The National Development and Reform Commission will hold a special press conference at 10:00 on the morning of April 19, 2018 in the large conference room on the third floor of the Central Committee of the China Central Committee. The responsible comrades of the relevant departments of the Party Committee will attend the meeting and introduce 'cleaning up and standardizing management's serviceability. Charges to reduce the burden on enterprises to obtain substantial results 'relevant jobs and answer questions from reporters.
Meng Hao: Dear friends in the media, Good morning, everyone. Yesterday we just held here a press conference scheduled for April. Today we invited media friends to join us for a special press conference on reducing our burdens. Thank you for working with us. The support for the reduction of clean-up expenses involves the immediate interests of thousands of companies and has received widespread attention from the society. In the past two years, the National Development and Reform Commission has made decisions in accordance with the decisions of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, together with related departments and relevant localities. A series of work has also achieved positive results. To help our friends understand the progress of our work in a timely manner, we are very happy to invite my colleagues today. Mr. Yue Xiuhu, Director of the Price Department, and Inspector of the Price Department. Mr. Zhang Manying, Deputy Director of the Price Division, Mr. Peng Shaozong, asked them to brief you on some situations and answer questions from reporters. First of all, let's first ask Director Yue to introduce the situation.
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Yue Xiuhu: Good morning, everyone in the media, thank you all for your concern, support and help for our work.
First of all, I would like to introduce to you the situation of the work of clearing the burden in recent years.
The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to clean up and standardize the fees and charges for enterprises and reduce the burden on enterprises. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in the report of the Party’s Nineteenth Congress that to build a modern economic system, we must put the focus of economic development on the real economy. Capacity, destocking, de-leveraging, cost reduction, short-changing boards, optimizing the allocation of stock resources, expanding high-quality incremental supply to achieve a dynamic balance between supply and demand, clearly demanding at the Central Economic Work Conference, vigorously reducing real economic costs, and reducing institutional transactions The cost will continue to clear up fees and charges for enterprises, increase the investigation and rectification of arbitrary charges, deepen reforms in the power, oil and gas, and railway industries, reduce energy use, and reduce logistics costs. Premier Li Keqiang proposed in this year’s “Government Work Report”. In order to drastically reduce the non-tax burden on enterprises and reduce tariffs and transmission and distribution tariffs for power grids, one indicator that everyone may be very concerned about is that the average commercial electricity tariff is reduced by an average of 10%. The reform of the toll highway system will be deepened, and the cost of passing bridges will be reduced. The fees for cleaning up and rectifying service fees for large intermediary agencies will reduce the non-tax burden for market players by more than 3,000 for the whole year. Billion, unreasonably and resolutely canceled, overly resolutely down, allowing companies to move forward with ease, to develop together.
Yue Xihu: In recent years, the National Development and Reform Commission has firmly implemented the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, together with relevant departments and local governments, in accordance with the principle of “transcending to the side and setting up the ground”, to carry out the clean-up and standardization of charges for enterprises and to reduce the burden on enterprises. A series of work has achieved positive results. In 2016–2017, by reducing the energy cost of enterprises, promoting logistics cost reduction and efficiency improvement, clearing financial and import/export fields and links, operating service fees, and standardizing trade associations' associations' fees, etc. The cumulative reduction in corporate burdens exceeded RMB 500 billion. A list of operating service fee catalogues priced by the national government was released. This will fix the results of the clean-up charges and prevent re-emergence of cleared charges.
Yue Xiuhu: The competent pricing departments in various regions have explored various modes, and some places have increased efforts to clear charges and reduce burdens. Some have reduced overall enterprise burdens through comprehensive measures; some innovative ways of working methods have reduced charges by promoting market competition. Others start from the company's personal experience, precision policy and continuous efforts.
After years of clean-up regulations, overall, the burden on enterprises has been further reduced, and the order of charges has improved significantly. In the next step, the National Development and Reform Commission will closely focus on the tasks deployed by the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and further clean up and standardize management services in conjunction with relevant departments and local authorities. Sex charges will reduce the costs of energy use and logistics for enterprises, so that enterprises can really benefit from it. Clearing up and standardizing operating service charges is expected to reduce the social burden for the whole year by more than 150 billion yuan. Together with the Ministry of Finance's lead in clearing and regulating governmental charges, We will complete the goals and tasks set in the “Government Work Report.” At the same time, we will work together with related departments and localities to focus on treating both the symptoms and the symptoms, standardizing fees and fees, reducing costs, making efforts to optimize the business environment, promoting enterprise development, and stimulating market vitality and social creativity. Strengthen new momentum for deepening supply-side structural reforms and high-quality development.
I will briefly introduce it here.
Meng Hao: The following reporters asked questions, according to the usual practice to ask journalists friends to inform about the media represented.
China News Agency Reporter: In terms of alleviating corporate burdens, of the many government policies introduced by the government in recent years, what do you think are the measures with higher gold content? Thank you.
Yue Xiuhu:Thank you for your question. Just now I also gave a brief introduction. In recent years, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have made a series of deployments. The NDRC has adopted a series of measures in accordance with these decision-making arrangements. What you have asked for is a relatively high amount of gold. Overall, The work in these two years is still very large. In 2016 and 2017, the burden of reducing the company's business has exceeded 50 billion yuan. There are several measures that may be very hard.
The first is to reduce the cost of energy for enterprises, which exceeds 320 billion yuan. The main measures we have adopted include the verification of transmission and distribution tariffs at the provincial grid, the expansion of direct electricity trading, the elimination and reduction of fund surcharges, and the reduction of national industrial and commercial electricity prices. The total reduction in burden was more than 200 billion yuan. In addition, according to the change in alternative energy prices, we reduced the price of non-residential natural gas and reduced the cost of gas for enterprises by about 120 billion yuan.
The second is to promote logistics cost reduction and efficiency increase, and to reduce the burden on enterprises by more than 30 billion yuan. There are several specific measures in this regard, which are mainly the cancellation of the electrified railway loan repayment rate, and the railway transportation companies have lowered the freight rate of railway freight and reduced the railway price. With regard to the burden on users, relevant departments and localities have carried out pilots for different time-differentiated charges for expressways. When people go out for tourism, they may have some feelings, improve the charging policy of the port, and cancel the secondary roads repayed by some provincial governments. Charges, improve the airport's charging policy, clean-up regulations involving railways, freight charges, took these measures, reduced by about 300 billion.
The third is to standardize the financial sector's fees for more than 30 billion yuan, mainly to lower the credit information service charging standards, improve the pricing mechanism for bank card credit card fees, implement the policy of fee reduction, and cancel and suspend some banks that implement government pricing management. Funding for basic financial services. The relevant departments will guide banks to reduce the service charges for implementing market-regulated prices, promote securities and futures systems, and reduce related service charges. There is also reform of the auto insurance management system.
The fourth is to clean up and regulate other business service charges exceeding 90 billion yuan. There are also some more specific measures, such as cancellation, reduction of quarantine, certification, testing and other related operational service charges, clean up of the norms of the trade association chamber of commerce fees, and cancellation of some Unreasonable fees and charges have reduced the high fees and charges. Companies, such as industry associations, e-government platforms, and administrative examination and approval agency services, have complained about infringement charges. They have severely investigated and dealt with problems through price supervision and anti-monopoly law enforcement investigations. The charging behavior has severely exposed some typical cases, effectively deterred various types of illegal and illegal charging activities, and achieved significant results.
The fifth is to clear up and regulate administrative charges of more than 48 billion yuan. It is mainly related to the cancellation and suspension of entry and exit inspection and quarantine fees, the registration fee for motor vehicles, and more than 40 administrative fees established by the central government, which reduce the related The standard of charging. The scope of exemption of 18 administrative fees has been expanded from small and micro enterprises to all enterprises and individuals.
At the same time, focusing on improving the long-term mechanism for supervision, we consolidated the results of clearing and reducing burdens. We have established a system of government-operated service fee catalogs to form a nationwide 'one net.' This network has a role to take all The charging items are item by item, and they are gradually understood, allowing people and businesses to easily inquire, use, and supervise. We can no longer charge items that are priced by the government beyond the list of contents, and resolutely put an end to the items that have already been cleaned up. Re-entering the sequence of government pricing, and resolutely preventing the rebound of the institutional transaction costs that have been reduced. These are the more realistic measures taken over the past two years to enable enterprises to receive real benefits.
CCTV Financial Reporter: I have noticed that in recent years, the National Development and Reform Commission has issued a series of policies on reducing the cost of electricity for enterprises. These policies have brought about a large amount of dividends and reduced the cost for enterprises. What is the next step in this regard? Work arrangement? Thank you.
Zhang Manying:Thank you for your question. Since 2015, we have tightly grasped the 'cost reduction' of the nose and many measures, integrated measures, and cumulatively reduced the cost of electricity for enterprises by 327.5 billion yuan. This is an account, which is an overall bonus. .
I would like to report on the separate measures and bonuses:
First, the implementation of coal price linkage, twice reduced the benchmark on-grid price of coal-fired units, a corresponding reduction in the commercial electricity price of 1 point per kilowatt-hour 8, reducing the general industrial and commercial electricity price of 3 points per kilowatt-hour, a total reduction in the cost of corporate electricity costs 83.5 billion.
The second is to promote the reform of transmission and distribution prices. Before the end of June last year, we promoted the transmission and distribution price reforms in 32 provincial-level power grids across the country, and cut down the permitted revenues of power grid companies, all of which were used to reduce the electricity prices of industrial and commercial enterprises by 4.8 trillion kWh. Calculating the electricity consumption, the commercial electricity price is reduced by 1 point per kilowatt-hour. This piece involves reducing the electricity cost of enterprises by 48 billion yuan.
The third is to promote the power marketization. In 2017, the market transaction power was 1.6 trillion kWh, including inter-provincial cross-regional power trading and power generation right trading, with an average reduction of 5 cents per kilowatt-hour, and a reduction in enterprise electricity cost of 68 billion yuan.
The fourth is to cancel and reduce the funds and surcharges levied through electricity tariffs. In summary, they are 'three cancellations, two reductions' and three cancellations. First, the cancellation of urban public utilities, which were previously collected through electricity tariffs, involves a total investment of 35 billion yuan. The second is to abolish the special fund for industrial restructuring by 39 billion yuan, and the third is to cancel the electrified railway loan repayment rate, which involves a capital of 6 billion yuan. The two reductions are: first, reduce major water conservancy project construction funds; second, reduce large- and medium-sized reservoir resettlement support funds , The standards were reduced by 25%, involving about 16 billion yuan in funds.
Fifthly, to improve the implementation of the two-part tariffs. Since 2016, due to various factors, some local companies have stopped production and half production has been stopped. There are many reflections on the collection of capacity tariffs based on fixed standards. We compare this issue. We paid attention to this issue, conducted research, issued a policy to improve the implementation of capacity-based electricity pricing, and made regulations. Enterprises can apply for a reduction in capacity based on their own situation. This piece involves funds of 15 billion yuan.
Sixth, the cancellation of electricity price concessions. According to the State Council's deployment, the cancellation of preferential tariffs for small and medium-sized chemical fertilizers, involving a capital of 17 billion yuan, with the funds to reduce the transmission and distribution tariffs of 21 related provinces 1 cent.
These six measures can give companies a sense of achievement. The key words are 'measures, bonuses, sense of achievement'. Where does the price reduction stand? I give two examples. First, 2015-2017, Hebei Nanwang, formerly general The commercial electricity price level is 0.846 yuan, it is now 0.663 yuan, and the price reduction rate is 22%, which is very large. Second, there is a Zhongwang Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd. in Yingkou, Liaoning, with a total electricity consumption of 6 billion kilowatt-hours in 2017. In market-oriented transactions, the electricity price per kilowatt-hour decreased by 8 cents, and the transmission and distribution price reform reduced by 1.7 cents. The original implementation price of this company decreased from 0.55 yuan per kilowatt-hour to 0.453 yuan, and the price reduction was 18%, reducing the cost of electricity. 580 million yuan.
This year, in the aspect of reducing the cost of electricity for enterprises, Director Yue also made an introduction. According to the explicit requirements put forward by the State Council's “Government Work Report,” we will push forward the target of reducing the average industrial and commercial average by 10%.
A reporter from the Beijing TV Finance Channel: After experiencing the gas shortages of last winter and this spring, all parties concerned were concerned about the cost of gas use by enterprises. Therefore, I would like to ask what measures have been taken to reduce the cost of gas for enterprises. In the future, we will How to further reduce the cost of the company's gas?
Peng Shaozong:Thank you for asking this media friend's question. As you said, all parties are very concerned about the cost of the gas used by the company. The gas cost is also a very important part of the energy cost of the enterprise. In recent years, according to the State Council's The use of gas costs for the company to reduce the burden of about 120 billion yuan, mainly from the following three aspects of the measures to achieve.
First, in November 2015, according to the change of alternative energy prices, the price of non-residential natural gas stations was reduced by 0.7 yuan per cubic meter, and the burden on downstream users was reduced to about 100 billion yuan annually.
Second, in 2017, we will consider the value-added tax rate adjustment factors on the basis of reducing the price of domestic long-distance pipeline transportation, reduce the non-residential natural gas station price by 0.1 yuan per cubic meter, and reduce the burden on downstream users by about 16 billion yuan each year.
Third, at the same time as the above two measures were introduced at the national level, we also issued two documents to guide local governments in strengthening the supervision of short-distance pipeline transportation and gas distribution prices in the province, to reduce excessive transmission and distribution prices, and to reduce the use of downstream users. The burden of gas is about 4 billion yuan.
This year, we will continue to guide local governments in strengthening the price control of transmission and distribution, and re-evaluate the provincial pipeline transportation prices and urban gas distribution tariffs to further reduce the downstream users' gas consumption. For example, if Shanghai moves earlier, they have already introduced The measures in this regard are mainly based on the principle of “opening the pipeline network to third parties and reducing intermediate price increases” and the reform of gas distribution prices in 28 enterprises in the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park. Before this chemical area was subordinate to Chemical Industry Zone Co., Ltd. The property company used 28 companies for gas conversion. Now after the reform, the gas company will directly supply gas to the company. The price increase will be reduced from 0.42 yuan to 0.17 yuan, and the rate of decline will be 60%. According to preliminary estimates, the 28 companies can save more than 30 million yuan in gas costs a year. Therefore, in the survey, companies in the park all stated that the reform of natural gas prices did bring real benefits and benefits to the company.
CCTV reporter Guo Guang: My question is more concerned with logistics costs. We noticed that many companies have reflected that logistics costs account for a relatively high proportion of corporate costs. I would like to ask that the National Development and Reform Commission has taken measures to reduce logistics costs. What are the measures and what are the next steps?
Yue Xiuhu:Thank you for your question. In recent years, the National Development and Reform Commission has strengthened the coordination and coordination of policies of various departments in accordance with the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, strengthened policy cooperation, and has been actively promoting the reduction of 'cost of logistics companies' and 'enterprise logistics costs'. 2016 In 2007, the National Development and Reform Commission took the lead to report to the State Council for approval and issued the “Special Action Plan for Reducing the Cost and Increasing Efficiency of the Logistics Industry.” In 2017, the General Office of the State Council issued the “Opinions on Further Improving Logistic Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement to Promote Real Economic Development”. The two documents provided 48 measures from the aspects of simple administration, decentralization, cost reduction, system reform, and interconnection, informationization, standardization, and intelligent construction, and achieved some positive results. Indicators of social concern, society The ratio of total logistics costs to GDP achieved a five-consecutive reduction from 2012 to 2017, from 18% to 14.6%, that is, to less than 15%.
In this process, we also actively guided local governments in the implementation of measures to reduce costs and increase efficiency. For example, Beijing has reduced both the cost of logistics and efficiency gains, reduced the fees for special equipment inspection and testing, and promoted pure electric logistics vehicles. The demonstration application simplified the handling of operation certificates for companies that meet the requirements, and facilitated the delivery of products including necessities, medicines and other products.
Jiangsu Province has introduced 34 measures to achieve comprehensive reduction of burdens. One typical approach is to simplify the procedures for various types of examinations and approvals, to implement safety inspection stations for public security departments of vehicles, and to comprehensively check stations for operating vehicles of transport departments. The “Three-in-one” environmental protection inspection station of the environmental protection department cancels the compulsory inspection of the secondary maintenance of the operating vehicles. These aspects are more successful. For some container transport vehicles, tolls for vehicles that are free of provincial highways are prohibited. The preferential policy for fees was also extended to 2018, and the reduced logistics costs for the whole year reached 2.9 billion yuan.
Chongqing is on waterways, highways, railways, and 'roads and concessions.' The tolls for highway vehicles are levied on qualifying vehicles, the tolls for roads and bridges in the main city area are cancelled, and the government repays the capital for roads, bridges, and tunnels. And interest; canceled the registration fees for ships, inspection fees for ships and marine products and facilities; the freight rates for some of the iron-water combined container railways fell by a maximum of 49%; the transit fees for ports decreased by about 73%. The city’s logistics costs last year reduced by more than 40. 100 million yuan.
Fujian Province has also taken some measures, mainly through the government’s purchase of services, various e-government platforms and auxiliary platforms for the port, and no longer charges maintenance fees from enterprises, but instead is financed by local governments. The import and export enterprises are exempted. The service fees for the inspection and inspection software, communication platform fees, etc. For foreign trade enterprises that have passed the customs inspection of import and export links, lifting and shifting and warehouse management are eliminated. Other places have some policy innovations based on their actual conditions.
In the next step, we will focus on three aspects: First, we will continue to implement the policies and measures that have already been introduced to ensure that relevant policies are implemented. Second, we will work together with related departments to investigate and introduce new technologies for reducing costs and increasing efficiency of the logistics industry. The measures to further reduce the burden on the company. Third, summarizing some good experiences and good practices in reducing costs and improving efficiency across different regions.
China Economic Herald reporter: Just now I mentioned that all localities are actively adopting various methods to clean up and regulate the fees and charges levied on enterprises. Some have achieved very good results. Can you tell us about the typical practices in some places? Thank you.
Peng Shaozong:Thank you for your question. As you said, various localities have been actively adopting various ways to clean up and regulate the fees and charges levied by enterprises and reduce the burden on enterprises. Some have comprehensively reduced the burden on enterprises through comprehensive policies; some innovative ways of working methods have been adopted to promote the market. Competition to lower fees; some start from the company's personal experience, accurate policy, continuous efforts to reduce the burden on business.
For example, in terms of comprehensive policy implementation, Guangdong Province has introduced a number of institutional and long-term, practical and effective policies and measures, and has created a combination of clearing and reducing burdens. The results are very obvious. The approach of Guangdong Province can be summarized as follows: The five words, 'Exempt, Clear, Release, Exposure, and Inspection' are called "Five Words". The "Exemption" is to promote the reform of "zero charge" for administrative charges for enterprises, and to vigorously clean up and standardize charges. All provinces will be involved in administrative fees and some projects set up by the central government, which will be included in the administrative fees of local income. 'Qing' means clearing the project, clearing the standard, cancelling one batch, stopping the collection, and reducing the number of batches.' “Release” is to minimize the scope of government pricing. The Guangdong Province's new pricing catalog has reduced government pricing projects by 40%. 'Sun' means that all government-subsidized fee-charging projects that implement government pricing are included in the list. Open to the public, allowing companies to pay clear fees and intensify social supervision. The 'checking' is through law enforcement supervision and price checking to ensure that the policy is effective and effective. Guangdong Province has implemented various methods through comprehensive self-checks, spot checks, verifications, and inspections. The company’s fee inspections, investigations and handling of non-compliance fees were conducted in 74 cases, and the implementation of the economic sanctions convention was 130 million yuan. This effectively curbed irregularities such as arbitrary charges and arbitrary assessments. According to incomplete statistics, Guangdong Province reduced the charges for enterprises in 2016 and 2017. The burden is over 30 billion yuan.
In terms of innovative work methods, such as the establishment of an online auction platform in Lishui, Zhejiang, through the breaking of monopolies, the fee for intermediary services was reduced. There are more than three types of approving and qualifying intermediary agencies on the platform, forming a competitive situation. The price on the platform is transparent. The service is also transparent. Through competition, both the fee and the quality of service are reduced. The results achieved are very satisfactory to the enterprise.
In terms of precision measures, such as Hunan's focus on the pain points in the company's toll collection burden, it has cleared or reduced inspection and testing fees eight times in succession. Compared with the beginning of the clean-up, the amount of annual fees fell by nearly 80%, making this company feel The most direct, most reciprocal, most urgent problems of reducing burdens are better resolved.
Meng Hao: Just now Peng introduced some good local experiences and practices. If some reporter friends want to make in-depth reports, the following can contact us. We can assist in doing a good job.
Guangming Daily: In the past two years, we learned that some companies have reported that the fees involved in enterprises are relatively high and the burden on enterprises is relatively heavy. However, in the recent interview, we found that the corporate burden has begun to ease. Can you please give us some details? Thank you.
Peng Shaozong:Thank you for your question. In recent years, the National Development and Reform Commission has firmly implemented the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council and, together with relevant departments and localities, has carried out a series of work on the principle of 'transcending to the side and setting up the bottom' and clearing and standardizing the fees and charges for enterprises. In 2016 and 2017, we reduced the cost of energy use by enterprises, promoted cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, cleared service fees for finance and import and export, and standardized the fees and charges for trade associations in industry associations. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China, in 2017, the cost of main business income per 100 yuan of industrial enterprises above designated size was 84.92 yuan and 7.77 yuan, respectively, down by 0.25 yuan and 0.2 yuan respectively year-on-year.
In recent years, we went to some enterprises to conduct on-site research. The cost of their energy use and the amount of payment actually showed a trend of declining year by year. For example, Wahaha Group, from the data of their companies in Zhejiang Province: Compared with 2015, 2017 The amount of electricity they used to engage in market-oriented transactions dropped from 0.69 yuan per kilowatt-hour to 0.65 yuan. They did not participate in market-oriented transactions, and the electricity price of government electricity was reduced from 0.65 yuan per kilowatt-hour to 0.59 yuan. According to the company's electricity consumption The annual electricity bills fell by nearly 13 million yuan, a decrease of about 7%. In addition to the drop in electricity bills, their other payment rates also decreased year by year. In 2015, the total amount was more than 45 million yuan, and in 2016 it dropped to more than 36 million yuan. The rate of decline was 20%; in 2017, it fell further to more than 13 million, with a drop of 64%. The decline was increasing year by year, and the absolute number of reductions was also relatively large. We can see that the burden reduction effect is quite obvious.
In the next step, we will continue to implement the work of clearing and reducing the burden according to the decisions of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, so that enterprises can get more benefits.
Phoenix TV reporter: The “Government Work Report” clarified that the average commercial electricity price will be reduced by an average of 10%. What is the general industrial and commercial electricity price? What measures should the NDRC use to guarantee a 10% reduction?
Zhang Manying:Thank you for your question. Our country's sales price is divided into four categories according to the nature of electricity: residents, agriculture, large industry, general industry and commerce. General industry and commerce are divided into two parts, one is commercial electricity, the other is small-scale industrial use. Electricity, the capacity of these enterprises' transformers is below 315 kVA. The commercial electricity prices of commercial enterprises and small industrial enterprises are used to implement general commercial and commercial electricity prices.
I will introduce the level of various types of electricity prices. The average national average price for electricity sold is 0.65 yuan per kilowatt-hour (per degree), among which the residential electricity price is 0.55 yuan, the agricultural electricity price is 0.48 yuan, the large industrial electricity price is 0.64 yuan, and the general industrial and commercial electricity price is 0.80 yuan. General industrial and commercial electricity prices are the highest among these four categories. Average commercial and commercial electricity prices drop by an average of 10%, which means that the price reduction will exceed 80 billion yuan.
Then, how can we ensure that this measure and requirement can be implemented? From the overall arrangement of the price reduction measures, we can use four sentences to summarize. The first sentence is a goal. The second sentence is two directions. The third sentence Then, it is eight measures. The fourth sentence is two batches of implementation. I will introduce them separately.
One goal, this time lowering the average commercial electricity tariff by an average of 10%. This is our goal and it must be implemented in full and absolute terms.
In both directions, reduce the level of grid transmission and distribution tariffs, as well as the charges for cleaning and regulating the power grid links.
Eight measures, including clearing and standardizing tariffs for power grids, releasing regional power grids, provincial power grids and trans-provincial trans-regional transmission lines, delivering reform dividends, lowering government fund standards levied in electricity prices, and releasing eight tax reduction bonuses Measures.
Implemented in two batches, the first batch of measures we have issued has already been launched, involving an amount of RMB 43 billion, which will be implemented starting from April 1. This means that some companies can feel the electricity prices in April at the beginning of May Changes in electricity bills. The second batch of preparations for the second half of the year are being implemented. We are now stepping up research and verification. When we are mature, we must announce to the public that the amount involved will be 40 billion yuan.
The above is the overall arrangement of price reduction measures. We will follow the target and require the local competent authorities to work with us to put the deployment requirements of the State Council in place. Thank you for your question.
China Daily reporter: Just now, you also introduced eight measures to reduce the price of electricity. Would you please tell us more about how the safeguard measures were implemented? Thank you.
Zhang Manying:Thank you for your question. I think this issue is particularly good. Even the best policy is to have hard measures. The key is to land.
Average commercial and commercial electricity prices have been reduced by 10% on average. This is an important deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council to further promote supply-side structural reforms. It is also an important part of this year's continuing efforts to improve the business environment of the enterprises. The National Development and Reform Commission will implement them in earnest and will not break them. The implementation of this policy has been put in place to give companies a real sense of gain. In terms of specific measures, there are three main areas:
First, immediate action and rapid deployment. On March 5th, Premier Li Keqiang proposed in the “Government Work Report” a request for a 10% reduction in general commercial and commercial electricity prices. On the afternoon of the same day, we asked relevant departments to study and implement the opinions. March 7 We sent out notices to various places and asked all localities to study and formulate implementation plans. In mid-March, we made a special trip to Zhejiang and Hebei to find some users of electric power companies to understand some aspects of the implementation of electricity tariffs during the grid tariff and to implement them in a targeted manner. On March 28, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a document to introduce the first batch of price cuts.
Second, we must keep a close eye on the target and refine the plan. During our research and deployment of the implementation of price reduction measures, we all tightly insisted that the goal of reducing the 10% electricity price of general industrial and commercial enterprises should not be relaxed. Actualization plan. After the consent of the people's government at the same level, it will be submitted to the Committee for record implementation to ensure that the price reduction measures are all used to reduce the electricity prices of general business enterprises. Our focus is here.
Third, strengthen supervision, dynamic assessment. In the implementation of our policy, we must strengthen supervision and supervision, and organize local price authorities to conduct cross-supervision supervision to ensure full-scale, full-coverage supervision. We will hold industry symposiums, associations, and industrial and commercial enterprises symposiums to listen to opinions, randomly investigate and understand the situation of some industrial and commercial users, organize the central news media to investigate unannounced visits, track the implementation of policies, and evaluate our work. For those where there are problems in the implementation of price reduction measures, they must be notified and resolutely corrected. During the implementation of the entire measure, we will also conduct in- and out-of-the-segment assessments, identify problems in a timely manner, summarize experiences, improve work, and raise the level. What is mentioned is that in the process of fulfilling the requirement of reducing the average electricity price of commercial and commercial electricity by 10%, the State Council's reduction office must conduct a third-party assessment of the price reduction effect. We will certainly actively cooperate with and support the reduction in electricity prices at this time. The actual effect is to give the parties a satisfactory answer.
We want to achieve the goal of reducing the average electricity price of the general industry and commerce by 10% through the above measures. At the same time, we welcome the news media to provide supervision and support for our work. This will help us realize the goal of lowering the price of electricity, and SMEs will receive substantial benefits. Get a sense and work together. Thank you.
The First Financial Daily: This year’s “Government Work Report” proposed that 'substantially reduce the non-tax burden on enterprises'. What I would like to ask is in addition to the reduction of general electricity prices for commercial and industrial use. What are the specific working arrangements? Thank you.
Yue Xiuhu:Thank you for your question. To reduce the non-tax burden on companies, we began to implement the preparations during the 'two sessions'. When the 'two sessions' ended, we proceeded with the relevant decisions in accordance with the decisions of the Party Central Committee and the State Council.
According to the requirements of the executive meeting of the State Council, this year we will focus on the following aspects: First, measures that have already been introduced to reduce electricity prices. Reducing the cost of electricity used by enterprises is a major part of our work of reducing the burden. The amount exceeds 80 billion yuan. Second, we will continue to take measures in the areas of telecommunication tariffs and transportation logistics together with related departments. At the same time, we will standardize the fees for certain intermediary services and fees for trade association association chambers, involving more than 70 billion yuan. The third is to strengthen local days. Regulation of gas transmission and distribution prices. We will guide local governments to quickly formulate rules for the supervision of natural gas short-distance pipeline transportation and gas distribution prices in provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), timely conduct cost supervision and review, and re-approve provincial (regional and municipal) transmission and distribution. Prices, regulate the charging behavior of transmission and distribution companies, and reduce the burden on natural gas users. This part of the measure involves an amount of about 1 billion yuan.
Through these three measures, we expect this year to reduce the social burden by more than 150 billion yuan. With the Ministry of Finance taking the lead to take charge of the measures to clean up and standardize the government fees and charges, we can successfully complete the 'Year-to-Market' proposed by the “Government Work Report” this year. The main objective of reducing the non-tax burden of more than 300 billion yuan'.
In accordance with the requirements of the State Council, in addition to taking the above measures, we must also strengthen institutional development, work hard on long-term mechanisms and regulate fee rights, and mainly improve the list of operational service fees and charges for the nation’s government, which will be based on actual conditions. Dynamic adjustment. For example, if the laws and regulations are no longer mandatory, the fees will be cancelled from the inventory list. For the conditional full-competition service items, the charges will be liberalized. At the same time, we will also work with related departments. Further abolition, stop the related administrative fees and reduce the charges. In accordance with the requirements of the State Council, continue to do a good job in cleaning up and standardizing the fees and charges of enterprises, reduce the cost of enterprises, and provide a better environment for business development.
Thank you again for your care and support for our work.
Meng Hao: Thank you for the introduction of the three directors and a response to the issue of reporters and friends. Finally, I would like to give you an update. In order to increase the investigation and punishment of illegal charges involving enterprises, complaints according to the State Council's office fees The working arrangements of the processing mechanism, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other relevant agencies have recently conducted careful verification of some clues concerning alleged non-compliance charges in the complaints. At the same time as today’s press conference began, we publicly exposed six cases of violation charges to the public. For the case, we can pay attention to the website of the National Development and Reform Commission and the 'two micro-ends' to understand the specific situation.