Today (January 15), the State Council Information Office held a press conference, and relevant officials from the Ministry of Commerce introduced the relevant situation of the high-quality development of business work services and answered questions from reporters.
At the press conference, the Ministry of Commerce will promote special actions to boost consumption, continue to release consumption potential, and focus on doing a good job in five aspects.
First, we will increase efforts to implement the implementation of old-for-new consumer goods to stabilize the basic consumption. Recently, the central government has issued an initial batch of 81 billion yuan in 2025 for consumer goods traded for new products. This week, the Ministry of Commerce will issue the implementation details of the implementation of subsidies for new purchases of automobiles, home appliances, home decoration and electric bicycles for new purchases and mobile phones in 2025. We will further optimize the policy operation process and strengthen policy publicity and interpretation to allow consumers to understand the policies more clearly and enjoy benefits.
The second is to expand service consumption and optimize consumption structure. The Ministry of Commerce takes the lead in building a "1+N" policy and measure system for service consumption. In the next step, we will launch a combination of policies, implement the action to improve the quality of service consumption and benefit the people, work with relevant departments to improve support policies in key areas, carry out service consumption promotion activities such as "Service Consumption Season" and "Chinese Food Festival", promote the orderly expansion of opening up in the fields of telecommunications, education, and medical care, enrich the supply of service consumption, and better meet the people's growing service consumption needs.
The third is to innovate and organize consumption expansion activities to create a consumption atmosphere. The Ministry of Commerce will work with local governments to highlight key periods, focus on key categories, link online and offline, and organize consumption promotion activities that are diverse in forms and are popular among the people. Recently, in order to meet the consumption needs of the people such as welcoming the New Year and getting new goods, activities such as time-honored carnival and online New Year's goods festival have been launched. After the festival, consumption promotion month and other consumption promotion activities will be held.
The fourth is to cultivate and strengthen new consumption and stimulate consumption vitality. Guide local governments to develop the initial economy according to local conditions, vigorously develop digital consumption, green consumption, and healthy consumption, innovate diversified consumption scenarios, and actively cultivate new consumption growth points.
Fifth, improve consumption conditions and optimize the consumption environment. The Ministry of Commerce will accelerate the cultivation of international consumption center cities and create a more friendly international consumption environment. Promote the transformation of facilities and business formats of pedestrian streets and business districts, focus on the elderly and the young, and deepen the construction of a convenient living circle for a quarter of an hour. Deeply implement the three-year county commerce action, promote the transformation and upgrading of "Thousand Collections and Ten Thousand Stores", and continuously facilitate consumption of urban and rural residents. Implement the task of building a unified national market and create a good consumption environment.
