下一步，面对错综复杂的国际形势和国内发展面临的困难挑战，我们将要实施更大规模的减税和更为明显的降费。增值税的税率还要继续下降，个税专项附加扣除要既公平又简便地抓紧落实到居民的身上，以增加他们的消费能力。与此同时，税务部门代征社保费，这是一个机构和体制改革的措施，但是税和费是不同的两个概念。我们现在要求的是在当前的情况下确保社保费现有征收政策稳定，不得集中清欠。实行新的征管体制以后，收费效率可能会增加，那与此同时，就必须明显降低社保费的费率，其目的就是不但不能增加企业的负担，还要减轻企业的负担。政府要过紧日子，不能去为难企业，这样才能让人民过上好日子。

In the second half of this year, we are seeing significant decreases in both central and local government revenues as a result of further cuts in VAT and other taxes which became effective on 1 May. In view of the complicated international situation and internal challenges facing China’s development, we will enact more significant cuts in taxes and fees, including further lowering the VAT rate and implementing the personal income tax deduction scheme in a fair and expeditious way to boost household spending. As a further step of institutional reform, we will transfer the responsibility for collecting social security contributions to the taxation authorities. As taxes and contributions are two different levies, existing policies on the collection of contributions will remain unchanged for the time being, and forced payments of contributions arrears will not be allowed.

Given that the aforementioned institutional reform may lead to more efficient collection of social security contributions, we will consider meaningfully lowering the contribution rate, so that this reform will not add to business burdens, as this would be just the opposite of our intentions. The government should tighten its belt rather than shift the burdens onto businesses. Only in this way can we deliver a better life for our people.

　　在中国注册的所有企业，不论是外资、民资，对各类所有制企业，我们都一视同仁，简政、减税、减费的措施对你们是公平对待的，如果有不公平你们可以投诉。

　　美国Aura Biosciences首席执行官伊丽莎白·德洛斯·皮诺斯·蓬特：近年来，中国政府陆续出台了若干推动创新创业的指导意见，这表明了中国政府对创新驱动发展战略的高度重视。请问有关推动创新创业工作的最新进展如何？国际工商界应如何更好地参与中国的创新趋势，并为中国经济发展和转型提供新动能？

Let me stress that all enterprises registered in China, be they foreign-invested, privately-invested or of any ownership types, will receive fair treatment in benefiting from administrative rollback and tax and fee cuts. If you encounter any case of unfair treatment, please feel free to file complaints.

Elisabet de los Pinos, Founder and CEO of Aura Biosciences: The Chinese government has set out the guidelines for innovation and entrepreneurship, which lay out the importance of innovation in the development strategy. So we are interested to know what is the progress in these programs, and more importantly, how the international business community can better address and participate in this process.