The old appliance is renewed to the end of next year

The pilot year of consumer benefits over 5 billion yuan, Beijing, June 3 (reporter Zhang Yixuan) Deputy Minister of Commerce, Jiang Zengwei 3rd, said that since June 1, 2010, home appliances to the old trade policy implementation range will be in the original 9 pilot provinces and cities on the basis of an additional 19 provinces and cities, and gradually spread to the country.　　The policy deadline is tentatively December 31, 2011. According to the implementation plan, the 19 provinces and cities are Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Dalian, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Fujian, Xiamen, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai.　　These areas are the old home appliances dismantling capacity of more mature areas, the rest of Inner Mongolia, Guangxi and other regions to be equipped with the old home appliances dismantling capacity, such as the basic conditions before the launch of implementation. It is reported that since June 1 last year, China in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and other 9 provinces and cities to carry out the old home appliances to replace the new pilot, over the past year, the policy in the economic, social and resources to achieve significant benefits.　　As of May 31, the pilot provinces and cities sold a total of five categories of new household appliances 14.093 million units, sales amounted to 53.98 billion yuan. Over the past year, consumers have benefited more than 5 billion dollars through the policy, benefiting 14 million households, most of them middle and lower income groups.　　According to statistics, home appliances to the old for the new employment of more than 300,000 people, of which more than 70% are migrant workers and urban laid-off workers.　　Over the same period, the pilot area to reclaim 14.798 million old home appliances, dismantling 8.655 million units of old household appliances, recyclable waste plastics, copper scrap and other renewable resources 272,000 tons, promoting the recycling of resources. Under the impetus of the old trade new policy, the home appliance industry bucked the trend and was affected by the financial crisis very little. 2009 China's household electrical appliances industry cumulative industrial sales output year-on-year growth of 3.28%, 2010 year in the first quarter of China's household appliances industry sales output value increased by 31.26%. Home appliance recycling and dismantling enterprises also gain opportunities for development.