Abstract “Reducing costs†is one of the five major tasks of supply-side structural reform. At the policy level, there have been many points in the past two years. Recently, there have been new developments in price regulation for monopolistic industries. On August 30, the National Development and Reform Commission announced natural gas...
“Reducing costs†is one of the five major tasks of supply-side structural reform. At the policy level, there have been many points in the past two years. Recently, there have been new developments in price regulation for monopolistic industries. On August 30, the National Development and Reform Commission announced the verification results of the cross-provincial pipeline transportation price of natural gas. After the verification, the average price of pipeline transportation of 13 natural gas inter-provincial pipeline transportation enterprises has dropped by about 15%. At present, the average price of non-residential gas train stations in the country is about 1.7 yuan per cubic meter. After this reduction, the price per cubic meter will be reduced by 0.1 yuan.
Natural gas is an important industrial base energy, and the influence of price cuts will be transmitted downstream. The price of the non-residential valve station is reduced by 0.1 yuan per cubic meter. According to the government-managed price of non-residential gas of about 70 billion cubic meters, it will directly reduce downstream industries, power generation, central heating, taxis, and commerce. The service industry and other gas industry enterprises will pay about 7 billion yuan. The downward adjustment will also have a driving effect on market-oriented pricing of natural gas, which will make its price tend to decline.
The regulation of natural gas pipeline transportation prices is a typical case of natural monopoly industries. In the future, many industries and enterprises with natural monopoly properties can be refined by reference to this regulatory action.
At present, there are 13 inter-provincial pipeline transportation enterprises in China, with a long-distance pipeline of about 45,000 kilometers. The specific practice of the National Development and Reform Commission is to conduct cost supervision and audit on 13 enterprises in the first half of this year, and on this basis, cross-provincial pipeline transportation prices have been approved. After cost supervision and examination, 13 enterprises were eliminated from the ineffective assets of 18.5 billion yuan, and the ratio of nuclear reduction was 7%. The reduction should not be included in the total cost of 4.6 billion yuan, the ratio of nuclear reduction is 16%, and the approved permit cost is 24.2 billion yuan. On this basis, further calculation and determination of the permitted revenue of each pipeline transportation enterprise and the annual permitted total revenue, combined with the pipeline load rate level of each enterprise, the pipeline transportation price of each enterprise is verified.
This is the first time that the state has implemented price verification on the basis of cost supervision and examination of natural gas inter-provincial pipeline transportation enterprises. The important significance is not only to reduce prices, but to make the adjustment of pipeline transportation price mechanism, and also to institutionalize and refine the price supervision work. The important beginning. For many monopolistic industries and enterprises, this is undoubtedly an important reference.
The fifteenth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Leading Group held on February 28 this year stressed that "it is necessary to establish a sense of water and fish farming, and work harder to reduce the prices and charges of monopoly industries, and make every effort to reduce the burden on enterprises."
In terms of reducing the price of monopolistic industries, the key areas in 2017 are electricity, medical care, transportation, oil and gas, water resources, administrative agencies and operating service charges. For example, to break the monopoly of the power grid, expand the pilot of direct electricity trading, expand the proportion of direct power supply, and promote competition among power companies, thereby reducing the cost of electricity for enterprises.
In the other several areas mentioned above, there have been many initiatives in various places. For example, starting from July 1 this year, Guangdong will stop approving new ordinary highway toll collection projects, and the mileage of ordinary highways will no longer increase. The existing ordinary highway toll collection projects in the province will gradually push out the cancellation fees, and strive to realize the free automatic roads as soon as possible. Pass. Last year, Anhui Province proposed 20 measures to reduce institutional transaction costs, reduce labor costs, reduce tax burden, reduce financial costs, reduce the cost of land for energy use, and reduce logistics costs. This year, it further emphasized that it will continue to reduce the fees charged by enterprises. Continue to reduce the energy cost of enterprises, especially the monopoly areas such as electricity and gas, and so on.
Since 2016, Jiangsu has issued three opinions on corporate burden reduction. The Jiangsu provincial government calculated that the province directly reduced the cost of enterprises by 107 billion yuan last year.
The ice is still very thick and needs to be further broken. At present, the problems of charging more names and charging fees are still outstanding. In addition, infrastructure services such as roads, railways, ports, airports, and monopolistic industries such as water, electricity, and gas maintain product price rigidity, and use monopoly status to maintain high prices. At the same time, some unreasonable charges are bundled by monopoly status, which also aggravates enterprises. burden.
"There are half of the 90-year-olds," and so is the burden reduction for enterprises. The power that has been cut, the process of compression, and the prohibition of the practice may change the name of the "vest" and appear in another seemingly legal face and form. The effect of cost reduction needs to be protected by a long-term mechanism of legalization; at the same time, hidden costs such as institutional transaction costs also need to be valued, and the potential for cost reduction can continue to be tapped.
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