The following doc is a collection of Chinese authorities coverage measures designed to present larger financing to tech startups. The measures encourage the use of extra unique—and doubtlessly riskier—means of financing, equivalent to lending by non-bank monetary establishments, pension fund funding in smaller tech corporations, and the use of credit score derivatives. The measures urge the authorities to undertake a new scheme for scoring the innovativeness of tech corporations, in order to channel public and personal funding and incentive insurance policies to profit the excessive scorers.
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Certain Policy Measures to Accelerate the Construction of the Science and Technology Finance System and Strongly Support a High Level of Self-Reliance in Science and Technology
Developing science and know-how (S&T) finance is the important path to deepening the integration of S&T innovation with industrial innovation, and monetary capital is a crucial power supporting high-level self-reliance (自立自强) in S&T. The following coverage measures are hereby proposed to speed up the development of a S&T finance system tailored to S&T innovation, and to assist a excessive stage of self-reliance in S&T and the development of China into an S&T powerhouse.1
A. Overall Requirements
In order to completely implement the spirit of the twentieth Party Congress and the Third Plenum of the twentieth Central Committee, carefully implement the preparations made by the National Science and Technology Conference and the Central Financial Work Conference, and advance the nice process of S&T finance, we will coordinate the growth of coverage devices together with enterprise capital, financial institution loans, the capital market, S&T insurance coverage, and bond issuance, to present whole life-cycle, end-to-end monetary providers for S&T innovation, information long-term capital, affected person capital, and high-quality capital into S&T innovation fields, speed up the growth of a S&T finance system with Chinese traits, type a diversified, multi-tiered, and multi-channel sample of funding in S&T, and strengthen monetary providers for nationwide strategic S&T forces equivalent to nationwide laboratories and main S&T enterprises, thereby offering strong monetary assist for main nationwide S&T duties and for small and medium-sized S&T enterprises.
B. Leveraging enterprise capital’s position as a supplier of new recent forces (新生力军) supporting S&T innovation
1) Establish a “National Venture Capital Guidance Fund.” Leverage the essential position of the National Venture Capital Guidance Fund in supporting S&T innovation, prioritize the development of S&T enterprises as a key course, incubate and develop strategic rising industries, notably future industries, and promote the conversion of main S&T achievements into actual productive forces, in order to speed up the achievement of a excessive stage of self-reliance in S&T, and to incubate and develop new high quality productive forces (新质生产力).
2) Broaden funding sources for enterprise capital funds. Expand the scope of the pilot program for fairness investments by monetary asset funding corporations (AICs)2 to the provinces the place the 18 cities [currently in the pilot] are situated, and assist insurance coverage funding in collaborating in AIC fairness funding pilot applications. Support enterprise capital establishments and industrial funding establishments in elevating funds by issuing bonds, in order to broaden direct financing channels. Encourage social safety funds to make investments in fairness funds—inside their operational scope and topic to their danger administration necessities—in order to assist S&T innovation. Optimize administration mechanisms, assist the participation of insurance coverage funding in enterprise capital investments in accordance with market ideas, and advance pilot reforms for the long-term funding of insurance coverage funding. Guide wealth administration corporations and belief corporations to take part in enterprise capital investing, in accordance with legal guidelines and laws.
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- Translator’s word: This translation renders the Chinese phrase 强国 qiángguó—which accurately means “strong nation” and is typically translated “superpower”—in English as “powerhouse,” as in the phrase “S&T powerhouse” (科技强国). For a extra thorough dialogue in English of the Chinese phrase qiángguó, see: https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/digichina/blog/lexicon-wangluo-qiangguo/.
- Translator’s note: In China, a financial asset investment company (AIC; 金融资产投资公司) is defined as a non-bank financial institution that conducts debt/equity swaps and supporting services for companies, just as a bank does. The main shareholder of an AIC is typically a bank.