News Briefing of Public Service Platform for Small and Medium Sized Trade Enterprises in Jilin Province

　　The news briefing of public service platform for small and medium sized trade enterprises in Jilin Province was held on December 4, 2013 at the Provincial Department of Commerce. Attendees to the news briefing include responsible officials from commerce and administrative departments at municipal and county levels in the province, professional service organizations and enterprise representatives on the platform, as well as reporters from some central and provincial media at Changchun. On this news briefing, Small and Medium Sized Trade Enterprise Service Center of Jilin Province communicated the situations of the platform and its operation and signed a cooperation agreement with representatives from professional service organizations on the platform. A ceremony was held to celebrate the opening of the public service network platform for small and medium sized enterprises in Jilin Province. Ms. Cong Hongxia, Director of Department of Commerce attended the news briefing and delivered an important speech.

　　 

　　In the past year, Jilin Province Small and Medium Sized Trade Enterprise Service Platform worked actively on infrastructure construction and effective services, and made significant achievements.

　　Infrastructure of the platform is getting mature. The establishment of relevant authority, introduction of professional service organizations, establishment of contact points and service network platform, and the supporting policies made had provided the public service platform with reliable supports. Service functions of the platform keep improving. According to the functions, the platform worked actively to provide small and medium sized trade enterprises with high-quality services. Financing services. Through the cooperation with banks, financial institutions are encouraged to create innovative financing products and to explore new financing modes, in order to solve the barriers of shortage of financial supports that hindered development of small and medium sized trade enterprises. So far, the banks have offered loans of about 300 million Yuan to enterprises qualified by the platform. Talent training programs. In order to improve the qualifications of small business operators in the province, the service platform began to implement the "Ten Thousand Small Business Owners" training program of Jilin Province since July this year. It has successfully held five training sessions by employing famous experts and professors in the provinces and by combining theory with practice, which covered 630 persons from over 400 small enterprises throughout the province. The training sessions were effective and gained significant social benefits. Market exploration. The platform invited some enterprises to the Third China (Changchun) Imported Luxury Exhibition, and the first and second international purchaser conference of the eighth and ninth Northeast Asia Expo, as well as the tenth expo of "Traditional Chinese Brands". These efforts played important roles in exploring markets inside and outside Jilin Province and China.

　　Ms. Cong Hongxia, Secretary of Party Committee and Director of Department of Commerce of Jilin Province highly appreciated the achievements made by the public service platform for small and medium sized trade enterprises in the province, and she further explained the significance of public service platform and put forward specific requirements on the construction of service system for small and medium sized trade enterprises in the province.

　　Ms. Cong Hongxia said that the goal of the public service platform for small and medium sized trade enterprises is to build a comprehensive service network system with integrated supports at provincial, municipal and county levels by 2015. In order to realized this goal, the actions to be taken include: firstly, the platform service at enterprise level needs to be further enhanced in order to encourage other enterprises; secondly, the service platform construction at municipal level is encouraged in order to promote the collaboration between provincial, municipal and county levels; thirdly, the construction of information platform needs to be accelerated to form collaboration both online and offline; fourthly, relevant authorities should work actively to form a cooperation pattern between multiple organizations; fifthly, a long-term mechanism should be established to help small and medium sized enterprises to cope with the hardship in financing and to reduce their financing costs; sixthly, advertising and communication should be further enhanced and performance evaluation is necessary.