China's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have gained new guidance resources following the launch of an online service network by the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Tuesday.
Forming a nationwide SME service network for the first time, the network covers 31 provincial platforms and 169 prefecture-level and city-level platforms.
Services on the network include policy guidance and market search as well as eight categories of enterprise self-testing services.
At present, the service network has gathered more than 200 million data points on contract bids, 190 million data points on business entities, 150,000 provincial and ministerial policy documents, 40,000 data points on recruitment, 300 data points on inspection and testing and technology achievement transformation institutions, and more than 200 financial products.
China has vigorously promoted the construction of a public service system for SMEs. At present, there are more than 1,780 public service institutions for SMEs at the national, provincial, municipal and county levels.
According to the MIIT chief, the network's biggest strength lies in combining off-line institutions with online services.
"Taking this launch as an opportunity, we will better gather various service resources, support policies to benefit enterprises, activate the environment to activate enterprises, provide services to assist enterprises, strengthen enterprises through innovation, and develop enterprises through talents so as to help small and medium-sized enterprises improve their core competitiveness," said Minister of Industry and Information Technology Jin Zhuanglong.
China launches comprehensive service for small, medium businesses
