State Council lowers industrial and commercial electricity prices to send "red envelopes" to enterprises

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Premier Li Keqiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on April 8, decided to clean up the country-wide regulation of enterprise-related charges, reduce the price of coal-fired power generation feed-in tariffs and industrial and commercial electricity prices, in accordance with the law to appropriately reduce the proportion of iron ore resource tax collection, do more to reduce the burden on enterprises, support the real economic development. The meeting decided to reduce the cost of enterprises, stabilize market expectations, promote economic growth, support the control and adjustment of industrial structure, appropriately reduce the feed-in tariff for coal-fired power generation and industrial and commercial electricity prices. First, in accordance with the coal-fired power price linkage mechanism, the national coal-fired power feed-in tariff averages about 2 cents per kilowatt hour. Second, the implementation of commercial and industrial electricity prices, the national average price of industrial and commercial electricity by about 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour, to reduce the burden of electricity costs. We will continue to adopt differential electricity prices for high energy-consuming industries, and clarify the catalogue to increase the enforcement of punitive electricity prices. Third, the use of price reduction space, appropriate dredging of natural gas power generation prices and denitrification, dust removal, ultra-low emissions and other environmental protection of the outstanding structural contradictions, to promote energy conservation and emission reduction and air pollution prevention and control. "After the adjustment of electricity prices, the burden on electricity charges will be further reduced, which will help to improve the profitability of enterprises and promote the steady and healthy development of the real economy." Zhang Zhanbin, director of the economics department of the National School of Administration, said.