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Preferential policies for enterprises in the High-tech Development Zone

Preferential policies will be implement-ed for enterprises or projects that will be put into operation before Dec.31,2007 in Qingyuan High-tech Development Zone including those in Ecological Industrial Park, Guangdong Qingyuan Hi-tech Industrial Zone, or within various scale industrial parks (zones) newly approved by Qingyuan Municipal People`s Government.]

Electric power
Installation application fee will be exe-mpted for all enterprises. The price of electricity for scale enterprises is as follows:
1) 1-10 kilovolt: normal period 0.481 yuan/kwh 12:00-19:00; 22:00-23:00 peak period 0.6445 yuan/kwh 7:00-12:00 19:00-22:00; low period 0.2942 yuan/kwh 23:00-7:00;
2) 35-110 kilovolt: normal period 0.471 yuan/kwh; peak period 0.631 yuan/kwh; low period 0.2882 yuan/kwh;
3) 220 kilovolt or above: normal period 0.461 yuan/kwh; peak period 0.6175yuan/kwh; low period0.2822yuan/kwh;

Water
Installation application fee, water resource fee, sewage disposal fee will be exempted for all the enterprises, provided that the municipal and provincial sewage disposal standards have been reached. The water for the enterprises will be charged below 1 yuan/cubic meter. Industrial parks or enterprises that have great demand for water will be approved to set up water plant by themselves, and water resources fee will be exempted.

Land
1) Investors, governments at district, town level within the planned area of Qingyuan Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone may exclusively or jointly develop land on stretches by means of transfer, lease, sharing holdings with land use right provided that their development plan comply with panoramic plan of the Zone, and the necessary infrastructural facilities should be completed accordingly. The land they are entitled to develop should be planned, developed, constructed and managed unifiably. After that they are entitled to directly attract investment. Land use right may be transferred, mortgaged, leased according to related law and regulation after completing all the required procedures.
2) On behalf of Qingyuan Municipal Government, the management institution of Qingyuan Hi-tech Industrial Develop-ment Zone is solely responsible for the panoramic plan within the Zone in compliance with the overall land plan use of Qingyuan. The district, town governments, investors are entitled to develop lands on stretches which are alloted to them within the sub-zones. Land use fee, cultivation fee for the cultivated land, reimbursement for afforestation will all be refunded to developers except for the amount that will be turned over to the state and province.
3) Investors who cannot temporarily af-ford full amount for land may be issued land use right certificate after reimbursing farmers for requisition, paying fees regulated by the state and province and completing all the required procedures. The remainder will be paid on installment. Yet the land will not be transferred or mortgaged before the payment for the land is clear. The interest rate for loan on installment will be calculated according to that of fixed assets in the corresponding period. Land use right may be transferred, auctioned, leased at most preferential price.
4) Land may be utilized by flexible means such as lease, sharing holdings by evaluation. The leasehold for industry that is no less than 10 years will be charged on basis of more preferential treatment. Within or after the expiry of leasehold, priority will be given to leaseholder for the purchase of land use right according to the local land price. Local rural collective bodies may join shares with foreign investors by evaluation after completing all procedures required for land use right.
5) Investors who are transferred land for industrial purpose will be exempted from land use right transfer fee.
6) The maximum leasehold for indu-strial purpose will be 50 years. However for projects with investment amount over 100 million yuan, exceptional hi-tech content, the land may be re-leased after expiry of leasehold. Within rated expiry, land use right may be transferred, mortgaged, inherited according to law after completing all necessary procedures.
7) It is allowed that the management institution of Qingyuan Hi-tech Industrial Pevelopment Zone and all developers are entitled to build villas for top staff, residential district, dormitories according to the panoramic plan of relating department. 20% of the land requisitioned within the Zone may be allotted for construction of public facilities for the staff and the land for the purpose will be identically treated at preferential price. Dormitory buildings may be leased, sold. Those who have purchased the apartments within the Zone are entitled to register residence as urban residents for their accompanying relatives. All fees will be exempted by the public security department except for the expense for certificate.

Administratively Regulated Fee
1) All administratively regulated fees will be exempted for the newly established enterprises (including industry, tourism, industrialized agricultural projects) except for the part turned over to the state and province.
2) Fees charged by non-governmental institutions must be subject to examination and approval of the price department and permission of the municipal government. All fees will be run according to the principle of opening independent accounts for revenue and expense respectively. Fees which are not listed in document numbered Qingfa [2004]#4 issued by CPC of Qingyuan must not be charged. Operative and intermediary service fees should be charged according to what is stipulated in the No.4 document . Those which are not listed in the document should be charged 50% according to the lowest standard.
3) Investors are encouraged to purchase land use right, workshop, equipment and even the proprietorship or the equities possessed by the state-owned enterprises for solely-funded operation, expansion, transfer, or for joint-venture, lease. The enterprises may be contracted for operation or be run in co-operative manner after it is subject to permission. In the process of change of the proprietor, no other fees except for the expense for the certificate will be charged.
4) Foreign investors are encouraged to engage in processing & assembling trade. The fee will be charged according to the lowest standard and the commercial agent fee has been canceled. With the permission of the Customs, the domestic sale ratio of the taxed products may be raised accordingly.

Insurance
Newly-established enterprises ( includ-ing old enterprises that newly enroll emplo-yees for expansion) will carry out step-by-step insurance policy and the migrant emp-loyees will be charged per capita as rated.

Tax
1) If local reserve of the business and corporate income taxes (With deduction of the amount that should have been levied by tax and public financial departments in the past few years) exceeds 1 million yuan every year within 5 years after the newly-established productive enterprises in the Zone are put into operation, with an annually progressive increase of over 20%, 50% of the local reserve will be rewarded to developers or enterprises. If the developer is in the name of development zone, then the zone will be rewarded. If the developer is in the name of enterprise, the enterprise will be directly rewarded by the public financial department. If local reserve of the business and corporate income taxes of the enterprises exceeded 1 million yuan in the previous year, with an annually progressive increase of over 20% beginning from 2003, then with the amount in 2001 taken as a base (If the amount in 2001 was not over 1 million yuan, it will still be taken as a base.), 50% of the local reserve accrued from newly-levied taxes will be rewarded annually to the enterprises. With the approval of the municipal government, the preferential tax rewarding treatment expiry may be extended 5 years for enterprises with an investment amount in actual operation over 500 million yuan, or with an annual output value of 1 billion yuan, or with taxes levied over 100 million yuan, or with nation-wide or province-wide trade marks,or the Fortune Globa/500 enterprises , or hi-tech enterprises appraised by the state.
2)The newly-established foreigh-funded productive enterprises with an operating period of over 10 years will be exempted from corporate income tax two years before the profitable year. The corporate income tax levied in the following three years will be reduced 50%. After expiry of the preferential tax treatment, the corporate income tax levied over the enterprises will still be reduced 50% for another three years if the enterprises still claim the hi-tech title.
3) With approval of tax department, the corporate income tax levied over the export-oriented enterprises with over 70% of its output value for export in the year will be reduced 50% after expiry of tax exemption and deduction.
4)The newly-established foreign-funded productive enterprises with an operating period of over 10 years will be exempted from local income tax within the preferential tax treatment of two-year tax exemption and three-year reduction. Yet enterprises with an actual operating period of less than 10 years, the local income tax that should have been exempted from for enterprises over ten years has to be made up. The local income tax will be exempted for high-tech enterprises within three years of half tax reduction according to law. Local income tax in the year will be exempted for export-oriented enterprises with 70% of its output value for export in the year and with approved preferential corporate income tax reduction treatment. Enterprises within Qingyuan High-tech Industrial Development Zone will be treated with preferential policies of hi-tech development zone at provincial level.
5) The personal income tax of foreign employees' salary will be levied in addition to reduction of expense of 800 yuan and reduction of added expenditures of 3,200 yuan.
6) Value-added tax for importing trade will be exempted for foreign-funded enterprises importing goods by means of 'processing & assembling trade'. After the processed or assembled goods have been exported, value-added tax for processing or entrusted processed products or processing fee will be exempted. Common exporting trade or exporting trade by means of 'processing with imported materials' will be granted preferential tax treatment summed up as 'exemption, offset, and rebate.
7) The operative enterprises may submit tax-reduction application to local tax department if they can't temporarily afford total amount of land use and real estate taxes.

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