The State Council will intensively introduce information and consumption programs in the near future.

In the first half of the year, the growth rate of China's industry generally operated in a reasonable growth range. In particular, the added value of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 9.3% year-on-year, supporting 7.6% of GDP growth. From a global perspective, this is still a relatively high growth rate.

In the second half of the year, the industrial economy is facing downward pressure, mainly including the lack of external demand, the overcapacity of overcapacity, and the difficulty of production and operation of enterprises, especially small and micro enterprises. In this context, what specific measures will the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology take to continue to vigorously adjust the structure while stabilizing growth? How to make information consumption a new driving force for economic development? How to implement various policies to support the development of small and micro enterprises? How to truly achieve backward production capacity to withdraw from the market? Around these issues, the Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Miao Wei, accepted an interview with this reporter.

Dealing with downward pressure from three aspects

â—‹ Actively encourage and promote information consumption, and use consumption to drive the growth of the entire economy;

â—‹We are making implementation opinions on the adjustment of excess capacity to increase the regulation of excess capacity;

â—‹ To further reduce and decentralize a batch of administrative examination and approval, by the end of next year, it is planned to reduce the administrative examination and approval items under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology by more than one third.

Reporter: China's economic growth rate has slowed down continuously in the first half of the year. From the data and indicators that have been released, industry has become a pillar of the national economy and has experienced different degrees of decline. How do you evaluate the industrial economy in the first half of the year?

Miao Wei: In the first half of the year, the growth rate of industrial added value above the national scale was 9.3%. This growth rate is not very high. Since the second half of last year, the industrial growth rate for several consecutive quarters has basically hovered in the range of 9% to 10%. Although the industrial economy has downward pressure, it is still within a reasonable forecast range.

In the first half of the year, the industrial economy had several characteristics: First, the industrial growth rate maintained a relatively steady growth rate, and there was no ups and downs. Of course, because the role of demand pull is slowing, the industrial growth rate is not as high as some people expected, but overall it is still within a reasonable range. Second, the industrial restructuring has made great progress. For example, in the first half of the year, the growth rate of value-added of high-tech industries reached 11.6%, which was 2.3 percentage points faster than that of industrial enterprises above designated size; the energy consumption of added value of industrial units above designated size fell better than expected; the coordination of regional development was further enhanced, and the central and western regions in the first half of the year The regional industrial added value increased by 10% and 10.5% respectively, which was faster than 1.3 and 1.8 percentage points in the eastern region respectively. The imbalance between regional developments was effectively alleviated.

Reporter: In the second half of the year, will the downward pressure on China's industrial economy increase? What specific measures does the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have to achieve steady growth?

Miao Wei: The economic situation in the second half of the year is indeed more complicated and the downward pressure is also objective. For example, there is no fundamental change in external demand, and the contradiction of overcapacity is also very prominent. The pressure on enterprises, especially small and micro enterprises, will be even greater. Therefore, in accordance with the requirements put forward by the central government, under the overall deployment of the State Council, we will respond to the downward pressure on the economy that may occur in the second half of the year from three aspects: steady growth, restructuring, and reform.

In terms of steady growth, we must actively encourage and promote information consumption, and use consumption to drive the growth of the entire economy. The State Council is about to introduce a new program to encourage information consumption, and further increase efforts to promote consumption from information products, information services and the establishment of an information platform. In addition, we must vigorously promote the reduction of the burden on enterprises, especially small and micro enterprises, and support enterprises to increase technological transformation.

In terms of restructuring, we are working with relevant departments to develop an implementation opinion on the adjustment of excess capacity to increase the regulation of excess capacity, which will be completed soon. In addition, efforts should be made to eliminate backward production capacity, increase the intensity of mergers and acquisitions, and increase the intensity of independent innovation to support the adjustment structure. The most important thing to adjust the structure is to use the national science and technology major projects to encourage independent innovation, encourage enterprises to increase R&D investment, and increase the technological content of products. In this way, it is possible to increase the added value of product sales and change the situation that now only uses price cuts and low prices to compete.

In terms of promoting reform, it is necessary to further reduce and decentralize a batch of administrative examination and approval. By the end of next year, we plan to reduce the administrative examination and approval items under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology by more than one third. In addition, it is necessary to implement policies that encourage private enterprises to enter the telecommunications industry and enter the military industry, so that these policies can truly land, and become concrete measures that private enterprises can enter and develop.

Promote the integration of two depths

â—‹ Promote the development of national standards for the integration of the two;

â—‹ Promote intelligent manufacturing in key industrial enterprises and improve the industrial chain by means of information technology;

â—‹ Select some key industries to promote, such as the food industry;

â—‹ Enhance the support and support capabilities of the information industry, and change the current situation that the telecommunications infrastructure lags behind the needs of the masses and lags behind the development needs.

Reporter: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has six major jobs this year, called “6+1 Special Actions”. One of the most important tasks in the six major tasks is the integration of the two. In the first half of the year, what work did the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology do in the process of promoting the integration of the two industries, and what measures and measures will be introduced in the second half of the year?

Miao Wei: The report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the goal of "synchronous development of four modernizations and deep integration of two technologies" in the overall goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way. This is actually an important deployment that is in line with the overall economic and social development trend and is presented at the global and strategic level. Of course, the integration of the two is also the foundation of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and it is the common historical responsibility of our entire system. Since the establishment of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for five years, we have conducted positive and beneficial explorations on this level of theory and practice.

On the theoretical level, we have studied the connotation of the integration of the two, that is, using information technology to drive industrialization and industrialization to promote informationization. At this stage, it is more important to use information technology to transform and upgrade traditional industrial industries, develop strategic emerging industries and productive service industries.

On the practical level, we have grasped pilot projects in three aspects of enterprises, industries and regions in the past few years, and a large number of demonstration enterprises, demonstration areas and better-developed industries have emerged. In the next step, in the process of promoting the integration of the two industries, we must firmly grasp the trend of international technological and industrial revolution development, and more strengthen the promotion and application of information technology in the process of promoting industrialization, and closely integrate the process of informationization and industrialization. combine together.

Promoting the integration of the two industries also requires us to develop a specific action plan to organize the system, industry and enterprises to advance together. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has made a five-year deployment a few days ago, and will intensify efforts from four aspects, step by step to deepen the work of integration.

First, follow the ISO9000 quality standard system and promote the national standard of integration. Use this standard to guide industries, companies and regions to promote the integration of the two. Of course, this standard is not a mandatory standard, but a recommended standard, and companies can participate voluntarily. Through the implementation and implementation of this standard, a set of guiding documents will be formed for the integration of the two levels at the enterprise level, which will help the whole process achieve the goal of integration.

Second, promote intelligent manufacturing in key industrial enterprises and improve the industrial chain by means of information technology. It is necessary to improve the intelligence level of equipment, improve the information level of all aspects of production management, and use information technology to improve the efficiency of enterprises, reduce product costs, and improve the competitiveness of enterprises. In addition, we also need to set up several public service platforms to provide services for SMEs. At the same time, we must encourage and support the development of e-commerce, and more use information technology to promote raw material procurement, production parts procurement and product sales.

Third, choose some key industries to promote. Preliminary considerations include piloting in civil explosives, hazardous chemicals, food, medicines, infant formula, etc., focusing on the different characteristics of the industry and highlighting the application of information technology in these industries. For example, in the food industry, everyone is now reluctant to eat a lot of things, and to establish a quality traceable system through information technology.

Fourth, enhance the support and support capabilities of the information industry. For example, to increase the investment and development of the integrated circuit industry, accelerate the development of the software industry, we must also increase investment in telecommunications infrastructure, and change the status quo that telecommunications infrastructure lags behind the needs of the masses and lags behind development needs.

Multi-party support for information consumption

â—‹ Increase investment in infrastructure construction;

â—‹ Rich information products;

○ Encourage the application of informatization in some key industries and implement the “Information for the benefit of the people” project;

â—‹ Ensure information security while advancing information consumption

Reporter: As the competent department of the information industry, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has taken concrete measures to make information consumption truly a new driving force for economic development.

Nursery: Encourage consumption, promote consumption, and use consumption to drive the growth of the entire economy. This is the most important part of the central government's decision-making on expanding domestic demand. After housing heat and car heat in recent years, a new hot spot may be information consumption. It is estimated that by 2015, the total size of information consumption will reach 3.2 trillion yuan, including information products and information services, and three aspects based on information networks to promote consumption.

Information products, including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, etc., have entered a period of rapid growth. For example, last year's smartphone production in China increased by more than 60% from the previous year. In terms of information services, due to the popularity of Internet technologies and smart terminals, many information service needs such as watching movies, listening to music, and playing games can be realized online. The typical platform for building information platforms to promote consumption is e-commerce, including B2B, B2C and C2C, with great development potential.

Specifically, we will support the arrival of the climax of information consumption in the following aspects.

First, increase investment in infrastructure construction. For example, speeding up the construction of broadband China, enabling everyone to surf the Internet faster and spend more smoothly. Accelerate the construction of 4G and accelerate the construction of infrastructure to encourage and stimulate consumption.

Second, enrich information products. For example, encourage the development of smart terminal products and guide consumption through innovative supply. Nowadays, mobile phones are emerging one after another, performance is constantly improving, and prices are falling, which meets the needs of all aspects of consumers.

Third, encourage the application of informatization in some key industries. This includes the implementation of the “Information for the benefit of the people” project, the promotion of education, medical quality resources sharing, the popularization of the application of resident health cards, the promotion of financial IC cards in the field of public services, and so on.

Fourth, ensure information security in the process of promoting information consumption. It is necessary to strengthen the protection of personal information according to law, standardize the order of information consumption market, and improve the ability of network information security.

Increase the intensity of the structure

â—‹ The policy of eliminating backward production capacity is continuous, and the second batch of enterprises must be announced, and the tasks should be put in place in phases;

â—‹ will continue to urge the timely removal of outdated equipment, while coordinating relevant departments to further increase law enforcement penalties;

â—‹ Improve the backward production capacity to withdraw from the long-term mechanism, promote the implementation of the equal capacity reduction or reduction system, and realize the organic combination of elimination and development;

â—‹ Increase financial and other policy support for exiting the transformation and development of enterprises, guide the resettlement of employees, and improve the aid mechanism.

Reporter: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently announced the list of 19 industries that eliminated backward production capacity in the first half of the year. You mentioned that this is the focus of the work of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in the second half of the year. What specific measures will be taken in the second half of the year to realize the outdated capacity and truly exit the market?

Miao Wei: In recent years, we have increased the intensity of eliminating backward production capacity, but frankly, the speed of new capacity is far greater than the speed of eliminating backward production capacity, which brings about the problem of overcapacity.

After research, in 2011 we determined the target tasks of eliminating backward production capacity in 19 industries in the “12th Five-Year Plan”. In order to adapt to the new requirements of overcapacity and air pollution prevention, we decided to further increase our efforts to complete the task of eliminating backward production capacity in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” one year ahead of schedule. On this basis, the target mission will be added, and more batches of backward production capacity will be eliminated in 2015. The specific target tasks are being communicated and negotiated with the local authorities. We hope that in this way, more backward production capacity will be withdrawn from the industry.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently announced the list of the first batch of backward production capacity eliminated this year. The regions, enterprises and production lines are very specific. After the list was published, it was generally recognized, and some companies and production lines in the list were questioned. This is a good thing. To announce this list is to hope that all sectors of the society will supervise the elimination of backward production capacity. After preliminary investigation, we have three types of situations.

In the first category, the shutdown was indeed shut down, but for various reasons, the outdated equipment has not been dismantled and has the ability to resume production. Of course, there are many reasons for this. It may be that the loans owed to the bank have not been repaid, the placement of the employees has not yet been settled, and so on. But in a word, the elimination of backward production capacity is really in place. It is to completely remove the outdated equipment and no longer have the ability to resume production. This is a standard for accomplishing the task.

In the second category, individual companies have taken up the number of devices that have been phased out in previous years. In this case, we have found a strict punishment together and pursued the responsibility of the relevant localities, departments and enterprises in accordance with relevant regulations.

In the third category, there are also cases of reporting distortion.

In short, we must increase our efforts to make more outdated production capacity exit, partially alleviate the problem of overcapacity, and continue to do a good job.

Reporter: We are also concerned about the announcement of the second and third batches. Should this policy be continuous?

Nursery: There is continuity and there are specific goals and tasks every year. This year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will also announce the second batch of enterprises, put the tasks in place in phases and in batches, and 19 industries, provinces, cities and sub-enterprises must be put in place.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will continue to urge the timely removal of outdated equipment, and coordinate relevant departments to further increase law enforcement penalties, give full play to the role of legal means and market mechanisms, and create a fair competitive market environment; improve the backward production capacity to withdraw from the long-term mechanism and promote the implementation of capacity equalization or reduction The quantity replacement system will realize the organic combination of elimination and development; increase the financial and other policy support for the exit and development of enterprises, guide the resettlement of employees, improve the assistance mechanism, and ensure the steady advancement of the elimination of backward production capacity.

Promote the steady and healthy development of SMEs

â—‹ We must conscientiously put in place the existing policies and measures to support the development of SMEs, especially small and micro enterprises;

â—‹ Step by step to help small and micro enterprises to reduce the burden on all aspects, spend the most difficult period, and enter the track of benign development;

â—‹ Give full play to the role of the State Council Leading Group Office for Promoting the Development of SMEs, work hard to create an environment conducive to the development of SMEs, and strengthen public services to stimulate the vitality of SMEs

Reporter: What problems and problems do small and medium-sized enterprises, especially small and micro enterprises, face? In the context of the slowdown in economic growth, what specific policies and measures will the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology support in the second half of the year to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises?

Miao Wei: Through the questionnaire survey in the first half of the year, we learned that there are mainly four problems existing in small and micro enterprises. First, the cost of labor is rising, and this rise is rigid. Second, market orders have decreased, especially for some exporting enterprises. Long orders and large orders have been significantly reduced. The third is the old problem, that is, financing is difficult and financing is expensive. Fourth, enterprises reflect that the tax burden is relatively heavy.

We must conscientiously put in place the existing policies and measures to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, especially small and micro enterprises. Last year, the State Council issued the "Opinions on Further Supporting the Healthy Development of Small and Micro Enterprises", namely Guofa No. 14 Document. We are now proceeding with the investigation of the implementation of the various policy measures in Document No. 14 and hope that this form will be used to promote more policies to be implemented as soon as possible.

On July 15 this year, the State Council convened a national video conference on the exchange of experience in financial services for small and micro enterprises. From the aspects of innovative financial services and reducing financing costs, it put forward clear requirements for further improving the financial services of small and micro enterprises, and called on financial enterprises. It is mainly a bank to ensure that the growth rate of small and micro enterprise loans is not lower than the average level of various loans, and the increment is not lower than the same period of the previous year.

On July 24, the State Council executive meeting studied the tax incentives for small and micro enterprises, and decided to levy a value-added tax and business tax on the monthly sales of small and micro enterprises with a monthly sales of less than 20,000 yuan. More than 6 million small and micro enterprises bring benefits, directly related to the employment and income of tens of millions of people.

Through the implementation of these policies, we will help small and micro enterprises to reduce the burden on all aspects step by step, to pass the most difficult period and enter the track of sound development.