East China’s Jiangsu province has taken multi-pronged measures to coordinate epidemic prevention and control and social and economic development. Let’s take a close look.
Wuxi has introduced 50 policies to help enterprises relieve their difficulties in 9 aspects including fiscal and taxation support, financial support, and expense reduction with half of policies concerned with services for specific items.
Wuxi will allocate 11 billion yuan of industrial support funds this year while its tax and fee reductions are expected to exceed 20 billion yuan.
The city is expected to provide 300 million yuan of job stabilization subsidies to enterprises this year, reducing the burden on enterprises by 3.3 billion yuan.
According to Bao Xiaodong, Deputy Director of Wuxi Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, they provided 90% job stabilization subsidies to small, medium and micro enterprises, which also included individual economic organizations, social groups, funds, social service agencies, law firms, and accounting firms.
Changzhou Science and Technology Bureau opened and shared scientific research resources, deepened "zero-contact" scientific and technological services, and quickly launched special services for epidemic prevention.
Shen Min, Co-founder of Jiangsu Fumin Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd., said that the support policy for epidemic prevention technology provided by the Science and Technology Bureau has boosted confidence and gave them greater motivation to use digital technology for scientific and digital epidemic prevention.
