Guangming Daily reporter Liu Kun

　　What is the current supply and demand situation of coal and natural gas in my country?

In the future, what new measures will be taken to ensure coal supply and price stability?

How to ensure a safe and stable supply of food in my country?

On November 16, the National Development and Reform Commission held a press conference and responded to relevant hot issues.

　　Steady growth in coal production

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

　　Meng Wei, deputy director of the Political Research Office of the National Development and Reform Commission and spokesperson, introduced that in order to ensure a safe and stable supply of coal, and to ensure that the people live warmly through the winter, the National Development and Reform Commission and relevant parties have made a solid effort to increase production and supply, and alleviate the contradiction between market supply and demand. Timely carry out coal price control, coal enterprise production cost surveys and price supervision, promote the return of the coal market to rationality, and promote the return of coal prices to a reasonable range.

　　"Relevant measures are gradually implemented, and the effect is increasingly apparent." Meng Wei said that coal production has increased rapidly.

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.

Coal storage in power plants continued to increase.

Since October, the coal supply of the centralized power plant has continued to exceed the coal consumption, and the coal storage has accelerated.

On November 14, the power plant stored 129 million tons of coal, and it is currently available for 22 days, an increase of 9 days from the end of September. Among them, the power plants in the three northeastern provinces have stored more than 14 million tons of coal, and the available days have reached 31 days.

　　Meng Wei said that the spot price of coal futures fell sharply.

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

　　"As the country's 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, and the safe and stable supply of coal this winter and next spring can be reliably guaranteed." Meng Wei said, national development and reform. Under the premise of ensuring safety, the committee will urge the nuclear-increased coal mines to organize production in accordance with the nuclear-increased production capacity, and urge the resumed coal mines to stabilize production and reach production.

Strengthen the supervision of the performance of medium and long-term coal contracts, and further improve the level of performance.

Strengthen transportation coordination to ensure that coal is delivered to where it is needed.

　　Overall natural gas supply and demand are tightly balanced

　　Recently, due to the large-scale cold wave weather across the country, some northern areas have been heated in advance.

　　Meng Wei introduced that since November 7, the daily supply of natural gas across 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 the face of this cold wave, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration organized CNPC, Sinopec, CNOOC, and National Pipeline Corporation to comprehensively adopt measures such as the orderly use of pipes for gas storage and the start of underground gas storage to ensure stable natural gas supply. Orderly.

　　"At present, the northern region has begun to enter the heating season. Affected by the current tight global natural gas supply and demand situation and skyrocketing gas prices, 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." Meng Wei said.

　　Meng Wei said that in the future, we will focus on urging the supply and demand parties to strictly guarantee the supply and use of gas in accordance with the contract, and include all gas for civilian use into the contract to ensure full supply; focus on promoting enterprises to increase exploration and development efforts, promote safe and full-load production of domestic gas fields, and increase domestic resource supply During the peak period, we will increase the supply of resources in the northern region by organizing "gas from the south to the north" and increasing the use of gas storage to increase the supply of resources in the northern region, and strengthen dispatch guarantees for areas with tight supply.

　　"It is necessary to stabilize the price of gas for people's livelihood." Meng Wei said that he will urge all localities and related enterprises to strictly implement the natural gas price policy and keep the price of gas for people's livelihood basically stable.

　　Sufficient total supply of grain reserves

　　Data show that my country's summer grain output this year is 291.6 billion jin, an increase of 5.93 billion jin, of which the output of early rice is 56 billion jin, an increase of 1.45 billion jin.

　　"Food production is generally improving." Meng Wei said. From the perspective of autumn grain production, although Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places have been affected by severe floods and droughts, autumn grain production has decreased, but most of the other major grain producing areas have achieved increased production, especially in the Northeast. The region has increased production more, and the autumn grain harvest is a foregone conclusion.

National grain output will stabilize at more than 1.3 trillion catties for seven consecutive years, laying a solid foundation for domestic grain supply.

　　Meng Wei introduced that from the perspective of grain reserve supply, the total amount is sufficient.

The size of government reserves has increased steadily, and the structure and layout have been continuously optimized; corporate commodity inventories have increased significantly, and risk prevention capabilities have effectively increased; 36 large and medium-sized cities in the main urban areas and market volatile areas have local refined grain and oil reserves reaching 15 days or more of the market Supply.

　　Meng Wei said that in the future, the grain production, purchase, storage, and marketing system will be further improved, the comprehensive grain production capacity will be improved, the protection of arable land, especially the permanent basic farmland, will be implemented, a new round of high-standard farmland construction planning will be implemented, and the national black soil protection project and modern crop will be implemented. Industry upgrading project to lay a solid foundation for food production.

　　"Improve the grain support and protection policy system." Meng Wei said that it is necessary to improve the grain production support policy and the benefit compensation mechanism for the main producing areas, and increase the incentives to make farmers earn money from growing grain, and let the main producing areas pay more attention to the grain without losing money. ; Adhere to and improve the minimum purchase price policy for rice and wheat, continue to subsidize grain farmers, expand the scope of trials for complete cost insurance and income insurance for grain crops; improve the ability to regulate and control grain reserves.

Persist in implementing policies based on varieties and regions, flexibly arrange policy-based grain releases, and take targeted measures to strengthen regulation in a timely manner.

　　"Guangming Daily" (14th edition on November 17, 2021)