In response to one of his own suggestions, the Ministry of Finance and other departments conducted in-depth research on the adjustment of major technical equipment import taxation policies, which greatly reduced the production costs of China-made large-tonnage crawler cranes, broadening the road for the innovation and application of this advanced manufacturing technology. - Talking about this matter on the phone, the NPC deputy and chief executive of Sany Heavy Industry (26.38, 0.47, 1.81%) Co., Ltd. was quite excited about his speech.

He told reporters that with the acceleration of China's industrialization and the promotion of "long-term nuclear power development plan," large-tonnage crawler cranes usher in a huge market prospects in China. Taking nuclear power construction alone as an example, before 2020, the demand for a single 3,000-ton crawler crane worth more than 200 million yuan was at least 10, and all of them are currently dependent on imports.

China's crawler cranes have grown rapidly and have already had the ability to produce large-tonnage products. In 2008, China’s first 1000-ton crawler crane appeared at the Shanghai Auto Show. In 2009, the world’s first use of China’s crawler cranes participated in the lifting task of the nuclear island dome of nuclear power plants, which marked the full maturity of China’s large-tonnage crawler crane technology.

“But the domestic crawler cranes are in urgent need of a fair competitive environment.” Xiang Wenbo said that on the one hand, most of the parts and components of large-tonnage crawler cranes rely on imports, and Chinese companies still need to pay high tariffs to increase procurement costs. Reduced ability to compete with foreign products. On the other hand, Chinese companies are fully capable of producing more than 1,000 tons of crawler cranes, while foreign equipment is still enjoying "super national treatment" (import duty-free), which severely dampens the enthusiasm of domestic crawler crane manufacturers and hinders core technology reserves. industrial structural upgrade.

Xiang Wenbo, who has a lot of pains to deal with these issues, called for the exemption of tax on imported crawler crane parts for domestic enterprises and cancelled the tax exemption for imported cranes with more than 1,000 tons.

“Historical data show that every cancellation of the tax exemption policy has greatly promoted the development of crawler crane industry in China. In 2005, the state cancelled the tax exemption preferential policy for crawler cranes under 300 tons. In that year, only 179 imported crawler cranes were imported, which was a year-on-year decrease. At 50%, the following year, domestic crawler cranes formed more than a dozen models of 35 tons-400 tons and a more comprehensive product spectrum, basically replacing imports, said Xiang Wenbo.

According to incomplete statistics, so far, China has imported more than 1,000 tons of crawler cranes with a value of more than 2 billion yuan. Xiang Wenbo bluntly stated in his proposal that a complete cancellation of the tax exemption policy would not only create tax revenues of at least RMB 600 million, but also change the long-term unequal competition environment and promote the rapid development of China's crawler crane industry.

The person in charge of the Customs Department of the Ministry of Finance who undertook this proposal quickly communicated with the representatives and had an in-depth understanding of the R&D and production of large-tonnage crawler cranes in domestic construction machinery enterprises. Afterwards, the Ministry of Finance and the relevant departments have deliberately discussed and negotiated, and in April 2010, they jointly issued the Notice on Adjusting the Interim Provisions of the Import Tax Policy for Major Technical Equipment, which was used by domestic enterprises to produce crawler cranes including large tonnages. Major technology and equipment, it is indeed necessary to import domestic parts and raw materials that cannot be produced domestically, exempt from customs duties and import value-added tax, and construction machinery manufacturers that meet the requirements may apply for enjoying the preferential taxation policy for imports.

"This policy has effectively promoted the optimization of China's equipment industry structure and gave birth to a new economic growth point for the equipment manufacturing industry. It has actually increased the core competitiveness and independent innovation capability of advanced manufacturing industries," Xiang Wenbo said.

Regarding the suggestion made by the deputy to cancel the import tax exemption policy for more than 1,000 tons of crawler cranes, the Ministry of Finance replied that in December 2008, the Ministry of Finance and relevant authorities issued the “List of Imported Goods for which Domestic Investment Projects are not Exempted from Taxes (2008 Adjustment)”. With regard to equipment that has made substantial progress in the domestic technology level, the technical specifications for importing non-tax-exempt equipment have been correspondingly increased, which has played an important role in promoting the development of the domestic crawler crane industry and promoting independent innovation by enterprises, such as the import of equipment without tax exemption. The technical specifications have been increased from "up to 300 tons in load" to no more than 1,000 tons. In the near future, the Ministry of Finance and other relevant departments will again revise the above-mentioned catalogue of imported commodities. At that time, according to the latest developments of domestic enterprises on large-tonnage crawler cranes, the technical specifications of non-tax exempt equipment for crawler crane imports will continue to be improved.

After the reply was issued, the handling officer of the Customs Department once again dialed the phone number of the representative of Wenbo, and after receiving the call from Wenbo, he was very excited to express his satisfaction with the replying work and communication of the Ministry of Finance.

"We will continue to vigorously support fiscal work in the future and provide more constructive comments," Xiang Wenbo told reporters.