In order to boost internal demand and ease the economic pressure under the epidemic, Macao's "third round of anti epidemic electronic consumption preferential plan" will be put into use on June 1. According to this plan, each Macao resident will be given a start-up payment of 5000 yuan (mop, the same below) and a reduction of up to 3000 yuan. Promoting consumption, ensuring employment, and supporting the economy... Since this year, the MSAR government has continued to launch a number of relief "combos" to strengthen people's livelihood and boost market vitality. According to statistics, as of May 30, more than 544000 Macao residents had completed electronic consumption registration. The reporter saw in the streets and alleys that many stores have put up advertising posters of "our store welcomes the use of electronic consumption" in advance and launched preferential activities to attract customers. Analysts believe that the use of electricity consumption preferences is expected to stimulate local consumption and expand domestic demand, so as to achieve the policy objectives of stabilizing enterprise operation and ensuring employee employment. In order to go all out to stabilize employment, the Labor Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR government has taken a number of measures, such as online and offline employment docking, increasing the number of matching venues for industry special sessions, and so on, to assist local residents in employment, involving industries including personal services, hotels, high-end retail, people's livelihood retail, security and cleaning services. In the first five months of this year, more than 3000 local residents were successfully recruited at the job matching meeting. Liliqiong, director of the Employment Department of the labor bureau, said that matchmaking will help many residents find jobs and achieve certain results. In the future, matchmaking meetings will be held regularly for specific industries. "It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish." Since september2020, the Labor Bureau has continued to launch the "training program with Tianjin" to help residents affected by the epidemic improve their vocational skills through training, enter the job market, and obtain certain economic assistance. From September, 2020 to April, 2022, the program has offered 535 courses in total, with more than 12000 students enrolled. In addition, the SAR government will launch a temporary subsidy scheme to encourage employers to employ local unemployed residents during the epidemic period. From June 1 to August 31, enterprises will receive a one-time subsidy of RMB 19968 for each additional local resident who has been unemployed for more than 60 days based on the original number of local employees. Promoting the gradual recovery of tourism is the key to promoting the stable recovery of Macao's overall economy. The Tourism Administration of the Macao Special Administrative Region government has continued to launch the "food, housing and tourism for Macao people" project, encouraging residents to travel to the community to feel the diversified tourism characteristics of Macao, expanding domestic demand and driving community consumption. According to statistics, since the end of January this year, the project has launched 35 diversified local tour routes. Macao residents have actively participated in local tour and hotel experience, and more than 86000 people have registered in four months. In order to promote the development of community economy, the economic and Technological Development Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region government, together with chambers of Commerce in different regions, has successively launched two activities, namely "gathering in front of Customs" and "Youlu ring". Through the introduction of AR (augmented reality) technology application and the combination of community consumption scenarios, attract people, encourage consumption and revitalize the community economy. The local tourism consumption mode of "homestay vacation" is favored by many Macao citizens. According to the Bureau of science and technology, it is believed that the two community consumption activities can have a superimposed effect with the "electricity consumption preference", further stimulate residents' consumption and boost the community economy. In the first quarter of this year, the number of inbound tourists to Macao increased by 8% year-on-year. During the "May Day" holiday in the mainland (from April 30 to May 4), Macao welcomed a long lost crowd. The total number of inbound tourists reached 137000, and the average occupancy rate of the hotel was 59.5%. The Tourism Administration said that it would undertake the good customer situation during the May Day holiday, plan the offline publicity and promotion activities and tourism products in the second half of the year, attract more mainland tourists to Australia for consumption and tourism, and promote the recovery of the tourism industry. We should add to employment and expand consumption, and subtract from the burden of enterprises. In order to alleviate the adverse impact of the continuing epidemic on the operation of small and medium-sized enterprises, the Macao monetary authority has also promoted financial institutions to extend the preferential measures for the reduction or rebate of the transaction receipt service charge of "Juyi" (means of aggregate payment) for small and medium-sized enterprises for another six months to September 30 this year. Through financial "blood transfusion", it is expected that about 20000 merchants will benefit from "burden reduction". This is one of the eight measures to support small and medium-sized enterprises launched by the Macao SAR government last October. "These measures can help relieve people's difficulties and play a role of precise assistance." Huangguosheng, vice chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce in Macao, said that he called on the broad industrial and commercial circles and residents to stabilize their confidence in the future, overcome the cyclical economic downturn, carry forward the Macao spirit of "helping each other in the same boat and watching each other", and support the economy with action. (Xinhua News Agency)