The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology organize the pilot work of digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises

6/16/2023, Optical Fiber Online News, in order to thoroughly implement the series of decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on supporting the innovation and development of small and medium-sized enterprises and accelerating the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have jointly issued a notice in recent days, Organize and carry out the pilot work of digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises. Notices pointed out, 2023-2025.

"Notice", the policy objectives are: through the development of urban pilot, support the local government's comprehensive policy, explore the formation of small and medium-sized enterprises digital transformation method path, market mechanism and typical model, comb a batch of digital transformation fine industry, create a batch of digital transformation "small light tower" enterprises, cultivate a batch of high-quality digital service providers, through the promotion of economic upgrading, extensive economic transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises and medium-sized enterprises, copy rapid promotion, digital promotion, through the promotion.

The ''Notice'' clarifies that the support target of this policy is: the pilot cities should be prefecture-level cities and above, including provincial capital cities of all provinces (regions), cities under separate planning, other prefecture-level cities, districts and counties directly under the jurisdiction of cities, and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (hereinafter referred to as Corps). All localities should give priority to cities with good basic conditions, great potential for transformation, practical implementation plans, and strong demonstration drive, and recommend them to the two departments. The two departments organize experts to conduct competitive reviews, and take into account the distribution of eastern, central and western regions to determine pilot cities. I'm glad, I'm glad. The Central Finance has given a fixed amount of rewards to pilot cities. The total amount of supplementary funds for provincial capital cities, cities under separate planning, and corps awards does not exceed 0.15 billion yuan, and the total amount of supplementary funds for other prefecture-level cities and counties under the jurisdiction of cities directly under their jurisdiction does not exceed 0.1 billion yuan.

The finance departments (bureaus) of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and cities under separate state planning, the competent departments of small and medium-sized enterprises, the Finance Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and the Industry and Information Bureau:

is a series of decision-making departments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on supporting the innovation and development of small and medium-sized enterprises and accelerating the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, 2023-2025, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (hereinafter referred to as the two departments). The relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:

1. overall requirements

(I) guiding thoughts.spirit of the Party's top 20 is deeply involved, and the enthusiasm of the Party is fully mobilized, the supply of various resources is optimized, the cost of digital conversion is reduced, and the core competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises is enhanced by the digital conversion. More specialized new small and medium-sized enterprises are excited to promote the high-quality development of the entity economy.

(II) basic principles.

1. Government guidance, enterprise main body.takes the city as the target to support the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, and gives full play to the advantages of the local government's familiar industry and close to the enterprise. Strengthen the main position of enterprises in the digital transformation work, stimulate the enterprise's enthusiasm and creativity, play the leading role of digital innovation, and promote the core competition of enterprises.

2. Problem-oriented, focus on practical results.focus on the pain points and difficulties in the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, solve the problem of "unwilling to turn, dare not turn, and will not turn" of small and medium-sized enterprises, and surround the goals of improving quality, increasing efficiency, reducing costs, reducing storage, green, and safety. Improve the supply capacity of digital conversion services, reduce conversion costs, and ensure that the digital conversion of small and medium-sized enterprises can achieve practical results.

3. Pilot first, demonstration and promotion.encourage pilot cities to take the lead, explore effective models to support the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, form replicable and popularized experience, and gradually carry out demonstration and promotion in accordance with local conditions, so as to "try into a batch and drive a piece", magnify the scale effect and improve the efficiency of policies.

4. Strengthen the overall planning, the city is responsible.departments have stepped up their overall work and given financial support and work guidance to the pilot work. Pilot cities to strengthen organizational leadership, establish a working mechanism led by city leaders, finance and small and medium-sized enterprises as the main body, and related departments to jointly promote, strengthen departmental coordination, exert policy efforts, and fully mobilize government, society, and market forces. Guide technology, capital, talents and other innovative resources to converge to small and medium-sized enterprises.

(III) policy objectives.through the development of city pilot, support local government comprehensive policy, explore the formation of small and medium-sized enterprises digital conversion method path, market mechanism and typical model, comb a batch of digital conversion fine-divided industries, create a batch of digital conversion type "small light tower" enterprises, cultivate a batch of high-quality digital service providers, the development of integrated small and medium-sized enterprises "small and medium-sized enterprises to promote the level of digital innovation and rapid economic integration" (miniaturization, rapid promotion, demonstration and integration "(miniaturization, small learning and promotion of digital products).

(IV) support object.The pilot cities should be prefecture-level cities or above, including provincial capital cities of all provinces (regions), cities separately listed in the plan, other prefecture-level cities, districts and counties directly under the jurisdiction of cities, and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (hereinafter referred to as Corps). All localities should give priority to cities with good basic conditions, great potential for transformation, practical implementation plans, and strong demonstration drive, and recommend them to the two departments. The two departments organize experts to conduct competitive reviews, and take into account the distribution of eastern, central and western regions to determine pilot cities. I'm glad, I'm glad.

2. Support Content

(I) to speed up digital transformation, copy and promote experience.supports pilot cities in selecting key industries and related small and medium-sized enterprises, combing industry commonality and enterprise individual needs, taking market-oriented methods to openly select digital service providers, supporting digital service providers to provide diagnosis, consulting and other services for transformed enterprises, and developing integrated "small, quick and light" digital services and products for enterprises to choose freely and carry out digital transformation. At the same time, the summary integration of strong generality, good effect of digital solution, promote cross-regional replication and promotion, the effect of the policy.

(II) improve the level of innovation and enhance the core competitiveness.support pilot cities to expand the supply of various innovation elements such as technology and talents around the digital transformation, guide enterprises to further increase innovation investment, promote the resource integration and business coordination of all elements and processes of enterprises, and fully improve production methods, Business model, management level, improve core competitiveness, and guide large, medium and small enterprises to take the new development path of specialization.

(III) strengthen industrial chain cooperation and achieve harmonious development.supports small and medium-sized enterprises to strengthen cooperation with chain-leading enterprises and leading enterprises, and make use of the platform capacity and data base of chain-leading enterprises and leading enterprises to realize multi-faceted coordination in order, design, production and supply chain. Encourage chain main enterprises and leading enterprises to empower small and medium-sized enterprises through industrial ties, gathering and incubation, upstream and downstream matching, open application scenes and technology diffusion, etc., push the "chain" digital transformation, and improve the ability of strengthening the chain to supplement the chain.

3. job requirements

(I) focus on key industries.is on small and medium-sized enterprises in general-purpose and special-purpose equipment manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, transportation equipment manufacturing, pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing, electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing, computers and communications electronics. Each related city can be in the key industry areas (see annex 2) in a step-by-step determination of the specific fine industry to start the pilot, Lin, the performance of their own high industrial foundation and characteristics of the advantages, with the value of the scale of large, small and medium-sized enterprises concentration of the characteristics, to avoid dispersion.

(II) clearly transformed enterprises.pilot cities should be in the definite and detailed industries, and in particular, priority should be given to the transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises with urgent digital needs, huge development potential and obvious economic and social benefits. In terms of the number of renovations, there are 400 and 300 in the east, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in the middle, in 400 and in the 300 in the middle (according to the latest version of the "Digital Level Evaluation Index for Small and Medium and Small and Medium Enterprises" Digital Level ")").

(III) the best digital service provider.is led by the small and medium-sized enterprises in the pilot city, and the enterprises to be transformed are selected independently. Service providers should have a deeper industry knowledge accumulation, Lin, Lin.

(IV) to complete the task of transformation.Digital service providers to play a comprehensive and integrated role, for the enterprise to do a good digital transformation of the overall planning, clear transformation standards. After the enterprise completes the digital transformation, the effect of the transformation is evaluated from the aspects of the application effect of the enterprise, the degree of data penetration, the input-output ratio, and the scientific reform of the enterprise management system.

(V) expansion and replication promotion.industrial small and medium-sized enterprises under the rules "would like to change all the changes", the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter of the letter.

(VI) health policy system.pilot cities should improve their policy system and work mechanism, provide supporting policies with strong needle-to-needle, high practicality, accuracy and effectiveness, improve public service capabilities such as policy publicity, resource docking, evaluation and diagnosis, and platform support, and strengthen talent training, Financial support, security and other areas of support. Strengthen the linkage of fiscal and financial policies. It is a good digital transformation ecology for small and medium-sized enterprises.

4. funds allocation and use

(I) allocation of funds.

Central Finance has given a fixed amount of reward to the pilot cities. Among them, the total amount of bonus funds for provincial capital cities, cities separately listed in the plan, and corps shall not exceed 0.15 billion yuan, and the total amount of bonus funds for other prefecture-level cities and counties under the jurisdiction of cities directly under their jurisdiction shall not exceed 0.1 billion yuan. For the first batch of pilot cities, the first year of implementation is from the date of approval by the implementer to December 2024, and the second year of implementation is from January 2025 to December 2025. The bonus funds are allocated on a regular basis.

(II) funds.

allocates the award and supplementary funds, which are used by the pilot cities as a whole. According to the principle of "enterprises give a little, service providers give a little, and the government makes up a little", we should arrange not less than 80% of the bonus and supplement funds to carry out the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises. Through supporting the transformed enterprises, we can choose the digital service providers to carry out the digital transformation, which can be used for the software and cloud service expenditures related to the digital transformation, the necessary data acquisition and transmission equipment expenditures for gateway and routing, and consulting services, etc. Enterprises should focus on strengthening the depth of transformation, re-development of manufacturing and other related link transformation.

At the same time, no more than 20% of the bonus and subsidy funds can be arranged to support the following work: first, to support the improvement of the service capability of industrial Internet platform and digital service providers and optimize the product supply level; The second is to encourage and guide small and medium-sized enterprises to deeply apply SaaS (Software as a Service) services of industrial Internet platform and professional service cloud platform. The third is to reward typical and efficient "chain" small and medium-sized enterprises with digital transformation products and services, promote the integration and development of large and medium-sized enterprises and the coordination of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain; fourth, support digital service providers and other comprehensive services for small and medium-sized enterprises through government purchase of services, such as consulting and diagnosis, personnel training, etc., and support digital transformation financing.

Special funds are used for special purposes. Pilot cities should ensure that the special funds are used in a standardized, safe and efficient manner. They must not be used for expenditures such as personnel welfare, public funds, and institutional operation funds of financial support units, and must not be used for infrastructure projects such as buildings and halls. Used to balance the budget at the same level. The specialized and new "little giant" enterprises that have received special fund support from the central government for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises will no longer be repeatedly supported, and the small and medium-sized enterprises that have been included in the notice of the general office of the Ministry of industry and information technology and the general office of the Ministry of finance on carrying out the pilot work of financial support for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises (No.22, 2022) will no longer be repeatedly supported.

5. Performance Management

Pilot cities should determine performance targets in terms of the number of transformed enterprises, the level of digitalization after transformation, strengthening replication and promotion, enhancing innovation capabilities, promoting "chain" transformation, and improving policy systems, taking into account the current situation and industrial base of local enterprises.

Provincial departments in charge of small and medium-sized enterprises and financial departments should strengthen performance target management, do a good job in monitoring performance operation, and guide pilot cities to carry out performance self-evaluation on an annual basis. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Finance jointly carry out performance evaluation, and conduct mid-term performance evaluation after the end of the first year of the implementation period. The evaluation results will be used as an important reference for the allocation of bonus funds; for poor evaluation results, penalties such as supervision and rectification, suspension of pilot qualifications, and recovery of bonus funds will be taken according to the severity of the situation. After the end of the second year of the implementation period, a post-implementation performance evaluation will be carried out, and the award and subsidy funds will be allocated according to the evaluation results.

6. organization implementation

(I) organization declaration.For the provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and corps that declare pilot cities, the provincial financial department and the competent department of small and medium-sized enterprises at the same level shall select the pilot cities to be declared, and submit a letter of recommendation to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Each batch of provinces and autonomous regions recommend at most one city, and municipalities directly under the Central Government recommend at most one district and county under their jurisdiction. Cities and corps under separate state planning should declare separately. Cities that have been included in the pilot scope by the two departments will not repeat the declaration in subsequent years. The cities and corps that intend to apply for the pilot project shall prepare the pilot implementation plan for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises (see Annex 1 for the template), which shall include the existing work foundation, work objectives, specific implementation contents, fund use direction, safeguard measures, division of responsibilities, etc.

The above information shall be submitted to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in duplicate by the provincial finance department and the competent department of small and medium-sized enterprises at the same level. The provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and corps that declared the first batch of pilot cities shall be submitted before July 30, 2023.

(II) expert review.The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Finance organize experts to carry out a competitive review, which is mainly divided into two aspects: one is a written review, which mainly reviews the authenticity, completeness, and scientificity of the application materials, and whether the application content is in line with the national strategic orientation and local reality, Whether the proposed work goals and policy guarantees are feasible. The second is the on-site review, organizing the declaration of the city on-site defense. According to the results of the review, the list of cities to be included in the pilot scope is initially determined, and suggestions for modification and improvement of the implementation plan are put forward.

(III) publicity and approval.shortlisted cities will be publicized on the websites of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and those with no objection will be identified as pilot cities. According to this, the Ministry of Finance issued the award and supplementary funds, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology approved the revised and improved implementation plan. The pilot cities shall carry out their work in strict accordance with the approved implementation plan, and any adjustment shall be submitted to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for approval. The two departments will carry out performance evaluation according to the approved implementation plan.

(IV) division of responsibilities.

two departments provide business guidance to the pilot cities, strengthen supervision and management, and organize performance evaluation. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology puts forward suggestions on financial fund arrangements based on the progress of the pilot work and the results of performance evaluation, and the Ministry of Finance determines the issuance of award funds based on the fund arrangement recommendations.

The provincial and municipal financial departments and the competent departments of small and medium-sized enterprises at the same level shall determine the division of labor according to the actual situation and organize the implementation of the plan. Local departments in charge of small and medium-sized enterprises actively play the role of industry departments, strengthen policy interpretation, business guidance and follow-up monitoring, and urge project units to use award and subsidy funds in a standardized, scientific and efficient manner; local financial departments issue award and subsidy funds in a timely manner. Local departments in charge of small and medium-sized enterprises and financial departments timely sum up experiences, practices and existing difficulties, and submit relevant data and information to the two departments.

This notice will be timely improved according to the implementation situation, and the specific requirements shall be subject to the latest notice.