Recently, in order to effectively promote the mass entrepreneurship and innovation, further create a favorable environment for small and micro enterprises in entrepreneurship and innovation, cultivate a batch of national entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration bases of small and micro enterprises with complete infrastructure, standardized comprehensive services and a strong demonstration and leading role, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued the Notice on Organizing the Recommendation of 2020 National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Demonstration Base of Small and Micro Enterprises.

The document requires that eligible applicants in various regions file an application to their provincial departments in charge of small and medium enterprises on a voluntary basis. The provincial departments in charge of small and medium enterprises shall complete work on recommendation before May 20, 2020, encourage national and provincial entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration bases of small and micro enterprises in appropriate reduction or extension of rents, property management fee and other expenses of small and medium enterprises during COVID-19 epidemic, and help small and medium enterprises with epidemic prevention and control, work and production resumption and innovative development.

By the end of 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has selected a total of 329 national entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration bases of small and micro enterprises on announcement. Meanwhile, more than 2,600 provincial demonstration bases have been recognized in various regions, and over 230,000 small and micro enterprises have entered these regions, providing more than 5 million jobs.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

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