15 provinces provide rent reduction and exemption for small and medium-sized enterprises. These industries are taken care of

China-Singapore Jingwei Client, February 10 (Wu Xiaowei) For most small and medium-sized enterprises, rent is a huge expense when the resumption of work is delayed and there is no revenue. In recent days, many places across the country have introduced new policies to support small and medium-sized enterprises in weathering difficulties. Statistics from Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client found that 15 provinces including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hebei, Zhejiang, Shandong, Shanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, and Hainan have explicitly exempted and exempted rents for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Many places encourage real estate developers to reduce rents and dozens of real estate developers take action

According to a previous questionnaire survey and key phone calls conducted by the "Shanghai Enterprise Service Cloud" on more than 2,000 small and medium-sized enterprises in Shanghai. According to the interview, 50% of the small and medium-sized enterprises interviewed were worried about costs, and especially had urgent needs for rent reduction and exemption.

Many provinces mentioned in the new policies that operators of large commercial buildings, shopping malls, and markets are encouraged to moderately reduce or reduce rents for tenants during the epidemic prevention and control period. In this regard, a number of companies have already taken action.

Poly Development Commercial Company will reduce or exempt part of the rent during the Spring Festival for the merchants in its 22 shopping malls; China Resources Land will reduce or exempt the rent for all merchants in various commercial projects across the country from January 25 to February 9, involving There are about 14,000 stores nationwide; Joy ??City Holdings, a subsidiary of COFCO Group, will reduce or exempt part of the rent during the Spring Festival for merchants in 13 commercial projects across the country; China Merchants Shekou plans to exempt 8 cities from January 31 for office customers in industrial parks 50% rent until February 9th.

In addition, dozens of real estate companies including Vanke Commercial, Wanda Commercial Management, Longfor Group, China Jinmao, Sanya International Duty Free, OCT Group, etc. have announced rent reduction and exemption measures to varying degrees, choosing to "*" with merchants **Get over the difficulties”. Joy City Holdings, Poly Development, etc. are also actively organizing merchants to vigorously develop online services.

Industry insiders commented that rent is an important cost for merchants and the main source of profits for commercial real estate and other industries. Active rent reduction has effectively alleviated the operating pressure of merchants and enhanced business confidence.

However, Lai Yang, executive vice president of the Beijing Association of Business Economics, once said that many traditional businesses are currently closed. Although some owners have proposed to reduce or reduce some rents, companies still face a large cost burden. , such as employee salary costs, rental costs, etc. To help them survive the "cold winter", the government needs to give them some economic policy support.

The industries that focus on rent reduction and exemption vary from place to place

In order to further support small and medium-sized enterprises, some urban areas have also introduced new rules for rent reduction and exemption. According to statistics from Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client, Dalian, Shijiazhuang, Xingtai, Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai, Laoshan, Ankang, Xinxiang, Puyang, Shangqiu, Suzhou, Ningbo, Hefei, Ma'anshan, Tongling, Guangde, Xiangtan, Zhuzhou, Fuzhou, Foshan 24 places including Nanning, Nanning, Huangpu District of Guangzhou, and Hengqin New District of Zhuhai have also made clear provisions on rent reduction and exemption for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Looking at the new policies in various places, it is not difficult to find that many places have proposed rent reductions and exemptions for small, medium and micro enterprises for state-owned assets for operating houses ranging from 1 to 3 months, but the focus is slightly different.

Beijing has paid special attention to small, medium and micro enterprises in the science and technology innovation category, as well as prominently affected industries such as culture, tourism, and catering. It is clear that qualified Zhongguancun innovative small, medium and micro enterprises will be provided with loan discounts and subsidies for bonds and financial leasing fees; for qualified small and medium-sized cultural enterprises, interest discounts, rent subsidies and other incentives will be provided through the "Investment and Loan Award" policy; for qualified small and medium-sized cultural enterprises, Rent subsidies for small and micro businesses and start-up cultural enterprises will be provided through the "rent-to-rent" policy; for key chain restaurants (breakfast) and vegetable shops (fresh food supermarkets) that have been seriously affected by the epidemic or are protecting the basic life of citizens during epidemic prevention and control work Projects set up in outlets such as convenience stores and convenience stores will be provided with housing rental and other support, and the upper limit of the support ratio will be increased from the original 50% to 70%.

Hebei Province has proposed that small and medium-sized enterprises in the catering, accommodation and department store industry that rent state-owned assets for business use will be exempted from one month's rent and half of the rent for two months. Shijiazhuang City also requires that enterprises that rent state-owned assets for business operations and engage in crowd gathering industries such as catering, hotels, convenience markets, etc., will be exempted from rent in February and will be charged half the rent in March and April.

Shandong Province mentioned that for small and medium-sized enterprises that have difficulty in paying funds, rent collection can be deferred. The specific collection period shall be determined by negotiation between the two parties.

“With the implementation of this policy, it is expected that the rent reduction and exemption amount will reach 3 billion to 4 billion yuan.” Song Xuanyi, director of the Political Research Department of the China Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Development Promotion Center, told the media that the current assistance measures introduced by various regions in the short term The supportive policies are a timely help and solve the urgent needs of small and medium-sized enterprises. Next, it is recommended that governments at all levels can introduce time-sensitive policies and measures to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Zhang Jingqiang, Executive Chairman of the China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, said that we are still in a critical period of epidemic prevention and control, and many small and medium-sized enterprises have not yet been able to start operations normally, but effective policies and measures can help enterprises "stop losses as much as possible," especially It is a direct reduction of financial and tax burdens, which can buffer the adverse impact of the epidemic on enterprises to a large extent and help small and medium-sized enterprises tide over difficulties.