In order to further reduce and exempt the housing rent of small and micro enterprises and individual business households in the service industry in place, the official website of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) on October 12 issued the Notice on Further Improving the Work of Reducing and Exempting the Housing Rent of Small and Micro Enterprises and Individual Business Households in the Service Industry in 2022 (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice").

The "Notice" requires that the central enterprises to be fully completed before the end of November universal remission of three three months of rent, where the county-level administrative area of the epidemic in high-risk areas within two months after the completion of the task of supplemental remission of three months of rent, and December 10, 2022 to the State Council State-owned Assets Supervision and Operation and Evaluation Bureau to submit a summary of the work of the rent reduction.

Meanwhile, in order to implement the requirements of the State Council's deployment of assistance to enterprises to alleviate their difficulties, the relevant departments have successively issued policies to help the elderly childcare, catering and lodging industries, in which supplementary requirements have been put forward for the rent reduction policies of some of the industries, for example, the Notice Issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and Other Departments (NDRC F&A 〔2022〕 No. 1356) specifies that "elderly care service institutions and childcare service organizations belonging to the category of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and individual entrepreneurs, and renting state-owned housing, shall be exempted from rent until the end of 2022". The central enterprises and local state-owned enterprises should pay close attention to and earnestly implement the various types of rent reduction policies issued by the state, dynamically adjust the implementation of initiatives to ensure strict implementation in place.

According to the Notice, for the problem of rent reduction of equity diversification sub-enterprises, the state-owned shareholders should actively communicate with other shareholders and try their best to gain support; for the problem of rent reduction of subletting and subletting of state-owned housing, the "one landlord" state-owned enterprises should study the policy of rent reduction policy directly to the actual lessee's policy application mechanism, the "second landlord" state-owned enterprises should study the policy of rent reduction policy directly to the actual lessee's policy application mechanism. The "second landlord" state-owned enterprises shall reduce the rent reduction and corresponding subletting difference together, and those not enjoying rent reduction shall take the lead in reducing the subletting difference during the stipulated period; for the difficult enterprises or relevant market entities not meeting the conditions of the rent reduction target, they shall take the "temperature" to implement the policy, patiently explain the policy, and then take the lead in reducing the rent.

"Notice" pointed out that the central enterprises and local state-owned enterprises from the perspective of the tenant, refine the work program, clear implementation of the policy caliber, simplify the operation process, openly post the rent reduction announcement, take the initiative to docking service tenants, to ensure that meet the conditions of the rent reduction tenants fast and convenient to apply for the rent reduction dividend.