Policy support: both “real money” and tilted support

Digital transformation is a systematic project, and it is difficult for enterprises to cross the digital divide by “going it alone”. The reporter’s research in many places found that local governments, financial institutions, service providers and other social parties have introduced measures to promote digital transformation. “Real Money” support helps enterprises share the transformation investment, shorten the return cycle, and enhance the confidence of enterprises in digital transformation.

— Attracting financial “flowing water”. Digital transformation requires investment in the short term and revenue in the long term. Companies that dare to digitally transform themselves have therefore become the focus of financial institutions.

140CPU67160 As early as 2021, Foshan, a major manufacturing city in Guangdong province, took the lead in launching “digital loans” in the country, introducing two major policies of risk compensation and full discount interest. Foshan Dengqi Electromechanical Technology Co., Ltd. is a state-level specialized special “little giant” enterprise, Guangfa Bank Foshan Branch in understanding the enterprise’s “servo motor digital workshop” upgrade project after the capital needs, through the “digital loan” to provide 60 million yuan credit. According to the statistics of Foshan City, the cumulative discount interest of “digital loans” is about 150 million yuan, the loan amount is nearly 4.3 billion yuan, and the investment of enterprises exceeds 18.9 billion yuan.

According to the relevant person in charge of Yubei District of Chongqing, the local government has coordinated four financial institutions within the jurisdiction to provide digital transformation credit loans for small and medium-sized enterprises, and the loan interest rate is only 3% to 4%.

— Identify who you support. Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, the key town of printing and dyeing industry, the implementation of “N+X” (common + personality) digital transformation of printing and dyeing enterprises and the investment amount is more than 300,000 yuan, according to the actual investment to “N” application 30%, “X” application within 20% reward (each enterprise maximum of 1 million yuan).

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Anhui Province supports leading backbone enterprises in key manufacturing industries to build “digital navigation” enterprises. For the projects listed in the provincial typical demonstration, according to the purchase amount of project equipment and industrial software, the maximum bonus of 10% will be given, and the maximum bonus of a single project will be 5 million yuan.

— Building a service platform. In order to promote the digital development of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, the Anhui Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology issued relevant policies in 2023, in the province to 30,000 small and medium-sized enterprises each free of 10,000 yuan of consumer vouchers, enterprises can get coupons on the Antelle industrial Internet platform and buy their own digital software, covering production and manufacturing, design and development, warehousing logistics, management of digital four categories of products.

140CPU67160 Yubei District of Chongqing was selected as the first batch of 30 pilot cities for digital transformation of smes in China. “In addition to investing 80 million yuan in awards and subsidies for the digital transformation of automotive parts and other subsectors, we also plan to build a digital transformation public service platform, gather a number of high-quality digital transformation service providers, and train a number of small and medium-sized enterprises digital transformation management talents.” Yubei District relevant person in charge said.

The executive meeting of The State Council pointed out that “we should increase support for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises” and “explore the formation of a long-term mechanism to promote the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises.”

“The government should do a good job of top-level design and optimize the digital development environment; Enterprises should increase investment in research and development, and practice excellent digital “internal skills”; Financial institutions should innovate their service models to inject fresh water into the transformation.” Wei Jigang, a researcher at the Development Research Center of The State Council, said that with digital transformation as a traction, we will accelerate the construction of new competitive advantages in China’s manufacturing industry.