The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments launched special actions to promote the high-quality development of small and medium-sized enterprises

In view of the difficulties in innovation and transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and relevant departments recently issued the Special Action for Empowering Small and Medium-sized Enterprises with Scientific and Technological Achievements (2023-2025) and the Special Action for Assigning Quality Standard Brands to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (2023-2025) to help enhance the innovation ability and core competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises and promote their high-quality development.

The special campaign for intellectual empowerment of scientific and technological achievements focuses on accelerating the convergence and sharing of scientific and technological achievements and achieving accurate docking between supply and demand. On the one hand, promote the transformation of a number of advanced and applicable technologies in small and medium-sized enterprises, and enhance the technological innovation ability of small and medium-sized enterprises; On the other hand, promote SMEs to produce more high-quality scientific and technological achievements and continuously enhance their innovation and competitiveness.

The special action of quality standard brand assignment will adhere to the integration of quality, standard and brand, enhance the position of small and medium-sized enterprises in the value chain, guide enterprises to improve quality and efficiency with excellent quality, enhance market position with standard ability, enhance core value with brand reputation, and form comprehensive development advantages. The special action proposes that by 2025, the awareness of quality standard brands of small and medium-sized enterprises will be significantly enhanced, the comprehensive efficiency will be continuously improved, and the contribution of quality standard brands to the survival and development of small and medium-sized enterprises will continue to increase. More than 1,000 public service platforms for small and medium-sized enterprises in related fields will be added, forming 300 excellent benchmarks for quality standard brands of small and medium-sized enterprises.

According to reports, the "Empowering Wisdom" action solves the problem of innovation sources of small and medium-sized enterprises, and the "Assigning Value" action solves the problem of upgrading the status of the value chain, while the special digital empowerment action that has been carried out in the early stage solves the problem of digital transformation. The three actions constitute a "combination boxing" to help improve the innovation ability and core competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises. (Reporter Wang Zheng, Virginia Lieu)