Many places have introduced specific action plans to trade in the old for the new to promote consumption
Promoting large-scale equipment renewal and trade-in of consumer goods is not only an important move to smooth the national economic cycle and improve the quality of life of thousands of households, but also a major measure to cultivate and form new quality productivity, which will effectively drive the upgrading of the industrial chain and improve the quality of terminal products.
After the introduction of policies such as the Action Plan for Promoting Large-scale Equipment Renewal and Trade-in of Consumer Goods, many places have taken positive actions to introduce specific plans according to local conditions to promote trade-in to better serve industrial upgrading and consumption upgrading.
Inner Mongolia has formulated the "Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to Promote Large-scale Equipment Renewal and Consumer Goods Trade-in Work Task Implementation Plan", highlighting seven aspects, including industrial development, project planning, overall promotion, and people's livelihood safety. The relevant person in charge of the Development and Reform Commission of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region said that the next step will be to carry out large-scale equipment renewal "door-to-door service" for key energy-using enterprises, and promote large-scale equipment renewal and consumer goods trade-in work to achieve practical results.
Tianjin issued the "Tianjin Implementation Plan for Promoting Large-scale Equipment Renewal and Consumer Goods Trade-in", proposing to implement five major actions in key areas: equipment renewal, consumer goods trade-in, recycling, effective supply improvement, and standard improvement. Li Peng, director of the Environmental Resources and Carbon Neutrality Division of the Tianjin Municipal Development and Reform Commission, said that in the next step, the relevant departments of Tianjin will promote agriculture, transportation and other fields to accelerate the formulation and implementation of special plans for equipment renewal in this field.
Shandong recently released the implementation plan to promote large-scale equipment renewal and consumer goods trade-in, planning and implementing high-level industrial technological transformation projects, multi-field equipment renewal projects, consumer goods trade-in projects, high-quality supply upgrading projects, high-efficiency recycling projects and all-round standard improvement projects "six major projects".
Heilongjiang focuses on the renewal of equipment in the industrial field, formulates the "Action Plan for Promoting Equipment Renewal in the Industrial Field in Heilongjiang Province", clarifies the goal of increasing the investment in equipment in the industrial field by more than 30% by 2027 compared with 2023, and implements five major actions: advanced equipment renewal, digital transformation, green equipment promotion, improvement of intrinsic safety level, and improvement of supply capacity.
With the implementation of a series of measures, industrial investment in various regions has grown steadily, backward production capacity has been eliminated at an accelerated pace, and the green transformation and development of enterprises have been steady.
Recently, at the maintenance site of the 220 thousand volt Limin Road substation in Hexi District, Tianjin, the operators of the State Grid Tianjin High Voltage Company are directing the crane to install a new transformer. Wu Dong, deputy director of the equipment department of State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Company, said that the company plans to invest more than 700 million yuan this year to carry out the transformation of old power equipment and the intelligent upgrade of the power grid, and comprehensively improve the digital and intelligent ability of the power grid.
Chuancheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., located in Liaocheng Economic and Technological Development Zone, Shandong Province, is recently updating its waste gas treatment equipment. Sun Zhaoyong, director of the company's environmental, health and safety office, said that the resin adsorption treatment process is now used to recover 273.6 tons of solvent every year, reduce carbon emissions by 410.4 tons, and increase revenue by 1.3 million yuan.
Du Baodong, Minister of Economic Development of Liaocheng Development Zone, introduced that a special class was set up to promote large-scale equipment renewal and consumer goods trade-in, focusing on 54 projects such as industrial equipment and recycling, and sorting out the investment demand of 22.47 billion yuan and the renewal demand of 9.09 billion yuan.
Focusing on building a strong national heavy equipment manufacturing base, China First Heavy Group takes large-scale equipment renewal as an opportunity to strengthen the integrated construction of informatization, digitalization and intelligence, comprehensively improve the digital level of various production equipment, and increase the proportion of advanced production capacity with equipment renewal and technological transformation. Li Zhijie, general manager of the strategic planning and investment department of China First Heavy Group, said that the group has completed the mapping of equipment renewal needs, of which nearly 80% of the renewal needs in the field of machinery and equipment and information equipment, and some industrial furnaces, cranes and other equipment have been updated this year.
The trade-in policy has been steadily promoted, which has played a positive role in promoting the prosperity of the consumer market and activating the "pool of spring water" for consumption.
The 2024 Tianjin Consumer Goods Trade-in Shopping Festival, which was launched on April 24, implemented five major actions such as "Driving Jincheng Automobile Trade-in" and "Leading the Future with Home Appliances", and related enterprises launched a series of "Policy Gift Packages", and major commercial and trade enterprises carried out more than 200 activities such as discount promotions.
Yan Bingwei, director of the market construction department of the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that Tianjin will support the promotion of automobile production and sales enterprises, accelerate the elimination of high-emission vehicles, cultivate and expand the main body of second-hand car business, and improve the recycling and dismantling system of scrapped vehicles and rural charging facilities. At the same time, organize home appliance sales enterprises to set up online and offline home appliance trade-in areas, and adopt direct drops from manufacturers and new discounts.
In the past few days, the "About Hui Lucheng and New Life" government subsidy for household appliances to trade in the old to promote consumption activities has been carried out in Qingshan District, Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Li Haifeng, director of the Qingshan District Bureau of Commerce, introduced that the event invested 1.1 million yuan in special funds, which is expected to boost consumption by more than 12 million yuan. This year, Qingshan District will focus on promoting the trade-in of consumer goods to stimulate consumption potential and promote resource recycling.
Heilongjiang is making every effort to create "4 major theme consumption", "12 consumption months" and "52 consumption scenarios". In the first quarter, the province invested 200 million yuan in government consumption vouchers for automobiles, digital home appliances, department stores, etc., driving consumption by about 5 billion yuan. Yan Wei, deputy director of the Market Operation Department of the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Commerce, introduced that it will actively promote the replacement of consumer goods, and carry out the trade-in of consumer goods such as home appliances and home decoration at the provincial level, arrange special subsidy funds, encourage and guide local finance, financial enterprises, brand owners, platform enterprises, etc. to formulate supporting policies, and widely carry out a series of activities to subsidize and replace green smart home appliances to stimulate market vitality and release consumption potential.
