"Playing my beloved Rewap and playing Muqam..." Mai Mai Tiyiming fiddled with the strings and tuned the newly "baked" Rewap, while happily humming "Mike" Xilaipu", the singing lingered over the ancient city of Kashgar, fluttering in the warm spring breeze.
Maimaiti Yiming is the representative inheritor of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region-level intangible cultural heritage project, leading more than 30 apprentices to inherit the traditional folk musical instrument making craftsmanship. Five generations of his family run folk musical instrument shops in the ancient city of Kashgar.
"Every April when the peach blossoms are in full bloom and the willow trees are budding, you will send the tax benefits 'spring breeze', which warms my heart." Mai Mai Tiyiming said with a smile when he saw the tax cadres who came to promote the policy, " Making ethnic traditional musical instruments is my favorite thing, and now the musical instrument store is doing well. In the first quarter of this year, I enjoyed a tax reduction of more than 3,600 yuan, and I have more energy to inherit the traditional folk musical instrument craftsmanship.”
Like Maimaiti Yiming, there is also Reheman who devotes himself to the inheritance of national musical instruments because of his love for traditional national musical instruments. As the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage of national musical instrument production skills, he led more than 500 people from 273 households in the village to engage in musical instrument production, and established a tune musical instrument production and sales store to produce and sell national musical instruments at home.
During the 31st National Tax Publicity Month, the Kashgar Regional Taxation Bureau of the State Administration of Taxation organized a special campaign of "Thousands of Cadres Visit Ten Thousand Enterprises, Benefit the People, Resolve Difficulties and Promote Development". Tax officials walked into Wukusake Village, Towanke, Wukusake Town, Shufu County, Kashgar City, and offered preferential tax and fee policies to the craftsmen and musical instruments manufacturing and selling shops here.
It is understood that in 2020, Towankewukusak Village was named "China Xinjiang Ethnic Musical Instrument Village" by the State Council. In 2011, it was rated as the first batch of national-level intangible cultural heritage productive protection demonstration bases by the Ministry of Culture, and was rated in the same year. It is a national 3A-level tourist attraction. From the beginning of a small workshop one by one to the current production and sales store, Towankewukusak Village has a history of more than 150 years of hand-made ethnic musical instruments. bigger.
Reheman's ancestors have been engaged in the production and performance of national musical instruments for three generations. More than 60 years have passed. Although the old man has white temples and calluses on his hands, he still carefully polishes each instrument every day. He told the tax officials: "Since I was 6 years old, I followed my grandfather and father to learn to make ethnic musical instruments such as Rewap and Dutar. In 2000, I led my son, apprentices and folk artists in the village to make a 5-meter-long musical instrument. The dutar. This dutar was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list and is now kept in the exhibition hall in the village.”
Dutar, Rewap, Aijk... In Reheman's musical instrument manufacturing and selling shop, all kinds of musical instruments almost filled a room. In addition to the musical instruments used for playing, there are also many exquisite and small musical instrument ornaments. In addition to enjoying the uniquely shaped and beautifully patterned musical instruments, tourists can also see the whole process of making musical instruments and purchase their favorite musical instruments.
Rehemanla led the tax cadres to visit the expanding production workshop. The tax cadres compared the policy enjoyment list and gave precise guidance to the financial staff.
"Since April 1, small-scale VAT taxpayers will be exempted from VAT on taxable sales income with a 3% collection rate. This policy is too powerful. It is expected that our manufacturing and sales stores will be able to reduce or exempt more taxes this year." He He After receiving the tax policy package, Mann said, "Tax cadres' on-site visits, accurate publicity, and meticulous guidance have helped us to enjoy preferential tax and fee policies in a timely manner. We are confident that ethnic musical instruments will be known to more people."
"More than 50 kinds of musical instruments in the store are all made by villagers. The development and growth of the manufacturing and sales store is inseparable from the support of various preferential policies of the state. Especially the preferential policy of exempting small-scale VAT taxpayers from VAT, Helped us reduce the cost of our products." Reheman said happily, "Every time the tax officials come, they ask us if we have any tax-related difficulties. When we encounter tax-related questions, they always solve them in a timely manner, bringing us real money. Silver bonus."
Kashgar tax cadres should be good tax propagandists, pass on the good voice of taxation, achieve "fast" response, "fine" publicity, "simple" procedures, "good" service, "clear" policies, further stimulate the vitality of the national musical instrument industry, and use tax Preferential fee policies help the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage and make national musical instruments widely known.