[속보] Chairman Wen “I will reduce the burden of rent and electricity for small business owners and the self-employed”

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“Small and medium-sized enterprises are the root and center of our economy”
“Intensive promotion of non-contact, digital, ecological and promising entrepreneurs and startups”
“Comfort and Encouragement to Small Business Owners and the Self Employed”

President Moon Jae-in said on the 6th: “The government will further reduce the business burden on small business owners and the self-employed.” As a specific method, he mentioned the promotion of policies to reduce the rental burden and reduce the burden of electricity bills, such as the extension of fiscal support to the ‘good rent’.

President Moon said at a meeting of the State Council chaired in the Blue House on the same day: “I would like to express my comfort and encouragement to small and medium-sized enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises and the self-employed, who are particularly suffering economic damage. as the global corona pandemic drags on. “

President Moon announced that he will strengthen policy support for SMEs, small business owners and the self-employed at a meeting of the state council. Regarding SMEs, he said: “We will focus on fostering companies and startups in promising fields such as remote, digital and green in relation to the Korean version of the New Deal.” Furthermore, he said, “we will develop an industrial ecosystem where large companies and SMEs grow together in important new industries, such as next-generation semiconductors, vehicles of the future and biotechnology.”

President Moon emphasized the importance of SMEs, saying: “Even in the crown crisis, the employment of non-face-to-face ventures is increasing, which contributes greatly to job creation.” He said: “Innovative technologies and products developed by startups such as Crown Map, Mask Map and Diagnostic Kit are playing a key role in K-Defense.”

President Moon said: “The government will actively protect SMEs and self-employment, while increasing the hope that SMEs and companies create,” and said: “We want to establish SMEs and venture companies as the main actors in the digital economy opening the post-crown era “. .

On this day, the State Council deliberated on the executive decrees that specify the ‘Win-Win Cooperation Support System for Public Procurement’ and the ‘System for Priority Purchase of Products for Start-Up Companies’. President Moon explained: “It is about creating an ecosystem in which SMEs receive preferential treatment in public procurement and supporting startups to secure initial sales channels.”