On a summer morning, a long line formed in front of the door of the powder shop in Luocheng, Xiangyin County, Yueyang City, Hunan Province. Chen Guo, the owner of the powder shop, was busy in the kitchen with his staff. "Our store has just opened for more than a month, with the best business in the morning and night." Chen Guo said that since engaging in the catering industry, although there have been some difficulties affected by the epidemic, as long as we keep working hard, we will be confident to tide over the difficulties. The catering industry is an important area for steady growth, consumption promotion, employment expansion and people's livelihood, and plays an important role in promoting the formation of a strong domestic market. For some time, the normal production and operation of the catering industry in some regions have been affected by the epidemic, and many small, medium-sized and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households are under great pressure and have many difficulties. The general offices of 11 departments including the Ministry of Commerce recently issued the notice on the implementation of supporting policies to promote the recovery and development of the catering industry (hereinafter referred to as the notice), which clearly requires the implementation of supporting policies to promote the recovery and development of the catering industry from six aspects. The notice proposes to reasonably and accurately define the market entities to which the supporting policies apply, so as to realize the full enjoyment. In principle, market entities that have obtained relevant certificates of business license and food business license (filing) in accordance with the law and whose main business form of food business is "catering service operator" can apply for supporting policies and measures for the catering industry. Places with conditions can give full play to the advantages of the government service platform and implement "enjoy without application" for the above catering market entities. In terms of measures to speed up the introduction of subsidies for regular nucleic acid testing and epidemic prevention disinfection and sterilization, the notice proposes to encourage local competent commercial departments and financial departments with conditions to formulate specific measures for free regular nucleic acid testing and epidemic prevention disinfection and sterilization subsidies for employees of catering enterprises according to the requirements of local epidemic prevention and control headquarters for nucleic acid testing and epidemic prevention disinfection and sterilization of catering enterprises, and clarify the scope, proportion, application process, handling window Apply for the list of materials, improve the audit efficiency, and allocate subsidy funds in time. In terms of implementing the social insurance assistance policy for enterprises, the notice proposes to continue to implement the phased reduction of unemployment insurance and work-related injury insurance rates for catering enterprises in 2022. For catering enterprises that do not lay off staff or have fewer layoffs, we will continue to implement the policy of returning unemployment insurance to stabilize their posts and increase the return ratio. In terms of broadening the financing channels of enterprises and enhancing the financing guarantee function, the notice proposes that on the basis of ensuring data security and complying with the requirements of credit investigation management, relying on the existing sharing and exchange platform, strengthen the data sharing management of inter departmental catering enterprises according to law and regulations, carry out docking with financial institutions and credit investigation institutions, and issue more credit loans. Conditional local financial departments can provide capital injection, guarantee fee subsidies and other support to government financing guarantee institutions. In terms of supporting the consumption of food aid for the elderly, the notice proposes to encourage all regions to adjust measures to local conditions, combine elderly care services and other work, increase support, support the social catering distribution force with a license and a quantitative level of food safety of catering services through government purchase services, and provide food aid and catering services for the elderly. (outlook new era)