Excerpts: Any of the existing cultural innovation and design service enterprises that contributes an increment of more than 1 million RMB to the local tax revenue over the previous year should be rewarded for 50% of the increment. The combined amounts of awards (including the aforementioned) and subsidies bestowed on such an enterprise should not exceed its total contribution to the local tax revenue. The enterprises engaged in industrial design, arts and crafts research, development and design, architecture design and software design should be rewarded for 70% of the increment to the local tax payment over the previous year if the increment is less than 500 thousand RMB, 60% of the increment if the increment sits somewhere between 500 thousand and 1 million RMB and 50% of the increment if the increment exceeds 1 million RMB. None of the abovementioned enterprises should receive more than 2 million RMB per annum. The validity of such awards should be 5 years until otherwise decreed.      

The leading manufacturers are advocated to form industrial design centers, in proprietorship or in partnership with higher educational institutions, research institutes or specialized design institutions. The certified state and provincial industrial design centers will be given bonuses of 800 thousand and 500 thousand RMB respectively.   

The newly established or introduced cultural innovation and design service enterprises (precluding any alteration of the registered locality of any existing cultural innovation or design service enterprise) should be entitled to a certain amount of subsidy ranging between 5% and 8% of the utilized capital, depending on the type of the recipient enterprise and the utilized capital, up to 1 million RMB each enterprise. Such a subsidy should be sustained over a period of years by the recipient’s contribution to the local tax revenue. The abovementioned subsidy should be valid from 2014 through 2018. The enterprises using leased office properties may receive nonrecurring subsidies amounting to 30% to 40% of the recommended market prices multiplied by 12 to 18 months. The enterprises using office properties built or purchased by themselves may receive subsidies amounting to 30% to 40% of the property tax already paid, within 3 years of the completion of the construction or the conclusion of the purchase. Such a subsidy should be sustained over a period of years by the recipient’s contribution to the local tax revenue, up to 1 million RMB. In the event that one of the abovementioned enterprises make contribution to the local tax revenue within the first year of its establishment, the enterprise in question should receive a bonus equivalent to 80% of the aforementioned contribution, up to 1 million RMB. The aforementioned bonus should be valid from 2014 through 2018. The abovementioned enterprises may be exempted from or refunded for their payment of the administrative fees which are within the local government’s authority, 100% for the first two years and 50% for the following three years.

From 2014 through 2018, the high level talented individuals in dire need by the cultural innovation and design service sectors may be granted allowances for accommodation and daily life, with the amount standing at 50% of the locally retained portion of personal income tax they pay at the locality the same year. The certification criteria of such individuals should be formulated by the local governments.