In the face of the overall weak domestic appliance consumption market, the country is brewing another subsidy policy to stimulate consumption. A year after the relevant policies are empty, the energy efficiency leader system is expected to officially land around this year's National Day.

News from the website of the National Development and Reform Commission shows that this year will implement the energy efficiency leader system and publish the catalog of home appliances with the highest energy efficiency. Different from previous home appliance subsidy policies, the leader system is not a “Preferential System”. It only publishes and subsidizes the models of the best energy-saving products. As a result, large companies will benefit, and small businesses will be hard pressed.

The reporter learned from the local home appliance sales company that according to the preliminary plan, the leader system will give subsidies for air conditioners and refrigerators with leading energy efficiency levels. For example, for every air-conditioner that sells energy-efficient air conditioners, manufacturers will receive subsidies ranging from 500 yuan to 1,000 yuan. The leader system will adopt the “automatic withdrawal system”. When there are more energy-saving products in the second year, the old products will automatically withdraw from the subsidy list.

According to industry analysts, the energy efficiency leader system is equivalent to a disguised financial subsidy, which will help promote the upgrading of home appliance product structures and promote the growth of energy-saving high-end products.

However, there are also concerns that the state has implemented six years of "home appliances to the countryside, trade-in, energy-saving subsidies," the three major incentives for home appliance industry consumption policy, long overdue the market, which in this year's financial reports of large home appliances have been apparent.

However, the policy is not yet clear. It is still not clear whether the state will grant subsidies to enterprises and whether all companies will shift to reducing the selling prices of home appliances.