China News Service, May 25. According to the official WeChat news of the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission recently issued the "Notice on the Action Plan for Deepening the Reform of the Price Mechanism during the 14th Five-Year Plan Period" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan").
The "Action Plan" proposes that in the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, deepening the reform of the price mechanism should be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, focusing on helping to achieve the goal of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality", and promote resource conservation and environmental protection. Protect and improve the quality of public service supply, better guarantee and improve people’s livelihood, in-depth advance price reforms, improve price control mechanisms, and enhance price governance capabilities.
By 2025, the prices of competitive areas and links are mainly determined by the market, the scientific pricing mechanism of the network-based natural monopoly link has been fully established, the energy and resource price formation mechanism has been further improved, the price control mechanism of important livelihood commodities has become more complete, and the public service price policy has been basically improved. A price policy system that meets the requirements of high-quality development has basically been established.
The "Action Plan" clearly stated that the focus was on strengthening price regulation and promoting the reform of energy, water resources, and public service prices. The first is to strengthen and improve price regulation.
Improve the monitoring, forecasting and early warning system for key commodities, strengthen the price control of important commodities such as grain, oil, meat, vegetables, fruit, milk, adhere to and improve the minimum purchase price policy for rice and wheat, improve the target price policy for cotton, and do a good job in large commodities such as iron ore, copper, and corn. In response to commodity price fluctuations, we will promptly propose comprehensive control measures and strengthen market expectations management.
The second is to deepen the reform of energy prices.
Continue to advance the reform of transmission and distribution prices, continue to deepen the market-oriented reform of on-grid electricity prices, improve the price formation mechanism for wind power, photovoltaic power generation, and pumped storage, establish a new type of energy storage price mechanism; for high energy-consuming and high-emission industries, improve differential electricity prices and tiered electricity prices We will promote energy conservation and carbon reduction through other green electricity pricing policies; steadily promote the reform of oil and natural gas prices, adapt to the development direction of "one network in the whole country", and improve the pricing mechanism for natural gas pipeline transportation.
The third is to systematically promote the reform of water resources prices.
Innovate and improve the water supply price formation mechanism of water conservancy projects, deepen the comprehensive reform of agricultural water price and urban water supply price reform; further improve the sewage treatment charging mechanism, and raise the charging standard to a level that compensates for the cost of sewage treatment and sludge harmless disposal and is reasonably profitable. And establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism.
The fourth is to accelerate the reform of public service prices.
Improve pre-school education fee policies and standardize private education fees; establish a sound pricing mechanism for elderly care services to support the development of inclusive elderly care services; further improve funeral service fee policies and standardize charging behavior; improve the ticket price formation mechanism for scenic spots and strengthen monopoly services in scenic spots Price supervision; improve the pricing mechanism for utilities such as water, electricity, heating and garbage disposal.
The "Action Plan" emphasizes that it is necessary to grasp the opportunity and intensity of reforms, fully study and demonstrate social affordability, and improve supporting measures for people's livelihood; insist on cost supervision and review as an important procedure for the government to formulate and adjust prices; improve the price rule of law system, and promote prices Management is institutionalized and institutionalized.
At the same time, all localities are required to formulate specific plans based on actual conditions, and steadily promote the reform of the price mechanism during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period to ensure that various key tasks are implemented.