Related national policies
The western region includes 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, with an area of 5.45 million square kilometers, accounting for 56.8% of the country's land area, and a population of 285 million, accounting for 23% of the country's total population, and 307 national poverty alleviation counties, accounting for 50% of the country. The implementation of the strategy for the development of the western part of the country is a large-scale systematic project and an arduous historical task. At present, the State is studying and formulating the implementation of the strategy for the development of the western region and the promotion of the development of the western region policy measures, the overall strategy is expected to be formally introduced at the end of this year. Preliminary understanding, the implementation of the national strategy for the development of the western region is to speed up the construction of infrastructure in the western region, the development of science and technology and education, accelerate the cultivation of talents, increase the reform and opening up, and to promote the overall development of the western region's economic and social undertakings. Central plans to convene a recent implementation of the western development strategy initially introduced a series of policy measures. The main policy measures:
(a) investment policy. The state plans to speed up the western region transportation, power grids, communications and radio and television, urban infrastructure and small town development and water conservancy, ecological and environmental protection and other infrastructure construction, and in the state budget capital construction allocations, the use of state bond funds focus on tilting to the western region. This year, the National Economic and Trade Commission to implement the debt-to-equity conversion of enterprises, the country's total **** recommended more than 600 households, the central and western regions accounted for 62%. Preliminary understanding of the national capital investment of 70% to the western region tilt, used to support the improvement of infrastructure conditions in the western region. This year in the western region to start construction of 10 major new key projects, to speed up the 5 basic conditions, the development of the western region has a pioneering role in the preliminary work of the infrastructure of the big projects, the 78 key projects in progress to arrange for 31 billion yuan of subsidized investment.
The State will implement the "Spark Westward Program" during the 10th Five-Year Plan period to push a large number of practical technologies to the west, and plans to select 20-30 "Spark Westward" demonstration counties in the central and western regions, so as to enable the western regions to take full advantage of their own strengths, and strive for a significant improvement in the industrial, agricultural and rural economies in the short term.
The State Ministry of Education, on the basis of the 1.6 billion yuan allocated by the central government in the past two years, has allocated an additional 800 million yuan this year to increase support for education in poor and ethnic minority areas in the west.
(ii) Fiscal and financial policies. Finance to increase financial transfers to the western region, the financial sector with increased support for infrastructure construction in the western region, measures to expand the proportion of medium- and long-term loans to commercial banks in the west in due course, and actively arrange for supporting loans to increase ecological construction in the western region, tourism development, tertiary industry and the construction of small towns loans. Policy banks, such as the China Development Bank, are permitted to issue special financial bonds for the purpose of raising loans for infrastructure construction in the west. The State Development Bank will issue more than 30 billion yuan of loans to Xinjiang in the future, and will try to provide various support and services to Xinjiang by providing technical assistance funds and participating in planning and development. Development Bank Nanning Branch, the first batch of this year's loan 1.625 billion yuan has been in place. This batch of loans focus on supporting the improvement of Guangxi as the southwest of the sea as the focus of the transportation infrastructure construction, water conservancy infrastructure construction and urban infrastructure construction.
The state increases the western region securities market policy support, further to the western tilt securities market resources, support the western region has the conditions of the enterprise listing, and increase the scale of the issuance of local enterprise bonds in the western region, try to set up the western industry investment fund. Encourage domestic securities companies to develop business in the western region, the introduction of domestic listed companies, investment institutions and overseas investors.
Approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, Tibet Securities Brokerage Co., Ltd. was officially opened in Lhasa on the 18th by the Tibet Trust and Investment Company. This is the first company established in Tibet to engage in professional securities operations. Tibet securities brokerage limited liability company was established, so that the Tibet trust industry and securities industry successfully realized the "separate business, set up separately, classified management".
(3) Foreign investment policy. The State will adopt a series of preferential policies to encourage foreign investment in the central and western regions. In the indirect utilization of foreign capital, the state to expand investment in western industrial areas, encourage foreign capital and medium and long-term credit banks to participate in western development and construction. Selecting industries and projects with advantages in the western region, it will formulate a special directory of foreign-invested industries, and the projects in this directory will enjoy the preferential policies of the encouraged projects in the Directory of Foreign-Invested Industries.
1, the central and western provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government to formulate the use of foreign investment advantageous industries and advantageous projects catalog, reported to the State for approval and implementation. Catalog projects can enjoy the "Industrial Guidance Catalog for Foreign Investment" in the encouragement of the project policy, the import of equipment for its own use and its supporting technology, supporting, spare parts that can not be produced domestically or its performance can not meet the needs of the provisions of the exemption from import tariffs and import taxes.
2, the central and western regions to absorb foreign investment in the field and the establishment of foreign-invested enterprises to relax the establishment of foreign-invested enterprises in the central and western regions to relax the restrictions on the proportion of foreign ownership. State-owned open areas and pilot projects that are allowed to carry out pilot projects should, in principle, be carried out simultaneously in the eastern, central and western regions.
3. For the state-encouraged foreign-invested enterprises located in the central and western regions, the enterprise income tax rate can be reduced by 15% within three years after the expiration of the current tax incentives.
4. Foreign-invested enterprises reinvesting in projects in the central and western regions can enjoy the treatment of foreign-invested enterprises if the proportion of foreign capital reaches 25% or more.
5. Foreign-invested enterprises in coastal areas are allowed to contract management of foreign-invested and domestic-funded enterprises in the central and western regions.
6. The central and western regions, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government are allowed to choose a completed development zone in their provincial capitals or capital cities and apply for the establishment of state-level economic and technological development zones.
7, the state prioritizes a number of agricultural, water conservancy, transportation, energy, raw materials and environmental protection projects in the central and western regions to attract foreign investment, and increase support for project matching funds and related measures. Encourage the third-line military to civilian enterprises and large state-owned enterprises to use foreign capital for technological transformation.
A few days ago, the World Trade Bank has made it clear that in the next three years, the Bank will take out at least 1 billion from a planned loan quota of about 5 billion to 7 billion U.S. dollars for the construction of transportation, environment, water conservancy and infrastructure projects in western China to tie in with the implementation of the Chinese government's strategy of developing the western part of the country.
(4) The country's measures on structural adjustment will focus on the western region. To implement the debt-to-equity enterprises, the national total **** recommended more than 600, of which the western region accounted for 62%; in the write-off of bad and doubtful reserves policy also tilted to the western region to help the western region's difficulties in the enterprise to enhance the ability to develop; in the technological transformation policy, by increasing the investment in technological change, and so on, efforts to help the advantageous enterprises in the western region to accelerate the development of. Like Qinghai's potash, Xinjiang's oil and gas resources development, etc., the state will be key support.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences launched the "Western Action" program. Initial plans to invest 250 million yuan, the unified organization of multidisciplinary cross, and the western development plan connected to the research and development of major projects. Sichuan financial institutions, this year will increase loans 65 billion, focusing on supporting the implementation of the western development. China Construction Bank to the Northwest Petroleum Bureau of China Nova Petroleum Limited to provide 2.85 billion yuan of credit lines. Sinopec has invested 213 million yuan in Guizhou (with a subsidized interest rate for three years) to accelerate the sale of refined oil products in the province.
The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) has launched a campaign to build a better home in the west of the country. On the basis of the original work, it will set up 1,000 rural women's schools, train 1,000 women scientific and technological leaders, develop 1,000 agricultural professional organizations, support 1,000 scientific and technological and environmental protection demonstration households, train 1,000 women cadres in counties and townships, organize 1,000 women specialists to send science and technology to the countryside, and build 1,000 new "March 8" green bases. March 8" green bases and 1,000 parent schools.
The Central Committee of the League implemented the Chinese Youth Western Entrepreneurship Action, first, to guide and help young people in the western region based on their hometowns and their own work to start their own businesses; second, to promote the protection of the river action, and in the high-quality completion of the planning area of 230,000 acres of the eight key projects, at the same time, the addition of 2-3 key projects nationwide; third, to encourage young people to go to the western part of the business, and fourth, to intensify the work of youth volunteer action, Project Hope and Hand in Hand. and hand-in-hand work.
(5) Science and technology and talents. The State has arranged special funds this year to support the development of science and technology in the west, and to develop new industries and eco-industries with the advantages of resources in the west in the western region where the high-tech zones are relatively concentrated, the industrial foundation is good, and the technological and economic strength is relatively strong, and to vigorously develop high-tech and its industries such as the agricultural information network, e-commerce, solar energy and wind power, new materials and bio-medicine, and to actively push forward the establishment and formation of the high-tech industrial belts, and to Cultivate a number of new high-tech enterprises. Taking into account the fact that there are many military enterprises on the "third line" in the west, we will build military research and production bases and develop dual-use technologies and related industries. Utilizing advanced residential technology, establish a basic database for monitoring and early warning of the ecological environment in key areas in the west, and at the same time develop and popularize ecological management techniques suitable for different ecological environments in the central and western regions. It will carry out research on the optimal allocation of cross-regional water resources in the central and western regions and demonstration projects on water-saving agricultural technologies. Measures will also be taken to implement the Western Talent Resource Development Program, which focuses on the strategic plan for the development of the western region, and formulates plans for the development of talents in accordance with the nationally determined infrastructure construction of energy, transportation, communications, water conservancy and other facilities, and the ecological environment construction of returning farmland to forests and grasslands. It has organized training for the scientific and technological backbones of ethnic minorities, and has organized study tours for overseas students to make suggestions and negotiate projects around the development of the west. It has also formulated policies for the introduction of talents and intelligence, and guided scientific and technological personnel from the eastern region to participate in the construction of the west in various forms. In terms of talent training, the State will focus on helping the western region to train operators, so that they can gradually catch up with the eastern region in terms of concepts and abilities, and lay a good foundation for the revitalization of enterprises and the development of the economy. In education, the state this year, focusing on supporting the western poor areas to improve school conditions and expand enrollment.