Four government departments, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, issued a notice on the 23rd aimed at further preventing harmful intermediary agencies from affecting the cultivation and certification of high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises, and at continuing to polish the "golden signboard" of specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative enterprises.
The notice makes clear that in the certification of specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative SMEs and the preliminary review and recommendation of specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative "little giant" enterprises, provincial SME authorities should improve review mechanisms and standardize whole-process management, effectively cutting off the channels through which intermediary agencies interfere with the evaluation work by means of rigorous review procedures. SME authorities should also ensure enterprises fully understand application policies and review processes, promptly release and respond to hot issues, and reduce information gaps.
The notice requires SME authorities to strengthen the comparison and verification of key data, study the establishment of a front-end patent screening mechanism, and explore the use of technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data. SME authorities, cyberspace authorities and intellectual property authorities should jointly crack down on acts by application-related intermediary agencies such as publishing false information, distorting the interpretation of relevant application and certification policies, releasing false promotional and advertising information related to application services, and soliciting business under the gimmick of guaranteeing application results.
In addition, for enterprises involved in data or material falsification, SME authorities will cancel their certification and they may not apply again within three years. Typical cases of harmful intermediary agencies will be reported on the gradient cultivation platform for high-quality SMEs.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will next strictly organize the certification of specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative "little giant" enterprises, and through methods such as the quality evaluation of the specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative development of SMEs, special inspections of the work of SMEs and high-tech enterprises, and unannounced inspections of specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative SMEs, improve the quality of cultivation and certification of high-quality SMEs and prevent harmful intermediary agencies from exerting influence.
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