Although the National Development and Reform Commission has been denied, but the argument about natural gas prices still prevalent, in the face of the Boao Forum for Asia on the media bombardment, the Development and Reform Commission Zhang Xiaoqiang, deputy director of the selected laughed language.
The end of March this year, the media reported that the price of natural gas from the sharp rise in April, around the retail end of the price will reach -3.5 yuan / cubic meter location, and then driven a 4 yuan mark. For this, the National Development and Reform Commission went on to say that the message is completely untrue, is nonsense.
NDRC price department official had said and telecommunications networks, natural gas price adjustment directly related to the vital interests of millions of households, the country has always been very careful and strict procedural requirements for the adjustment of residential natural gas prices, local If you need to adjust the residents with natural gas prices , must first hold hearings, listen to the views of all sectors of society, or shall not be adjusted.
The survey shows that the past five years, China's upstream natural gas prices have risen by 50%, while only 24% of the terminal price rose. At the same time, in order to solve the domestic natural gas resources, lack of natural gas imports in recent years has maintained double-digit growth between 2010-11 and 2012, the price of imported gas rose by 68.6%, resulting in domestic sales price and the cost of imports increasingly serious upside down.
Insiders pointed out that gradually straighten out the low price of natural gas, an objective response to changes in market supply and demand of natural gas, promoting the sustainable development of the clean energy industry to accelerate the pace of adjustment of energy structure, is the greatest force of the Development and Reform Commission to start gas reform program where.
"The Chinese government has made it clear on many occasions the prices of resource products, including energy, comprehensive and in-depth reform should adhere to the basic principle is that the prices of resource products to be able to reflect the scarcity of resources, market demand and supply as well as the development of these resources on the environment and other aspects of the cost of compensation. "Zhang Xiaoqiang, back in 2008 during the fifth China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue had said so.
Obviously, the enormous resistance to price reform of resource products. Zhang Xiaoqiang, January 1, 2009 is the introduction of the best time of the oil price reform, but it was not until March 26 this year, the Development and Reform Commission issued the oil price formation mechanism and improve the program.
In the National Development and Reform Commission said that it would take good care of residential natural gas prices, adjustments to the Changchun City, suddenly announced on April 1 raised the price of gas, the price of natural gas per cubic meter adjusted to 2.8 by 2 million yuan, gas prices rose from 1.5 yuan per cubic meter to $ 2.
A question of national public opinion, the Changchun City Development and Reform Commission Director Shao tree, adjustment of gas prices in 2010, Changchun has no corresponding adjustment to the price adjustment is actually delayed two and a half years, and in accordance with the law held a hearing on the take full account of the Changchun Economic and social development level and residents affordability.
According to Shao tree right, the National Development and Reform Commission's statement refers to the countries will not unified the introduction of program involving residential natural gas prices, the current price of natural gas management policy is priced by the local management, implying the future does not rule out all over emulate Changchun.
Naysayers Changchun and the National Development and Reform Commission, the former director of the National Energy Board Zhang and information networks a little surprised, "may be the two sides did not coordinate.