The National Development and Reform Commission strengthens the regulation and supervision of coal prices, and immediately interviews if it exceeds a reasonable range!

Since the beginning of this year, topics such as the pressure of power supply in many places and the rising production costs of coal downstream industries have caused heated discussions among the publ.

In this regard, the National Development and Reform Commission has recently published several articles on the regulation and supervision of coal pric.

The National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Announcement on Clarifying the Price Gouging Behavior of Operators in the Coal Sector" (hereinafter referred to as the "Announcement"), which will be implemented on MayThe National Development and Reform Commission stated that it will pay close attention to the supply and demand situation and price changes in the coal market, strengthen the supervision of the signing and performance of coal medium and long-term contracts, and take effective and effective measures to ensure that coal prices operate within a reasonable ran.

Coal supply and price stability are of great significance

Coal is an important primary product related to the national economy and people's liveliho.

Price gouging is considered to be one of the important reasons for this round of irrational rise in coal pric.

In this regard, the National Development and Reform Commission organized special forces to systematically sort out domestic and foreign laws, regulations and supervision practices on price violations, listened to the opinions of relevant enterprises and associations in the coal and power industries, and solicited opinions from relevant departmen.

The "Announcement" clarifies the red line of supervision and provides clear behavioral guidelines for coal enterpris.

Here are 4 manifestations of price gouging

One is to fabricate price increase informati.

The second is to disseminate information on price increas.

The third is hoardi.

The fourth is to increase prices by a large margin or in a disguised form without justifiable reaso.

Determine the reasonable range of spot price

How to judge the "substantial price increase" in price gouging?

The person in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission said that since the "Notice" has specified a reasonable range of medium and long-term coal transaction prices, this range is based on full consideration of costs, taking into account the upstream and downstream interests of coal and electricity, and properly connecting with the market-based electricity pricing mechanism for coal and electrici.

In this regard, the Price Department of the National Development and Reform Commission specially convened key coal and power companies, industry associations, market information agencies and the National Coal Trading Center to hold special meetings to study and judge the coal price situation and study and strengthen coal price regulation and supervisi.

According to the relevant requirements of the "Notice" and "Announcement", since May 1, the medium and long-term transaction price and spot price of coal have a reasonable ran.

When the coal price exceeds a reasonable range, an immediate reminder to interview

On May 17th, the National Development and Reform Commission held an online press conference in M.

Meng Wei pointed out that since the beginning of this year, the global new crown epidemic has not been effectively controlled, and the supply bottleneck problem still exists, coupled with the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the international commodity prices fluctuated at a high level, and the prices of energy and mineral products once surg.

Meng Wei said that in the next step, the National Development and Reform Commission will adhere to comprehensive policies and precise regulation, and make every effort to ensure the supply and price of bulk commoditi.

We will use coal as the "anchor" to ensure energy supply and price stabili.

Through measures such as improving the coal production, supply, storage and sales system and strengthening the management of market expectations, the coal price will be guided to operate within a reasonable range, and the electricity price will be stabilized by stabilizing the coal price, thereby stabilizing the overall energy consumption co.

Increase domestic exploration and development of iron ore, speed up the construction of mineral product bases, and enhance domestic resource security capabiliti.

At the same time, strengthen import and export regulation, resolutely curb the blind development of projects with high energy consumption, high emission and low level, and promote the safe supply of important mineral products and basically stable pric.