China News Service, November 16th. National Development and Reform Commission spokesperson Meng Wei pointed out on the 16th that affected by the current tight global natural gas supply and demand situation and soaring gas prices, the overall national natural gas supply and demand will be tightly balanced during the heating season this year, and all localities and related companies will be urged to strictly implement it. The natural gas price policy keeps the price of gas used for people's livelihood basically stable.

　　The National Development and Reform Commission held a regular press conference on the 16th. At the meeting, Meng Wei pointed out when introducing the situation of domestic natural gas supply, that due to the early period of the country’s large-scale cold wave, some northern areas were heated in advance. Since November 7th, the National Natural Gas Day The supply reached more than 1 billion cubic meters, an increase of about 100 million cubic meters over the same period last year.

In the face of this cold wave, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration have organized PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC, and National Pipeline Corporation to take the response work as a test of the ability to ensure natural gas supply this winter and next spring, and comprehensively adopt and orderly use Measures such as pipeline storage of gas, start of underground gas storage exploitation, and targeted increase of gas supply for power generation have ensured the stable and orderly supply of natural gas.

　　Meng Wei said that the heating season in the north has already begun.

Affected by the current tight global natural gas supply and demand situation and the soaring gas price, the overall national natural gas supply and demand are tightly balanced during this year's heating season, and the contradiction between supply and demand in some areas during peak hours may be more prominent.

In accordance with the deployment requirements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, we will give full play to the role of the natural gas guaranteed supply day dispatch mechanism established with various localities, relevant departments and enterprises, and do a solid job of ensuring supply, including the following aspects.

　　One is to ensure that the contract is strictly implemented.

The key point is to urge both the supply and demand parties to strictly guarantee the supply and use of gas in accordance with the contract, and all the gas for people's livelihood is included in the contract to ensure full supply.

　　The second is to organize an all-out effort to increase production and supply.

The focus is to promote enterprises to vigorously increase exploration and development efforts, promote safe and full-load production of domestic gas fields, and make every effort to increase domestic resource supply.

　　The third is to strengthen the protection of key areas.

Strengthen the supply of gas to the heating areas in the north. During the peak period, organize the "south gas to the north" and increase the use of gas storage to increase the supply of resources in the north, and strengthen the scheduling guarantee for the tight supply areas.

　　The fourth is to stabilize the price of gas for people's livelihood.

Urge all localities and related enterprises to strictly implement natural gas price policies, and maintain the basic stability of gas prices for people's livelihoods.

　　Fifth, make preparations for accurate and orderly “suppressing non-profits and protecting the people”.

Organize all localities and related enterprises to carry out a solid "suppressing the non-protection of the people" plan exercise, formulate a practical reduction work plan, ensure that a case is in hand and available at any time, and resolutely achieve "suppressing the non-protection of the people" and "limit the gas without closing the valve" ".