Announcement of the Amendments to The Regulations on Implementing the Special Fund for the Development of Industry and Information Industry to Support Commerce and Service Industries in Longgang District of Shenzhen

The Regulations on Implementing the Special Fund for the Development of Industry and Information Industry 

to Support Commerce and Service Industries in Longgang District of Shenzhen

Chapter One General Provisions

Article 1 The Regulations are formulated in accordance with Methods of Managing District-level Special Fiscal Found in Longgang District of Shenzhen (No. 01 〔2021〕 of the Regulations of People’s Government of Longgang District of Shenzhen) and Methods of Managing Special Fund for the Industrial Development in Longgang District of Shenzhen, as well as the reality.

Article 2 The fund for the implementation of the Regulations should be disbursed from the special fund for the development of industry and information technology in Longgang District of Shenzhen. There should be a limit on the total amount of the fund. As the total amount surpasses the financial budget of the year, the money distributed to the supported project should be reduced proportionally.

Article 3 Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Shenzhen should be responsible for implementing the Regulations.

Chapter Two Scope and Standard of the Support and Method of the Verification

Article 4 Supporting enterprise’s expansion

1. Object supported: the enterprise that is included for the first time in the statistical database of the businesses above the designated quota (excluding accommodation industry) and the service enterprises above designated size, has achieved positive growth in its sales volume, retail sales, or operating income in the second year, and has never enjoy any support or incentive before for being included in the database.

2. Method and standard of the support: incentive within 100,000 yuan RMB would be given once for all.

3. Approval of the support: following checking and approval mechanism.

Article 5 Supporting enterprise’s further growth

1. Object supported: the enterprise that has been included in the database of enterprises and businesses above the designated quote and the scale and growth of whose sales / turnover of the previous year has been up to certain standard.  

2. Method and standard of the support

(1) The wholesale enterprise whose sales reached 1-3 billion (including 1 billion) yuan RMB and showed a year-on-year increase of 15% or more in the previous year, would receive the monetary support, equal to 0.3‰ of the increased amount in its sales but no more than 1 million yuan RMB; the wholesale enterprise whose sales surpassed 3 billion yuan RMB and showed a positive year-on-year increase in the previous year, would receive the monetary support, equal to 0.6‰ of the increased amount in its sales but no more than 2 million yuan RMB; the wholesale enterprise whose sales reached 10 billion yuan RMB or more and showed a positive year-on-year increase in the previous year, would receive the monetary support, equal to 0.8‰ of the increased amount in its sales but no more than 6 million yuan RMB; the wholesale enterprise whose sales reached 15 billion yuan RMB or more and showed a positive year-on-year increase in the previous year, would receive the monetary support, equal to 1.2‰ of the increased amount in its sales but no more than 7 million yuan RMB; and the wholesale enterprise whose sales reached 20 billion yuan RMB or more and showed a positive year-on-year increase in the previous year, would receive the monetary support, equal to 1.4‰ of the increased amount in its sales but no more than 8 million yuan RMB.  

(2) The retail enterprise whose sales reached 100 million yuan RMB to 1 billion yuan RMB and showed a year-on-year increase of 10% or more in the previous year, or the retail enterprise whose sales surpassed 1 billion yuan RMB and showed a year-on-year positive increase in the previous year, would both be granted the monetary support, equal to 1‰ of the increased amount in its sales but no more than 1 million yuan RMB.

(3) The catering enterprise included in China Enterprise Database whose turnover reached a year-on-year increase of 10% or more in the previous year, would be granted the monetary support, equal to 3‰ of the increase amount in in its turnover but no more than 500,000 yuan RMB.

(3) Approval of the support: following checking and approval mechanism

Article 6 Supporting consumption-promotion activities

1. Object supported: the enterprise participating in “Longgang District Shopping Festival” Consumption-Promotion Activity.  

2. Method and standard of the support: Incentive, equal to 50 % of the enterprise’s actual input in participating in “Longgang District Shopping Festival” Consumption-Promotion Activity, but no more than 100,000 yuan RMB, would be granted once for all.

3. Approval of the support: following checking and approval mechanism.

Article 7 Supporting the founding of e-commerce demonstration base / park

1. Object supported: the enterprise in charge of the unified operation of national, provincial and municipal e-commerce demonstration base / park

2. Method and standard of the support: the operating enterprise rated as national e-commerce demonstration base, would be granted the incentive within 2 million yuan RMB once for all; the operating enterprise rated as provincial e-commerce demonstration base, would be granted the incentive within 1 million yuan RMB once for all; the operating enterprise rated as municipal e-commerce demonstration base, would be granted the incentive within 500,000 yuan RMB once for all.

3. Approval of the support: following checking and approval mechanism based on the document about the enterprise’s gaining of the approval from related national, provincial and municipal commerce authorities.

Article 8 Supporting the construction of international first-rate commercial block

1. Object supported: those rated as the characteristic business district / walking street or night-time economy demonstration block by the municipal commerce authority.

2. Method and standard of the support: Incentive wold be granted after the project is accepted. To the project up to the acceptance standard, incentive, equal to 25% of the actual input in the new construction or renovation involved, but no more than 10 million yuan RMB, would be granted by related municipal authority, and the supplementary incentive would be granted by Longgang District authority in the proportion of one to one.

3. Approval of the support: following checking and approval mechanism based on the document identifying the title as characteristic business district, walking street and night-time economy demonstration block, granted by the municipal commerce authority.

Article 9 Supporting the development of industrial design

1. Object supported: the enterprise gaining the support or incentive from Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality / Shenzhen Service for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise through the projects of “Industrial Design Center” “Industrial Design Institute” “Famed Industrial Design Award” “Industrial Design to Lead Innovation, Transformation and Application” “Industrial Design into Micro, Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises” “Supporting Platform for Innovation Service of Industrial Design”.

2. Method and standard of the support

(1) Incentive equal to 50% of Shenzhen’s actual municipal support amount, would be granted to the enterprise rated as “National Industrial Design Center” “Guangdong Provincial Industrial Design Center” “Shenzhen Municipal Industrial Design Center”, with no more than 2.5 million yuan RMB for national industrial design center and no more than 1.5 million yuan RMB for provincial industrial design center and municipal industrial design center.

(2) Incentive equal to 25% of Shenzhen’s actual municipal support amount, would be granted to the national and municipal industrial design institutes certified, with respectively no more than 7.5 million yuan RMB and 5 million yuan RMB.

(3) Incentive equal to 50% of Shenzhen’s actual municipal support amount, would be granted to the enterprise having gained the monetary incentive from Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality for the “Famed Industrial Design Award” project, with no more than 250,000 yuan RMB for one single enterprise in one year.

(4) Incentive equal to 20% of Shenzhen’s actual municipal support fund, would be granted to the enterprise having gained the support fund from Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality for the project of “Industrial Design to Lead Innovation, Transformation and Application”, with no more than 1 million yuan RMB.

(5) Incentive equal to 50% of Shenzhen’s actual municipal support fund, would be granted to the enterprise having gained the support fund from Shenzhen Service for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises for the project of “Industrial Design into Micro, Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises”, with no more than 150,000 yuan RMB.

(6) Incentive equal to 50% of Shenzhen’s actual municipal support fund, would be granted to the enterprise having gained support for the project of “Supporting Platform for Innovation Service of Industrial Design”, with nor more than 1.5 million yuan RMB.

The article could not be available to the project having gained the industrial design incentive supported by Longgang District Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television,Tourism, and Sports.

3. Method of the verification: following checking and approval mechanism based on the document about the authentication or funding from Industry and Information Technology Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality and the proof of the appropriation.

Article 10 Supporting the development of productive service enterprise

1. Object supported : the service enterprise above the designated size in the industry of Internet and related service, software and information technology service, consultation and inspection, engineering technology and design service, quality-inspection technology service, technological promotion service, supply-chain management service.

2. Method and standard of the support: The enterprise with its operating income of the previous year having grown at a rate of 20% or more, would be granted the incentive equal to 1% of the increase in its operating income but no more than 2 million yuan RMB.

3. Approval of the support: following checking and approval mechanism

Article 11 Supporting enterprise’s and industrial organization’s independent participation in exhibitions

1. Object supported: the industrial organization and the enterprise above designated size / quota (including glasses enterprise) participating in the large comprehensive exhibition, professional exhibition, overseas exhibition, online exhibition and the exhibition centered on dynamic show and static display, which have been in the List of the yearly prominent exhibitions supported by Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau. The support to the enterprise participating in the exhibitions which is object to the support by Longgang District under the requirement from superior unit, would follow Article 13.

2. Method and standard of the support:

(1) As the enterprise (excluding glasses enterprise) has gained the support fund from Shenzhen Municipal authority for the participation in exhibition: as Shenzhen municipal support fund is under 50% of enterprise’s actual participation fee ( including the expense in booth, venue, and space rental for offline exhibition; and the expense in platform entry, display service for online exhibition; the same hereinafter) , the supplementary support would be granted in the proportion of one to one; as being over, the supplementary support would be equal to the balance between enterprise’s actual participation fee and Shenzhen municipal support amount, the same to the glasses enterprise having gained Shenzhen municipal support for the participation in the exhibition. Overall, the support found that a single enterprise can gain for participating in one exhibition could not be more than 30,000 yuan RMB. And, a single enterprise could not apply for more than 10 support projects in one year, with the total that a single enterprise could gain in one year no more than 300,000 yuan RMB.

(2) As the enterprises (excluding glasses enterprise) has not gained any Shenzhen municipal support for the participation in the exhibition, incentive equal to 60% of the actual participation fee, would be granted; to the glasses enterprise having not gained support for the participation in the exhibition, inventive would be equal to 100% of the actual participation fee, but no more than the limit of the support. The incentive a single enterprise can gain for the participation in one exhibition, could not be more than 30,000 yuan RMB. And, a single enterprise could not apply for more than 10 support projects, and could not gain more than 300,000 yuan RMB’s support fund in total.

3. Approval of the support: following checking and approval mechanism.

Article 12 Supporting enterprise’s participation in government’s centralized exhibition

1. Object supported: the enterprise and industrial organization in Longgang District participating in the exhibition centralized by Longgang District People’s Government of CPC; the enterprise and industrial organization in Longgang District participating in the exhibition as organized by Longgang District’s related industrial authority under the requirement from Shenzhen’s related authority; the industrial organization undertaking the activity that the related department / street office under Longgang District People’s Government organizes the participation and has gained the approval from Longgang District’s related industrial authority.    

2. Method and standard of the support: As approved at the meeting of Party Leadership Group of Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau, the support would be granted, as much as the expense in participating in the exhibition, including the expenses in business affairs, transport, advertisement and promotion, exhibition booth, booth decoration.

3. Approval of the support: following checking and approval mechanism.

Article 13 The support project for the exhibition with superior department’s support

1. Object supported: the enterprise participating in the large comprehensive exhibition, professional exhibition, overseas exhibition, online exhibition, and the exhibition centered on dynamic show and static display, to which Longgang District should give its support as required by the superior unit.  

2. Method and standard of the support:

(1) As a superior unit has stipulated standard for the support, it should follow the stipulated standard.

(2) As a superior unit has not stipulated standard for the support: to the enterprise having gained municipal support, the support should be granted in the proportion of one to one, as the municipal support does not exceed 50% of the enterprise’s actual participation fee; and the support should be equal to the balance between the enterprise’s actual participation fee and the municipal support, as municipal support exceeds; to the enterprise having not gained municipal support, the support should be 60% of the enterprise’s actual participation fee. The support that a single enterprise could gain for the participation in one exhibition could not be more than 50,000 yuan RMB. And, a single enterprise could not apply for more than 6 support projects each year, with the total amount of the support it can gain being no more than 300,000 yuan RMB.

3. Approval of the support: following checking and approval mechanism.

At the beginning of each year, the List of major exhibitions above-mentioned should be stipulated by Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau in accordance with the yearly reality from 2021. And, retails about the List should be publicized on the website of Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau.

Chapter Three Application for the Support

Article 14 The application herein can be divided into basic application and special application. A project entity should satisfy the requirements as the following:

1. Any support should be granted after related project has been finished.

2. A project entity should be the corporate enterprise, private non-enterprise unit or social organization registered in the administration area of Longgang District, being independent legal-person entity and satisfying the requirements. Besides, corporate enterprise should keep its statistical place in Longgang District.

3. A project entity can not be in the List of seriously-dishonest entities and should be in its validity term.  

4. A project entity should ensure the authentication, validity and completeness of its application material, and should keep away from cheating or defrauding.

5. A project entity should avoid repeated applications.

6. Other requirements stipulated in the laws, regulations, rule s and superior administration’s regulatory documents should be met.

Article 15 An application could be submitted as the following requirements for the application of special project could be met and the requirements in the Application Guide formulated by Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau in accordance with the Regulations could also be met.

1. Support project for the expansion of enterprise size

(1) An enterprise having gained the incentive for being included in China Enterprise Database as an industrial enterprise above designated size, a business above designated quota or a service enterprise above designated size, could not apply for the support herein.

(2) An enterprise getting included in China Enterprise Database at the site otherwise and then relocating its registration place / statistical site to Longgang District, could not apply for the support herein.  

(3)  Data about an enterprise’s sales volume, retail sales and operating revenue should be based on the monthly reported data that the enterprise submits to Longgang District’s statistical department.  

2. Supporting enterprise’s further development

(1) The support herein follows checking and approval mechanism.

(2) An enterprise relocating its statistical place to Longgang District during the application year could apply for the support herein.

(3) As an applicant has its association enterprise in China Enterprise Database, the applicant should apply for the support together with the association enterprise, with the one having a larger sales volume / operating revenue as the application entity.

(4) An enterprise having gained the incentive for the project mentioned herein could not enjoy any other Longgang District’s incentive for its growth.

3. Supporting the hosting of consumption-promotion activity

(1) An application enterprise should be the one registered in Shenzhen Municipality.

(2) An enterprise’s actual input should be its expense in the activity venue, material, activity planning, advertisement, promotion, etc.

(3) The support follows checking and approval mechanism, based on a third party’s audit on enterprise’s actual input.

4. Supporting the construction of e-commerce demonstration base / park

(1) An e-commerce demonstration base / park should be under its unified operation by the unit whose registration site and statistical site are both in Longgang District.

(2) An enterprise should apply for the support mentioned herein in the current year or the second year as it has gained any other related support fund.

(3) The support herein follows checking and approval mechanism, based on the document on the judgement on an application enterprise from national, provincial or municipal business affairs departments.

5. Supporting the building-up of international first-rate commercial block

(1) A characteristic business district, waling street or night-time economy demonstration block should be under the unified operation, by the unit whose registration site and statistical site both in Longgang District.

(2) An enterprise should submit its application in the current fiscal year or the second fiscal year as gaining any other related support fund.

(3) The support herein follows checking and approval mechanism, based on the document about the approval of the characteristic business district, walking street, and night-time economy demonstration block from Shenzhen business affairs department.

6. Supporting industrial design’s development

(1) The support follows checking and approval mechanism. An enterprise having gained the support fund or the incentive for the projects of “Industrial Design Center” “Industrial Design Institute” “Famed Industrial Design Award” “Industrial Design to Lead Innovation, Transformation and Application” “Industrial Design into Miro, Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises” “Supporting Platform for Innovation Service of Industrial Design”, could submit its application in the current fiscal year or the second fiscal year as gaining the support fund or the incentive, based on the document on the municipal approval or municipal support and the proof of the appropriation. As the project acceptance is necessary, the application should be submitted in the current fiscal year or the second fiscal year as the project acceptance is finished.

(2) The article is not available to the project having gained the industrial design incentive supported by Longgang District of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism, and Sports.

7. Supporting the development of productive service enterprise

(1) An enterprise to apply for the support should get its registration site and statistical site both in Longgang District.

(2) An enterprise’s industrial standard code should follow Classification of National Businesses and Industries, specifying the first two digits of the code for internet and related service are 64, for software and information service are 65, and the first three digits for consultation and inspection are 724, for engineering technology and design service are 748, for quality-testing technological service are 745, for technology promotion service are 751, and the industrial standard code for supply-chain management service is 7224.  

(3) The support herein follows checking and approval mechanism.

(4) An enterprise relocating its statistical site to Longgang District during the application year, could apply for the support.

8. Supporting enterprise’s and industrial organization’s independent participation in exhibition

(1) An enterprise applying for the support should get its registration site and statistical site both in Longgang District, and an industrial organization applying for the support should get its registration site in Longgang District.

(2) An enterprise and an industrial organization applying for the support should have been founded for one year or more.

(3) An enterprise relocating to Longgang District should keep its registration site and tax payment place both in Longgang District for one year or more, and an industrial organization relocating to Longgang District should keep its registration site in Longgang District for one year or more.

(4)  An enterprise applying for the support should meet the stipulation in Article 11 for the enterprise’s and industrial organization’s independent participation in exhibition.

(5) The participation fee involved in the application should be 20,000 yuan RMB and more (including the expense in exhibition booth, exhibition venue and space rental for offline exhibition, and including platform entry fee and display service fee for online exhibition).

9. Supporting enterprise’s participation in the exhibition centralized by the government

(1) An enterprise or an industrial organization applying for the support should have been founded for one year and more.

(2) An enterprise relocating to Longgang District should keep its registration site and tax payment place both in Longgang District for one year and more, and an industrial organization relocating to Longgang District should keep its registration site in Longgang District for one year and more.

(3) The stipulation in Article 12 should be followed.

10. The support project for the exhibition with superior department’s support

(1) An enterprise applying for the support has been founded for one year and more.

(2) An enterprise relocating to Longgang District should keep its registration site and tax payment place both in Longgang District for one year and more.

(3) Stipulation in Article 13 should be followed.

Chapter Four Application for the Support and the Verification

Article 16 Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau should formulate the Guide to / Notice of the Application for Yearly Support in accordance with the Regulations. The details about the reception time, application material and the like should be publicized on Longgang Government Online and the website of Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau.

Article 17 A project entity should fill in related project information and submit related materials in accordance with the Guide / Notice.

Article 18 Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau should  verify the application projects, collect suggestions from related units, verify repeatedly the information about application unit’s registration site, statistical place, whether it is in the List of seriously-dishonest entities, whether it is in its validity term, etc.

Article 19 Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau should be in charge of verifying the project materials, and could entrust a professional service provider with the tasks as expert review, special audit. The professional service provider should submit the expert review report, special audit report and the like to Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau.  

Article 20 Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau should formulate the monetary support plan, and determine the list of the projects to be supported and the support amount, in accordance with the yearly monetary plan, related expert review, special audit, etc.

Article 21 A project subject to the support approved would be publicized on Longgang Government Online and the website of Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau for 5 working days. Any opposition could be submitted to Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau in written form. As receiving the written opposition, Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau would investigate and review the project again. As withdrawing the former support, it would provide explanatory reasons to the application unit involved.

Chapter Five Supplementary Provisions

Article 22 The Regulations should be explained by Longgang District Industry and Information Technology Bureau.

Article 23 The support fund herein should be rounded down to yuan.

Article 24 The date, ratio, amount and the like mentioned in the Regulations should be the numbers themselves, unless noted otherwise. The year mentioned in the Regulations all refer to the calendar year.

Article 25 The Regulations would come into effect since Sep. 29, 2022, with its validity term lasting for 3 years. During the validity term, Longgang District could amend and adjust the Regulations and release and implement it accordingly, in accordance with the actual need.