Economic Daily, Beijing, November 16 (Reporter Gu Yang) The National Development and Reform Commission held a regular press conference on the 16th. Meng Wei, a press spokesperson and deputy director of the Policy Research Office, responded on topics such as energy supply and virtual "mining". Social concerns.

　　Since September this year, domestic coal prices have continued to rise, hitting historical highs repeatedly.

In order to ensure the safe and stable supply of coal and ensure the warmth of the people through the winter, the Development and Reform Commission and relevant parties have done a good job in increasing production and supply, alleviating the contradiction between market supply and demand, timely conducting coal price control, coal enterprise production cost investigations and price supervision, and promoting the return of the coal market Reasonable, promote coal prices to return to a reasonable range.

　　According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the national coal output in October was 360 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 4%.

Judging from the dispatch situation, coal production has continued to increase steadily since November.

At the same time, coal reserves in power plants continued to increase.

On November 14, the power plant stored 129 million tons of coal, which is expected to exceed 140 million tons by the end of the month.

　　In terms of prices, the spot price of coal futures fell sharply.

Since October 19, the main thermal coal futures contract of the Zhengzhou Commercial Exchange has fallen for many consecutive days. It closed at 809.6 yuan/ton on November 15, a 59% drop from the October 19 high of 1982 yuan; Qinhuangdao Port 5500 kcal thermal coal The spot closing price dropped to around RMB 1,095/ton, a drop of more than RMB 1,000/ton, and the coal mine pit price in the main production areas of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and Mongolia dropped to below RMB 900/ton.

　　"As the national coal production and market supply continue to increase, the level of coal supply, coal storage and port coal storage in power plants will be further improved. The safe and stable supply of coal this winter and next spring can be reliably guaranteed." Meng Wei said.

　　Affected by the large-scale cold wave in the country in the early period, some northern areas have been heated in advance. Since November 7, the daily supply of natural gas in the country has reached more than 1 billion cubic meters, an increase of about 100 million cubic meters over the same period last year.

In this regard, Meng Wei said that the overall supply and demand of natural gas in this year’s heating season is tightly balanced, and the contradiction between supply and demand in some areas during peak hours may be more prominent. On the basis of ensuring the strict implementation of contracts, increasing production and supply, and strengthening security in key areas, we will stabilize people’s livelihoods. In order to reduce the price of gas, we should be prepared to “suppress non-people and protect the people” in an accurate and orderly manner, and resolutely “limit the gas without closing the valve”.

　　In response to the National Development and Reform Commission's deployment of governance on virtual currency "mining", Meng Wei said that virtual currency "mining" consumes a lot of energy and carbon emissions, and does not have a positive driving effect on industrial development and technological progress. In addition, virtual currency production , The risks derived from the transaction link have become more prominent, and their blind and disorderly development will have a serious adverse impact on the promotion of high-quality economic and social development and energy conservation and emission reduction.

　　"The regulation of virtual currency'mining' activities is of great significance to promote the optimization of my country's industrial structure, promote energy conservation and emission reduction, and achieve the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality on schedule." "Mining", state-owned units involved in "mining" and Bitcoin "mining" are focused on carrying out comprehensive rectification.

For units that implement residential electricity prices, if they find that they are involved in virtual currency "mining" activities, they will study the imposing punitive electricity prices on them, forming a high-pressure situation that continues to rectify virtual currency "mining" activities.