The National Energy Commission may be appointed as Director of the Deputy Prime Minister

China's National Energy Administration is now preparing for the establishment of a senior agency called the National Energy Council (hereinafter referred to as "the National Energy Commission").　　December 10, officials told the newspaper that the National Energy Commission is likely to be in the National Energy Bureau's "National Energy Work Conference" before the announcement was established.　　After the establishment of the National Energy Commission will become China's highest level of energy agencies.　　According to our understanding, the Director of the National Energy Commission will be the State Council in charge of energy work of the Deputy Prime Minister or State councilor as the National Development and Reform Commission, the state Energy Bureau, Ministry of Information, Environmental Protection Department, the General Administration of security and other relevant ministries of the Deputy; The Office of the National Energy Commission will be located in the National Energy Agency.　　The director of the Energy Bureau, Zhang, may be the head of the National Energy Commission's office, while the deputy director is headed by the Energy Bureau.　　Officials said the National Energy Commission's main responsibility was to study and formulate a national energy development strategy to consider major issues in energy security and energy development. "Unlike the former National Energy Leadership group, the National Energy Commission will not only retreat but also play a more practical role," the official said. "According to the Department of Energy, as early as 2008, the State Council in the institutional reform, the relevant" three options "has been clearly proposed to set up high-level energy coordination deliberative body, namely," National Energy Council. "　　Until nearly two years after the National Energy Agency was established, however, the National Energy Commission had surfaced. In fact, the establishment of the National Energy Commission was a follow-up to the 2008 State Council institutional reform, people familiar with the matter said. At that time, a direct step was proposed to set up the "National Department of Energy", but eventually, due to the division of authority and other issues such as obstacles, did not make it.　　The National Energy Commission, which is to be set up now, should in fact be a transition model for the Department of Energy.　　Since 1993, after the abolition of the Ministry of Energy industry, China has not had a unified energy management department for 16 years. The establishment of the Energy Bureau failed to unify China's energy management functions.　　At present, China's energy management functions are still dispersed in the national Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Land, the Electricity Regulatory Commission, the security Bureau and other more than 10 departments. Relevant ministry officials said that China's current energy management situation is, long management, decentralized management, poor coordination.　　Although the three-year plan set out its responsibilities at the beginning of last years, the authority of the relevant departments has not been successfully transferred. In May 2005, China set up a national Energy leadership group to study major issues and policies in China's energy sector, under the energy office. The head of the energy leadership group was chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao, the director of the National Development and Reform Commission as Chairman of the Energy office.　　The role of the energy office was evaluated by the industry as "the drafting of policies on a number of major issues and on macro issues, and suggestions, and more of the role is not reflected".　　The extent to which the upcoming National Energy Commission can be "more realistically" involved in day-to-day energy management is not yet clear. People familiar with this newspaperThe National Energy Commission's office will consider setting up more specific sectors, most of which will come from the National Energy Agency, which is "two brands and one team," says Lu. The National Energy Agency is currently considering the establishment of a national energy reform leadership group. As envisaged, the Energy Reform leadership group will incorporate the central authorities, local energy authorities, energy industry associations and large state-owned energy conglomerates.　　Officials said, "the aim is to better promote reform, coordination of contradictions and disputes." The Awkward Energy bureau has been set up for nearly two years by the National Energy Bureau, the industry evaluation as "powerless, mediocre performance."　　In the opinion of the officials of the National Energy Bureau, the situation of the state Energy Bureau is embarrassing because of the wrong task and authority. At the National Energy Work conference in early 2009, the director of the National Energy Agency, Zhang, said the national Energy Agency was in charge of the five difficulties facing the country's energy efforts, including the lack of means and resources to implement industry management.　　Zhang also cited, for example, the coal industry management of five licenses, not one in the National Energy Agency, nuclear power plant operation operator evaluation in the National Energy Bureau, but the certification in the National Nuclear Safety Bureau, also very bad.　　Zhang admitted that the state Energy Administration should implement the management of power, coal and oil and gas industries, but the management functions related to the development of the energy industry were dispersed in different departments, and the state Energy Bureau had a heavy task but had more difficulties in fulfilling its responsibilities. The National Development and Reform Commission energy experts said, in fact, the National Energy Bureau in the last two years, its energy system reform and other key areas of the role of the original development and Reform Commission and the Energy bureau has not changed much. "In some key areas, such as price reform and institutional reform, it is not that the energy Bureau does not want to do it, but it still faces more constraints."　　"The National Energy Bureau does want to play a bigger role in some areas," said the China electric watchdog. For example, for electricity, coal, oil and other areas of reform, but the current energy reform in China's face almost all problems, will involve price reform, market access and so on, and on these issues, the National Energy Bureau does not have much authority. The Energy Institute of the NDRC said that the establishment of the National Energy Commission will be conducive to the National Energy Bureau to further play in the national energy industry management responsibilities. "From the current situation, the role of the National Energy Commission will be more pragmatic than the original national energy leadership team." If the future National Energy Agency can not coordinate the work through the National Energy Commission to do, some of the work will be more successful. Recently, the National Energy Bureau has begun to draft China's energy "Twelve-Five" plan. According to the National Energy Bureau issued by various departments and energy companies Planning and drafting program, "Twelve-Five" period, the first task is to nurture and develop the emerging energy industry.　　These include renewable energy sources such as nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, solar and bioenergy, as well as accelerating the upgrading of traditional industries such as coal. According to the current state Council three-way plan for the Division of related responsibilities, the above areas related to the national Development and Reform Commission, science and Technology, Environmental Protection Department, the General Administration of security and other relevant functional departments, the National Energy Bureau can achieve its own goals, is still facing the test. Source: Economic Observer