1.In the five years since 2007, we shall allocate 150 million yuan every year for the development fund of software and animation industry (hereinafter referred to as development fund) which is mainly used to encourage the investment to software and animation industry and award the senior technical and management staff of software and animation enterprises.
2. Those who invest in software and animation enterprises or R&D institutes in Guangzhou shall be awarded with 5% of their total investment amount by development fund on the precondition that the investment amount shall exceed 10 million yuan and the investment contract duration shall be longer than 5 years. The award shall not overrun 3 million yuan.
3. Domestic large software and animation enterprises which have set up headquarters, regional headquarters or R&D institutes in Guangzhou with an investment amount over 30 million yuan, shall be awarded with 6% of their total investment amount by development fund to their companies (institutes) set in Guangzhou. The award shall not overrun 5 million yuan.
4. Software and animation enterprises which rent private office house shall be compensated with certain percentage of the renting by district (county level city) government (where the company is registered) on the basis of "Renting Reference of House" issued annually by state land and house administration departments.
5. We shall encourage loan guarantee institutions to provide guarantee for software and animation enterprises. Those which provide guarantee over one year shall be awarded with 1% of the total amount of guarantee by development fund. The award shall not overrun 0.5 million yuan.
6. Software enterprises which have passed the verification of ISO9000 shall be awarded with a sum of money not higher than 50,000 yuan by development fund.Software enterprises which have passed the verification of CMM/CMMI2, CMM/CMMI4, CMM/CMMI5 shall be awarded respectively with 0.2 million yuan, 0.3 million yuan, 0.4 million yuan and 0.5 million yuan. Enterprises which upgrade their verification shall be awarded with the margin amount.
7. Animation enterprises which have their original animation firstly broadcasted in CCTV shall be awarded 2,000 yuan per minute; the award shall not surpass 2 million yuan. Those which are first broadcasted in Guangzhou TV Station or provincial TV Station shall be awarded with 1,000 yuan per minute; the award shall not surpass 1 million yuan; those which are first broadcasted in influential overseas TV Stations shall be awarded with 2,500 yuan per minute; the award shall not surpass 2 million yuan.
8. Officially operating original games approved by relative national departments shall be awarded with 50,000 or 200,000 yuan depending on their level and influence.
9. Original animation works winning prizes of national level, provincial level or city level shall be awarded with 100,000 yuan to 500,000 yuan on the basis of the prize level; Original animation works winning authoritative international prize shall be awarded with 500,000 yuan to 1 million yuan on the basis of the prize level.
10. Original animation scripts which have been adopted by relative enterprises for production and broadcasting after their public issuance or publication shall be awarded with 5,000 yuan per 10,000 words.
11. Certificated software and animation enterprises of provincial and city level shall enjoy a tax rebate amounting extra part of income tax surpassing 10%.
12. Software parks and software enterprises which have set up post-doctoral research center and enterprises post-doctoral research station upon approval shall be subsidized with 0.2 million yuan and 0.3 million yuan by science and technology fund of municipal Science and Technology Department.
13. People who work in software and animation enterprises in Guangzhou or engage in software and animation courses shall be subsidized with 30% of their training fare; the amount shall not overrun 10,000 yuan.
14. People who enjoy an annul income over 120,000 yuan and a duration over a year and work for certificated national, provincial and municipal key software and animation enterprises shall get an award amounting 35% of their income tax on the precondition that the tax amount of their enterprises is below 2 million yuan; if the tax amount fall between 2 million yuan and 5 million yuan, the above mentioned staff members shall enjoy 40% of income tax; if the tax amount is higher than 5 million yuan, then they shall enjoy 50% of income tax; the rebate shall not exceed 0.25 million yuan.
15. Middle and senior talents (not registered permanent residents) who come to Guangzhou investing, setting up software and animation and invest over 3 million yuan in Guangzhou, shall be subsidized with 5% of the total house purchase amount when they buy their first house in Guangzhou; The subsidy shall not exceed 50,000 yuan.
16. Special technical staff member with relevant qualification over middle level which has served software and animation enterprise for over 3 years in Guangzhou shall apply for permanent residence.
(Extract of Several Regulations on Further Support to the Development of Software and Animation Industry of Guangzhou)
