On March 13, the State Council issued a circular on the Action Plan for Promoting Large-scale Equipment Renewal and Consumer Goods Replacement.
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First, the overall requirement is
to promote the renewal of large-scale equipment and the replacement of old consumer goods with new ones. Guided by Xi Jinping's socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, we should thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, implement the deployment of the Central Economic Work Conference and the 4th meeting of the Central Committee on Finance and Economics, and strive to build a well-off society in an all-round way. Expanding domestic demand and deepening the structural reform of the supply side, implementing four major actions, namely, equipment renewal, replacement of old consumer goods with new ones, recycling and standard upgrading, vigorously promoting the production and application of advanced equipment, promoting the continuous increase of the proportion of advanced production capacity, promoting more high-quality durable consumer goods into the lives of residents, and smoothing the recycling of resources. Greatly improve the quality and level of the national economic cycle.
-- Adhering to the principle of giving priority to the market and government guidance. Give full play to the decisive role of the market in allocating resources, combine the differentiated needs of all kinds of equipment and consumer goods, and rely on the market to provide diversified supplies and services. Better play the role of the government, increase fiscal, taxation, financial, investment and other policy support, play a good policy combination, guide businesses to make appropriate concessions, and form a renewal scale effect.
-- Insisting on encouraging the advanced and eliminating the backward. Establish a long-term mechanism combining incentives and constraints, speed up the elimination of backward products and equipment, improve the level of safety and reliability, and promote high-end, intelligent and green development of the industry. We should speed up the construction of a unified national market and eliminate local protection.
-Adhering to standard guidance and orderly promotion. According to the international advanced level and the actual situation of industrial development, we should speed up the formulation and revision of standards in the fields of energy saving, carbon reduction, environmental protection, safety and recycling. Overall consideration should be given to the affordability of enterprises and the acceptance of consumers, and the implementation of standards should be promoted in an orderly manner.
By 2027, the scale of equipment investment in industry, agriculture, construction, transportation, education, cultural tourism, medical and other fields will increase by more than 25% compared with 2023; The energy efficiency of major energy-consuming equipment in key industries has basically reached the energy-saving level, and the proportion of production capacity whose environmental performance has reached the A-level has been greatly increased. The popularization rate of digital R & D and design tools and the numerical control rate of key processes in Industrial Enterprises above the scale have exceeded 90% and 75% respectively; The recycling volume of scrap automobiles has doubled compared with 2023, the trading volume of used cars has increased by 45% compared with 2023, the recycling volume of waste household appliances has increased by 30% compared with 2023, and the proportion of recycled materials in the supply of resources has further increased.
2. Implementing equipment renewal actions
(1) Promoting equipment renewal and transformation in key industries. Focusing on promoting new industrialization, taking energy conservation and carbon reduction, ultra-low emissions, safe production, digital transformation and intelligent upgrading as important directions, focusing on key industries such as iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, petrochemical, chemical, building materials, electric power, machinery, aviation, shipbuilding, textile and electronics, we will vigorously promote the renewal and technological transformation of production equipment, energy-using equipment, power generation, transmission and distribution equipment. We will accelerate the promotion of energy-using equipment with advanced energy efficiency and energy-saving level, and implement energy-saving and carbon-reducing transformation in different industries and fields. Promote the application of intelligent manufacturing equipment and software, accelerate the construction and popularization of industrial Internet, and foster a new model of intelligent empowerment of digital economy. Strictly implement mandatory standards such as energy consumption, emission, safety and equipment elimination catalogue requirements, and eliminate substandard equipment in accordance with the law and regulations.
(Two) speed up the renewal of equipment in the field of construction and municipal infrastructure. Focusing on the construction of new urbanization, combining with the promotion of urban renewal and the transformation of old residential areas, focusing on residential elevators, water supply, heating, gas supply, sewage treatment, sanitation, urban lifeline projects, security and so on, the renovation and transformation are classified and promoted. Speed up the renewal of old residential elevators that do not meet the current product standards and have high safety risks. We will promote the upgrading and transformation of waterworks and pressurized storage water supply facilities and equipment around the country. Promote the transformation of heating metering in an orderly manner, and continue to promote the renovation of heating facilities and equipment. Focusing on external wall insulation, doors and windows, and heating devices, we will promote energy-saving renovation of existing buildings. Continuous implementation of gas and other aging pipeline renovation. We will accelerate the development of urban domestic sewage and garbage treatment facilities and equipment to make up for shortcomings, strengths and weaknesses. We will promote the construction of intelligent perception equipment for urban lifeline projects such as underground pipelines, bridges and tunnels, and manhole covers. Speed up the transformation of security equipment such as video surveillance in key public areas and roads.
(3) Supporting the renewal of transportation equipment and old agricultural machinery. We will continue to promote the electric substitution of urban buses and support the replacement of old and new energy buses and power batteries. We will speed up the elimination of operating diesel trucks with national three or below emission standards. We will strengthen the industrialization of green aviation equipment such as electric and hydrogen energy. We will accelerate the scrapping and renewal of old ships with high energy consumption and high emissions, vigorously support the development of new energy-powered ships, improve the supporting infrastructure and standards for new energy-powered ships, and gradually expand the application scope of new energy-powered ships such as electric, liquefied natural gas, biodiesel and green methanol. We will continue to implement the subsidy policy for the scrapping and renewal of agricultural machinery, combine the needs of agricultural production with the development level of agricultural mechanization, firmly promote the scrapping and renewal of old agricultural machinery, and accelerate the structural adjustment of agricultural machinery.
(4) Improving the level of medical equipment for education, culture and tourism. Promote qualified universities and vocational colleges (including technical colleges) to update and replace advanced teaching and scientific research technology and equipment, and improve the level of teaching and scientific research. Strictly implement the allocation standards of subject teaching equipment, allocate and update teaching instruments and equipment in time with quality and quantity guaranteed. Promote the renewal and upgrading of cultural and tourism equipment such as ropeway cable car, amusement equipment and entertainment equipment. We will strengthen the construction of a high-quality and efficient medical and health service system, promote the iterative upgrading of equipment and information facilities in medical and health institutions, and encourage qualified medical institutions to speed up the renovation of medical equipment such as medical imaging, radiotherapy, remote diagnosis and treatment, and surgical robots. Promote the upgrading of wards in medical institutions, and make up for the shortcomings of ward environment and facilities.
3. Implementing the action of replacing old consumer goods with new
ones (5) Developing the action of replacing old automobiles with new ones. We will increase policy support, smooth circulation blockages, and promote echelon consumption and renewal consumption of automobiles. Organize and carry out national automobile trade-in promotional activities, encourage automobile manufacturers and sales enterprises to carry out promotional activities, and guide orderly competition in the industry. Strictly enforce the compulsory scrapping standards for motor vehicles and the safety and environmental protection inspection standards for vehicles, and eliminate old vehicles that meet the compulsory scrapping standards in accordance with the law. Optimize automobile purchase restriction measures according to local conditions, and promote the construction of information interaction system for automobile life cycle management.
(Six) carry out the replacement of old household appliances with new ones. To enhance convenience as the core, smooth the consumption chain of household appliances renewal. Supporting household appliances sales enterprises to carry out promotional activities for replacing old appliances with new ones in conjunction with production enterprises and recycling enterprises, setting up special zones for replacing old appliances with new ones online and offline, and giving preferential treatment to consumers who replace old appliances with energy-saving appliances. Encourage conditional places to subsidize consumers to buy green smart appliances. Accelerate the implementation of after-sales service promotion actions for household appliances.
(7) Promoting the renewal of consumer goods for home decoration. Through government support, enterprise concessions and other ways, we will support residents to carry out partial renovation of old houses, kitchens and bathrooms, continue to promote home aging renovation, and actively cultivate new consumption such as smart home. Promote home decoration model rooms into shopping malls, communities and platforms, encourage enterprises to build online model rooms, provide affordable products and services, and meet diversified consumer needs.
4. Implementing recycling actions
(8) Improving the recycling network of waste products and equipment. We will accelerate the development of the "renewal + recycling" logistics system and new models, support durable consumer goods production and sales enterprises to build reverse logistics systems or cooperate with professional recycling enterprises to recycle waste consumer goods at home. We will further improve the recycling network of renewable resources and support the construction of a number of centralized sorting and processing centers. Optimize the layout of scrap automobile recycling and dismantling enterprises, and promote the service mode of door-to-door pick-up. Improve the recycling channels of office equipment in public institutions. Support the development of online trading platform for waste products and equipment.
(9) Supporting the circulation and trading of second-hand commodities. Continuously optimize the registration management of second-hand car transactions to facilitate transactions. Vigorously develop the second-hand car export business. Promote the standardization of second-hand electronic products trading, prevent leakage and malicious recovery of user information. Promote second-hand commodity trading platform enterprises to establish and improve the evaluation mechanism of distribution enterprises and users within the platform, and strengthen information sharing such as credit records, illegal and dishonest acts. Support electronic product manufacturers to develop second-hand trading, renovation and maintenance business.
(10) Promoting remanufacturing and cascade utilization in an orderly manner. Encourage the remanufacturing of qualified waste production equipment, and the quality characteristics and safety and environmental protection performance of remanufactured products should not be lower than the prototype new products. Promote the application of non-destructive testing, additive manufacturing, flexible processing and other technologies to improve the level of remanufacturing processing. We will further promote the remanufacturing of traditional equipment such as automotive parts, construction machinery and machine tools, and explore the development of high-end equipment remanufacturing business in emerging areas such as wind power, photovoltaic and aviation. We will accelerate the research and development of residual life assessment technology for wind power, photovoltaic, power batteries and other products and equipment, and promote the orderly use of products, equipment and key components.
(11) Promoting high-level recycling of resources. Promote the agglomeration and large-scale development of renewable resources processing and utilization enterprises, and guide the gradual withdrawal of inefficient production capacity. We will improve support policies for the disposal of waste electrical and electronic products and study ways to expand the coverage of the disposal system for waste electrical and electronic products. We will support the construction of a number of industrial clusters for intensive processing of renewable resources such as scrap iron and steel, scrap non-ferrous metals and waste plastics. We will actively and orderly develop biomass liquid fuels with waste oils and non-grain biomass as the main raw materials. Explore the construction of information traceability system for the use of recycled plastics, recycled metals and other recycled materials in line with international standards. Continuously improve the level of waste non-ferrous metal utilization technology, and strengthen the research and development and application of rare and precious metal extraction technology. Import standards and policies for retired power batteries and recycled materials should be improved in a timely manner.
5. Implementing Standard Promotion Action
(12) Accelerating the improvement of energy consumption, emission and technical standards.To meet the international advanced standards, we will accelerate the formulation and revision of a number of mandatory national standards for energy consumption quotas and energy efficiency of products and equipment, dynamically update the advanced level of energy efficiency, energy-saving level and admittance level of key energy-using products and equipment, and accelerate the improvement of energy-saving indicators and market admittance threshold. Speed up the upgrading of the relevant limit standards for the energy consumption value of passenger cars and heavy commercial vehicles. We will accelerate the improvement of emission standards for key industries and optimize the level of emission control for air and water pollutants. Revise and improve the cleaner production evaluation index system, and formulate and revise the carbon emission accounting standards for enterprises in key industries. Improve the standards for upgrading and decommissioning of wind turbines, photovoltaic equipment and products.
(13) Strengthen the upgrading of product technical standards. Focus on large consumer goods such as automobiles, household appliances, household products, consumer electronics and civil UAVs, and accelerate the upgrading of safety, health, performance, environmental protection and testing standards. We will accelerate the improvement of the quality and safety standards system for household appliances and vigorously popularize the knowledge of safe service life and energy conservation of household appliances. We will accelerate the upgrading of quality standards for consumer goods, formulate a catalogue of quality and safety supervision for consumer goods, and strictly supervise quality and safety. We will improve the standard system such as carbon labels and give full play to the role of standard guidance, green certification and high-end certification.
(Fourteen) strengthen the standard supply of resource recycling. Improve green design standards such as easy recycling, easy disassembly, easy regeneration and remanufacturing of materials and parts. To formulate and revise recycling standards for renewable resources such as recycling standards for waste electrical and electronic products. To introduce national standards for information clearance methods in second-hand transactions of mobile phones, tablets and other electronic products, guide second-hand electronic product distributors to establish information security management system and information technology service management system, and study and formulate grading standards for the availability of second-hand electronic products.
(15) Strengthen the convergence of domestic and international standards in key areas. Establish and improve the consistency tracking and transformation mechanism of international standards, carry out comparative analysis between Chinese standards and relevant international standards, transform a number of advanced and applicable international standards, and continuously improve the conversion rate of international standards. Support domestic institutions to actively participate in the revision of international standards, and support key industry standards such as new energy vehicles to go out. Strengthen domestic and international links such as quality standards, inspection and quarantine, certification and accreditation.
6. Strengthen policy guarantee
(16) Increase fiscal policy support. Equipment renewal and recycling projects that meet the requirements shall be included in the scope of financial support such as investment in the central budget. The central government and local governments should jointly support the replacement of old consumer goods with new ones, and support the replacement of old automobiles with new ones through the subsidies for energy conservation and emission reduction arranged by the central government. Local governments with conditions should be encouraged to make overall use of the funds related to the modern commercial circulation system arranged by the central government to support the replacement of old durable consumer goods with new ones in household appliances and other fields. We will continue to implement subsidies for the renewal of old operating vehicles and vessels, and support the renewal of old ships and diesel trucks. Conditional localities are encouraged to make overall use of the incentive funds for urban transport development arranged by the central government to support the renewal of new energy buses and batteries. Make full use of the subsidy policy for scrapping and renewal of agricultural machinery. The central government has set up special funds to support the recycling and disposal of waste electrical and electronic products. We will further improve the government's green procurement policy and increase the procurement of green products. Strictly enforce financial and economic discipline, strengthen the whole process, chain and all-round supervision of financial funds, and improve the effectiveness and accuracy of the use of financial funds.
(17) Improving tax support policies. We will increase tax incentives for special equipment for energy conservation, water conservation, environmental protection and safe production, and include digital and intelligent transformation in the scope of preferential treatment. Promote the practice of "reverse invoicing" by resource recovery enterprises to sellers of scrapped products by natural persons. Cooperate with the simple VAT collection policy of renewable resources recovery enterprises, study and improve the supporting measures of income tax collection and management, and optimize the standards and methods of tax collection and management.
(18) Optimizing financial support. Financial institutions should be guided to strengthen their support for equipment renewal and technological transformation by using the policy tool of re-lending, and the central finance should provide certain discount support for bank loans that meet the conditions for reimbursement of re-lending. Give full play to the role of the working mechanism of expanding medium and long-term loans for manufacturing industry. We should guide banking institutions to increase green credit reasonably and strengthen financial support for the production, service and consumption of green intelligent household appliances. Banking institutions are encouraged to appropriately reduce the down payment ratio of passenger car loans and reasonably determine the term and credit line of automobile loans on the premise of compliance with the law and controllable risks.
(19) Strengthen factor guarantee. Strengthen the guarantee of land use, energy use and other factors for technological transformation projects of enterprises. For technological transformation projects that do not use new land and mainly renew equipment, the preliminary examination and approval procedures should be simplified. To coordinate the construction of classified collection, transit storage and recycling facilities of domestic waste in the region, and incorporate them into the scope of public infrastructure land to ensure the rational demand for land use.
(20) Strengthen innovation support. Focus on the industrial foundation that has long plagued the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the "neck" problem of major technical equipment, and actively carry out scientific and technological research on major technical equipment. We will improve the mechanisms of "unveiling the list", "horse racing" and iteration of innovative products, strengthen the support of pilot capacity in manufacturing industry, and accelerate the industrial application of innovative achievements. Under the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee,
all regions and departments should improve the working mechanism, strengthen overall coordination, do a good job in policy interpretation, and create a good social atmosphere to promote large-scale equipment renewal and the replacement of old consumer goods with new ones. The National Development and Reform Commission, together with relevant departments, should set up special work classes, strengthen coordination and cooperation, and strengthen the linkage between the central and local governments. Relevant departments should formulate specific plans and supporting policies according to the division of responsibilities, implement departmental responsibilities, strengthen follow-up analysis, and promote the implementation of various tasks in detail. Major matters shall be reported in a timely manner according to the procedures.
