Summary of preferential land policies in the Notice of the Beihai Municipal People's Government on Continuing to Cut Costs for Enterprises in the Real Economy in Beihai (BZF [2017] No. 26)
Enterprises are permitted to pay land-transferring fees in installments. It has stipulated in transfer contracts that the land-transferring fees shall be paid in 3 installments at most on the premise that enterprises pay off all the fees within one year with an initial payment of not less than 50 percent and a second payment of not less than 30 percent. Upon collective confirmation by the local land transfer coordination and decision-making authorities, it is agreed that the land-transferring fees for special projects can be paid in full within 2 years. Land users and individuals shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions of China and the Autonomous Region, reclaim the land that is damaged due to digging, collapsing, or pressing in the process of construction, and land reclamation fees shall not be charged when the acceptance criteria are met.
The transfer price of industrial land shall be lowered. The transfer price of industrial land shall be implemented according to the Standards for the Minimum Transfer Prices of Land for Industrial Purposes (hereinafter referred to as "the Standards") and relevant policies. If the industrial projects really need to occupy the state-owned unused land outside the range of land use for urban construction identified in the master land utilization plan, and the land user completes the early land development on its own, the land-transferring fees can be determined as no less than 15 percent of the minimum price in the Standards for the corresponding category of local land. If the state-owned unused land within the range of land use urban construction identified in the master land utilization plan is used, the land-transferring fees can be determined as no less than 50 percent of the minimum price in the Standards for the corresponding category of local land. For the industrial projects that conform to the requirements for the preferential developmental industries of the Autonomous Region and Beihai City and those focusing on the initial processing of agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery products, the land-transferring fees can be determined as no less than 70 percent of the minimum price in the Standards for the corresponding category of local land. For the other projects involved with industrial land, the transfer price can be appropriately lowered on the premise that it is at least up to China's united standards for the minimum transfer prices of land for industrial purposes.
The way of supplying industrial land shall be innovated. Industrial land supply methods such as long-term leasing, lease-then-sell arrangements, lease-and-sell arrangements and flexible transfer periods shall be encouraged. If the mountains, forests and other ecological land within the range of land use for industrial cluster projects and major special projects really need to be retained, such land can be used in a way of rural collective land transfer. Enterprises can sign land transfer agreements with local villages and production groups, but they cannot change the land nature or destroy land functions. Support shall be given for the people's governments of counties and districts and the parks to supply land through capital contribution or equity participation with the state-owned construction land use right, and the joint investment with social capital shall be carried out in the construction of public service projects such as energy, environmental protection, affordable housing, elderly care, education, culture, sports, water supply and heating facilities.
Summary of Preferential Land Policies in the Notice of the Beihai Municipal People's Government on Printing and Distributing the Implementation Methods for Further Strengthening the Role of Enterprises as Innovators (BZB [2017] No. 231)
The policies of construction land for technology enterprise incubators shall be improved. In such case that the newly-added industrial land is utilized to develop and build technology enterprise incubators, land shall be supplied as the Class 1 industrial land. On the premise of not changing the purpose of technology enterprise incubation services, the supporting buildings of the technology enterprise incubator built on industrial land can be registered with property rights and leased or transferred by parts with fixed boundaries such as a house and a floor.
Summary of Preferential Land Policies in the Several Implementation Guidelines of Beihai Municipal People's Government on Accelerating the Development of the Electronic Information Industry (BZF [2018] No. 2)
Priority shall be given to including the land for electronic information industrial projects into the master land utilization plan and the annual land utilization plan and guaranteeing the planned quota for project land. Project land supply methods shall be innovated and such ways as long-term leasing, lease-then-sell arrangements, and flexible transfer periods shall be explored for land use in the electronic information industry. Upon the approval of the municipal government, the industrial property right of electronic information enterprises shall be segmented based on parts with fixed boundaries such as a house and a floor.
For the project land costs, independent support in the investment amount, construction period and annual output value agreed with the project enterprises shall be properly provided by the parks through comprehensive consideration. If special support from the municipal government is required, it shall be submitted to the municipal government for examination and approval according to the case-by-case deliberation principle.
The municipal government shall, according to the industrial scale, driving effect and economic contribution of enterprise projects, implement centralized plan for the living areas for electronic information enterprises within and around the parks or in the urban area, as well as organize and transfer a certain amount of commercial and residential land for constructing talents' apartments, public rental houses or price-limited houses and other supporting facilities for living, commerce and leisure purposes.
Summary of Preferential Fiscal Taxation Policies in the Notice of the Beihai Municipal CPC Committee and the Beihai Municipal People's Government on Printing and Distributing Guidelines on Implementing the Beihai's Piloting Talent Program to Serve the Industrial Development (BF [2015] No.8)
For the top talent who establishes R&D bases, conducts industry-university-research institute cooperation projects and establishes enterprises in Beihai City with teams, technologies, projects and funds, upon review and approval, support shall be given in the form of funds of up to 10 million yuan or up to 20 percent of the total fixed investments of projects, and priority arrangement shall be made in this City's special funds for industrial and information development. Based on the individual employment contract, houses for transitional resettlement or a subsidy of 800,000-1 million yuan shall be provided for the top talent, and the subsidy shall be from the municipal special funds for talent development.
For the leading talent who establishes R&D bases, conducts industry-university-research institute cooperation projects and establishes enterprises in Beihai City with teams, technology, projects and funds, upon review and approval, support shall be given in the form of funds of up to 5 million yuan or up to 20 percent of the total fixed investments of projects, and priority arrangement shall be made in this City's special funds for industrial and information development. For the leading talent who develops their innovation and entrepreneurship causes in Beihai City, houses for transitional resettlement or a subsidy of 300,000- 500,000 yuan shall be provided for them and the subsidy shall be from the municipal special funds for talent development.
The municipal finance department shall appropriate not less than 3 million yuan for supporting young talents to start up business and establish entrepreneurship mentor service groups for young talents. The young talent shall be provided with uncovered, unsecured and interest-free venture capital loans: 30,000-500,000 yuan in the startup stage and 100,000-1 million yuan in the scale-up stage. Priority shall be given to supporting the young talent in starting up businesses in the emerging industries such as creativity, e-commerce, software development, animation and the Internet.
Support shall be provided to headquarters economy enterprises in terms of introducing and retaining high-level talents. For the headquarters economy enterprises established in Beihai with an annual tax payment of more than 10 million yuan, their senior management personnel working in Beihai shall be provided with a living subsidy of 80,000 yuan per person per year for 5 years, and the number of recipients shall not exceed 10. For enterprises with an annual tax payment of 5 million-10 million yuan, their senior management personnel working in Beihai shall be provided with a living subsidy of 50,000 yuan per person per year for 5 years, and the number of recipients shall not exceed 10. The management committee of each industrial park shall be responsible for the payments of the above expenses.
Diversified social subjects shall be encouraged to invest in and construct various technology enterprise incubators. For the national and provincial technology enterprise incubators approved for the first time, the subsidies of 1 million yuan and 500,000 yuan shall be respectively granted as their working expenses. For the national and provincial technology enterprise incubators passing the annual national assessment, the subsidies of 300,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan shall be respectively granted for support. For the enterprises completely incubated and settling in the parks, the parks shall select the top enterprises and grant them part of the interest subsidy for loans of less than 3 million yuan for 2 years. For the enterprises with a fixed asset investment of more than 5 million yuan, the parks where they settle shall select the top enterprises and grant them 500,000 yuan for support.
Summary of Policies for Fiscal Support in the Notice of the Beihai Municipal People's Government on Printing and Distributing Interim Measures for Investment Promotion in Beihai City (BZF [2016] No. 49)
Incentive rewards shall be given to major investment promotion projects that meet the requirements, and the reward standards shall be as follows:
The project owner shall be awarded a one-time reward of 0.5 percent of the actual available funds of the investment promotion projects in the current year. If the project capital fund is invested in batches, it can be accumulatively calculated for 2 years at most. If the investment and construction period of the project is long, the fixed assets during the construction period can be accumulatively calculated for 3 years at most. However, the maximum reward for a single project shall not exceed 10 million yuan.
Incentive rewards shall be given to the intermediary organizations that have introduced major investment promotion projects meeting the requirements, and the reward standards shall be as follows:
(1) For the investment promotion intermediary organizations that have introduced major investment promotion projects, a one-time reward of 10,000 yuan shall be granted for each 100 million yuan of the approved actual available funds via investment promotion, but the maximum reward for a single project shall not exceed 1 million yuan.
(2) For the high-tech enterprise investment promotion projects that have been introduced and listed into the National Catalogue of Encouraged Industries, listed as the strategic emerging industry and recognized by the sci-tech authority of the Autonomous Region, a one-time reward of 100,000 yuan shall be granted for the investment promotion projects with actual available funds of between 5 million yuan and 10 million yuan, and a one-time reward of 1 percent of the actual available funds shall be granted for those with actual available funds of more than 10 million yuan, but the maximum reward for a single project shall not exceed 1 million yuan.
Summary of Preferential Fiscal Taxation policies in the Several Implementation Guidelines of Beihai Municipal People's Government on Accelerating the Development of the Electronic Information Industry (BZF [2017] No. 2)
Efforts shall be made to encourage R&D innovation and information-based production. Rewards shall be given to new R&D innovation platforms such as professional electronic information enterprise incubators at national, autonomous region and municipal levels, R&D centers, technology centers and demonstration bases or enterprises for integration of IT application with industrialization.
The development of software and information service industries shall be encouraged. For the software and information service enterprises with the annual software and information service incomes reaching 20 million yuan, 50 million yuan and 100 million yuan for the first time, the graded rewards of 200,000 yuan, 500,000 yuan and 800,000 yuan shall be respectively given to their management teams.
The relevant municipal departments such as the departments of industry and information, science and technology, commerce, human resources and social security shall be encouraged to focus on financing the development of electronic information industry. In principle, each municipal special fund for a single project shall not exceed 30 percent of the fixed investments of the project. Support for software and information service enterprises (including e-commerce enterprises), Internet financial enterprises, investment companies and fund companies serving electronic information enterprises and other new business projects shall not be restricted by the ratio of fixed investments.