Enterprises with foreign investment in Anhui Province are granted the following preferential policies: ■ As regards the following incomes, the foreign-invested enterprise income tax may be exempted or reduced: the incomes generated from the engagement in agriculture, forestry, husbandry and fishery; the incomes generated from investment in and business operations of the important public infrastructure projects supported by the state; the income generated from the projects of environmental protection, energy and water saving and satisfying the related requirements; the incomes generated from transferring technologies and satisfying the related requirements. ■ As regards important high-tech enterprises necessary to be supported by the state, the enterprise income tax shall be levied at the reduced tax rate of 15%. As regards a small meagre-profit enterprise satisfying the prescribed conditions, the enterprise income tax shall be levied at a reduced tax rate of 20%.   ■ Encouraged projects with foreign investment which conforms to Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries and encouraged projects with foreign investment in Anhui which conforms to Catalogue of Priority Industries for Foreign Investment in the Central and Western Regions shall be exempted from customs duties when importing production equipments and technology within the total amount of the investment fund.   ■ Equipment and related technology, spare parts and accessories imported for technical innovation of the already established foreign invested enterprises that are engaged in the encouraged industries and projects, R & D centers with foreign investment, foreign invested enterprises that adopt advanced technology and foreign invested enterprises producing for export are exempted from tariff on the condition that, within the approved business scope, the importing country couldn誸 produce the needed equipment or fail to meet the performance requirements.   ■ Foreign-invested enterprises in the thirty counties (cities or districts) in Anhui enjoy other preferential treatments according to related provisions in Development of the West Regions. The income tax of foreign-invested enterprises encouraged by the state shall be levied at the reduced tax rate of 15% from 2001 to 2010.  These thirty counties (cities or districts) are Changfeng, Huaiyuan, Zongyang, Qianshan, Taihu, Susong, Wangjiang, Yuexi, Dingyuan, Linquan, Taihe, Funan, Yingshang, Jieshou, Dangshan, Xiaoxian, Lingbi, Sixian, Wuwei, Shouxian, Huoqiu, Shucheng, Jinzhai, Huoshan, Yu’an (District), Guoyang, Lixin, Shitai, Langxi and Jingxian.    ■ Additional preferential policies for foreign investment provided by various local authorities.    Preferential Policies for Service Outsourcing:  Hefei is one of China.’s model service outsourcing cities, Wuhu Economic & Technological Development Zone and Ma.’anshan Huashan Economic Development Zone are provincial level model zones of service outsourcing, enjoying many preferential policies, including: 1. National policy: Reply given by General Office of the State Council to problems on how to promote the development of the service outsourcing industry (GOSC[2009]No.9), Reply given by General Office of the State Council to promote the development of the service outsourcing industry (GOSC[2010]No.69) 2. Provincial policy: Opinion given by General Office of the People.’s Government of Anhui Province on how to promote the development of the service outsourcing industry. (Anhui Government Office[2009]No.9) 3. City.’s policy: Implementation Opinions of speeding up the development of modern service industry in Hefei City (Hefei Government[2010]No.20), Notification on printing and distributing enforcement regulations about developing the tertiary industry in Wuhu City (Wuhu Government[2009]No.56), Preferential policies issued by Commercial & Trade & High-tech Zone of Ma.’anshan Huashan Economic Development Zone   Details in www.ahbofcom.gov.cn