" Crude institutional reforms already in progress ." NDRC Vice Ren Lian Wei Liang said recently . He also mentioned 2014 focus is studying the development of economic reform , the price reform will be the next focus of economic reform : the next price reform will reduce the scope of government pricing mechanism for the implementation of the price ladder spending some residents , people's livelihood , security fairness ; operational areas of the market price .

This is the eighth session of the Third Plenary Session ended, the NDRC Roadmap 2014 for the first time to resolve economic reform . Market concerns about the reform and opening up the field of energy markets and prices began to rise continuously . With Victoria Liang 's remarks also sparked a real problem : What areas can be formed by the market price , what areas can not be formed by the market price ?

The market will not " overnight "

95% of consumer goods across the country , more than 97% of production , has achieved market pricing . These remaining large portion of consumer goods and production concentrated in the areas of strategic resources , especially since this year's focal point of price reform : oil , gas, electricity these three areas .

" Diminishes electricity 192,400 yuan ." This is the cost of power supply bureau in Zhanjiang Zhanjiang Dongxing refinery in September of this year marked forgone electricity bills , which also marks the company in Zhanjiang Dongxing Guangdong Province Economic and Information Technology Committee approved as after the big electricity users, independent pricing , and success of direct purchase of electricity generation companies to be honored . From the beginning of September , Zhanjiang Dongxing Company on the basis of the original to enjoy preferential 0.008 yuan per kWh "treatment ." According to the company 's annual consumption of 280 million kwh electricity computing , companies can reduce annual electricity costs 2.24 million yuan . This is called direct purchase of large users of electricity trading patterns , has long been seen as a breakthrough price point market reform .

But the electricity market reform is difficult and therefore overnight.

" If the current market price on the implementation of various types of power generation main bidding , then the result is brought about due to the low cost of power generation in coal , the price advantage is obvious , will greatly enhance the competitiveness , easily dominating the power structure , while renewable energy high cost, large instabilities , whether for power or end consumers, they do not belong to a popular breed . this situation is now under the theme of governance haze , clearly not expecting to see the whole community the results , so the new problems facing the electricity market is now renewable energy and coal power generation in a long period of time also need to ' peaceful coexistence ' , this time is obviously not the best time to implement the electricity market . " national Energy Institute for renewable Energy Research Center, experts told reporters.

In the oil sector , March 26 , the National Development and Reform Commission improved the refined oil pricing mechanism , shortening the price adjustment period , cancel the adjustment limit , adjust anchored oil types . This NDRC Energy Research Institute in Han Wenke appears to have been taken to the oil market important step : after " the current price of refined oil can no longer be said to have government pricing , the pricing mechanism reform this year , finished Price changes in crude oil prices is mainly anchored , the meaning and essence of the pricing mechanism has a transition toward market pricing in oil prices that everyone can figure out based on the pricing mechanism but due to the current upstream without breaking the monopoly , the price of market mechanisms still in a transition phase . "

The natural gas sector is facing supply to compensate . The costs are reasonable upstream to downstream to divert the path , which is currently in order to solve the main task in the background serves as the natural gas price adjustment to go " is currently in the gas sector , the main task facing us is to solve the supply problem. Including this year in July more appropriate way . complete market was at least relative balance between supply and demand of natural gas situation . " Han Wenke told reporters.

Energy price reform is not " a change on the rise ."

July 10 this year , the National Development and Reform Commission in accordance with the principle of gradual rationalization of alternative energy price relationship between natural gas , natural gas prices adjusted for non- residents . Where the stock price per cubic meter valve station a maximum price increase of more than 0.4 yuan , of which the highest gas fertilizer no more than 0.25 million. Incremental valve station prices by alternative energy ( fuel oil , liquefied petroleum gas ) prices 85 % sure . After adjustment , the national average gate prices increased from 1.69 yuan per cubic meter to 1.95 yuan per cubic meter. It is this last adjustment to keep the discussion on " Energy price reform , a change on the rise ," the unprecedented warm . But in fact, this year I sort of oil , gas, electricity price reform in these three areas found that , in addition to price adjustments implemented in the field of natural gas increases , the other areas did not show , as always , "a change on the up " situation.

In the new oil price adjustment mechanism runs since , for example, as of mid- November , China's gasoline and diesel price adjustment presented " five seven or five no tune up " pattern , cut the number of over -regulated. In late November despite tensions in the Middle East boost, Brent crude oil futures rebounded sharply , the domestic refined oil price increases by the end of the trend is obvious, but the increase rate of only 0.12 yuan / liter or so, did not change had already formed " rose more or less " pattern.

In terms of tariff reform , large consumers direct purchase of electricity tariffs also allow the implementation of the pilot " down not up ." In Shanxi Province, in October this year , the National Development and Reform Commission of Shanxi electricity transmission and distribution of electricity to deal directly scheme approved Shanxi Electric power generation companies to deal directly with the user pilot power tariff (excluding line losses ) of 0.078 yuan per kilowatt-hour . Before the National Development and Reform Commission , the Commission by letter of Shanxi Province has selected some companies trading pilot. Experimental results show that direct transaction price is lower than the power generation companies benchmark tariff of 2 to 3 cents / kWh , an independent electricity transmission and distribution below the average level of 1 to 2 cents / kWh .

In the most sensitive to natural gas price adjustment areas , Han Wenke , said: " If the coal to gas and other applications can be implemented on the basis of the national development of natural gas on the implementation of the gas source , it does not appear a wide range of short supply, the price straight up phenomenon ." In his opinion , the demand for natural gas is not like oil as dispersed , mostly syndicated throughout the city. So if we can focus on the development of natural gas in the case of the implementation of the gas source , it does not appear very serious situation in short supply . After the characteristics of the whole industry chain and natural gas also determines the market, the price will be the end result of a multi-party negotiation after , not only decided by the supply side .

Talk about price changes after the first introduction of competition

Fluctuations in the price of the market-oriented reform has become difficult to coordinate resource factors .

"On the market is a prerequisite for fostering a market , so now we can not just set the target on the pricing in the market, breaking the monopoly in the upstream , foster market competition is also very important. Only the first introduction of competition , liberalization quasi into , only the downstream market determines the price of the issue and I think at this stage, this premise is more important than the result . " Chinese academy of Social Sciences Institute of industrial economy Research Associate , energy Economics Research Director Zhu Tong expressed in an interview .

Correspondingly, the recent news shows that the policy document on the right to import crude oil and refined further liberalization , the comments have been basically completed , expected by the end of this year or early next year under the hair. Single set of device " using imported crude oil refinery qualifications ( draft ) " provides the main refining units actual processing capacity of not less than 5 million tons / year, and the National Energy Board issued not less than 300 tons / year, secondary processing capacity is not less than 300 tons / year, three times the processing capacity of not less than 400 tons / year refinery , you can have the right to import crude oil . Therefore, with a view of the information have said that in the future , China's crude oil imports will look at refining capacity and the " do not ask origin ."

But president of the Petroleum Association of Heilongjiang , China Chamber of Commerce of the original oil circulation committee chairman Zhao Youshan interview with this reporter , said at the time , due to the specific programs did not come out , about how to allocate specific quotas , and more specifically the problem of higher threshold can not be determined , but according to his estimated opening round was not fully liberalized and, ultimately, the right to import or under the planned economic system before it has been made import qualified old refinery , which was the new refinery demand is unlikely to be met soon .

Relevant information, after more than ten years of development, the current total of 23 chemical enterprises , more than 120 local refineries , private refined oil wholesale enterprises 609 , 146 storage companies , private stations 44,005 ( total stations nationwide 95,571 , the number of private stations approximately 46 % of the total number of stations ) .

In market share , in 1998 , private occupy 85% of the supply of the domestic market, but in 2010 reduced to 46% , and now has only the private market share close to 20 %.