What policies does the state provide for economic development and resettlement in the Three Gorges reservoir area?

First, key arrangements for construction projects

(a) the relevant competent departments of the province should, according to the resource advantages and market demand of the reservoir area, focus on improving the investment environment, and arrange a number of transportation and communication infrastructure construction projects for the reservoir area during the Ninth Five-Year Plan period. In particular, we should actively help Zigui county, Badong county, Yichang county and Xingshan county to do a good job in dock construction; Focus on work relief and poverty alleviation funds to help the counties in the reservoir area speed up highway construction.

(2) The relevant departments of the province should, on the basis of full investigation and study of the existing resources and industrial base in the reservoir area, help the counties in the reservoir area to implement one or two industrial backbone projects that can promote the economic and social development of the reservoir area and broaden the environmental capacity of immigrants, and give priority to entering the cage of the ninth five-year plan of the province's industry.

(three) led by the Provincial Planning Commission, the relevant departments actively cooperate with the agricultural development of the counties in the reservoir area as a special case, and strive to be included in the national comprehensive agricultural development plan. We should conscientiously implement the rural economic development plan of the Three Gorges reservoir area compiled and issued by the province. At present, it is necessary to build one or two high value-added agricultural products processing projects and high-quality agricultural special products base construction projects in counties of the reservoir area. Provincial Department of Agriculture, Department of Water Resources, Poverty Alleviation Office, Provincial Agricultural Comprehensive Development Office and other departments should allocate more funds to support the development of agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry and fishery production in the reservoir area, especially to help the reservoir area build a number of "main fields".

(4) When arranging social development projects such as rural health construction and education, the provinces, Yichang City and Enshi Prefecture give priority to the counties in the reservoir area.

Two, improve the examination and approval measures for land use in the reservoir area.

(a) resettlement land according to the plan to implement unified land acquisition, phased allocation. The specific measures are: the county immigration department applies for land to the county land department according to the planning requirements of resettlement land in that year, and the county land department uniformly requisitions agricultural collective economic organizations. The construction unit may, according to the progress of the project, obtain the land use right after going through the land use formalities in the land department.

(two) urban relocation, highway reconstruction and other key resettlement projects urgently need land, can be pre-approved, "three links and one leveling", and go through the formalities of unified levy by stages.

(3) in the process of agricultural development and resettlement, it is allowed to adjust cultivated land across administrative regions within the county, and the adjustment plan is formulated and approved by each county according to the actual situation. After the adjustment of cultivated land, the county land department shall go through the formalities of change registration according to law.

(four) land departments at all levels should simplify the procedures for examination and approval of resettlement and land acquisition for engineering construction, and improve work efficiency. The specific implementation measures shall be formulated and issued by the Provincial Bureau of Land Management as soon as possible.

Third, give financial support.

(1) Starting from 1996, the provincial finance arranges a part of the financial working capital for the four counties in the reservoir area every year to support the development of production in the reservoir area and cultivate financial resources. At the same time, the provincial government should give some financial subsidies to Zigui, Xingshan and Badong counties as appropriate every year.

(2) The provincial finance should give priority to four counties in the reservoir area when arranging various funds to support mountainous areas every year, and the amount of funds arranged should be higher than the average level of mountainous counties in the province.

Fourth, give preferential treatment in taxation.

(1) The farmland occupied by the Three Gorges Project shall be taxed at 40% of the taxable amount in the dam area and submerged area. Cultivated land and other land occupied by the relocation of towns, enterprises and institutions and the reconstruction of professional facilities shall be taxed according to regulations. The above farmland occupation tax is fully retained in the county, and all of it is used for rural resettlement in the reservoir area.

(two) the agricultural income obtained by immigrants from reclaiming wasteland shall be exempted from agricultural tax for five years from the year with income; Those who produce agricultural specialty taxes on newly developed barren hills, wasteland, beaches and water surfaces shall be exempted from agricultural specialty taxes within three years from the year when they earn income.

In the old revolutionary base areas, ethnic minority areas, remote areas and poverty-stricken areas, if it is really difficult to pay taxes, the agricultural specialty tax may be exempted or reduced.

(3) Enterprises newly established in the old revolutionary base areas, ethnic minority areas, remote areas and poverty-stricken areas as determined by the state may, with the approval of the competent tax authorities, have their enterprise income tax reduced or exempted for three years.

(4) For productive foreign-invested enterprises in Yichang, Zigui, Xingshan and Badong counties, the enterprise income tax is levied at a reduced rate of 24%, and the enterprise income tax can be levied at a reduced rate of 15% if it belongs to energy, transportation, ports, docks or other projects encouraged by the state.

(5) For productive foreign-invested enterprises located in the old urban area of Yichang City, the enterprise income tax shall be levied at a reduced rate of 24%. For productive foreign-invested enterprises established in Yichang, all projects with technology-intensive projects, projects with foreign investment of more than 30 million US dollars and long payback period, and projects engaged in infrastructure construction such as energy, transportation, ports, etc., the enterprise income tax may be levied at a reduced rate of 15% with the approval of the tax authorities with approval authority.

Dividends, interests, rents, royalties and other income from Yichang, where foreign investors have no establishment in China, shall be subject to income tax at a reduced rate of 10%, except those exempted from income tax according to law. Need to give more preferential reduction or exemption, it shall be submitted to the provincial people's government for decision.

(VI) For foreign-invested enterprises located in Yichang, Yichang, Zigui, Xingshan and Badong counties, the reduction or exemption of local income tax shall be implemented according to Article 29 of Hubei Provincial Provisions on Enterprises Invested by Overseas Chinese, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Compatriots No.87 of Hubei Provincial People's Government.

(7) Newly-established labor and employment service enterprises that resettle unemployed youth, surplus personnel of state-owned enterprises who have changed their operating mechanism and rural non-personnel who have been resettled in those years, if the number of people resettled in those years exceeds 60% of the total number of employees in the enterprise, may be exempted from income tax for three years upon examination and approval by the tax authorities.

After the expiration of the enterprise tax exemption period, if the newly placed qualified personnel account for more than 30% of the total number of the original employees of the enterprise, the income tax may be halved for 2 years upon examination and approval by the competent tax authorities.

(eight) due to the relocation of enterprises submerged in the reservoir area, the adjustment tax on the investment direction of fixed assets shall be implemented at zero tax rate.

Five, the implementation of credit tilt, multi financing.

(1) Increase loans for construction projects in four counties in the reservoir area. The provincial finance department should actively apply for funds from the higher authorities, and appropriately increase the amount of infrastructure loans and working capital in four counties in the reservoir area from 1996 on the premise of ensuring benefits and repaying loans. For enterprises with good benefits in the reservoir area, especially foreign trade enterprises, specialized banks should ensure their capital supply.

(two) the four counties in the reservoir area have the ability to repay the construction projects, and the provincial departments should actively strive for a certain amount of construction enterprise bonds.

(3) actively create conditions to help the four counties in the reservoir area do a good job in attracting investment, and strive to make use of some loans from international financial organizations, foreign government loans, foreign commercial loans and foreign direct investment.

Six, in education, health and other aspects as a special case.

(a) the Provincial Education Commission should incorporate the relocation of schools in the reservoir area into the project management, give appropriate subsidies, and guide the establishment of vocational schools in the reservoir area and centralized resettlement areas.

(II) According to the local financial affordability and actual needs, give priority to the goal of "transferring people to public", and strive to gradually turn qualified in-service private teachers in the reservoir area into public teachers after examination and assessment within three years, and conduct training in a planned way to improve the quality of teachers in the reservoir area.

(3) When recruiting college students, the provincial admissions office should give priority to the immigrant candidates in the reservoir area on the basis of the scores in mountainous counties.

(4) The Provincial Health Department should bring all relocated hospitals and health facilities in the reservoir area into the project management, give support, train medical personnel in a planned way, and improve the medical technology level in the reservoir area.

Seven, in the recruitment, "peasants" to take care of.

(1) Newly-built enterprises in the reservoir area should give priority to resettling immigrants. The labor department should arrange a certain proportion in the normal recruitment plan every year as the recruitment index of immigrants, so as to reach the reservoir county under the hat. At the same time, the labor department should vigorously carry out labor export work and actively help the reservoir area to evacuate surplus labor.

(2) relax the restrictions on "rural to non-agricultural". Where the immigrants in the reservoir area need to take refuge in the resettlement of their spouses and immediate family members in the urban commodity grain accounts in the province, they can go through the formalities of "turning from rural to urban areas" in the place where they move out and transfer them to the resettlement place together with the resettlement fee. Resettlement should give priority to registered permanent residence's naturalization procedures, free of urban capacity fees and other fees. Where cities in the province recruit immigrants for employment (except private enterprises), they can also go through the formalities of "farmers" and be exempted from production resettlement fees and urban capacity increase fees. The relevant departments of the province should issue such special "farmers" indicators to the counties in the reservoir area every year (without occupying the original "farmers" indicators).

Eight, strengthen counterpart support to help digest difficulties.

(1) Departments directly under the provincial level and localities, cities, prefectures, counties, universities, research institutes and large and medium-sized enterprises with counterpart support tasks should, in combination with the business work of their own departments and units, formulate and introduce specific measures for counterpart support of their own industries and units as soon as possible, give key support in terms of funds, projects, technology and materials, and do more practical things for the reservoir area every year.

(two) under the premise of ensuring the full allocation and increase of the annual special funds, the counties in the reservoir area should effectively reduce the related expenses according to the relevant provisions of the state and the province.

(three) the provincial departments to the relocation of the departments in the reservoir area and the reconstruction of professional facilities in this industry, to develop a plan to help and seriously implement.

Nine. others

(a) rural immigrants who have moved out of the office should be resettled according to this preferential policy.

(two) the national and provincial preferential policies for the "old, less, border, poor, mountain, reservoir" areas and open cities along the river, to the letter to the reservoir area. All counties in the reservoir area should emancipate their minds, explore boldly and make full use of the preferential policies given by the state and the province to promote the economic and social development of the reservoir area.

(three) led by the general office of the provincial government, the provincial office of the Three Gorges Project Construction Committee and the provincial immigration bureau participated in the inspection and supervision of the implementation of this preferential policy.