Chinanews.com, November 24. According to the official WeChat news of the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission has initiated price index behavior evaluation and compliance review on 12 coal price index compilation and release entities. In view of the situation, some coal price index behaviors have non-compliance problems, misleading the market, and to a certain extent caused the price increase to deviate from the fundamentals of supply and demand.

  In late October, in order to standardize the price index behavior, the National Development and Reform Commission established a working group to deal with 12 coal companies in accordance with the "Administrative Measures for the Price Index Behavior of Important Goods and Services (for Trial Implementation)" (National Development and Reform Commission Order No. 43 of 2021). The main body of price index compilation and release, initiates price index behavior evaluation and compliance review.

  In the next step, the National Development and Reform Commission will further verify in accordance with relevant regulations, and take disciplinary measures such as interviews, public exposure, rectification within a time limit, suspension of publication, and inclusion on the untrustworthy list for entities that are found to have violated the rules in the assessment and compliance review; If it constitutes a violation of the law, the relevant departments shall be investigated for legal responsibility in accordance with the law.