According to the "Institutional Reform and Function Transformation Plan of the State Council" notified by Xinhua News Agency, the State Council will integrate the responsibilities of the current National Energy Administration and the Electricity Regulatory Commission, reorganize the National Energy Administration, and improve the energy supervision and management system.

　　The main responsibilities of the new National Energy Administration are to formulate and organize the implementation of energy development strategies, plans and policies, study and put forward proposals for energy system reform, and be responsible for energy supervision and management. The SERC is no longer retained. After the reform, the National Energy Administration continues to be managed by the Development and Reform Commission.

　　The National Development and Reform Commission is mainly to do a good job in the coordination and connection of national economic and social development planning and energy planning, and the Energy Bureau mainly plays a role in energy development, reform, and supervision and management.

　　After many institutional changes, the national energy management pattern has been fine-tuned. This round of reorganization indicates that the country intends to strengthen energy supervision including electricity, oil and gas, and coal, and also indicates the failure of the "Great Ministry of Energy".

　　Wang Feng, deputy director of the Central Organization Office, said in response to a question from the Ministry of Energy on the 11th: “Energy is a strategic issue in the final analysis, and the Development and Reform Commission is an important macro-control department in charge of development strategies and planning. In addition, the situation of Chinese energy companies should also be considered. . So (Department of Energy) this issue is very complicated."

　　Reorganization of the Energy Bureau, expansion of supervisory functions

　　According to data, my country’s energy institutions have undergone three changes of the Ministry of Electricity, the Ministry of Coal Industry, the Ministry of Petroleum, the Ministry of Petroleum, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Fuel Industry, the Ministry of Energy, the Energy Administration of the Development and Reform Commission, and the National Energy Administration.

　　In the institutional reform of the State Council in 2008, the State Council established the National Energy Commission and at the same time established the National Energy Administration under the management of the Development and Reform Commission, which organically integrates energy management with economic and social development planning and macro-control.

　　However, in the operation of the organization, "The Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Energy Bureau have overlapping responsibilities in many aspects such as power reform, investment access, project approval, and prices, which is not conducive to the overall energy planning and promotion of the development of the power industry." When asked by reporters from the People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency, they said.

　　The re-organization of the National Energy Administration is mainly to better coordinate the promotion of energy development and reform, strengthen energy supervision and management, and promote the healthy development of the energy industry.

　　According to the State Council’s “Three Decisions” plan in 2008, the Energy Administration’s main responsibilities are: formulating energy development strategies, plans and policies, and proposing relevant system reform recommendations; implementing the management of oil, natural gas, coal, electricity and other energy sources; managing the national oil reserves; Propose policies and measures for the development of new energy and energy conservation in the energy industry; carry out international energy cooperation.

　　As it is under the management of the National Development and Reform Commission, the energy development strategy, major plans, industrial policies, proposals for energy system reform proposed by the Energy Administration, and major projects reviewed by the National Development and Reform Commission are reviewed by the National Development and Reform Commission or submitted to the State Council after review.

　　Compared with this round of institutional reforms, the newly established Energy Bureau will increase the scope of energy supervision. Zhou Dadi, former director of the Energy Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission and vice chairman of the China Energy Research Society, believes that "after the reorganization, the scope of energy supervision of the National Energy Administration will be expanded and further extended to the fields of oil and gas."

　　"The National Energy Administration should avoid specific work such as project approval, and turn more to the formulation and implementation of macro-strategic planning, how to create legal and regulatory conditions, strengthen the supervision and management of the energy industry, and how to formulate policies to promote the development of the industry." Zhou Da said.

　　Lu Qizhou, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and general manager of China Power Investment Corporation, said that “combining the regulatory functions of the power, oil and gas, and coal industries together will be more conducive to the overall macro-organization and implementation of energy development strategies, plans, and policies.”

　　After the reform, the National Energy Administration will continue to be managed by the National Development and Reform Commission, which means that my country’s energy supervision will follow the route of “integration of government and supervision”. Previously, some experts suggested that the idea of ​​establishing an independent energy regulatory agency has not been realized and that energy regulation will also be included in the management of the National Development and Reform Commission.

　　In the setting of the energy regulatory system, there are currently two models of separation of government and government and integration of government and government. In mature market countries, the former is the mainstream.

　　An official energy management system report of the China Energy Research Society pointed out that in the short term, my country adopts a unified government and supervisory system and an independent internal organization model. In the future, with the advancement of energy market reforms, the energy regulatory agency will be independent and transition to a model of separation of government and supervision.

　　The reason is that “in developed countries’ market access, prices, costs, investment, service quality, and market transaction rules, and other regulatory functions are all under the unified responsibility of the regulatory agencies and cannot be divided. In my country, the price and investment approval of the National Development and Reform Commission will still play a role. It’s difficult to include it in the real sense of supervision."

　　Farewell to the Electricity Regulatory Commission, endless reform

　　The Electricity Regulatory Commission was established in February 2003, and it has been ten years. The background of its establishment is: the power industry began to promote the system reform of "separation of government and enterprise, separation of power plant and network, separation of main and auxiliary, separation of transmission and distribution, and Internet bidding" in 2002.

　　But so far, the electricity market has not been formed, and the functions of the SERC have gradually weakened. "Due to the insufficient functions assigned by the State Council, although the State Council is a ministerial-level public institution, it cannot control electricity prices and project approvals. The power system reform has not been carried out in full accordance with the original design plan." Zhou Da said.

　　According to the "three decisions" plan, the functions assigned to the Electricity Regulatory Commission are: national electric power supervision work, formulate electric power market operation rules, supervise market operation, and maintain fair competition; and formulate power market development plans and regions with the formulation of the national electric power development plan Electricity market setup plan, review and approve electricity market operation mode and electricity dispatching trading agency establishment plan.

　　In terms of price and system reforms, the Electricity Regulatory Commission only has the right to "propose electricity price adjustment proposals to the government price authorities" and "organize the implementation of power system reform plans and propose proposals for deepening reforms".

　　Since the Electricity Regulatory Commission does not have core functions such as price management and investment approval, the power market supervision work is weak. In particular, it has been doing policy-level research work in the reform of the power system.

　　The person in charge of the local dispatched agency of the SERC said with emotion that under the current division of the functions of the State Council, the SERC “has no power to supervise, power to supervise, no supervisable, no city supervisable”.

　　As to whether the reform of the electric power system can be promoted after the reorganization, there is still no clear signal, or a high-level reform determination is required. Li Xiaolin, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Chairman of China Power International, believes: "It is necessary to establish a reform leading group under the leadership of the main leading comrades of the State Council to deepen power reform."

　　Zhou Da said: "Many aspects of my country's power system reform have not been implemented in accordance with the established plan. Some past assumptions are too ideal. Under such circumstances, how can the power system reform go? It is necessary to straighten out China's market mechanism, corporate system and various interests. , Can’t copy the management system dominated by the United States.”

　　As a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of the Electricity Regulatory System, Wang Yumin, vice chairman of the China Electricity Regulatory Commission, said, “Reform does not lie in how institutions are adjusted, but how functions are transformed. Whether reform can be implemented depends on the determination of the State Council and various departments. Reform is not a node. The problem, reform is endless."

　　"What we need to be clear is what is the current state of the social market mechanism. There are many planned elements, or are there many market elements? Or is it in the process of transforming a planned economy to a market? Should we concentrate our efforts on major issues, or let the market open and the market operates independently? Adjustment is the main thing?" Wang Yumin said.

　　Other experts suggested that energy legislation should be accelerated at the same time as institutional reforms. It is difficult to introduce basic laws such as the Energy Law and the Oil and Gas Law. Amend the Coal Law and the Electricity Law to make the energy system, access, price, market, and investment There is a legal guarantee for the operation order, and the deep-seated contradictions between the plan and the market, monopoly and competition are straightened out.