新形势下如何进一步促进消费潜力释放

On How to Further Unleash Consumption Potential in the New Situation

2018年以来,我国消费增长呈现出缓中趋稳、稳中有新的态势,在传统消费亮点褪色、消费新旧模式格局基本稳定的同时亦有新的亮点出现。"新"主要表现在低线级城市消费能力逐渐增强,数字化加快发展催生新的消费行为和消费产品需求,消费者更趋成熟理性,以及绿色消费理念不断深入带来共享经济繁荣。从消费潜力来看,消费增长的支撑力和阻力并存。从更好满足人民美好生活需要、进一步增强消费对经济增长基础性作用的角度出发,应注意提高政策稳定性、精准性和协调性,着力稳定居民收入和消费预期,进一步改革增值税和消费税,营造良好消费环境。

Since 2018, China’s consumption growth has shown a steady trend with certain changes. There also appeared new highlights in consumption while the traditional consumption highlights faded and the old and new consumption patterns were basically stable. The 'changes' are mainly reflected in the increasing spending power of low-tier cities, the accelerated development of digitalization creating new consumer behaviors and consumer product demand, the more mature and rational consumers, and the deepening of green consumption concepts bringing about shared economic prosperity. From the perspective of consumption potential, the support and resistance of consumption growth coexist. From the perspective of better meeting the people’s needs for a better life and further enhancing the fundamental role of consumption in economic growth, we should pay attention to improving the stability, targetedness and coordination of policies, striving to stabilize the income and consumption expectations of residents, further reforming the value-added tax and consumption tax, and creating a good consumer environment.