CCTV News (News Network): The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council recently issued the "Special Action Plan to Boost Consumption" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan").
The "Plan" proposes that we must vigorously boost consumption, expand domestic demand in all aspects, increase income and burden to improve consumption capacity, create effective demand with high-quality supply, enhance consumption willingness by optimizing the consumption environment, and resolve prominent contradictions and problems that restrict consumption in a targeted manner.
First, carry out actions to promote the increase of income for urban and rural residents, promote the reasonable growth of wage income, broaden the channels for property income, take multiple measures to promote farmers' income growth, and solidly solve the problem of arrears of accounts.
The second is to carry out consumer capacity protection support actions, and we must increase the intensity of childbirth and nurturing protection, strengthen educational support, and expand the supply of educational resources for the net inflow of college-age population into cities. Improve medical pension security capabilities and ensure the basic living of key groups.
The third is to carry out the action to improve the quality of service consumption and benefit the people. We must optimize the supply of services for "one elderly and one young" to promote life service consumption, expand cultural, sports and tourism consumption, promote ice and snow consumption, develop inbound consumption, and steadily promote the expansion of opening up of the service industry.
Fourth, carry out bulk consumption renewal and upgrade actions, and increase support for consumer goods for old-for-new products to better meet housing consumption needs and extend the automobile consumption chain.
Fifth, carry out consumer quality improvement actions, strengthen consumer brand leadership, support the accelerated development of new consumption, and improve the level of domestic and foreign trade integration.
Sixth, carry out actions to improve the consumption environment, and protect the rights and interests of rest and leave, encourage paid annual leave and short holidays to achieve flexible staggered leave. Workers' working hours shall not be extended illegally. Create a safe consumption environment and improve urban and rural consumption facilities.
7. Carry out actions to clean up and optimize restrictions, and reduce consumption restrictions in an orderly manner. Promote the transformation of automobile consumption from purchase management to use management, and ensure the "long-term" car-free family needs to buy cars by years. Continue to optimize the business environment.
The Plan also puts forward specific requirements on improving support policies and other aspects.

