The Ministry of Commerce issued a circular on further doing a good job in the current priority work of promoting consumption in the commercial field. The circular proposes to promote the consumption of new cars. We will speed up the transformation of cars from purchase management to use management, remove obstacles that restrict the purchase and use of cars, and release the potential of automobile consumption. We will support the accelerated development of new energy vehicles and carry out in-depth activities of new energy vehicles to the countryside in conjunction with relevant departments. Expand the consumption of used cars. Encourage second-hand car distribution enterprises to brand and chain operation, and promote the innovation of circulation mode. We will promote the implementation of the policy of abolishing restrictions on the relocation of used cars. Support qualified enterprises to carry out second-hand car export business and expand the scale of second-hand car export in an orderly manner.

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Consumption is an important engine of economic growth and a direct reflection of the people's need for a better life. Since 2021, the consumer market has generally recovered steadily, but the recovery is unbalanced and the foundation is unstable. Since late July, the domestic epidemic has spread at many points, which has brought new impact on the consumer market. In order to seize the favorable opportunity of the "Golden Nine and Silver Ten" and the peak consumption season at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, on the basis of implementing various measures for the prevention and control of the regular epidemic situation, we will solidly promote the key work of promoting consumption in the commercial field, ensure that consumption runs within a reasonable range in the second half of 2021 and the first half of 2022, and build a new development pattern of better services. the relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:

I. key tasks

(1) strengthen efforts to stabilize the key consumption of bulk consumption.

1. Promote the consumption of new cars. We will speed up the transformation of cars from purchase management to use management, remove obstacles that restrict the purchase and use of cars, and release the potential of automobile consumption. We will support the accelerated development of new energy vehicles and carry out in-depth activities of new energy vehicles to the countryside in conjunction with relevant departments.

two。 Expand the consumption of used cars. Encourage second-hand car distribution enterprises to brand and chain operation, and promote the innovation of circulation mode. We will speed up the promotion of cross-provincial registration of transactions in used cars in different places. We will promote the implementation of the policy of abolishing restrictions on the relocation of used cars. Actively coordinate and cooperate with relevant departments to strengthen the supervision of the used car market in accordance with the law and standardize the market order. Support qualified enterprises to carry out second-hand car export business and expand the scale of second-hand car export in an orderly manner.

3. Promote the consumption of household appliances, furniture and home furnishings. In conjunction with relevant departments, speed up the improvement of the recycling and disposal system of waste household appliances, improve the recycling network, optimize recycling channels, and promote the renewal and consumption of household appliances; guide consumers to enhance their awareness of the safe use of household appliances and energy conservation and environmental protection, and timely replace old household appliances beyond their safe use life; encourage residential areas to use idle houses to set up temporary storage places for household appliances and furniture, so as to facilitate residents to carry out household decoration.

4. Boost food and beverage consumption. We will promote the upgrading and upgrading of food and beverage services, and encourage catering enterprises to enrich and upgrade their dishes, improve their service level, and innovate their business models. Encourage the chain, standardization and intensive development of brand catering enterprises, and speed up the digital empowerment of catering enterprises. Encourage all localities to deeply explore traditional culinary skills, strengthen the publicity and promotion of local traditional cuisine, and create characteristic brands. Promote the green and low-carbon development of the catering industry.

(2) to accelerate the development of new types of consumption.

5. Develop new business type's new model and new scene. We will support traditional commercial enterprises to speed up digitization, intelligent transformation and cross-border integration, encourage the development of smart stores, contactless distribution, and home-to-home services, and promote broader and deeper integration online and offline. We will support and encourage the transformation of traditional commercial premises, idle factories, stadiums and stadiums into new multi-functional and comprehensive consumption carriers, and create immersive, experiential and interactive consumption scenes. Build night consumption agglomeration areas according to local conditions to enrich night consumption scene and supply.

6. Promote the healthy development of online consumption. We will promote the standardized, healthy and sustainable development of new business type's new models such as live e-commerce and social e-commerce, guide enterprises to use big data and other technologies to carry out personalized customization and flexible production, and cultivate more "small and beautiful" online brands. We will implement the action of digital empowerment of life services and speed up the launch of the life service industry on the cloud.

7. Promote brand quality consumption. Encourage business circles, pedestrian streets and large-scale trade circulation enterprises to introduce domestic and foreign brand first stores, flagship stores and experience stores to carry out new product debut shows, fashion weeks, brand shows, creative exhibitions and other activities. Encourage time-honored brands to inherit and innovate traditional skills, launch more products and services rich in fashion elements and meet the needs of consumers, actively expand online sales channels, and constantly enhance market competitiveness. We will implement the policy of duty-free shopping for tourists from outlying islands in Hainan.

8. We will expand green recycling consumption. We will promote the establishment of green shopping malls and encourage the development of new new business type models such as "Internet + secondhand" and "Internet + recycling". Areas with conditions are encouraged to subsidize residents to eliminate cars with emission standards of State III or below and buy new cars, eliminate old household appliances and furniture, and purchase green smart appliances and environmentally friendly furniture.

9. Expand import consumption. We will promote the healthy and sustainable innovative development of cross-border e-commerce imports. Give full play to the role of important exhibition platforms such as China International Import Expo and China Import and Export Commodities Fair to expand the import of high-quality consumer goods. Large-scale commercial circulation enterprises and e-commerce platforms are encouraged to set up sales counters and special areas for imported products to promote the sales of imported goods.

(3) optimize and upgrade the carrier of consumption platform.

10. We will speed up the cultivation and construction of international consumption center cities. In accordance with the requirements of the overall plan and implementation plan, the first batch of nurtured cities should accurately grasp the government guidance, market operation, problem orientation, outstanding characteristics, scientific layout, and the basic principle of gradual and orderly progress. Around the key tasks of gathering high-quality consumer resources, building a new consumer business circle, promoting consumer integration and innovation, creating consumer fashion landmarks, strengthening the construction of consumer environment, and improving the consumption promotion mechanism, we will solidly promote the work of cultivation and construction. Give full play to the role of demonstration and radiation.

11. We will speed up the implementation of actions to upgrade urban commerce. All localities are encouraged to create a number of characteristic business circles and characteristic neighborhoods with strong popularity, strong characteristics and cultural heritage. We will speed up the construction of a quarter-hour convenient life circle, promote convenient commercial facilities such as convenience stores, vegetable markets, breakfast shops and maintenance points into communities, and support conditional community transformation to upgrade comprehensive service facilities such as commercial centers and neighborhood centers.

twelve。 We will thoroughly implement county-level commercial construction actions. Establish and improve the overall planning of the county, take the county seat as the center, the township as the focus, and the village-based rural commercial system, improve the commercial facilities in the county, promote the construction and transformation of a number of township trade centers, and transform and upgrade the traditional rural commercial network. We will further expand the coverage of rural e-commerce, improve the county, township and village three-level logistics distribution system, and vigorously develop joint distribution. We will improve the backbone network of the circulation of agricultural products and speed up to make up for the shortcomings of cold chain facilities. Combined with traditional festivals in rural areas, we will organize and carry out rural characteristics such as harvest festivals, folklore festivals, picking festivals, flower appreciation festivals and food festivals to promote consumption, so as to attract urban residents to go to the countryside for consumption.

13. Organize and carry out key activities to promote consumption. Organize and carry out the docking activities of production and marketing of brand goods, guide characteristic brands into the neighborhood, into the supermarket, into the platform, and promote brand consumption. Continue to do a good job in the "Chinese Food Vera" activities to create a new hot spot of food and beverage consumption. Continue to do a good job in the "time-honored brand carnival" activities, online and offline linkage, to create a time-honored brand consumption atmosphere.

14. Carry out regular activities to promote consumption. Under the premise of doing a good job in the prevention and control of the epidemic, we should seize the peak consumption seasons such as the Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day, New Year's Day, and Spring Festival, and focus on key areas such as cars, household appliances, home furnishings, and catering. We will organize and carry out various consumption-promoting activities of business travel, online and offline, and urban and rural areas, so as to gather momentum with economy, invigorate the city with economy, boost business with economy, further enhance market popularity and release consumption potential.

II. Safeguard measures

(1) strengthen organizational leadership. All localities should firmly establish the idea of people-centered development, firmly implement the strategy of expanding domestic demand, adhere to the systematic concept, adhere to the problem orientation, do a good job in epidemic prevention and control and consumption promotion, and promote the sustained and stable recovery of consumption. Seize the favorable opportunity of the consumer market entering the traditional peak season, formulate a special plan for promoting consumption, define key tasks, consolidate work responsibilities, strengthen supervision and inspection, and ensure that various measures are implemented. We will strengthen the summary, extraction, replication and promotion of typical experiences, and give full play to the exemplary and leading role. Strengthen publicity and guidance, timely publicize and report on the operation of the consumer market, measures and results of promoting consumption, and create a good atmosphere of public opinion.

(2) strengthen policy support. Strengthen departmental communication and coordination, do a good job in boosting key consumption, promoting the release of rural consumption potential and other policies and measures have been introduced to implement, focus on difficulties and block points, and study and introduce new measures to promote consumption. Implement the requirements of the Circular of the Ministry of Commerce and other six departments on supporting the relief and development of market entities such as offline retail, accommodation, catering, foreign trade and other market entities (Business Finance letter (2021) No. 442), and promote the continuous recovery of relevant industries. Actively coordinate the financial department and increase support for wholesale and retail, accommodation, catering and other industries greatly affected by the epidemic. We will optimize the direction of financial support for the development of the service industry, and increase support for the supply chain of agricultural products, statistical monitoring, and emergency guarantee. We will promote the implementation of a series of cooperation agreements signed by the Ministry of Commerce and relevant financial institutions, actively coordinate financial institutions to increase credit support to trade circulation enterprises with operational difficulties, especially small and micro enterprises, and launch special financing products suitable for the characteristics of the industry, such as small quota, short term, multi-frequency, fast lending and light guarantee.

(3) do a good job in the prevention and control of the epidemic. Overall development and safety, establish a solid bottom line thinking, establish and improve the regular epidemic prevention and control mechanism, and create a safe and assured consumption environment. To guide and urge all kinds of commercial and trade circulation enterprises to implement various prevention and control measures in accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention and control and guidelines for prevention and control of relevant industries, and to strengthen ventilation, disinfection and cleanliness of business premises, strictly implement the requirements of admission temperature inspection, health code inspection, wearing masks, etc., control the density of passenger flow, and do a good job in epidemic prevention and control. We will earnestly do a good job in the prevention and control of the epidemic situation of all kinds of consumption-promoting activities, formulate special plans, do a good job in organizing and implementing them, and ensure that the activities are held We should do a good job in the work of production safety in the field of commerce and trade, tighten the responsibility for production safety, and implement detailed safety precautions.

(4) to consolidate the foundation of work. Carry out in-depth investigation and research, comprehensively grasp the new situation, new problems, new demand and new trends of the consumer market, and accurately study and judge the development trend of consumption. Improve the statistical monitoring system, unify the sample enterprises and data application caliber, make full use of big data and other means, strengthen market monitoring and early warning and forecasting, timely detect and report abnormal market fluctuations and properly deal with them, and improve the speed of emergency response. We will improve the emergency supply system, optimize the category, scale and structure of reserves, improve the working mechanisms of departmental cooperation and joint protection and supply, and make overall efforts to ensure that the necessities of life are not out of stock or out of stock. Improve the business credit system, organize and carry out the activities of "honesty and Credit Promotion month". We will improve the system of circulation standards, strengthen the revision of local standards, and do a good job in the publicity and implementation of standards.