State Administration of Radio, Film and Television: Will significantly reduce and exempt documentary business tax, value-added tax and income tax

On November 12, Gao Changli, director of the Propaganda Department of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, authoritatively announced that the next step would be to exempt or exempt business tax, value-added tax, and income tax on documentary production and export transactions.

On November 12, the 2014 China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival entered the "highlight" session of the second day. Tong Gang, Deputy Director of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, Xu Shaohua, Member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor, and Chen Jianhua, Deputy Secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, attended and jointly launched the "Record China" social mobile Internet documentary industry operation platform. Gao Changli, director of the Propaganda Department of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, authoritatively announced that the next step will be to reduce or exempt business tax, value-added tax, and income tax on documentary production and export transactions.

The broadcast volume of domestic documentaries has increased significantly.

Yesterday morning, Gao Changli, director of the Propaganda Department of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, authoritatively released many national-level guidance and support directions for documentaries at the documentary festival.

First, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television has expanded broadcast demand and boosted documentary production. "This year, Beijing Documentary Channel and Shanghai Documentary Channel were officially broadcast, forming a new pattern of three satellite channels with CCTV's Documentary Channel." At the same time, it is stipulated that each satellite channel broadcasts 30 minutes of domestic documentaries every day. Gao Changli estimates that this move will increase the broadcast volume of domestic documentaries by about 6000 hours throughout the year, which will have a certain driving effect on the production, price and trading of domestic documentaries. In addition, the annual production of documentaries is expected to reach 6000 hours in 2014, with an annual growth of more than 30% in the past three years.

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terms of policies, Gao Changli said that the State Administration will coordinate relevant state departments to explore some special funds that are in line with the development of cultural industries in the next step, including subsidies for documentary projects, loan interest discounts, premium subsidies, performance incentives, and exemptions for documentary production, transactions and exports. Business tax, value-added tax, and income tax will be exempted, etc. "We strive to increase the annual support funds for documentaries. Now the annual support funds for documentaries have increased from 5 million to 10 million. We must make good use of this 10 million."

In addition, the next step is to reward the excellent short documentary of the China Dream. "When these short films are produced, we will select them and put them on the platform of China Documentary Film Network for you to download and broadcast for free. They have transferred their copyright and the benefits of sales. We will compensate them accordingly. At the same time, we will use this method to encourage everyone to create more documentaries with realistic themes."

Gao Changli also mentioned the bottlenecks faced by China documentaries,"small audiences, low prices, immature market, unfavorable copyright protection, the impact of imported overseas documentaries, lack of professional talents, and not many excellent works."

He revealed that the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television will handle the relationship between the market and the government in the next step. "We must not only mobilize market mechanisms and market factors to promote and guide the industry, but also the government must play a regulatory role to ensure the healthy development of this market."