Speed up the development of rural e-commerce and narrow the digital gap between urban and rural areas

The executive meeting of the State Council decided to improve the compensation mechanism for broadband telecommunications universal services in rural and remote areas.

Speed up the development of rural e-commerce and narrow the digital gap between urban and rural areas

Premier Li Keqiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on October 14, which decided to improve the compensation mechanism for broadband telecommunications universal services in rural and remote areas, narrow the digital gap between urban and rural areas, and deploy to speed up the development of rural e-commerce. New business type to promote consumption and benefit the people's livelihood; determine measures to promote the development of the express industry and cultivate new growth points of modern service industry.

The meeting pointed out that narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas is where China's great potential for development lies. Reforming and innovating the compensation mechanism for universal telecommunications services and supporting broadband construction in rural and remote areas is an important measure to make up for the "shortcomings" of public goods and services, promote effective investment, and promote the coordinated development of urban and rural areas. The meeting decided to increase central financial input, guide local governments to strengthen policy and financial support, encourage basic telecommunications, radio and television enterprises and private capital to fairly participate in rural broadband construction, operation and maintenance through competitive bidding, at the same time explore market-oriented ways such as PPP and entrusted operation to mobilize the enthusiasm of all kinds of participants, and strive to achieve broadband access in about 50, 000 unconnected administrative villages and broadband upgrading of more than 30 million rural households by 2020. Make the broadband cover 98% of the administrative villages, and gradually achieve wireless broadband coverage, with a total investment of more than 140 billion yuan. The meeting demanded that the examination and acceptance and supervision should be strengthened, and the financial subsidy should be deducted or cancelled and notified to those who fail the acceptance. The operation of broadband construction should be subject to social supervision. Use information technology to help people in remote and difficult rural areas shake off poverty and become rich.

The meeting held that through mass entrepreneurship and mass innovation, we should give full play to the role of the market mechanism, speed up the development of rural e-commerce, and organically combine physical stores with e-commerce, so as to produce a superposition effect between the real economy and the Internet, which is conducive to promoting consumption and expanding domestic demand. we will promote agricultural upgrading, rural development, and farmers' income. To this end, it is necessary to expand the application of e-commerce in agricultural and rural areas. We will encourage social capital, supply and marketing cooperatives and other subjects to build agriculture-related e-commerce platforms, broaden markets for agricultural products, folk products, and rural tourism, and expand more space for agricultural products to go to the countryside while promoting industrial products to the countryside. Priority will be given to carrying out comprehensive demonstration of e-commerce in rural areas in old revolutionary base areas and poor areas, increasing employment and income channels, and promoting poverty alleviation and development. Second, the environment for the development of rural e-commerce should be improved. Improve transportation, information, distribution of producing areas, cold chain and other related facilities, encourage rural commercial and trade enterprises to build distribution centers, develop third-party distribution, and improve circulation efficiency. Third, it is necessary to create a good environment for online consumption and crack down on illegal acts such as the online sale of fake and shoddy commodities. Great efforts should be made to train rural e-commerce talents and encourage entrepreneurship and employment through the Internet. Fourth, we should increase policy support for rural e-commerce. Guarantee loans and discount interest shall be given to those who meet the conditions. Financial institutions are encouraged to innovate online payment, supply chain loans and other products, simplify small short-term loan procedures, and increase credit support for e-commerce start-ups. Let hundreds of millions of farmers step onto the new stage of the mass entrepreneurship and innovation Initiative by "touching the net".

The meeting pointed out that speeding up the development of the express delivery industry can facilitate people's lives, reduce circulation costs, and serve entrepreneurship and innovation, which is of great significance for expanding domestic demand and employment, promoting structural optimization, and improving the quality of new urbanization. The meeting determined that, first, it is necessary to further open the domestic express market to all kinds of capital and support the merger and reorganization of express delivery enterprises and make them better and stronger. The second is to simplify the business license of express delivery and the customs clearance procedures of inbound and outbound express delivery, and explore the "one-photo multi-address" of industrial and commercial registration of express delivery enterprises. The third is to promote "Internet + Express", guide express delivery enterprises to cooperate deeply with e-commerce, serve new models such as agricultural order production and industrial personalized customization, and develop new business type, a convenient businessman. Support the collection of payment and other business. The fourth is to implement the link project of "getting on the bus, getting on the ship and getting on the plane" of express delivery, giving urban passage and operation convenience to express special vehicles. We will improve the express service network in rural and western regions, and build an express delivery system covering both domestic and foreign countries. Strengthen the supervision of delivery safety and service quality, and create "rest assured express delivery". Fifth, increase fiscal, taxation, financial, land and other policy support. Investment in the central budget will focus on supporting the construction of public welfare and basic express facilities in rural areas and western regions. Financial institutions are encouraged to carry out mortgage loans, financial leasing and other businesses to broaden the financing channels of enterprises. Put the express industry on the express train for development.

Other issues were also studied at the meeting.