According to sources close to the National Development and Reform Commission, the surviving years of coal business license is about to come to an end, change their functions in accordance with the decentralization of the State Council, and to reduce the administrative examination and approval requirements, the Development and Reform Commission is studying the abolition of the coal business license.

The person who is familiar with the study of the reform program evaluation, said, "For the National Development and Reform Commission, the abolition of coal production license equivalent to the flesh, coal revolutionary change in the market at this stage, the NDRC control the total amount of coal operators to provincial quota allocation, a lot of power. "

The coal operating license coal production business enterprise's core licenses, deciding whether coal operators are eligible to participate. "Coal Law" published in August 1996 the coal business license written to the statute. With the change of national energy management system, operating permit approval authority transferred from the Ministry of Coal Industry to the State Economic and Trade Commission, State Planning Commission, and then to the National Development and Reform Commission.

The coal operating license issued in the first place that maintaining coal operation. However, with the development of the coal market and coal logistics industry, continue to make use of the means to intervene in the market of the planned economy but increased transaction costs and the formation of administrative rent-seeking.

Over the past few years, the Development and Reform Commission issued excessive strictly regulate coal operators qualification regulatory documents, enterprises around the total control, and continue to compress.

In accordance with the reporting process, coal production and business enterprises first reporting to the City Development and Reform Bureau, the provincial Development and Reform Commission to declare again, sifting through, reported to the National Development and Reform Commission accepted. Development and Reform Commission, the total number of firms in the country operating control to the provinces allocated quota, quota and have qualifications before applying for the documents.

As the number of operations is to strictly control, and most of the provinces coal operating companies had more than the quota, and thus obtain this license transaction costs rising year by year. , But also gave birth to the operating license agent, transfer gray channels. According to the Regulation of Coal Operations under: "Coal Operation Certificate shall not be forged, may not be sold, leased, lent or transferred in any other form."

According to traders, the registered capital of 500 million coal business license in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, transfer costs can be as high as 300 million -400 million.

Reduce government approval link will help enterprises to participate in market competition based on market conditions, financial strength, coal competition will become more fully. Contact the reporter coal producers, traders are in favor of reform.

However, there are traders worried that coal operators to significantly reduce the threshold current dismal market will push low again. Such market conditions reduce the threshold of the coal industry, coal industry, especially in the trade sector will be a reshuffle.

Coal business license abolished, "Coal Act need to be synchronized to amend the relevant content.