6 aspects and 26 specific measures are mainly reflected in the "two reductions and exemptions" including rent reductions and tax reductions, as well as the "four support" including social insurance support, financial support, epidemic prevention support and other support. On the one hand, it focuses on the urgent needs of the current industry development and launches specific relief measures specifically and accurately to solve the urgent needs; on the other hand, it is based on establishing a set of operating models and coordinated measures to adapt to normal epidemic prevention and control, actively planning the long-term development of the industry, and proposes support policies such as facility construction, mechanism innovation, and talent training in the form of a list to list specific policy measures for relief support, and provides a complete set of system solutions, reflecting the characteristics of being both special and comprehensive. The content of benefiting enterprises can be found and understood, bringing "timely rain" to the elderly care and childcare service industry, and injecting a "heart-boosting agent" into development
text | Hu Zuquan
The elderly care and childcare service industry is closely related to the lives of the people and is an important force in solving the problem of "one elderly and one young". In recent years, with the acceleration of my country's population aging trend and the implementation of the three-child childbirth policy, the people's demand for elderly care and childcare services is growing and growing, and putting higher requirements for the healthy and high-quality development of the industry.
Recently, with the approval of the State Council, National Development and Reform Commission and 13 other departments jointly issued the "Several Policy Measures for the Relief and Support of the Elderly and Child Care Service Industry" (hereinafter referred to as the "Policy Measures"), targeting the prominent problems facing the development of elderly care and childcare service institutions and actively responding to the voices and concerns of market entities.
"Policy Measures" covers 6 aspects and 26 specific measures, mainly reflected in the "two reductions and exemptions" including rent reductions and tax reductions, as well as the "four support" including social insurance support, financial support, epidemic prevention support and other aspects, sending a positive signal to boost industry confidence.
At the Comprehensive Elderly Care Service Center of Yaowan Street, Yuhu District, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, Elderly Care Hospitalist Liu Meng applauded and celebrated the elderly who scored the goal (photo taken on May 17, 2022) Photo by Chen Zeguo/This magazine
It is urgent to quench the thirst of the industry
"One old and one young" is a family matter, state affairs, and the world affairs, and it is related to the happiness of thousands of households.
In recent years, the country has compiled plans, issued policies and established mechanisms at the macro level. Planning for the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Aging Development and Elderly Care Service System Plan" and "Opinions on Promoting the Healthy Development of Elderly Care Services" and other planning policies have been successively issued, creating a good environment for the long-term development of the industry.
At present, more than 300 municipal-level cities (districts) across the country have prepared overall solutions for "one old and one young", integrating resources and forces in all aspects, and taking out "real money" policy packages such as land, housing, finance, investment and financing, and talents to promote the high-quality development of elderly care and childcare services.
On the other hand, in the past two years, due to the repeated COVID-19 epidemic, rising operating costs, and the reduction of new customers, the sustainable operation of some elderly care and childcare service institutions has been impacted and the difficulties have aggravated. In 2020, elderly care service institutions in 20 provinces across the country suffered overall losses; since 2021, difficulties in the entire industry have further increased.
In response to this, local governments have actively introduced policies to help enterprises alleviate their difficulties, and the industry has accelerated innovation and self-rescue. However, due to the difficulty of overall operation and weak market expectations, some institutions with weak risk resistance have closed down or withdrawn from the industry. This will not only directly affect the elderly and infant families to obtain continuous and stable care support, but will also affect the healthy development of the industry.
Therefore, it is urgent to unify and deploy more powerful relief and support measures at the national level to help the elderly care and childcare service industry overcome difficulties and resume development.
addition and subtraction and use precise relief
"Policy Measures" focus on the current urgent needs of the industry's development, and specifically and accurately introduced specific relief measures to solve the industry's urgent needs; on the other hand, it is based on establishing a set of operating models and collaborative measures that adapt to normal epidemic prevention and control, actively planning the long-term development of the industry, and propose supporting policies such as facility construction, mechanism innovation, and talent training.
First, focus on "reduction" and strive to reduce the burden of rent and taxes.
In response to the housing rental pressure faced by elderly care and childcare service institutions, the "Policy Measures" proposes three support measures in classification.Those who lease state-owned houses will be exempted from rent until the end of 2022; non-state-owned house rental entities are encouraged to appropriately reduce rent on the basis of equal consultation; and encourage the exploration of centralized renovation and utilization of public service facilities and state-owned houses in streets and communities to convert them into free or low-priced venues.
In response to the tax burden faced by elderly care and childcare service institutions, the "Policy Measures" clarify the " six taxes and two fees " reduction and exemption policy that elderly care and childcare service institutions can enjoy, the tax preferential policy for community family service industries, the value-added tax tax refund policy, electricity, water, gas and heat price policy, etc.
2. Focus on "slow down" and strive to alleviate social insurance and financial pressure.
As a typical labor-intensive industry, labor costs usually account for 40% to 60% of the operating costs of elderly care and childcare service institutions, and are the largest cash flow expenditure item. Regarding social insurance payment expenditures, which are an important part of labor costs, the "Policy Measures" clearly defines four support measures, including the policy of phased reduction of unemployment work-related injury insurance premium rate, the policy of general unemployment insurance job stability refund, the phased delay in paying unit payment of unemployment work-related injury insurance, and the voluntary delay in paying basic pension insurance premiums for flexible employment personnel.
For loans and commercial insurance in the field of pension and childcare, the "Policy and Measures" proposes that financial institutions strive to extend the loans to small and medium-sized enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households of pension and childcare and as much as possible; places with conditions are encouraged to provide loan interest subsidies based on actual financial resources; government-based financing guarantee institutions are encouraged to provide financing credit enhancement support; insurance institutions are encouraged to appropriately extend the policy expiration date or extend the premium.
Third, focus on "adaptation" and strive to build an operating model that adapts to normal epidemic prevention and control.
"Policy Measures" proposes a package of epidemic prevention support measures for elderly care and childcare service institutions, including requiring local civil affairs departments to moderately consider the impact of the epidemic on the satisfaction evaluation of elderly care service institutions, reasonably adjust the conditions for issuing operation subsidies, and promote the timely and full issuance of operation subsidies.
In addition, the "Policy Measures" also proposes support measures such as adding psychological counseling services, encouraging catering companies to provide meal assistance services, encouraging domestic businesses to provide home-based services, promoting the integrated development of online and offline, and exploring the issuance of elderly care service consumption coupons, aiming to promote the elderly care and childcare service industry to accelerate the establishment of an operation model that adapts to normal epidemic prevention and control, and minimize the impact of the epidemic.
Fourth, focus on "empowerment" and strive to enhance the industry's development potential.
First of all, the "Policy Measures" proposes to carry out a pilot program of special re-lending for general pension, provide preferential loans to general pension institutions, and at the same time support qualified pension enterprises to issue corporate credit bonds.
Secondly, it is proposed that government investment funds such as central budget investment and local government special bonds should increase support for elderly care and childcare service facilities and talent training bases, and accelerate the filling of the shortcomings in related facilities.
Again, several requirements for mechanism innovation are put forward, and local governments are encouraged to give priority to the use of public and private business methods, and to guide institutions with strong operational capabilities to participate in the construction and operation of elderly care and childcare facilities. At the same time, explore the integrated engineering and education training model to promote the solution of industry labor difficulties.
Overall, the "Policy Measures" lists specific policy measures for relief and support in the form of a list, providing a complete set of systematic solutions, reflecting the characteristics of being both specific and comprehensive. The content of benefiting enterprises can be found and understood, bringing "timely rain" to the elderly care and childcare service industry and injecting "heart-boosting agent" into development.
To give full play to the positive effects of policies, the key lies in implementation and implementation. In the next step, we must also do a good job in policy interpretation and publicity guidance, tighten and strengthen all parties' responsibilities, clarify the application objects, application conditions, implementation paths and responsible departments of various policy measures, ensure that relevant policies are effectively transmitted to market entities, and protect the future development of the elderly care and childcare service industry. (Author’s unit: Economic Forecasting Department of the National Information Center) ■
Those who lease state-owned houses will be exempted from rent until the end of 2022; non-state-owned house rental entities are encouraged to appropriately reduce rent on the basis of equal consultation; and encourage the exploration of centralized renovation and utilization of public service facilities and state-owned houses in streets and communities to convert them into free or low-priced venues.In response to the tax burden faced by elderly care and childcare service institutions, the "Policy Measures" clarify the " six taxes and two fees " reduction and exemption policy that elderly care and childcare service institutions can enjoy, the tax preferential policy for community family service industries, the value-added tax tax refund policy, electricity, water, gas and heat price policy, etc.
2. Focus on "slow down" and strive to alleviate social insurance and financial pressure.
As a typical labor-intensive industry, labor costs usually account for 40% to 60% of the operating costs of elderly care and childcare service institutions, and are the largest cash flow expenditure item. Regarding social insurance payment expenditures, which are an important part of labor costs, the "Policy Measures" clearly defines four support measures, including the policy of phased reduction of unemployment work-related injury insurance premium rate, the policy of general unemployment insurance job stability refund, the phased delay in paying unit payment of unemployment work-related injury insurance, and the voluntary delay in paying basic pension insurance premiums for flexible employment personnel.
For loans and commercial insurance in the field of pension and childcare, the "Policy and Measures" proposes that financial institutions strive to extend the loans to small and medium-sized enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households of pension and childcare and as much as possible; places with conditions are encouraged to provide loan interest subsidies based on actual financial resources; government-based financing guarantee institutions are encouraged to provide financing credit enhancement support; insurance institutions are encouraged to appropriately extend the policy expiration date or extend the premium.
Third, focus on "adaptation" and strive to build an operating model that adapts to normal epidemic prevention and control.
"Policy Measures" proposes a package of epidemic prevention support measures for elderly care and childcare service institutions, including requiring local civil affairs departments to moderately consider the impact of the epidemic on the satisfaction evaluation of elderly care service institutions, reasonably adjust the conditions for issuing operation subsidies, and promote the timely and full issuance of operation subsidies.
In addition, the "Policy Measures" also proposes support measures such as adding psychological counseling services, encouraging catering companies to provide meal assistance services, encouraging domestic businesses to provide home-based services, promoting the integrated development of online and offline, and exploring the issuance of elderly care service consumption coupons, aiming to promote the elderly care and childcare service industry to accelerate the establishment of an operation model that adapts to normal epidemic prevention and control, and minimize the impact of the epidemic.
Fourth, focus on "empowerment" and strive to enhance the industry's development potential.
First of all, the "Policy Measures" proposes to carry out a pilot program of special re-lending for general pension, provide preferential loans to general pension institutions, and at the same time support qualified pension enterprises to issue corporate credit bonds.
Secondly, it is proposed that government investment funds such as central budget investment and local government special bonds should increase support for elderly care and childcare service facilities and talent training bases, and accelerate the filling of the shortcomings in related facilities.
Again, several requirements for mechanism innovation are put forward, and local governments are encouraged to give priority to the use of public and private business methods, and to guide institutions with strong operational capabilities to participate in the construction and operation of elderly care and childcare facilities. At the same time, explore the integrated engineering and education training model to promote the solution of industry labor difficulties.
Overall, the "Policy Measures" lists specific policy measures for relief and support in the form of a list, providing a complete set of systematic solutions, reflecting the characteristics of being both specific and comprehensive. The content of benefiting enterprises can be found and understood, bringing "timely rain" to the elderly care and childcare service industry and injecting "heart-boosting agent" into development.
To give full play to the positive effects of policies, the key lies in implementation and implementation. In the next step, we must also do a good job in policy interpretation and publicity guidance, tighten and strengthen all parties' responsibilities, clarify the application objects, application conditions, implementation paths and responsible departments of various policy measures, ensure that relevant policies are effectively transmitted to market entities, and protect the future development of the elderly care and childcare service industry. (Author’s unit: Economic Forecasting Department of the National Information Center) ■
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