22 regions to eliminate high energy-consuming enterprises preferential price involved more than 15 billion

The National Development and Reform Commission said yesterday that as of July 14, for high energy-consuming enterprises to implement preferential price of the country's 22 provinces and municipalities, has abolished the local implementation of preferential tariff measures. At present, all high energy-consuming enterprises began to implement a new differential tariff policy.　　According to statistics, the cancellation of preferential electricity prices involved in the total amount of more than 15 billion yuan. The task of reducing GDP is arduous according to the target of "Eleven-Five", in five years from 2006 to the end of 2010, the GDP of our country should achieve emission reduction by 20% and pollutant emission by 10%.　　The current task of pollutant discharge has been largely completed ahead of schedule, but the energy-saving work has been slow, and the energy consumption of unit GDP has been reduced by only 14.38% per cent last year and is far from the target of 20%, especially in the first quarter of this year. In order to ensure the "Eleven-Five" goal is completed, the National Development and Reform Commission on the promotion of energy-saving emission reduction work made a special deployment. May, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Electricity Regulatory Commission, the state Energy Bureau on joint issuance of documents, began to clean up the national high energy consumption preferential tariff, to eliminate some backward capacity. According to the inspection plan, the relevant departments will also impose punitive electricity prices on enterprises exceeding energy consumption, and enterprises exceeding the energy consumption will be subject to the tariff standard of the eliminated enterprises.　　In order to ensure the development of local economy, some places have promulgated some preferential tariff policies for high energy consuming industries.　　The NDRC said that this marked a substantial progress in the cancellation of preferential tariff inspections conducted by the NDRC, the Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Energy Bureau in May, which is of great significance to the current implementation of energy saving and emission reduction and the elimination of backward capacity.　　The head of the problem enterprise will be held accountable for the administrative responsibility and Reform Commission said that at present, all high energy-consuming enterprises began to implement a new differential pricing policy. The statistics bureau this week released data showing that the "Eleven-Five" four years before the unit GDP energy consumption fell 15.61%, this year, the energy consumption of unit GDP should be reduced by about 5%, the size of the above units of industrial value added energy consumption must be reduced by 7%.　　China's energy consumption in the first half of the year increased 11.2%,GDP 11.1%, unit GDP energy consumption rose 0.09% year-on-year.　　The above-mentioned national development and Reform Commission related people said that the abolition of high energy consumption of preferential tariff on GDP unit energy consumption has played an important role. In order to prevent the rebound, the NDRC will also be on the elimination of ultra vires preferential tariff situation to track inspectors, the existence of some local-owned power plants, local independent network concessions to correct the problem. At the same time, will establish and improve the long-term monitoring mechanism, to strengthen accountability, for the inspection appears in the rebound of the places and units, found together, to inform, not only to take severe economic penalties, but also to the supervision departments to be held responsible and the main responsible person's administrative responsibility. (Reporter Zhongjingjing)