SASAC: further reduce the rents of small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry.

In order to further reduce the housing rent of small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry, official website and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission issued the Notice on Further Improving the Housing Rent Reduction and Exemption of Small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry in 2022 (hereinafter referred to as the Notice).

The circular requires that all central enterprises should complete the three-month general rent reduction or rent-free task before the end of June 1 1, and complete the three-month rent compensation or rent-free task within two months after the emergence of county-level administrative areas in high-risk areas in the epidemic, and submit the summary of rent reduction to the Financial Supervision and Operation Evaluation Bureau of the State Council State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission before June 20221.

At the same time, in order to implement the deployment requirements of helping enterprises in the State Council, the relevant departments have successively issued policies to help the elderly, catering, accommodation and other industries, among which supplementary requirements have been put forward for the rent reduction policies of some industries. For example, the notice issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments (Development and Reform Office [2022] 1356) clearly pointed out that "old-age care services and foster care services belong to small and medium-sized enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households. All central enterprises and local state-owned enterprises should pay close attention to and conscientiously implement the requirements of various rent reduction policies promulgated by the state, dynamically adjust the implementation measures, and ensure strict implementation.

According to the notice, state-owned shareholders should actively communicate with other shareholders and try their best to win support for the rent reduction of subsidiaries with diversified equity; In view of the difficulty in reducing the rent of subletting and subletting state-owned housing, the "first landlord" state-owned enterprises should study the policy application mechanism of directly reducing the rent to the actual tenant, and the "second landlord" state-owned enterprises should reduce the rent they have enjoyed and the corresponding subletting price difference, and those who have not enjoyed the rent reduction should take the lead in reducing the subletting price difference within the prescribed period; In view of the difficult enterprises or relevant market entities that do not meet the conditions of rent reduction and exemption, it is necessary to implement the policy "with temperature", patiently explain and gain understanding, and give necessary help within the scope of ability.

The notice pointed out that all central enterprises and local state-owned enterprises should refine their work plans from the perspective of tenants, clearly implement the policy caliber, simplify the operation process, publicly post notices of rent reduction, and actively connect with service tenants to ensure that tenants who meet the conditions for rent reduction can apply for rent reduction dividends quickly and conveniently.