Hongkou District has continuously strengthened the connotation of enterprise services and keeps on improving the soft power of services. It launched the "Sailing from the North Bund" characteristic service brand and held a series of theme activities. The district officials visited enterprises, invited entrepreneurs to walk along the riverside and talked about cooperation and development, so as to help different enterprises to achieve the cross-border cooperation, realize the accurate docking between the upstream and downstream enterprises and build a new service platform for the government-enterprises communication and the cooperation of enterprises. Hongkou established the concept that as long as there is 1% hope, we should make 100% efforts on the development and construction of the North Bund. Last year, the government officers visited 12,434 enterprises of all kinds, collected 2,051 questions and appeals, and the response rate was 94%, providing a good environment for the enterprises’ development.Last year, under the difficult situation of the repeated pandemic outbreaks, Hongkou still introduced 56 key projects with a total investment of 41.6 billion yuan, added 4 office and business buildings with the tax revenue of 0.1 billion yuan and 3 office and business buildings with the monthly revenue of 0.1 billion yuan. Sinar Mas Plaza has become the building with the tax revenue of 2 billion yuan.
Hongkou, with district officials and relevant departments as the main body, visited key enterprises, potential enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises and office and business buildings (industry parks) in the principles of "starting immediately, facing problems, focusing on efficiency and taking various ways". For the problems raised by the enterprises during the visit, the problems that can be solved were solved as soon as possible. For the problems that can not be solved at the moment, the district officials held special meetings irregularly to promote the joint coordination and implementation of multiple departments, so as to ensure that everything was implemented.
While visiting the key enterprise Shanghai Jahwa United Co., Ltd., it put forward multiple appeals, such as electronic invoice, employment subsidy and enterprise development. Therefore, the Hongkou District Investment Promotion Office, Hongkou District Tax Bureau, Hongkou District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Hongkou District Commerce Commission and other departments formed a service team timely to guide and solve the problems for Shanghai Jahwa. The Human Resources and Social Security Department put Shanghai Jahwa into the list of the 8th batch of pilot enterprises of electronic invoice in Shanghai, and received the employment subsidy of more than 400,000 yuan, involving more than 600 people. Shanghai Jahwa was very satisfied with the result.
In recent years, Hongkou has also opened the "Online Processing System for Hongkou District Enterprises’ Problems and Appeals" to solve problems and appeals of enterprises, focusing on solving difficulties for small and medium-sized enterprises. In response to the problems of tax, social security and enterprise-oriented assistance policies that many enterprises are particularly concerned about during the visit, Hongkou Tax Bureau, Hongkou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, the Hongkou Development and Reform Commission, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and other departments jointly launched a series of service activities. Over 10 online activities, including the online interpretation session of the implementation measures of Hongkou District fighting against the pandemic, helping the enterprises and promoting the development and the online exchange session of Hongkou District helping enterprises in the employment, were held throughout the year, which attracted more than 1,500 enterprises.
Besides, Hongkou formulated the "Implementation Measures on House Rental Subsidies for Enterprises in Key Business and Office Buildings" to encourage these buildings to reduce the rents of micro-sized and small enterprises and key enterprises, so as to give full play to the government's responsibility. 11 buildings reduced the rents of 258 enterprises, effectively reducing their operating pressure.
Hongkou has also formulated a three-year action plan to guide key enterprises to return to Hongkou, promote the gathering of high-quality enterprises, and improve the business and office buildings’ capacity at the North Bund. The support of 8 major service measures related to talents, medical treatment, children's education, policy services, one-to-one assistance and others has provided the enterprises with whole-process regular services from recommendation of business and office buildings, site selection, relocation procedures, and daily operation. Shanghai Minghong Investment Management Co., Ltd., Shanghai Jahwa E-commerce Co., Ltd., Viking Youlv Cruise (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai Branch of Caitong Securities Asset Management Co., Ltd., Shanghai Champion Investment Co., Ltd., Albion Cosmetics (Shanghai) Cosmetics Trade Co., Ltd. and other enterprises have successively gone back to Hongkou. The gathering of high-quality enterprises has promoted the continuous improvement of the business and office building economy.
An official of relevant departments said that in 2023, they would continuously attract large and strong enterprises, improve the efficiency of business and office buildings, optimize the capacity of the shipping industry, and promote the sustainable and healthy development of the regional economy on the main battlefield of the development and construction of the North Bund. They would also explore the rent-and-tax linkage scheme, introduce high-quality projects into Sinar Mas Plaza, Raffles and Ruihong Tiandi Sun Palace, mobilize property owners in business and office buildings, expand the scope and accuracy of policy coverage, improve the landing rate of business and office buildings’ taxes and the output per unit area, and cultivate more headquarters office buildings, buildings with the tax revenue of 100 million yuan, and buildings with the monthly tax revenue of 100 million yuan".