Group 1 - The "tax refund" policy is reshaping the competitive landscape of China's manufacturing exports, with a specific example showing a photovoltaic component company saving 120 million yuan in cash flow, equivalent to 18% of its net profit in Q3 2024 [1] - The policy reveals three underlying games: the tax refund game in technology-intensive industries, compliance challenges for cross-border e-commerce, and the regional tax refund siphoning effect [1][2] - A battery company benefits from a 13% tax refund rate, but 73% of its input tax comes from imported separator materials, highlighting the complexities of the tax refund system [1] Group 2 - The Chengdu-Chongqing region's laptop cluster utilizes a "processing trade" model, increasing tax refunds by 42 yuan per laptop, but causing a loss of 3.7 billion USD in processing trade orders from East China in the first eight months of 2024 [2] - In the first half of 2024, the national export tax refund processed reached 1.54 trillion yuan, with a 79% year-on-year increase in recovered illegal tax refunds [2] - Future compliance benefits will concentrate on multinational manufacturing leaders with AEO certification and overseas warehouse companies using blockchain verification, while small exporters using manual methods may face a 17% risk of tax refund loss [2]