Support measures of Longgang

1. Rent reduction and exemption

I．Micro and small enterprises in the manufacturing and service sectors and self-employed individuals that rent properties owned by wholly State-owned enterprises, State-controlled enterprises, or administrative and public institutions shall be exempt from full rent for three months and half rent for another three months, while other types of enterprises that rent these properties shall be exempt from full rent for one month. In the circumstances that rent exemptions produced an adverse effect on the performance of State-owned enterprises or public institutions, it shall be considered and recognized on the basis of the actual situation when their performance is assessed. (Application: benefit without application or benefit upon application. Competent departments: district State-owned assets supervision and administration bureau, district finance bureau)

II. Non-State-owned property owners (including community joint-stock companies and individual property owners) and non-State-owned property management companies are encouraged to cut or exempt rent as appropriate, or allow tenants that face difficulties in production and business operations to defer rent payments if necessary. In the circumstances that wholly State-owned enterprises and State-controlled enterprises manage certain properties, they shall offer rent reductions of the same percentage as property owners do to tenants for the corresponding month(s). (Competent departments: district State-owned assets supervision and administration bureau, district industry and information technology bureau)

III. Non-State-owned property owners (including community joint-stock companies and individual property owners) and non-State-owned property management companies are encouraged to cut or exempt rent for enterprises or self-employed individuals in the district’s designated lockdown and control areas (including non-control areas that implement the same epidemic prevention and control regulations as control areas do) from January 1 to June 30, 2022. These property owners and property management companies will receive 50% of the rent exempted in subsidy for no longer than one month, capped at 1 million yuan for a single beneficiary. (Application: benefit upon application. Competent departments: district industry and information technology bureau, district State-owned assets supervision and administration bureau)

2. Consumption promotion measures

IV. Restaurants that operate in Longgang District in accordance with the law and regulations will be given 10,000 yuan in subsidy each, upon verification by the authorities of the subdistrict where they are located, if the actual locations of their businesses are in places designated as lockdown or control areas (including non-control areas that implement the same epidemic prevention and control regulations as control areas do) from January 1 to June 30, 2022. (Application: benefit without application. Competent departments: district industry and information technology bureau, all subdistrict authorities)

V. Tiered subsidies will be given to sports venues, cinemas, hotels, tourist attractions, travel agencies, and places of entertainment that have contributed to anti-epidemic work and have resumed operations when conditions allowed, with a maximum of 600,000 yuan for a single enterprise. (Application: benefit upon application. Competent department: district bureau of culture, radio, television, tourism and sports)

VI. From the release date of these measures to June 30, 2022, individual consumers who purchased or will purchase sedans (excluding used cars) at prices between 100,000 yuan (included) and 300,000 yuan (not included) from car dealers that were registered in Longgang District and have been covered by governmental economic statistics shall receive 5,000 yuan in digital RMB for each car purchased, while individual consumers who purchased or will purchase sedans (excluding used cars) at or above 300,000 yuan will receive 10,000 yuan in digital RMB for each car purchased. The digital RMB to be distributed in this regard totals 30 million yuan and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis until the funds run out. (Application: benefit upon application. Competent department: district industry and information technology bureau)

VII. Coupons totaling 20 million yuan, applicable in shops in Longgang District, will be distributed to consumers across the city. (Competent department: district industry and information technology bureau)

3.Financial measures

VIII. Industrial enterprises above designated size, wholesale, retail, hospitality and catering enterprises above designated size, and service enterprises above designated size (excluding financial, quasi-financial and real estate enterprises) that have received new loans (rollovers are taken as new loans) from banks and other financial institutions from March 1 to May 31, 2022, shall be exempt from 50% of interest on three-month loans, capped at 300,000 yuan for a single enterprise. (Application: benefit without application. Competent department: district industry and information technology bureau)

IX．Financial institutions are encouraged to diversify collateral-free loan products. The service scope of Xinyidai, the country's unified credit scoring system aimed at helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) gain better access to funding, will be expanded, with more support to be given to SMEs in the district. One of the district’s targets this year is to grant no less than 400 million yuan in collateral-free loans. (Competent department: district development and reform bureau)

4. Support measures for construction projects in progress

X．Construction enterprises with projects that got under way before March 12, 2022 under the supervision of municipal or district authorities and was suspended in accordance with the government's epidemic prevention and control requirements (excluding small projects without a construction permit), shall receive a maximum subsidy of 100,000 yuan for each construction site (or each contract) affected, with the calculation of total subsidies based on the number of workers on duty. (Application: benefit upon application. Competent departments: district housing and construction bureau, district water affairs bureau, Longgang office of the municipal transportation bureau)

5. Anti-epidemic support measures

XI．Enterprises are encouraged to purchase new types of anti-epidemic supplies for their own use. Enterprises in the district that fall under the four designated types (i.e. major industrial enterprises, qualified construction companies, major wholesale, retail, hospitality and catering enterprises, and leading service enterprises) and have strictly implemented epidemic prevention and control measures will receive a subsidy equivalent to 50% of their total spendings, with a maximum of 200,000 yuan for a single enterprise, if they spent 20,000 yuan or more on coronavirus antigen self-testing reagents, medical equipment for epidemic prevention, and digital anti-epidemic equipment such as intelligent temperature measurement facilities, digital data collection facilities, and unmanned vehicles from January 1 to June 30, 2022. (Application: benefit upon application. Competent department: district bureau of industry and information technology)

XII．Service mechanisms will be used to their full effect to meet enterprises’ demands. The Longgang section of “深i企”, an online one-stop service platform for enterprises, will be used to provide enterprises with services including collecting their demands, helping them resolve problems, and offering policy interpretation. A mechanism will be established to offer emergency public legal services. Enterprises involved in disputes over contract execution and labor relations which arose from disruptions from the epidemic prevention and control, shall have access to services including online emergency public legal consulting and legal aid. (Competent departments: district investment promotion and enterprise service center, district bureau of justice)

The development and reform bureau of Longgang District and all the competent departments are responsible for the interpretation of the above measures. All the competent departments must perform their duties when examining and verifying the applications to avoid doling out subsidies repeatedly to one beneficiary. Malpractices like making false or deceptive statements when applying for subsidies shall be dealt with seriously in accordance with relevant regulations.

Support measures at national, provincial and municipal levels shall be carried out thoroughly. If policies in same categories come into conflict at different levels, policies with the strongest support shall be delivered to enterprises. These measures are effective from March 25 until June 30, 2022 except stated otherwise.