Several Opinions of the Zhongshan People's Government on
Further Boosting Headquarters Economy was recently released. The new policy
takes incentive policies in Guangzhou and Shenzhen as benchmarks and highlights
the features of "wide coverage, great strength and human-based
design".
The Opinions further expanded the scope of the
identification of headquarter enterprises. Three special cases can be directly
identified: domestic and overseas listed companies, enterprises that are listed
in other cities but have placed enterprise legal persons with headquarter
functions in Zhongshan, and secondary companies (or above) or regional
headquarters of central enterprises; service, manufacturing and construction
enterprises that reached a certain tax payment amount and met a certain revenue
standards; enterprises with special conditions and of special
nature.
The Opinions increased the incentives for headquarter
enterprises to settle and operate in Zhongshan. A headquarter enterprise
settlement award is added, so that enterprises that meet the requirements for
direct identification and are recognized as headquarter enterprises can enjoy
the one-off award of 2 million yuan for that year. For the coming year, these
enterprises will be given a maximum award of 50% of their contribution to the
city in the previous year. The total amount of rewards received by each
enterprise shall not exceed 100 million yuan.
Headquarter
enterprises will have priority to acquire land for construction, and they are
allowed to independently or jointly construct headquarters office buildings.
These buildings shall be mainly used by themselves, or can be partly leased or
transferred.