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Table 3.12 Various support measures
Subsidies to green energy and energy conservation
Subsidy: Financial funds/allowance to develop renewable energy relating to, inter alia, projects in rural areas
Type of subsidy: ..
Legislation: The Renewable Energy Law

Table 3.12 Various support measures
Subsidies to green energy and energy conservation
Subsidy: Financial subsidies and tax incentives granted to energy performance contracting projects
Type of subsidy: Financial subsidies granted to projects that improve the energy conservation technologies

Table 3.12 Various support measures
Industry
Subsidy: Subsidies for fuel-efficient vehicles
Legislation: The Renewable Energy Law

Table 3.12 Various support measures
Assistance to R&D, support for specific industries, assistance for industrial development
Subsidy: Promotion of new-energy and energy saving automobiles
Type of subsidy: Subsidies to the end-use/customer who purchases new-energy and energy-saving automobiles
Legislation: The Renewable Energy Law

Table 3.12 Various support measures
Subsidies to green energy and energy conservation
Subsidy: Exemption or reduction of corporate income tax and VAT refund and exemption for renewable energy production
Type of subsidy: Preferential enterprise income tax.
VAT on sales of electricity generated with wind power will be subject to an immediate 50% refund upon payment
Legislation: Article 27 of the EIT Law and Article 87 of Implementation Regulation. Circular of the Ministry of Finance and State Administration of Taxation on the Value-added Tax Policies for Integrated Resource Utilization Products and Other Products (Caishui [2008] No. 156)

Table 3.14 NDRC Government or government-guided prices, 2013
Product: Environment protection charges
Type of control/rationale: Pollutant discharge levies mainly include sewage, waste gas, solid wastes and noise-discharge fees and are subject to Central Government-set prices.
The rationale for maintaining price controls is that pollutant discharge levies are administrative charges and hence, must be controlled, as mandated by Article 47 of the Price Law, and stipulated in Article 36 of the Regulations on Price Control. The specific rationale for each charge is formulated by the State Council separately.

Under the Foreign Trade Law (2004), the State may subject certain goods to state trading. The reasons for maintaining state trading for certain products in China seem to have remained unchanged since the last Review; these include: ensuring stable supply and prices of the products concerned; safeguarding China's food security; and protecting exhaustible and non-recyclable natural resources and the environment. (…)

The Government Procurement Law (Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No. 68 of 29 June 2002, in effect since 1 January 2003), states that government procurement must be conducted in such a manner as to facilitate achievement of the goals designed by State policies for economic and social development including, but not limited to, environmental protection, assistance to under-developed or ethnic-minority areas, and promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises. (…)

The Conference annually issues a Promotion Plan for the Implementation of the National Intellectual Property Strategy, with specific actions to be carried out during the year in question to attain the goals of the strategy. In 2013, the strategic themes/actions identified were grouped under eight main goals:
b. strengthening IP in key industries. This is to be done by: promoting the integration of IPR protection with industrial policy; developing and implementing a strategic industries IP work plan to take into account the IPR protection needs of these industries; promoting the development of green technologies and green patent applications by granting them a priority review process; developing an "industry IP risk assessment and early warning system" with respect to selected industrial transformation processes;

(…) The purpose of issuing the Administrative Measures on Prioritized Examination of Invention Patent Applications, which were implemented as from 1 August 2012, is to establish a fast track for patent examination and approval in the case of patent applications linked to strategic emerging industries and to green technologies with significant economic and social impact and a high degree of invention. (…)