The Zhitong Finance App learned that on October 30, five departments including the National Development and Reform Commission issued “Guiding Opinions on Strengthening Consumer Infrastructure Construction to Promote Healthy Consumer Investment”. It points out speeding up the full coverage of digital consumer facilities. Promote in-depth coverage of 5G, gigabit optical networks, Internet of Things, and cloud computing in consumer places such as commodity trading markets, commercial districts, and scenic spots to achieve high-speed network access, intelligent business perception, and global data interconnection. Support the construction of smart business districts, smart markets, and smart stores, promote the intelligent upgrading of consumer terminals, and popularize facilities such as smart cashiers, self-service terminals, and smart electronic price tags. Encourage the construction of regional consumer service platforms, agricultural product production and marketing docking platforms, and online and offline integrated consumption platforms to integrate functions such as product sales, service reservations, logistics and distribution, promotion activities, and consumer rights protection.
Among them, it is pointed out that the construction and transformation of green consumption facilities should be strengthened. Vigorously develop green markets, green neighborhoods, green shopping malls, and green hotels, promote energy saving and carbon reduction transformation in various consumer places, and promote the use of energy-saving air conditioning, high-efficiency lighting, water-saving appliances, intelligent power-saving control systems, and renewable energy utilization facilities. Encourage the construction of garbage sorting and recycling points, recyclable packaging recycling points, waste material recycling stations, specialized green sorting centers, and second-hand commodity markets.
It also points out expanding investment channels. Coordinate and make good use of various funding channels from the central government and local authorities to support the construction of eligible consumer infrastructure. Give full play to the role of new policy financial instruments and real estate investment trusts, and guide financial institutions to provide credit support in accordance with the principles of marketization and legalization. Actively guide social capital to participate in consumer infrastructure construction in accordance with the law, and form a diversified and sustainable financial guarantee mechanism.
The full text is as follows:
Guiding opinions of the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments on strengthening consumer infrastructure construction to promote healthy interaction between consumer investment
Provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and planned separate municipalities, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Development and Reform Commission, Department of Transportation (bureau, committee), competent commercial department, department of culture and tourism (bureau), market supervision bureau (department, committee):
In order to further implement special actions to boost consumption, continue to expand domestic demand, increase effective investment, stimulate consumption vitality, and promote healthy interaction between consumption and investment, the following opinions are put forward on strengthening consumer infrastructure construction.
I. General Requirements
Adhere to Xi Jinping's ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era as the guide, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress and 20th Plenary Session of the Party, completely, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, construct a new development pattern, promote high-quality development, adhere to the close integration of benefiting people's livelihood and promoting consumption, investment in goods and people, make up for shortcomings in facilities, optimize facility layout, enhance facility functions, achieve a higher level of dynamic balance between supply and demand, and strengthen the domestic cycle.
II. Improving commercial facilities in urban and rural areas
(1) Strengthen the construction of urban and rural commodity trading markets. Promote the upgrading of agricultural products markets such as wholesale agricultural products markets, farmers' markets, rural bazaars, and township trade centers, and improve supporting facilities such as market stalls, water supply, electricity supply, lighting, and garbage disposal. Promote the transformation and upgrading of industrial consumer goods markets such as daily necessities, food, clothing, home appliances, automobiles, etc., and enhance supporting facilities such as storage, sorting, packaging, and fire protection. Promote the intelligent transformation of urban and rural commodity trading markets, promote digital applications such as electronic settlement, intelligent weighing, senseless payment, traceability management, etc., and create a modern commodity trading market with online and offline integration, batch management, and convenient services.
(2) Support the upgrading of offline consumer commercial facilities and equipment. Support offline consumer commercial facilities such as commercial complexes, shopping centers, department stores, and large supermarkets to upgrade equipment such as air conditioning, elevators, heating, refrigeration, electricity supply, lighting, security, etc., to enhance the offline consumer experience and promote the expansion and upgrading of offline consumption.
(3) Promote the integrated development of multiple business formats such as commercial districts. Implement urban commercial quality improvement actions and retail industry innovation and upgrading projects to encourage pedestrian streets (business districts), characteristic commercial districts, and commercial complexes to optimize space design, enhance decoration and upgrade intelligent equipment, add cultural, sports, fitness, entertainment and other facilities, create diversified integrated business formats such as cultural tourism and sports, and expand consumption scenarios. Promote the upgrading of old commercial districts and develop characteristic business formats such as culture and creativity, night markets, trendy retail, and immersive experiences. Promote the functional transformation of old factory areas, and build and transform new consumer carriers such as first-store clusters, sports trend venues, home life experience centers, specialty food districts, and themed exhibition and performing arts spaces.
(4) Improve convenient commercial facilities in communities and rural areas. Promote complete community construction in an integrated manner, expand and upgrade the one-quarter hour convenience living circle, strengthen the construction of community convenience commercial outlets such as convenience stores, fresh food supermarkets, vegetable markets, etc., improve supporting facilities such as cold chain and hygiene, and add smart self-service terminals and convenience programs to enhance the convenience of community consumption. Strengthen the construction of convenience commercial outlets in rural areas, vigorously develop new chain and standardized convenience stores, and encourage the use of village collective factories, vacant school buildings, etc. to renovate and build convenient commercial facilities.
III. Enhancing service consumption facilities
(5) Upgrading cultural tourism consumption facilities. Promote the revitalization of tourist attractions, improve the supply of supporting infrastructure, strengthen the renovation of public service facilities, and enhance the level of facilitation and comfort of scenic spots. Encourage art galleries, theaters, cinemas, etc. to add consumer service facilities to expand the consumption industry. Promote the upgrading of cultural tourism consumption agglomeration areas. Promote the upgrading and improvement of supporting facilities such as rest and catering in cultural tourism complexes, self-driving motorhome camps, campgrounds, research bases, etc., enrich consumption scenarios such as leisure, vacation, parent-child fun, etc., and strengthen the upgrading and transformation of tourist trains.
(6) Expand the supply of sports and leisure consumption facilities. Places that are in a position to do so are encouraged to use industrial plants, commercial buildings, storage buildings, etc. to create sports spaces, fully explore the various “golden horns and silver sides” of the city, and support the construction of “small but beautiful” national fitness facilities around the masses. Encourage stadiums, sports parks, sports camps, etc. to create immersive sports consumption scenarios, and promote the integration of sports and fitness facilities with commercial complexes, scenic spots, and community spaces. Encourage the construction of sports, fitness and leisure facilities such as gyms and water sports centers according to local conditions, and expand the space for sports and fitness consumption.
(7) Improve consumption facilities for old-age care services. Promote the quality and efficiency of old-age service facilities, carry out the construction, renovation and upgrading of community old-age service facilities according to local conditions, and improve supporting facilities such as day care, food and bath assistance, rehabilitation and nursing, cultural and sports activities, geriatric education, and age-appropriate retail. Encourage local areas to improve living facilities according to local conditions and cultivate residential destinations. Improve the network of childcare service facilities, upgrade and improve community childcare service facilities in line with actual needs, develop services such as maternal and child retail, early education and play, and accelerate the release of childcare consumption potential.
(8) Improve domestic service consumption facilities. Support the upgrading of service facilities such as cleaning, cleaning, maintenance, and moving, and improve the quality level of domestic service. Guide enterprises to rationally lay out domestic service networks, encourage communities to build, renovate and expand domestic service outlets such as convenience service corners, clothing washing points, and home appliance cleaning points, etc., promote domestic service into the community, and speed up the construction of domestic service network centers and community domestic service stations. Support enterprises and colleges to jointly build training bases for the integration of domestic service industry and education. Promote applications such as smart products and intelligent monitoring devices for home scenarios. Encourage domestic service enterprises to build an operation management platform integrating dispatch, settlement, contract fulfillment, and after-sales.
(9) Expand health service consumption facilities. Promote the construction and upgrading of supporting facilities for market-based health service institutions such as rehabilitation, health management, health care, maternal and child health, sports health, etc. Accelerate the improvement of facilities and equipment such as telemedicine treatment, online consultation, and health monitoring. Actively develop integrated medical care, enrich consumption scenarios for services such as health examinations and health product retail, and expand health consumption demand.
IV. Optimizing travel and consumption facilities
(10) Strengthen the construction of parking facilities. Encourage cities to make full use of resources such as vacant space and backyards of existing factory buildings to build new parking buildings, public parking lots, and parking spaces, and accelerate the repair of shortcomings in public parking facilities. Support commercial districts, commercial complexes, scenic spots, cultural tourism consumption clusters, etc. that are underequipped to carry out parking expansion and transformation, build three-dimensional parking facilities, and break through travel consumption blockages. Accelerate the intelligent transformation of parking facilities, support the construction of intelligent management platforms for parking lots, integrate functions such as license plate recognition, real-time display of vacant parking spaces, and parking reservations, and support the construction of intelligent parking guidance screens, energy-saving lighting, emergency broadcasting, security monitoring and other facilities to enhance parking service guarantee capabilities.
(11) Strengthen the construction of charging facilities. Promote the construction and layout of charging facilities in an integrated manner, build, renovate and expand parking lots, and build charging infrastructure or reservation conditions in strict accordance with relevant standards and specifications. Promote the planning and construction of charging zones in underground garages, and provide safety facilities such as fire separation, automatic fire extinguishing, and high temperature alarms. High-power charging facilities can be planned and built in supporting parking lots in commercial districts, commercial complexes, scenic spots, cultural tourism consumption clusters, etc. with high passenger traffic. Expand the coverage of electric heavy truck charging and switching facilities on busy highway freight sections in an orderly manner. Strengthen the construction of charging facilities in rural areas and promote the construction and transformation of supporting power grids for charging facilities. Support all types of social capital to participate in the construction and operation of charging facilities.
(12) Improve highway service consumption facilities. In conjunction with the construction of quality self-driving tourist highways, the construction and transformation of service nodes along the highway will be strengthened. On the basis of meeting the basic travel needs of the public, additional consumer outlets will be added according to local conditions to guide the development of consumer formats such as specialty restaurants, cultural and creative bazaars, and self-driving camps along the route. Promote standardization and quality upgrading of highway service areas and highway passenger transport hubs, classify and build comprehensive, characteristic and small service nodes, lay out and build supermarket chains, branded restaurants, vending terminals, cultural tourism promotion and other facilities, build public toilets, parking spaces, charging facilities as needed, and support the construction of motor vehicle service outlets and facilities such as vehicle maintenance, emergency rescue, and car washing and maintenance.
5. Improve the distribution facility network
(13) Build an efficient cold chain logistics system. Promote the construction of key cold chain logistics facilities such as national key cold chain logistics bases and regional cold chain distribution centers, and support the construction and expansion of high-standard cold chain warehouses, freezers, etc., and the renewal and renovation of old cold stores. Strengthen the construction of cold chain facilities in production areas, promote the construction of facilities such as precooling of production areas, low temperature processing and sorting, refrigeration and preservation of production areas, etc. in major production areas of specialty agricultural products, and encourage agricultural enterprises, family farms, farmers' cooperatives, etc. to build small refrigerated warehouses and mobile cold storage facilities. Accelerate the improvement of urban cold chain co-distribution networks, strengthen the construction of cold chain distribution centers, fresh food front warehouses, community cold chain transfer stations, etc., and support supermarkets, fresh food stores, etc. to popularize equipment such as low temperature freezers and cold chain lockers. Promote the extension of cold chain facilities to townships and key villages, and build county cold chain collection and distribution centers, township cold chain service stations, and village-level refrigeration points.
(14) Improve the three-level logistics system in counties and villages. Accelerate the construction of a three-level logistics distribution network in counties and villages, and fully open up upward channels for consumer goods to the countryside and agricultural products. Give full play to the service functions of county-level logistics distribution centers and connect with county commercial complexes, e-commerce parks, agricultural products wholesale markets, etc. Accelerate the construction of township logistics transit stations and shared distribution service stations in key townships, equipped with facilities such as shelves, preservation, and temporary package storage. Promote village-level logistics service sites to be fully built and covered, and rely on village committees, party and mass service centers, convenience supermarkets, health rooms, e-commerce service stations, etc. to build comprehensive convenience service stations and village-level express delivery service points.
(15) Strengthen the construction of inspection and testing facilities. Promote standardization and full coverage of inspection and testing infrastructure construction in the consumer sector, and improve the quality management level of inspection and testing institutions. Improve the functional configuration of municipal comprehensive consumer inspection and testing centers, and equip them with professional equipment such as food physico-chemical testing, microbiological testing, heavy metal residue testing, pesticide and veterinary drug residue testing, additive screening, and product quality compliance verification. Improve basic inspection and testing sites at the county level, and support the construction of simple rapid testing rooms and convenient testing service stations. Support key consumer places such as wholesale agricultural products markets, farmers' markets, and large supermarkets to support the construction of on-site rapid inspection rooms and inspection sites. Encourage third-party professional testing institutions to sink down and build regional inspection and testing public service platforms and specialized testing service bases, relying on industrial parks and commercial agglomeration areas.
6. Promote the construction of new consumer facilities
(16) Accelerate full coverage of digital consumer facilities. Promote in-depth coverage of 5G, gigabit optical networks, Internet of Things, and cloud computing in consumer places such as commodity trading markets, commercial districts, and scenic spots to achieve high-speed network access, intelligent business perception, and global data interconnection. Support the construction of smart business districts, smart markets, and smart stores, promote the intelligent upgrading of consumer terminals, and popularize facilities such as smart cashiers, self-service terminals, and smart electronic price tags. Encourage the construction of regional consumer service platforms, agricultural product production and marketing docking platforms, and online and offline integrated consumption platforms to integrate functions such as product sales, service reservations, logistics and distribution, promotion activities, and consumer rights protection.
(17) Strengthen the construction and transformation of green consumption facilities. Vigorously develop green markets, green neighborhoods, green shopping malls, and green hotels, promote energy saving and carbon reduction transformation in various consumer places, and promote the use of energy-saving air conditioning, high-efficiency lighting, water-saving appliances, intelligent power-saving control systems, and renewable energy utilization facilities. Encourage the construction of garbage sorting and recycling points, recyclable packaging recycling points, waste material recycling stations, specialized green sorting centers, and second-hand commodity markets.
7. Safeguard measures
(18) Expand investment channels. Coordinate and make good use of various funding channels from the central government and local authorities to support the construction of eligible consumer infrastructure. Give full play to the role of new policy financial instruments and real estate investment trusts, and guide financial institutions to provide credit support in accordance with the principles of marketization and legalization. Actively guide social capital to participate in consumer infrastructure construction in accordance with the law, and form a diversified and sustainable financial guarantee mechanism.
(19) Strengthen coordination and linkage. All departments in various regions should optimize the approval process, coordinate planning and land use security, etc., promote information sharing and resource integration, form policy synergies, and improve the efficiency of consumer infrastructure construction.
(20) Strengthen project management. All departments in various regions should strengthen “soft construction”, strengthen supervision of the whole process of various types of financial support projects, and regularly evaluate the effectiveness of construction and operation to ensure that all measures are implemented and effective.
This article was selected from “National Development and Reform Commission Official Website”; Zhitong Finance Editor: Huang Xiaodong.