The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the People's Bank of China, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the State Administration of Taxation and the General Administration of Market Supervision jointly issued the Guiding Opinions on Further Helping Small and Micro Enterprises and Individual Industrial and Commercial Households in the Service Industry to Relieve the Pressure of Housing Rent in Response to the COVID-19 Epidemic. The Guiding Opinions clarify that the housing rent reduction and deferred payment policy mainly supports small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry with operational difficulties, and gives priority to catering, accommodation, tourism, education and training, housekeeping, cinemas, theaters, beauty salons and other industries that are seriously affected by the epidemic and have operational difficulties. The main policies are: implementing rent reduction and exemption, improving fiscal and taxation preferential policies, increasing financial support and stabilizing the housing rental market.

Legal basis: Article 2 of the Guiding Opinions on Further Helping Small and Micro Enterprises and Individual Industrial and Commercial Houses in the Service Industry to Relieve the Pressure of Housing Rent in Response to the COVID-19 Epidemic

(1) To promote the exemption of housing rent for small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry who have difficulties in renting state-owned houses (including houses of state-owned enterprises and government departments, universities, research institutes and other administrative institutions, the same below) for three months in the first half of the year. Sublease, sublease state-owned housing, to ensure that rent-free benefits to the ultimate lessee.

(2) if the state-owned houses owned by the central government (including the state-owned houses owned by relevant departments, central enterprises, central universities and research institutes) are rented, the housing rent support policy for small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households with operational difficulties in the location of the houses shall be implemented. If rent reduction affects the performance of state-owned enterprises and institutions, it shall be recognized according to the actual situation in the assessment.

(3) For small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households in the service industry that have difficulties in renting non-state-owned houses for operation, the lessor is encouraged to consider the actual difficulties of the lessee and reduce or postpone the collection of house rent on the basis of equal consultation between the two parties.