CCTV News: On March 16, the "Special Action Plan to Boost Consumption" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") was officially released. The "Plan" proposes 30 specific measures from eight aspects to solve the prominent contradictions and problems that restrict consumption. Highlight the word "people" and combine benefiting people's livelihood with promoting consumption

Specifically, this "Plan" highlights the word "people", combines benefiting people's livelihood with promoting consumption, and proposes a number of specific measures to make the people dare to consume and willing to consume.

In terms of promoting urban and rural residents' income growth, the "Plan" proposes to promote reasonable growth of wage income and increase the minimum wage standard. Implement employment support plans for key areas, key industries, urban and rural grassroots and small and medium-sized enterprises. Broaden the channels of property income, take multiple measures to stabilize the stock market, and further enrich the types of bond-related products suitable for individual investors to invest. Take multiple measures to promote farmers' income growth and solidly solve the problem of defaulted accounts. Establish a childcare subsidy system and strengthen medical pension security

In terms of the support actions for consumption capacity protection, the "Plan" proposes to increase the efforts to protect childcare and study the establishment of a childcare subsidy system. Strengthen educational support, improve medical pension security capabilities, and appropriately increase the basic pension for retirees. Ensure the basic life of key groups.

Zou Yunhan, deputy director of the Macroeconomic Research Office of the National Information Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that we must see the specific difficulties in the lives of the people, which are important aspects that affect the people's willingness to consume. The action plan further reduces the worries of the people from all aspects such as childbirth, nurturing, elderly care, and medical care, so that everyone's lives are more quality and they are more willing to consume. The "Special Action Plan to Boost Consumption" is released, focusing on the word "new" and promoting the cultivation and growth of new consumption

This "Plan" also focuses on the word "new" and proposes a series of policy measures for new growth points in the consumer market such as cultural, sports and tourism consumption, inbound consumption, ice and snow consumption, "artificial intelligence +" consumption, and low-altitude consumption.

This "Plan" proposes to expand cultural, sports and tourism consumption, support tourist attractions and cultural and museum units to expand service projects, reasonably extend the operating time, and expand the scale of reception. Optimize the approval process for commercial performances, sports events and various large-scale mass activities, and implement "one-time approval, national tour".

At the same time, the "Plan" also proposes to promote ice and snow consumption, launch and implement ice and snow tourism improvement plans, and organize consumption promotion activities such as ice and snow consumption seasons.

Develop inbound consumption, support the opening of duty-free shops at qualified urban ports, and promote the "buy and refund" service measures for shopping departure tax refunds.

In addition, the "Plan" proposes to carry out the "Artificial Intelligence +" action to promote "Artificial Intelligence +" consumption, accelerate the development and application promotion of new technologies and new products such as autonomous driving, intelligent wearable, ultra-high-definition video, brain-computer interface, robots, and additive manufacturing, and open up a new track for high-growth consumption.

Accelerate the improvement of the low-altitude economic supervision system and orderly develop low-altitude consumption such as low-altitude tourism, aviation sports, and consumer-grade drones.

Zou Yunhan said that these new types of consumption formats and new models can better meet everyone's needs for consumption upgrading and better stimulate everyone's consumption enthusiasm. It can not only provide new impetus for the current consumer market, but also provide strong support for the continued growth of the subsequent consumer market.