issued 20 measures to restore and expand consumption

National Development and Reform Commission
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August 3, 2023, 4:38 PM
In order to further implement the strategy of expanding domestic demand, give full play to the fundamental role of consumption in economic development, and constantly strengthen the lasting driving force for high-quality development, in accordance with the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, we now propose the following measures to restore and expand consumption.

I. overall requirements

Under the guidance of's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, we should thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress in the midst of stability, completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, and speed up the construction of a new development pattern. We will strive to promote high-quality development, give priority to the recovery and expansion of consumption, optimize the promotion mechanism of the virtuous circle of employment, income distribution and consumption, and enhance consumption capacity. We will improve consumption conditions, innovate consumption scenes, fully tap the advantages of super-large-scale markets, smooth the economic cycle, release consumption potential, and better meet the needs of the people for a high quality of life.

-- adhere to a better combination of effective markets and promising governments. Comply with the laws of the market and the trend of consumption, give full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of resources, give better play to the role of the government, speed up the construction of a unified national market, improve service quality, stimulate market vitality, and release potential demand, we will strive to create a good ecology for promoting the upgrading of consumption.

-- adhere to a better combination of optimizing supply and expanding demand. We will organically combine the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand with deepening supply-side structural reform, enhance the adaptability and flexibility of the supply structure to changes in demand, expand new space for consumption, create new consumption scenes, and enrich consumer experience. Lead and create new market demand with high-quality supply.

-- persisting in better integration of quality upgrading and innovation and development. We will highlight popularization and inclusiveness, speed up the construction of consumption infrastructure in urban and rural areas, improve the long-term mechanism for expanding residents' consumption, effectively protect consumers' rights and interests, and create a convenient and secure environment for consumption. constantly improve consumption convenience, comfort and satisfaction.


Second, stabilize bulk consumption

(1) to optimize the management of car purchase and use. No new car purchase restrictions are allowed in all regions, and car purchase restrictions are optimized in areas where purchase restrictions have been implemented in accordance with local conditions. Efforts have been made to promote the complete abolition of restrictions on the relocation of used cars and to facilitate the registration of used car transactions. Promote automobile renewal consumption, encourage trade-in, and shall not implement discriminatory policies against non-locally produced cars. We will increase financial support for automobile consumption. We will increase the supply of urban parking spaces, improve parking conditions in crowded places and scenic spots, and promote the sharing and utilization of parking resources.

(2) expand the consumption of new energy vehicles. We will implement policies such as building a high-quality charging infrastructure, supporting new energy vehicles going to the countryside, and extending and optimizing tax relief for the purchase of new energy vehicles. Scientific layout, moderately ahead of the construction of charging infrastructure system, speed up the promotion and application of power exchange mode, and effectively meet the travel recharging needs of residents. We will promote the optimal layout of public charging infrastructure in residential areas and implement residential electricity prices, study the implementation of peak-valley time-of-use electricity price policy for charging infrastructure, and promote the reduction of electricity costs for new energy vehicles.

(III) support the demand for rigid and improved housing. We will do a good job in protecting buildings, people's livelihood and stability, improve the basic housing security system and support policies, expand the supply of indemnificatory rental housing, and strive to solve the housing problems of new citizens, young people and other groups with housing difficulties. We will steadily promote the transformation of old residential areas, give further play to the role of special housing maintenance funds in the renovation of old residential areas and the renovation of elevators in old residential areas, and continue to support residents of old urban residential areas to withdraw housing accumulation funds for the retrofitting of elevators and other self-occupied housing. We will actively and steadily promote the transformation of urban villages in super-large cities. We will continue to promote projects to improve the quality and safety of rural houses, continue to carry out the renovation of dilapidated houses in rural areas, support the seismic renovation of rural houses in fortified areas of 7 degrees and above, encourage energy-saving renovation and quality improvement of rural houses, and improve the living conditions of rural residents.

(4) to increase the consumption of household decoration and electronic products. Promote household decoration consumption and encourage the integration of fully intelligent indoor assembly. Promote intelligent household appliances, integrated household appliances, functional furniture and other products to enhance the level of intelligent and green household. Speed up the implementation of home appliance after-sales service improvement action. We will carry out in-depth trade-in of household appliances and strengthen the recycling of waste household appliances. The use of ultra-high-definition video, virtual reality, flexible display and other new technologies to promote supply-side technological innovation and upgrading of electronic products. Support the consumption of wearable devices and smart products, and create new scenarios for consumer applications of electronic products.


III. Expand the consumption of services

(5) to expand the consumption of catering services. Advocate healthy food consumption, oppose food waste, support all localities to hold food festivals, create characteristic food neighborhoods, and carry out catering activities to promote consumption. Optimize the relevant regulations on extending business hours of catering places according to local conditions. Cultivate the model of "planting and breeding base + central kitchen + cold chain logistics + catering stores", tap the potential of prefabricated food market, accelerate the construction of prefabricated vegetable base, fully reflect the principles of safety, nutrition and health, and improve the quality of food and beverage and the level of distribution standardization. Promote transparent kitchen, so that consumers can eat at ease.

(6) to enrich the consumption of literature and tourism. We will fully implement the paid vacation system, encourage off-peak vacations, work and rest flexibly, and promote holiday consumption. We will strengthen the integration of regional tourism brands and services, and actively organize activities to promote culture and tourism consumption. We will improve tourism infrastructure, strengthen the construction of intelligent scenic spots, and improve the quality of tourism services. All localities are encouraged to formulate and implement policies such as ticket waivers for scenic spots and free access in off-season. On the basis of protecting tourists' right of independent choice, support the cooperation of different regional scenic spots to implement the joint ticket model, and encourage scenic spots to implement the multiple-day use system of one ticket in combination with reality, so as to better meet the diversified needs of tourists. We will promote the standardized and innovative development of night travel consumption, guide museums, cultural centers and amusement parks to extend their opening hours, and support the construction of a "24-hour life circle" in areas where conditions permit. Create a new space for immersive performing arts and build a new type of culture and tourism consumption gathering area.

(7) promoting the consumption of cultural, recreational and sports exhibitions. Speed up the progress of examination and approval and other work, and continue to put on excellent film works and artistic performances. We will optimize the examination and approval process, strengthen safety supervision and service guarantee, and increase the supply of drama festivals, music festivals, art festivals, animation festivals, concerts and other large-scale activities. We will encourage the holding of all kinds of sports events and increase the number of offline and online sports events with a wide audience. Vigorously develop intelligent sports equipment and improve the intelligent level of scientific fitness. We will implement actions to improve national fitness venues and facilities, strengthen the construction of sports parks, and make up for the shortcomings of national fitness facilities. Select and determine a new batch of national sports consumption pilot cities. Encourage all localities to increase policy support for commodity fairs, fairs, trade fairs, shopping festivals, folk festivals, brand fairs, characteristic bazaars and other activities, so as to further expand exhibition consumption. Carry out "time-honored brand carnival" and other activities to promote brand consumption.

(8) increase the consumption of health services. We should attach equal importance to traditional Chinese and western medicine, promote the sinking of high-quality medical resources, jointly build medical associations such as urban medical groups and county medical communities, strengthen basic medical and health services, and improve the quality and level of services. efforts will be made to increase high-quality services such as traditional Chinese medicine, health care, rehabilitation and health tourism. We will develop "Internet + Medical and Health", further improve the charging policy for Internet diagnosis and treatment, and gradually bring qualified "Internet +" medical services into the scope of medical insurance payment. We will develop health management, life care, recuperation and other services and products for the elderly, and support various institutions to hold universities for the elderly and participate in education for the elderly. We will actively expand the supply of inclusive services and promote the improvement of quality and efficiency of public consumption.


IV. Promoting rural consumption

(9) to carry out green products to the countryside. Areas with conditions can give appropriate subsidies to green smart household appliances to the countryside and trade in old appliances for new ones, and give differentiated policy support according to product energy efficiency, water efficiency and so on. We will carry out activities to the countryside of green building materials and encourage areas with suitable conditions to give appropriate subsidies or discounted loans to the consumption of green building materials.

(10) improve the rural e-commerce and express logistics distribution system. We will vigorously develop live e-commerce and real-time retail in rural areas, and promote e-commerce platforms and enterprises to enrich the supply of products and services for rural areas. We will improve the three-level express logistics and distribution system for counties, townships and villages, speed up the promotion of the comprehensive level of e-commerce and express delivery into rural areas, support the construction and transformation of county-level logistics distribution centers and township logistics stations, and integrate postal, express, supply and marketing, e-commerce and other resources. we will promote intensive distribution and encourage rural passenger vehicles to transport mail express. Build village-level comprehensive delivery and logistics service stations, set up smart express boxes in qualified villages, increase the density of rural retail outlets, and gradually reduce logistics and distribution costs.

(11) to promote the introduction of special products into cities. We will further promote agricultural production and the "three products and one standard" of agricultural products, develop product industries with distinctive regional, national and local characteristics, vigorously develop rural e-commerce and order agriculture, and broaden the uplink channels of characteristic agricultural products. Guide all kinds of online and offline platforms to continuously increase consumption assistance, set up special area counters to promote the smooth sale of characteristic products in areas out of poverty, increase farmers' income and enhance their consumption power.

(12) vigorously develop rural tourism. Popularize the experience of Zhejiang's "ten million projects" and build livable industries and beautiful villages. We will implement the plan for the revitalization of rural areas empowered by cultural industries, protect and inherit excellent local culture, invigorate and tap rural cultural and tourism resources, and enhance the efficiency of rural cultural and tourism facilities. Promote the implementation of rural residential service certification, cultivate and release a number of grade tourism residential accommodation, and create a number of quality residential accommodation. Support operators to develop forest homes, forest trails, healthy oxygen bars, starry camping, motels and other products, and create a number of beautiful pastoral, landscape agriculture, farming experience, field exploration, outdoor sports, research travel and other new business type according to local conditions, and expand rural eco-tourism and leisure tourism.


V. expanding new types of consumption

(13) to expand digital consumption. We will promote the construction of digital consumer infrastructure and enrich the application scenarios of the fifth generation mobile communication (5G) network and gigabit optical network. We will speed up the digital transformation of traditional consumption and promote the development of digital consumption norms such as e-commerce, live broadcast economy, and online entertainment. Support the integrated development of online and offline commodity consumption and improve the quality of online shopping festivals. Develop new retail formats such as real-time retail and smart stores. Encourage digital technology enterprises to build digital platforms for life services, promote intelligent digital life, and create digital consumption formats and intelligent immersive service experiences. Strengthen security supervision such as mobile payment. We will upgrade information consumption, promote the construction and transformation of information consumption experience centers, raise the construction level of information consumption demonstration cities, hold a series of characteristic activities of information consumption with high quality, and promote the integration and application of new generation information technology and more consumption fields. We will promote the healthy and sustainable development of the platform economy, continue to promote innovative breakthroughs, open up more new fields and new tracks, and further improve service standards in related fields.

(14) promoting green consumption. We will actively develop the green and low-carbon consumer market, improve the mechanism for the production and promotion of green and low-carbon products, and promote the green renewal and quality upgrading of consumer durables. We will improve the standard system for energy conservation, low carbon and green manufacturing, improve the certification and labeling system for green products, and encourage the formulation of group standards and enterprise standards first. We will extensively carry out actions to create conservation-oriented institutions, green families, green communities and green travel, oppose extravagance, waste and excessive consumption, advocate rational consumption, and speed up the formation of a simple, moderate, green and low-carbon lifestyle and consumption pattern.


VI. Improving consumption facilities

(15) to speed up the cultivation of multi-level consumer centers. We will deepen the construction of international consumption centers, scientifically lay out, cultivate and develop a number of regional consumption centers and consumption centers with local characteristics. We will further promote the construction of Hainan International Tourism consumption Center. Improve the urban commercial system, promote the transformation and upgrading of pedestrian streets, develop intelligent business circles, create a "quarter of an hour" convenient life circle, build a hierarchical and classified urban consumption carrier, and improve the consumption convenience of residents. We will strengthen community services for the convenience of the people, rationally distribute services for the elderly, care, catering, housekeeping, retail, express delivery, fitness, hairdressing, maintenance, and recycling of waste materials, and promote the building of a complete community.

(16) efforts should be made to make up for the shortcomings of consumer infrastructure. Combined with promoting urban renewal, strengthening the hardware function connection between the transformation of stock area and supporting the development of new consumption scene. We will strengthen the building of the commercial system at the county level, build and transform a number of township trade centers, trade markets, and new convenience stores in rural areas, and promote the renovation and upgrading of key trade streets and alleys. We will steadily promote the construction of cold chain facilities for producing areas and sales, make up for the shortcomings of cold chain logistics facilities for the storage and preservation of agricultural products, and promote the two-way integration of urban and rural cold chain networks.

(17) to improve the policy to support the construction of consumer infrastructure. We will implement the policy of special investment in consumption promotion, support the construction of consumer infrastructure, the upgrading of equipment and the upgrading of key production lines, and bring qualified projects into the scope of local government special bonds. Support eligible consumer infrastructure to issue real estate investment trusts (REITs). We will support all localities to ensure reasonable land demand for consumer infrastructure construction. Enterprises are allowed to build temporary and simple buildings on construction land in strict accordance with the requirements of civilized cities and the relevant regulations of temporary construction and planning management on construction land on the premise of complying with land and space planning, not changing the structure and nature of land use, and ensuring safety. Expand new consumption scenes.


VII. Optimize the consumption environment

(18) strengthen financial support in the field of consumption. We will guide financial institutions to increase comprehensive financial support for accommodation and catering, cultural tourism, sports and health, old-age care and care, and domestic service in a market-oriented manner. More attention should be paid to the supervision of the use and flow of consumer credit on the basis of real consumer behavior, so as to promote a reasonable increase in consumer credit. On the basis of strengthening the construction of the credit information system, we will reasonably optimize the interest rates, repayment periods and credit lines of small consumer credit and credit cards.

(19) continuously improve the quality of consumer services. We will comprehensively carry out rest assured consumer action and improve service standards in key service consumption areas. We will crack down on fake and shoddy practices in accordance with the law, and continue to promote the creation of reassuring markets, reassuring stores, reassuring online stores, reassuring restaurants, reassuring scenic spots, and reassuring factories. we will speed up the formation of a closed loop of reassuring consumption system with return and exchange, quality traceability, clearly marked price, supervision and evaluation, and create a reassuring consumption environment.

(20) improve the long-term mechanism for promoting consumption. Further improve the system and mechanism of promoting consumption. Explore the establishment of big data monitoring platform system for consumption trends, and carry out the research and compilation of consumption foresight index. Speed up the construction of the consumer credit system. We will continue to deepen reform, speed up the clean-up of various regulations and practices that restrict consumption, remove institutional obstacles and hidden barriers in the field of consumption in an orderly manner, and promote the coordination and unification of standards, rules and policies in different regions and industries.

All relevant departments should give full play to the role of existing inter-departmental cooperation mechanisms, strengthen coordination and linkage, strengthen supervision and implementation, and introduce detailed work plans and supporting policies in the light of reality. All localities should carry out local responsibilities, improve the working mechanism, meticulously organize and implement them, take effective measures in line with local conditions, explore effective practices, and earnestly promote the implementation of various measures.