News observation： promoting consumption ＂combination boxing＂ and supporting urban ＂fireworks＂

CCTV News:A few days ago, the the State Council executive meeting deployed a package of policies and measures to speed up economic stabilization, which came into effect to help enterprises tide over the difficulties and protect people’s livelihood. Since late May, many places have intensively released a series of measures to promote consumption, covering online and offline consumption scenarios. Insiders pointed out that with the obvious effect of epidemic prevention and control, various policies will gradually become effective, and the "fireworks gas" of economic and social development is gradually returning.

In Chengdu, Sichuan, coupons with a total face value of 240 million yuan are being distributed, and the first round of 660,000 coupons have been collected.

Hainan Sanya Wenlv and Commercial Department jointly launched a series of preferential products and issued coupons with more than 100 enterprises, and major duty-free shops also launched a series of promotional activities, which attracted many customers to buy.

In addition, Taiyuan, Shanxi invested 420 million yuan to issue coupons, Guizhou started to issue 140 million yuan of coupons for retail culture, sports and catering, and Qingdao, Xiangtan and other places also issued coupons of 10 million yuan during the Dragon Boat Festival. Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and other places have even introduced supporting policies on promoting automobile consumption and replacing old appliances with new ones to meet the consumer demand of citizens.

Shanghai has launched 50 measures in eight aspects to speed up economic recovery and revitalization. Among them, strong measures such as vigorously promoting the recovery of consumption, introducing new non-operating bus license quotas, providing subsidies for the purchase of pure electric vehicles, and implementing the old-for-new plan for home appliances.

Beijing has issued 45 measures to stabilize growth in six aspects, which will accelerate the recovery of bulk consumption and new consumption and tap consumption potential more vigorously. Before the end of 2022, the maximum subsidy for eligible "trade-in" new energy vehicles will not exceed 10,000 yuan per vehicle.

Shenzhen issued 30 measures to promote the sustainable recovery of consumption, in terms of consumer electronics and household appliances, 5-mdash; During August, the purchase of qualified related products will be subsidized according to 15% of the sales price, with a cumulative maximum of 2,000 yuan per person. Many merchants also superimposed promotional activities, and the sales volume of offline stores in Huaqiang North and other business districts continued to climb.

Experts pointed out that multiple rounds of consumer vouchers and digital RMB issuance are driving the growth of online and offline consumer users and transaction amount, and the "fireworks" of social and economic development is gradually returning.