Individual industrial and commercial households are the "capillaries" of my country's industrial and supply chains and the "nerve endings" of the market. They play an important role in stabilizing growth, promoting employment, and benefiting people's livelihood. On October 25, the State Council officially issued the "Regulations on Promoting the Development of Individual Industrial and Commercial Households" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"). The Regulations will come into effect on November 1, 2022.
"Since the outbreak of the epidemic, individual industrial and commercial households have been affected to varying degrees. The introduction of the Regulations is conducive to encouraging, supporting and guiding the sustained and healthy development of the individual economy, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests and stability of individual industrial and commercial households, and expanding urban and rural employment." Experts said, The promulgation of the "Regulations" will help solve the "urgent, difficult and anxious" problems of individual industrial and commercial households, allowing individual industrial and commercial households to move forward "lightly", reflecting our country's unwavering determination to encourage, support and guide the development of the non-public economy.
Individual industrial and commercial households are an important part of my country's market entities and are market entities with Chinese characteristics. As of the end of September 2022, there were 111 million registered individual industrial and commercial households across the country, accounting for 2/3 of my country's total market entities, creating employment for nearly 300 million people.
What is the significance of the promulgation of the Regulations? The "Regulations" issued this time have a total of 39 articles, stipulating each link of individual industrial and commercial households one by one from aspects such as registration, targeted assistance, business premises, finance, taxation and finance. On October 25, the State Administration for Market Regulation interpreted the "Regulations", saying that the promulgation of the Regulations consolidates a series of policy measures and experiences and practices to promote the development of individual industrial and commercial households. It is innovative and operable, and is conducive to stabilizing expectations and improving confidence.
The State Administration for Market Regulation stated that in this special period, the formulation and promulgation of an administrative regulation specifically promoting the development of individual industrial and commercial households will help stabilize market expectations at the institutional level and provide a good legal environment for the development of individual industrial and commercial households. The "Regulations" further clarified the legal status of individual industrial and commercial households, coordinated development and safety, relief and cultivation, vitality and order, clarified the responsibilities and tasks of various departments and regions in promoting the development of individual industrial and commercial households, and proposed specific assistance in various fields. measures to effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of individual industrial and commercial households.
At present, my country's market entities are divided into three types, namely enterprises, individual industrial and commercial households and farmers' professional cooperatives. These three types of market entities respectively have “subject laws” that establish their legal status and support and promote development. Compared with the original "Regulations on Individual Industrial and Commercial Households", the newly released "Regulations on Promoting the Development of Individual Industrial and Commercial Households" have undergone fundamental changes in the legislative purpose, main content, and article structure. It has been transformed from a specialized regulation for registration management to one that promotes development. comprehensive regulations.
"The promulgation of the Regulations is like a 'timely rain'. It proposes more specific and precise measures to help individual industrial and commercial households relieve their difficulties, so that individual industrial and commercial households can get help in entrepreneurship and innovation, improve operating efficiency, etc., and also further activate the vitality of market entities. , stimulate employment, optimize the business environment, and enhance market expectations and confidence," said Li Zhijian, vice chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Social Sciences and chairman of the Guangdong Asia-Pacific Innovation Economic Research Institute.
"After the "Regulations" are promulgated and implemented, people's governments at all levels will also issue corresponding supporting policies. The series of policies
After the "Regulations" were released, Li Zhijian paid attention to the "strengthening the monitoring and analysis of the development status of individual industrial and commercial households" and "strengthening the collection, sharing and application of individual industrial and commercial household development information." He believed that this could help government regulatory authorities to be more rapid and efficient. Comprehensively understand and supervise the development situation and needs of individual industrial and commercial households, promote the transfer of individuals to enterprises, expand the market and development space for individual industrial and commercial households, and enhance market competitiveness.
In addition, he also paid attention to the "Regulations" which proposed a multi-pronged approach to help individual industrial and commercial households reduce costs, increase capital and increase efficiency through measures such as increasing the supply of business premises, facilitating loan financing, and promoting digital transformation. “The Regulations pay more attention to improving the development quality of individual industrial and commercial households, and provide support for individual industrial and commercial households to obtain better social security, skills training, entrepreneurship and innovation environment, etc.”
Wang Kang paid attention to the protection of the intellectual property rights of individual industrial and commercial households in the Regulations. “In real life, some small and beautiful individual industrial and commercial households have accumulated high popularity through long-term operations and formed a good brand effect. However, due to the lack of awareness of protecting intellectual property rights in their operations, their trade names, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, etc. In this regard, the "Regulations" have made clear provisions to increase the protection of individual industrial and commercial households' rights such as trade names, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets."
As one of many individual industrial and commercial households, Chen Tianji Fish Skin has encountered the dilemma of malicious registration of the time-honored trademark, so its third-generation inheritor Chen Yinghua is also concerned about this measure. "It took us more than three years to successfully get the trademark back. We hope that all individual industrial and commercial households will pay attention to trademark protection."
After years of working in the catering industry, Chen Yinghua also feels the "warmth" and "flexibility" of the Regulations. "Business has declined during the epidemic and capital flows have decreased. The support of loans and other financial products proposed in the Regulations can help us tide over the difficulties better."
In recent years, Guangdong has made concerted efforts in promoting the development of individual industrial and commercial households by strengthening policy supply, increasing capital and financing support, continuing to reduce taxes and fees, and providing targeted services, and the integrated effect has gradually become apparent. In September this year, Guangdong held the first Individual Industrial and Commercial Household Service Month to "deliver services and do practical things to promote development", providing free quality and technical assistance services to no less than 5,000 small, medium and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households, and carrying out the "Thousands of Enterprises and Thousands of Workshops" Assistance actions. Currently, the number of individual industrial and commercial households in Guangdong exceeds 8.3 million. From January to August this year, 1 million newly registered individual industrial and commercial households were registered in the province, maintaining a steady growth trend.
Experts also put forward relevant suggestions to promote higher-quality development of individual industrial and commercial households. Wang Kang pointed out that at present, most individual industrial and commercial households still have problems such as small business scale, weak ability to resist risks, and weak awareness of compliance. It is recommended to guide individual industrial and commercial operators to transfer and share the risks they may encounter in the business process by purchasing commercial insurance. "In addition, administrative agencies or industry associations can guide individual industrial and commercial operators to improve their awareness of compliance during the business process and establish a long-term business philosophy to avoid violations, illegal or even suspected crimes due to the pursuit of short-term interests," he said. .
Li Zhijian suggested that Guangdong
