Local governments make lists of technical reform projects for industrial enterprises

At present, many places are making clear the list of projects and launching a new round of large-scale equipment renovation for the industrial field.

VT-VPCD-1-15/V0/1-P-1 Recently, the reporter learned from the Sichuan Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology that this year, Sichuan Province will implement the “Industrial Investment Promotion Year” action to ensure the steady growth of industrial and technological transformation investment. Previously, the department released a list of key industrial and technological transformation projects in 2024, with a total of 500 projects covering advanced materials, equipment manufacturing, food textile, energy and chemical industries, with a total investment of 1,647.25 billion yuan. Shaanxi Province will implement 240 key industrial investment and technological transformation projects in 2024, and strive to increase manufacturing investment by 6.5 percent.

Shandong Province has made it clear that it will focus on traditional industries such as metallurgy, petrochemical, and light industry, start to implement a new round of large-scale equipment renewal and transformation, and improve the transformation and upgrading plan of “one industry and one policy“. “We plan to implement about 12,000 technological transformation projects with an investment of more than 5 million yuan within the year to promote the extension of traditional industries to high-end and high value-added expansion.” Wang Maoqing, deputy director of industry and information Technology Department of Shandong Province, said.

Yu Xiaohui said that the new round of large-scale equipment renewal is for key industries with large equipment scale and large renewal potential, accelerate the application of advanced and applicable equipment, highlight new technologies such as digitalization, intelligence, green and low-carbon,VT-VPCD-1-15/V0/1-P-1  promote the upgrading of equipment to high-end, intelligent, green and safe directions, and drive the overall competitiveness of China’s manufacturing industry to improve with equipment upgrading.

Multiple measures to stimulate the vitality of enterprise equipment renewal

It is worth mentioning that fiscal, tax, financial, energy and other support measures will be further implemented to reduce enterprise investment costs and enhance the willingness of enterprises to update equipment.

The above action plan proposes specific deployments such as “incorporating qualified equipment renewal and recycling projects into the scope of financial support such as investment in the central budget”, “using re-lending policy tools to guide financial institutions to strengthen support for equipment renewal and technological transformation”, and “strengthening the guarantee of land use, energy use and other elements of enterprise technological transformation projects”.

Many places have also come up with “real money” to further reduce the burden on VT-VPCD-1-15/V0/1-P-1 enterprises and stimulate market vitality. For example, Anhui Province proposed to “implement the policy of tax incentives and special reloans for investment in technological transformation” and “compensate 3 million yuan for the award of the national intelligent manufacturing demonstration factory and 1 million yuan for the award of the national green factory”; Hainan Province recently organized the application of 2023 annual industrial enterprises to expand investment and technical transformation and quality improvement award funds, enterprises can be awarded up to 30 million yuan.

“The main body of equipment renewal in the industrial field is enterprises, and the lack of willingness, lack of funds and lack of policies have become the main reasons restricting enterprises to carry out equipment renewal.” Yu Xiaohui believes that to promote large-scale equipment renewal, the market should play a decisive role in allocating resources, but also better play the role of government guidance. The package of policy arrangements for cracking the difficult points of enterprise equipment renewal provides a strong guarantee for accelerating the formation of scale effects in industrial equipment renewal.

Fan Meng said that according to the previous questionnaire survey on the special re-loan policy for equipment renewal and renovation, most of the surveyed enterprises said that this policy has a strong sense of gain. “In the future, it is recommended to increase the existing various types of financial support to support the replacement of high-end advanced equipment, intelligent manufacturing equipment, green energy-saving equipment, and safety production equipment in the industrial field; We will study and formulate policies for the continuation of special re-loans for equipment renewal and renovation, arrange special quotas, and support key areas of the manufacturing industry to increase investment in equipment renewal and renovation.”

He also said that in the process of policy implementation, we should pay attention to the monitoring and analysis of key industries and key links, to avoid excess capacity in low-end links and insufficient support in high-end links.