Price reform to tackle difficulties, speed up in an all-round way and push forward in depth

Source: Policy Research Office sub station 2015-08-10 November 15, 2014 Since the executive meeting of the State Council of Japan, all relevant departments and competent price departments at all levels have taken the initiative, strengthened linkage and worked together to tackle difficulties They have taken new steps in simplifying administration and delegating power in the price field, made active exploration in strengthening supervision and optimizing services, and all measures to speed up price reform have been successfully implemented I since November last year, when the scope of government pricing has been greatly reduced, the national development and Reform Commission, together with relevant departments, has successively liberalized and decentralized the prices of 56 goods and services, including 40 goods and services such as the vast majority of drugs and most professional services, 4 at the provincial level, 1 at the provincial level, and 11 at the local level Compared with the central pricing catalogue in 2001, the specific pricing items are reduced by about 80% All regions also actively plan to speed up price reform and minimize the scope of government pricing, with a reduction rate of more than 50% Among them, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing and other provinces and cities have issued guidance documents to deepen price reform; Guangdong, Tianjin, Henan, Hebei, Fujian, Jilin and other provinces and cities have all reduced their specific pricing projects by more than 60% The implementation of these reform measures has effectively stimulated market vitality, enhanced the enthusiasm of social investment, and created a good price environment for stable growth, structural adjustment and people's livelihood II Speed up the price marketization reform in key areas, conscientiously implement the requirements of ZF [2015] No 9 document, accelerate the reform of transmission and distribution price, further expand the pilot scope from Shenzhen and Mengxi power grid to Anhui, Hubei, Ningxia, Yunnan and Guizhou power grids, and liberalize the trans regional and trans provincial power transaction price The "three-step" reform plan of natural gas price was successfully implemented, and the price of natural gas for non residential use was smoothly combined Meanwhile, the price of direct gas supply for large users was liberalized The natural gas with market adjusted price accounted for 40% of the total consumption, and the establishment of Shanghai Oil and gas trading center was actively promoted On July 1, it was successfully opened and put into operation The railway freight price has been straightened out, the price mechanism has been further improved, and a more flexible up and down floating mechanism has been established to allow up floating of no more than 10% and down floating of no limit, thus increasing the price elasticity Xinjiang cotton, northeast and Inner Mongolia soybean target price reform pilot work in an orderly manner The rationalization of price relations in key areas is conducive to promoting stable economic growth and laying a foundation for further deepening reform Third, the role of price leverage in stabilizing growth and adjusting structure will be further played to actively implement the coal electricity price linkage mechanism, comprehensively promote the same price of industrial and commercial electricity, reduce the on grid price and industrial and commercial electricity price of coal-fired power generation enterprises by about 2 cents and 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour respectively, and reduce the burden of power consumption enterprises by about 60 billion yuan We will carry out import and export, administrative examination and approval pre-service, clearing up and standardizing enterprise related charges, cancel the annual examination system of charging licenses, reduce charging standards, cancel unreasonable charging items, and optimize the business environment Put forward suggestions on clearing up and standardizing the shipping charges of the Yangtze River, and study and establish a charging catalogue system We have successively launched the system of step water price and gas price for residents, carried out the pilot reform of agricultural water price in 80 counties of 27 provinces, and introduced policies to adjust the sewage discharge fee and sewage treatment fee, which effectively mobilized the enthusiasm of enterprises and residents to save energy resources and reduce pollution, and promoted the adjustment of industrial structure Fourth, we should strengthen the price supervision service, take new steps, adhere to the combination of deregulation and management, and actively explore new ways to strengthen in-process and post event supervision and optimize price service The first is to study the cost supervision and audit methods for transmission and distribution and natural gas pipeline transportation pricing, and carry out cost supervision and audit The measures for supervision and examination of transmission and distribution pricing cost issued in June marks a new stage of scientific and institutionalized price supervision in the natural monopoly link of super large network Second, the 12358 price reporting system, which has four levels of national networking, has been put into operation, and the analysis of reporting situation has been released every month The social supervision channels have been actively unblocked, so as to "respond to all complaints and implement all complaints" Third, we carried out special inspections on drug prices and charges related to enterprises, investigated and dealt with major monopoly cases such as Qualcomm and Mercedes Benz, and maintained the market price order and fair competition market environment Fourth, the ability of price service has been improved Our committee has established close cooperation with 10 institutions including the State Grain and oil information center and Shanghai Futures Exchange to further improve the monitoring and early warning capabilities Beijing launched the "daily price Morning Post" mobile phone client, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, respectively launched "price Cube", "price link" websites or mobile phone clients, etc., to provide timely price information services for the society, which is deeply loved and welcomed by the masses This year is the key year for comprehensively deepening the price reform, and the reform task in the second half of the year is still heavy We will conscientiously implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, in accordance with the requirements of streamlining administration, decentralization, combination of decentralization and optimization of service coordination, seize the favorable opportunity, highlight key areas, pay close attention to the key points of reform, continue to push forward the price reform in depth, and constantly improve the price supervision and service level (1) continue to deepen the simplification of administration and decentralization of power We will continue to deepen the reform of electricity prices, continue to pilot the reform of transmission and distribution prices, and continue to expand the scope of the pilot Strengthen the supervision of natural gas pipeline transportation, study and formulate the management methods of pipeline transportation price and the supervision and examination methods of pricing cost Actively promote the construction of Shanghai oil and gas trading center, and foster a good market environment for deepening the market-oriented reform of natural gas prices We will actively and steadily push forward the reform of medical service prices, and at the same time, we will strengthen the convergence of prices, medical insurance and other relevant policies We will improve the pilot policy for the reform of target prices for cotton and soybeans We will comprehensively clean up and standardize enterprise related charges, and establish as soon as possible "three lists" of enterprise related charges, import and export links and administrative examination and approval pre charges (2) regulating government pricing and market price supervision We will comprehensively revise and issue the central and local pricing catalogues as soon as possible, and improve the pricing power list system We will further improve the government's pricing system, refine the cost supervision and review rules, improve the public participation, legitimacy review, expert argumentation and other systems, and standardize pricing procedures We will improve the price social supervision system, give full play to the role of the 12358 price reporting system of the national four level network, and accelerate the construction of price integrity We will improve the anti-monopoly law enforcement system and continue to strengthen law enforcement (3) innovate the price service mode Speed up the construction of price information, make full use of big data technology, improve the monitoring and early warning system, timely release people's livelihood price information, and improve service capacity To study and establish a commodity price index system, and reasonably guide the market behaviors of producers, operators and consumers Focusing on the prominent problem of price charging reflected by enterprises and the masses, we will intensify the inspection and inspection of price charging, and safeguard the legitimate price rights and interests of the public.