Measures for Supporting the Cultivation of Specialized and Special New Enterprises in Henan Province (for Trial Implementation)
"Measures to support the cultivation of specialized and special new enterprises in Henan Province (Trial)" has been adopted at the 22nd executive meeting of the provincial government on December 21, 2023, and is hereby promulgated and shall come into force as of May 1, 2024.
Governor Wang Kai
March 13th, 2024
Measures for Supporting the Cultivation of Specialized and Special New Enterprises in Henan Province (for Trial Implementation)
Chapter I General Provisions
the first In order to guide small and medium-sized enterprises to take the road of specialization and innovation, cultivate specialized and innovative enterprises, enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises, and help realize the upgrading of industrial base and the modernization of industrial chain, these measures are formulated in accordance with the Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) on the Promotion of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and relevant laws and regulations, combined with the actual situation of this province.
the second These Measures shall apply to the cultivation and support activities of specialized and special new enterprises within the administrative region of this province.
The term "specialized and innovative enterprises" as mentioned in these Measures includes innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises and specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises.
The term "innovative small and medium-sized enterprises" as mentioned in these Measures refers to small and medium-sized enterprises with high professional level, strong innovation ability and development potential, which are announced by the competent department of industry and information technology of the provincial people’s government.
The term "specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises" as mentioned in these Measures refers to small and medium-sized enterprises that have achieved professional, refined, characteristic and novel development, strong innovation ability and good quality and efficiency, and have been recognized by the competent department of industry and information technology of the provincial people’s government.
The term "little giant" enterprises as mentioned in these Measures refers to small and medium-sized enterprises located in the core areas of industrial base and key links of industrial chain, with outstanding innovation ability, mastery of core technologies, high market share, good quality and efficiency, and recognized by the state.
Article Cultivating and supporting specialized and innovative enterprises should adhere to the principles of government guidance, enterprise-oriented, innovation-driven, accurate service, gradient cultivation, comprehensive policy and dynamic management.
Article 4 The people’s governments at or above the county level shall incorporate the development of specialized and innovative enterprises into the target management of government work, increase the support for the cultivation of specialized and innovative enterprises in colleges, and coordinate and solve major problems in the development of specialized and innovative enterprises.
Article 5 The competent department of industry and information technology of the provincial people’s government is responsible for the comprehensive coordination, service guidance, supervision and inspection of the province’s specialized and innovative enterprises, and organizes the announcement of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, the identification of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises and the recommendation of specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises.
The competent department of industry and information technology of the Municipal People’s Government with districts shall be responsible for the comprehensive coordination, service guidance, supervision and inspection of the cultivation and support of specialized and innovative enterprises in their respective administrative areas, and organize the evaluation of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, the recommendation of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises and other related work.
The competent department of industry and information technology of the people’s government at the county level is responsible for organizing the implementation of relevant policies and measures to support the cultivation of specialized and new enterprises.
The development and reform, finance, science and technology, taxation, human resources and social security, natural resources, ecological environment, commerce, market supervision (intellectual property rights), financial management and other departments of the people’s governments at or above the county level shall, according to their respective responsibilities, do a good job in supporting the cultivation of specialized new enterprises.
Article 6 The people’s governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the talent protection of specialized new enterprises in colleges and give corresponding support in talent evaluation, housing and children’s education.
Chapter II Evaluation and Cultivation of Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Article 7 The people’s governments at or above the county level shall establish and improve the mechanism of small and medium-sized enterprises’ bail-out, and adopt targeted bail-out measures to reduce the operating costs of enterprises, solve the problems of enterprise survival and development, improve the operating state of enterprises, and help the sustained economic development.
The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall create an atmosphere of entrepreneurial innovation, formulate supporting measures such as industry, land, talents, finance and finance, and guide enterprises or dual-innovation entities to focus on market segmentation, improve their innovation ability and master core technologies.
Article 8 Support the people’s governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) with districts and their relevant departments to build innovative service carriers such as dual-innovation demonstration bases, science and technology business incubators, university science parks, creative spaces and entrepreneurial parks, provide development space for enterprises in seed stage and start-up stage, and encourage relevant enterprises or individual entrepreneurs to take measures such as rent reduction and exemption to reduce the cost of entrepreneurial innovation.
Article 9 The people’s governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) with districts and their relevant departments shall regularly organize the financing docking activities of venture capital enterprises, venture capital funds and angel investors with innovative service carriers, small and medium-sized enterprises and dual-innovation entities every year to provide financing matching services for entrepreneurial innovation.
The people’s governments at or above the county level shall cooperate with financial institutions, and adopt various ways such as low-interest loans, free loans before and low loans after, government interest subsidies, risk sharing, etc. to solve the initial funding problem for small and micro enterprises and dual-innovation entities.
Article 10 The competent department of industry and information technology of the people’s government at the county level shall establish a cultivation mechanism for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, focus on cultivating, tracking and guiding small and medium-sized enterprises with innovative ability and technical potential, and promote the development of enterprises to innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.
Article 11 The competent department of industry and information technology of the people’s government at the county level shall guide enterprises with high professional level, strong innovation ability and great development potential to voluntarily declare innovative small and medium-sized enterprises and conduct self-evaluation.
The competent department of industry and information technology of the municipal people’s government with districts shall verify, evaluate and publicize the self-evaluation information and related materials of enterprises according to the evaluation standards stipulated by the state; If there is no objection after publicity, it will be spot-checked by the competent department of industry and information technology of the provincial people’s government and will be announced as an innovative small and medium-sized enterprise again.
Article 12 The people’s governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) with districts shall incorporate the industrial land of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises into the planning when preparing the land space planning; When making the annual land use plan, we should consider the land demand of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.
Encourage the people’s governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) with districts to focus on the development needs of innovative SMEs, optimize the industrial and spatial layout, build characteristic parks for innovative SMEs, and promote the agglomeration and development of innovative SMEs.
Encourage the transformation of existing industrial spaces such as old factories into innovative R&D or production houses for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Article 13 Encourage the people’s governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) with districts and their relevant departments to establish an expert advisory committee for financing innovative technologies, relying on enterprise technical experts, scholars from institutions of higher learning and experts from scientific research institutions, so as to provide technical consultation and guidance services for innovative SMEs.
Article 14 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments should give full play to the guidance and leverage of financial funds and government guidance funds, improve the risk investment mechanism, support social funds to invest in innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and provide financial support for their technological innovation and achievement transformation.
Venture capital enterprises, venture capital funds and angel investors who invest in qualified innovative small and medium-sized enterprises shall enjoy the tax preferences stipulated by the state according to the principle of being most beneficial to taxpayers.
The research and development expenses of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises enjoy the pre-tax deduction policy in accordance with state regulations; For those who meet the relevant policy conditions for the reduction and exemption of value-added tax for small-scale taxpayers, the value-added tax shall be reduced or exempted according to law.
Article 15 Support banking financial institutions to use corporate credit information to issue credit loans with a credit line of 10 million yuan to innovative SMEs. Encourage banking financial institutions to carry out innovative medium and long-term loans for small and medium-sized enterprises, and renew loans without repayment of principal.
Support banking financial institutions to issue small and micro enterprise loan asset-backed securities, and relax the basic assets of small and micro enterprise loans from less than 1 million yuan to less than 5 million yuan.
Encourage financial institutions to provide innovative small and medium-sized enterprises with secured financing with intellectual property, equity, inventory, machinery and equipment as the secured property.
The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall implement the relevant policies of the state and the province to reduce the cost of financing guarantee, and guide government financing guarantee institutions to gradually reduce the average guarantee rate for supporting small and micro enterprises to below 1%, so as to reduce the financing cost of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.
Article 16 Support innovative small and medium-sized enterprises to introduce scientific and technological innovation talents and project innovation teams in various ways, such as equity incentive, option incentive and technology shareholding.
The relevant competent departments of the people’s governments at or above the county level shall unblock the channels of professional title evaluation, adhere to market evaluation as the guide, give play to the main role of enterprises, and enhance the pertinence and scientificity of professional title evaluation of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.
Article 17 The people’s governments at or above the county level shall, on the premise of protecting personal privacy and ensuring public safety, promote the fair and equal provision of relevant public data to market entities including innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in accordance with state regulations.
People’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments should enhance the service capacity of digital public service platforms and support innovative small and medium-sized enterprises to carry out digital transformation; Digital public service platform to participate in the digital transformation of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, audited in line with the relevant requirements of the state, you can get relevant awards in accordance with state regulations.
Chapter III Identification and Cultivation of Specialized and Innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Article 18 The competent department of industry and information technology of the Municipal People’s Government with districts shall establish a training mechanism for specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and focus on cultivating, tracking and guiding enterprises that focus on market segmentation, strong innovation ability and good quality and efficiency among innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, so as to promote the development of enterprises to specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.
Article 19 The identification of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises shall be voluntarily applied by innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in accordance with the principle of territoriality, and the competent department of industry and information technology of the municipal people’s government with districts shall organize the verification of enterprise application materials and relevant supporting materials according to the identification standards stipulated by the state; After verification, it is recommended to the competent department of industry and information technology of the provincial people’s government.
The competent department of industry and information technology of the provincial people’s government shall, according to the accreditation standards, organize the verification, spot check and publicity of the application materials and relevant supporting materials of the recommended enterprises; Publicity without objection, identified by the competent department of industry and information technology of the provincial people’s government as specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.
Article 20 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall formulate policies to help specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises reduce the costs of employment, energy use, land use, logistics and network.
Support the inclusion of new investment projects of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the list of key construction projects at the provincial and municipal levels, guarantee land use, energy consumption, emission indicators and other factors in accordance with regulations, and tilt towards specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the arrangement of new construction land planning indicators, land approved but not supplied, and construction land in stock.
The people’s governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) with districts and their relevant departments shall implement the flexible annual transfer system of industrial land and the "standard land" transfer system of industrial land, and if enterprises use the existing industrial land to carry out technological transformation and improve the floor area ratio, they will not increase the land price in accordance with the regulations.
Article 21 The people’s governments at or above the county level shall give play to the guiding role of special financial funds, improve the construction of public service system and financing service system for small and medium-sized enterprises, and support specialized and new small and medium-sized enterprises to enhance their innovation ability and professional level.
Article 22 The provincial people’s government set up a provincial SME development fund, and the relevant competent departments and fund management institutions shall improve the fund investment management and performance evaluation, establish and improve the due diligence exemption and fault-tolerant and error-correcting mechanisms, and guide the fund to support the development of specialized and innovative SMEs.
Encourage the people’s governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) with districts to raise funds through multiple channels to participate in the establishment of small and medium-sized enterprise development sub-funds, and expand equity financing channels for specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.
Article 23 Tax authorities at all levels and relevant competent departments should optimize their services, accurately push relevant information on tax reduction and fee reduction to specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises and provide necessary guidance to ensure that specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises enjoy preferential tax policies in a timely and comprehensive manner.
Article 24 In addition to the pre-tax deduction policy for research and development expenses of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, the people’s governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) with districts and their relevant departments are encouraged to adopt ex ante and ex post subsidies to guide and support enterprises to undertake research and development tasks and carry out research and development activities.
The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall formulate incentive policies to encourage qualified specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises to establish or jointly establish key laboratories, technological innovation centers, engineering research centers, enterprise technology centers and other R&D institutions with universities and scientific research institutions. Among them, those first named as major new R&D institutions in the province by the provincial people’s government shall be supported by the provincial finance according to a certain proportion of the investment of local governments and other initiating units in the past three years; For those who serve other enterprises in the same industry and have good functional spillover, the proportion may be appropriately increased.
Article 25 The competent department of industry and information technology of the provincial people’s government shall, jointly with relevant departments, establish a list of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises to push the sharing mechanism to financial institutions, encourage banking financial institutions to increase their support for specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and issue "specialized and innovative loans" credit loans with a credit line of 30 million yuan to specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises. Guide financial institutions to further improve the product operation mechanism, increase the credit line, shorten the application process, simplify the loan procedures, and meet the financing needs of specialized and innovative SMEs.
Article 26 Insurance institutions are encouraged to develop specialized insurance such as "specialized and innovative insurance" for the risks of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the fields of enterprise financing, scientific research and development, achievement transformation and intellectual property protection, and provide credit guarantee insurance and other services for enterprises.
Article 27 The competent departments of industry and information technology of the people’s governments at or above the county level shall, in the training of management personnel of small and medium-sized enterprises, organize special training for the management personnel of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises to improve their innovation consciousness and management ability.
Support specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises to carry out employee skills upgrading training, encourage people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments to strengthen cooperation with universities and training institutions, carry out new apprenticeship training for enterprises, and give subsidies according to the standard of 5,000 yuan for intermediate workers and 6,000 yuan for senior workers per person per year.
Article 28 The provincial people’s government and its relevant departments should strengthen the construction of a rapid collaborative protection system for intellectual property rights, encourage the people’s governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) with districts to apply for the construction of intellectual property protection centers and intellectual property rights protection centers, and open a "green" channel for specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises to quickly examine, confirm and protect their rights.
Support intellectual property service institutions to provide services from innovation to application for specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises. The people’s governments of cities and counties (cities, districts) with districts and their relevant departments shall set up an expert group on intellectual property services for small and medium-sized enterprises according to the actual situation to provide public intellectual property consulting and information services.
Article 29 Encourage specialized and innovative SMEs to participate in China International SME Expo, APEC SME Technology Exchange and Exhibition and other exhibitions to help enterprises expand domestic and foreign markets; According to the actual situation, set up exhibition areas or special topics for specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in relevant exhibitions held in this province, build product and technology display platforms for specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote exchanges and cooperation among enterprises.
Article 30 The municipal people’s governments of provinces and districts and their relevant departments should focus on local dominant industries, and organize specialized small and medium-sized enterprises and large enterprises in the industry or chain-owner enterprises, universities and scientific research institutions to jointly implement technical research, promote collaborative innovation, and enhance the innovation ability of specialized small and medium-sized enterprises.
The competent department of industry and information technology of the people’s government of a province or city divided into districts shall, jointly with relevant departments, regularly publish the supply and demand catalogue of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, hold matchmaking meetings for the financing and development of large and medium-sized enterprises, build a cooperation platform, promote large enterprises in the industry to open up resource elements to specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote the integration of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises into the supply chain and industrial chain of large enterprises.
Article 31 Encourage the purchase of products and services of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in government procurement activities. If the technological innovation products and services of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises are put on the market for the first time, they should take the lead in purchasing them in government procurement activities under the condition that their functions, quality and other indicators can meet the needs of government procurement, and shall not be restricted on the grounds of commercial performance.
Article 32 Encourage specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises to innovate design, production, management and sales methods through technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and big data to promote digital transformation.
Article 33 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall establish and improve the mechanism for cultivating the listing of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and give classified and phased support to the shareholding system reform of specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, domestic and foreign listing, listing of the New Third Board, listing of equity exchange centers, mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring.
Specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises that have made initial public offerings and listed on the Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing stock exchanges, or listed for financing in overseas mainstream capital markets and listed in the Central Plains Equity Exchange Center, shall be subsidized by the provincial finance in accordance with regulations.
Chapter iv recommendation and support of "little giant" enterprises specializing in novelty.
Article 34 The competent department of industry and information technology of the Municipal People’s Government with districts shall establish a training mechanism for specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises, and focus on cultivating, tracking and guiding the enterprises that are located in the core areas of industrial foundation and key links of industrial chain, with outstanding innovation ability, high market share and good quality and efficiency, so as to promote the development of enterprises to specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises.
Article 35 Recommend specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises, and the specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises shall voluntarily apply according to the principle of territoriality, and the competent department of industry and information technology of the municipal people’s government with districts shall organize the verification of enterprise application materials and relevant supporting materials according to the identification standards stipulated by the state; After verification, it is recommended to the competent department of industry and information technology of the provincial people’s government.
The competent department of industry and information technology of the provincial people’s government shall, according to the standards stipulated by the state, organize verification, spot check and publicity of the application materials and related supporting materials of the recommended enterprises; Publicity without objection, recommended by the competent department of industry and information technology of the provincial people’s government to the competent department of industry and information technology of the state.
The people’s governments at or above the county level shall establish a working mechanism for the coordination of departments, improve support policies, provide all-round and all-factor services and support the sustainable development of enterprises.
Article 36 The competent department of industry and information technology of the provincial people’s government shall, jointly with the human resources and social security department, regularly publish the catalogue of talents demand of specialized and new "Little Giant" enterprises, and build a communication platform for enterprises and top talents, leading talents, young talents and potential talents.
Support specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises to set up Post-Doctoral Research Center, and support professional and technical personnel of institutions of higher learning and research institutes to work part-time, post, participate in project cooperation and get paid according to law in accordance with relevant regulations.
Article 37 The people’s governments at or above the county level shall, according to the actual situation, reward and supplement the "little giant" enterprises that continue to increase R&D investment or have a high proportion of R&D investment.
If the provincial people’s government purchases equipment and software for the "little giant" enterprise that is specialized and innovative within the validity period and is used to improve the innovation ability and professional level of the enterprise within the annual investment calculation interval, it will give a certain proportion of subsidies according to the actual investment, with a maximum of 5 million yuan.
Article 38 The provincial people’s government shall establish a reward system to reward the success of "little giant" enterprises that have achieved technological upgrading and progress through intellectual property transactions and declared their specialization and novelty.
The competent intellectual property department of the provincial people’s government shall give priority to recommending qualified "little giant" enterprises to declare national intellectual property advantage demonstration enterprises, and give extra support in recommending China Patent Award and Henan Patent Award.
Article 39 Support China Development Bank and other policy banks to provide financial support for the technological transformation, transformation and upgrading of qualified "little giant" enterprises.
Support banking financial institutions to issue "specialized and innovative loans" credit loans with a credit line of 50 million yuan to specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises.
Guide banking financial institutions to strengthen cooperation with provincial SME development funds, government investment guidance funds, venture capital funds, venture capital institutions, private equity investment institutions, etc., and select specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises to carry out investment and loan linkage business.
Article 40 Encourage specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises to strengthen cooperation with industrial chain owners or industrial internet platform enterprises, carry out research and development of digital common technologies, participate in investment and application innovation of new infrastructure such as data centers and industrial internet, and promote the application of low-cost and modular intelligent manufacturing equipment and systems.
Chapter V Rights Protection and Dynamic Management
Article 41 The competent department of industry and information technology of the people’s government at or above the county level and other relevant competent departments shall, according to the characteristics and needs of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises and specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises, carry out three-level hierarchical services at the provincial, city and county levels, and carry out classified and accurate services according to the characteristics of the industries to which the enterprises belong.
The local government of a specialized and new enterprise shall, according to the actual situation, provide service commissioners for the enterprise, coordinate and solve the practical difficulties and problems of the enterprise, and guide the enterprise to grasp and enjoy the preferential treatment in time.
Article 42 The competent department of industry and information technology of the people’s government at or above the county level and other relevant competent departments shall protect the business secrets of enterprises in the process of evaluating, identifying, recommending and serving specialized and new enterprises, and shall obtain the consent of enterprises before publicity and reporting.
Article 43 The people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall support the use of funds related to specialized and special new enterprises in a timely, open, transparent and standardized manner.
The people’s governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the law, regularly organize the evaluation of the effect of the use of relevant funds, and announce the evaluation to the public in a timely manner and accept social supervision.
Article 44 The competent department of industry and information technology of the people’s government at or above the county level shall establish and improve the complaint reporting mechanism involving infringement of the legitimate rights and interests of specialized and new enterprises, accept complaints and reports in a timely manner, and deal with them in a timely manner according to law within the scope of their duties; Those who do not belong to the responsibilities of this department shall be transferred to the competent authorities in a timely manner according to law.
Article 45 The validity period of the announced innovative small and medium-sized enterprises is three years, the validity period of the identified specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises is three years, and the validity period of the specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises is implemented in accordance with state regulations.
Article 46 Specializing in new enterprises in the period of validity in the following circumstances, by the provincial people’s government department in charge of industry and information technology in accordance with the procedures to cancel the announcement, identification or to the national department in charge of industry and information technology to cancel the identification of the proposal:
(a) the occurrence of major accidents such as safety, quality and environmental pollution;
(two) serious dishonesty, tax evasion and other illegal acts;
(three) providing false materials through evaluation and identification.
Article 47 If the announcement and identification of specialized and innovative enterprises are cancelled due to the reasons specified in these Measures, they will not be re-evaluated for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, identified for specialized and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises and recommended for specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprises within three years.
Specializing in special new enterprises to provide false materials through evaluation and identification, the relevant incentive funds that have been enjoyed will be fully recovered; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.
Article 48 People’s governments at or above the county level and relevant departments and their staff, in violation of the provisions of these measures, resort to deceit or embezzle or misappropriate funds in the cultivation of specialized and special new enterprises, as well as other acts of abuse of power, dereliction of duty, corruption, etc., the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be punished according to law; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Article 49 Jiyuan production city integration demonstration zone, Zhengzhou airport economic comprehensive experimental zone on specialization and special new enterprise cultivation support work with reference to the relevant provisions of the city divided into districts in these measures.
Article 50 These Measures shall come into force as of May 1, 2024.












































