Recently, The General Office of Sichuan Provincial People’s Government has released Opinions Concerning Achieving A Good Start For Industrial Economy In The First Quarter of 2017, focusing on 4 goals for industrial economy in the first quarter, including the growth rate of industrial added value higher than provincial annual expected goal (8%), higher than the annual expected goal of all cities, the investment on industries and technical transformation higher than the goal designed by Sichuan and the expected goal of all cities. The investments on industries an technical transformation should amount to 190 billion yuan and 140 billion yuan in the first quarter.

　　The Opinions have also specified the promotion measures for 5 aspects including projects, marketing, finance, elements, and company services to ensure the smooth achievements of these 4 goals.

　　In terms of vigorously promoting the construction and completion of major projects, Sichuan will further implement the activities of Project Year, strive to start 450 major industrial projects and complete 450 major industrial projects, support the construction of a batch of achievement transformation projects, enlist the achievements of universities and scientific research institutes into technical transformation list, and offer capital subsidiary or discount loans for scientific projects.

　　In terms of the linkage of producing and selling and marketing expansion, Sichuan will offer subsidiary for the public fees of large economic activities held, organized or attended by Sichuan Provincial People’s Government, for the public fees of large economic activities held or attended by municipal or county level governments, and supply reward and discount loans from provincial e-commerce funds for online small and medium-sized companies and online platforms.

　　As for the financing of industrial companies, Sichuan will organize the banking and company financial docking activity for advantageous industries in the first quarter. Financial institutions should further increase credit scale. The industrial loan balance in the first quarter will achieve growth.

　　As for strengthening electricity and gas, Sichuan will release three policy implementation schemes concerning direct-purchasing electricity, surplus electricity, and retained electricity, and increase the scale of direct-purchasing electricity to over 50 billion KWH. Sichuan will offer allowance for the industrial electricity price. Sichuan will also enhance the efforts of changing transformation-supplying gas into direct-supplying gas, strengthen the supervision on urban gas prices, lower the cost of industrial gas, and offer over 20% discount of the weight charge fees for the highway tolls of normal loading and legitimate transformation vehicles.

　　In terms of improving the services of companies, Sichuan will optimize the direct services for major companies and groups to coordinate the prominent difficulties in the producing and operation process, enlist 100 top defective companies and formulate targeted measures for each company.