General Administration of Market Supervision: Encourage Off-Line Food Enterprises to Develop On-Line Business

The joint defense and control mechanism of the State Council recently held a press meeting to support food production and business enterprises to resume the production and encourage off-line food enterprises to develop on-line business. Provide various policy support for the enterprises. Including: First, the permit may be extended, and local market supervision departments may allow its effective term to be extended until the local epidemic situation is relieved, providing the convenience to the counterpart. The second is that the license can inform and commit that the qualified enterprises may be implemented “first license and then check”. The third is that the license may be handled on-line and the food production and operation license may be handled online. Fourthly, the approval of permits may be accelerated. Local market supervision departments are speeding up the approval of applications for food production and operating licenses, striving to create conditions for the enterprises to resume work and resume the production.

Due to the fact that dining out and purchasing food have decreased during the epidemic period, off-line food enterprises are encouraged to develop on-line business, make up for the shortage of off-line business, and enhance their ability to resist risks. E. commerce platforms are encouraged to implement more generous reliefs to bring more benefits to the consumers and platform merchants.