The highest one-time award is 5 million yuan! Guangzhou plans to introduce new regulations to build an international hub city for cross-border e-commerce

Recently, the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce organized the drafting of the "Several Policies of Guangzhou to Promote the Construction of an International Hub City for Cross-border E-commerce (Draft for Comments)" (hereinafter referred to as "Several Policies") and solicited public opinions.

According to the "Several Policies", Guangzhou intends to provide financial support to newly introduced qualified cross-border e-commerce headquarters enterprises in accordance with the current investment promotion policies. At the same time, corresponding rewards will be given to cross-border e-commerce companies for "brand expansion" and expanding overseas warehouse layout, encouraging Guangzhou cross-border e-commerce companies to grow bigger and stronger.

Excellence training: Selecting "Qilin" enterprises and "Kunpeng" parks every year

In order to better play the leading and driving role of leading cross-border e-commerce enterprises and comprehensive service enterprises, Guangzhou supports qualified cross-border e-commerce enterprises to apply for national and provincial e-commerce demonstration enterprises.

The "Several Policies" clearly stated that cross-border e-commerce comprehensive service enterprises are encouraged to grow bigger and stronger, and a certain number of cross-border e-commerce "Qilin" comprehensive service enterprises are selected each year: cross-border e-commerce comprehensive service enterprises (B2B and B2C platforms, third-party service enterprises) that serve more than 50 import and export enterprises and whose annual online transaction volume of served import and export enterprises reaches more than 300 million yuan (including 300 million yuan) and are included in the statistics of Guangzhou will be given a one-time reward of up to 3 million yuan for those who enter the list for the first time. Support eligible cross-border e-commerce enterprises to apply for national high-tech enterprises, and give a reward of 200,000 yuan for the first recognition and a reward of 100,000 yuan for those who pass the re-recognition.

In terms of cross-border e-commerce industrial parks, based on the cross-border e-commerce industrial park construction standards formulated by the province, the parks are supported to provide one-stop services such as customs declaration and clearance, payment settlement, taxation and insurance, software development, big data analysis, financing incubation, and training consulting.

To strengthen the competitive advantage of the cross-border e-commerce industry, Guangzhou will also select a certain number of cross-border e-commerce "Kunpeng" industrial parks (agglomeration areas) every year: those with distinct industrial characteristics and a usable area of ​​more than 15,000 square meters, with more than 30 tax-paying cross-border e-commerce companies settled in the park and an annual cross-border e-commerce total import and export volume of more than 1 billion yuan (including 1 billion yuan), and cross-border e-commerce industrial parks in which cross-border e-commerce companies account for more than 75% of the companies settled in the same period, and the operating entity will be given a one-time reward of up to 5 million yuan.

Talent is the core competitiveness of the development of the cross-border e-commerce industry. In order to increase the training and introduction of cross-border e-commerce talents, the "Several Measures" encourages ordinary colleges and universities, vocational schools and technical colleges to open cross-border e-commerce majors. For ordinary colleges and vocational colleges that have opened cross-border e-commerce majors for the first time with the approval of the education department and are included in the unified enrollment plan of colleges and universities across the country, a one-time subsidy of 3 million yuan will be given. For technical colleges that have opened cross-border e-commerce for the first time with the approval of the human resources and social security department, a one-time subsidy of 3 million yuan will be given. For technical colleges at other levels, a one-time subsidy of 1.5 million yuan will be given.

Subsidies of no more than 50% and no more than RMB 300,000 per year will be provided to ordinary colleges and vocational schools (including technical schools) in Guangzhou for the purchase of cross-border e-commerce related practical and training courses, as well as for the co-construction of courses and majors . Support the integration of industry and education in cross-border e-commerce and open up channels for talent training and delivery at the grassroots level. Attract high-end talents to participate in the development of cross-border e-commerce, and provide international and professional talents for cross-border e-commerce enterprises by holding relevant activities such as the Guangzhou Cross-border E-commerce International Talent Selection Fair.

Going overseas: Encourage enterprises to build independent overseas sites for cross-border e-commerce

Forming independent brands of cross-border e-commerce is one of the keys to Guangzhou's promotion of the cross-border e-commerce industry. The "Several Measures" clearly stated that it will support cross-border e-commerce enterprises to carry out the "brand going overseas" action, increase exports with independent brands, select a certain number of excellent growing small and medium-sized cross-border e-commerce "brand going overseas" enterprises each year, and give each of them a one-time reward of up to 1 million yuan; select a certain number of excellent leading cross-border e-commerce "brand going overseas" enterprises each year, and give each of them a one-time reward of up to 2 million yuan.

In addition to brand expansion, Guangzhou also supports enterprises in building international marketing networks. Specifically, it encourages enterprises to build cross-border e-commerce overseas independent sites, provides subsidies for annual service fees for cloud service (SaaS) tools, overseas independent site construction and decoration costs, and promotion costs, and supports the development of cross-border e-commerce live broadcasting business.

In the field of warehousing and logistics, we encourage the construction of basic supporting facilities for cross-border e-commerce warehousing and logistics, and provide subsidies of no more than RMB 10/m2/month and no more than RMB 1.5 million/year for a single enterprise to cross-border e-commerce enterprises that rent warehouses in special customs supervision areas to carry out cross-border e-commerce business. We encourage and guide enterprises to expand the layout of overseas warehouses and enrich overseas warehouse services, and provide a one-time reward to overseas warehouse operators selected by the Ministry of Commerce as excellent overseas warehouse practice cases; and provide a one-time reward to overseas warehouse operators recognized by Guangdong Province’s public overseas warehouses.

Guarantee: Strengthening education and training on compliance management in the cross-border e-commerce industry

The "Several Measures" also attach importance to the compliance operation of cross-border e-commerce, and will strengthen the education and training of compliance operation in the cross-border e-commerce industry to help enterprises establish compliance awareness. Support enterprises to conduct compliance self-inspection and build a compliance system through third-party professional institutions such as law, finance and taxation.

At the same time, we will strengthen overseas protection assistance for cross-border e-commerce intellectual property rights. The "Several Measures" clearly state that we will strengthen exchanges and cooperation with overseas industry associations and societies, and conduct tracking research on the latest developments and hot cases of cross-border e-commerce overseas intellectual property rights. We will guide the cross-border e-commerce industry and enterprises to actively respond to overseas intellectual property disputes and prevent business risks. We will support the establishment of cross-border e-commerce overseas risk prevention comprehensive service platforms and institutions, provide consultation on overseas customs clearance rules, tax laws and regulations, intellectual property dispute response, credit risk management, etc., and carry out cross-border e-commerce overseas risk prevention comprehensive services. We will select qualified overseas risk prevention comprehensive service projects and provide financial support.

The "Several Measures" also encourages cross-border e-commerce industry associations and corporate organizations to carry out cross-border e-commerce docking exchanges, supports the holding of influential cross-border e-commerce conferences, exhibitions and other activities in Guangzhou, and supports them according to the existing support policies for the exhibition industry. Support participation in the formulation of cross-border e-commerce related standards, and support units that lead the formulation of cross-border e-commerce international standards, national standards (product categories), national standards (other categories other than product categories), and industry standards according to the existing standardization support policies.

[Nanfang Daily, Nanfang+ reporter] Huang Shumin

Guangzhou

Cross-border e-commerce