East China’s Jiangsu province has revved up policy and financial support to the culture and tourism sector to help alleviate the pressure caused by the recent outbreak of the covid-19 epidemic.
Jiangning District of Nanjing has offered rent exemption or reduction to nearly 40 businesses such as B&B, restaurants and agritainment farmsteads in rural tourism attractions.
Nan Xi, Self-employed Business Owner
The government has provided us with great support, exempting the rent in the first year and the second year, and halving the rent in the third year, four years and five years. I think this policy will make many investors full of confidence.
Wuxi has given a one-time job stabilization subsidy of 1,000 yuan per capita to cultural and tourism enterprises that have been severely affected by the epidemic but have not laid off or minimized layoffs.
Suzhou will arrange a special fund of no less than 25 million yuan to support the consumption-oriented recovery of the cultural tourism industry and key enterprises to tide over the difficulties.
Yancheng and Suqian have launched a series of cultural tourism activities, offering discounts on tickets and issuing cultural tourism consumption coupons to further stimulate the consumption potential of the culture and tourism market.
Xu Jianhua, Deputy Director of Huai'an Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau
We launched 53 preferential measures for the culture and tourism industries by issuing a total of 20 million yuan worth of cultural and tourism consumption coupons.
The provincial cultural and tourism department has issued a series of policies to help enterprises tide over the difficulties and effectively deal with the adverse effects caused by the COVID-19 epidemic. Specific measures include allocating 89 million yuan of relief funds to travel agencies and tourist attractions and fully refunding the tourism service quality deposit to more than 2,000 travel agencies. In the meantime, 90 million yuan of provincial-level cultural and tourism industry development project funds were released in advance, and the provincial tourism industry development fund interest rate was lowered by 1 percentage point.
Li Chuan, Deputy Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism
We insist on combining the promotion of recovery with the growth of stamina, actively adapt to the new trend of routine epidemic prevention and control of cultural tourism consumption, promote the quality and expansion of cultural tourism consumption, actively build a government-bank-enterprise cooperation platform, and select and release annual provincial key cultural tourism projects. We will also continue to plan and launch the third season of cultural tourism consumption promotion to promote the accelerated recovery and development of cultural tourism enterprises.
