China Accelerates Reform of Energy Pricing

The price reform for resource-nature prod-ucts has become a basic common understand-ing in all walks of life.In spite of the pres-sure from rising commodity prices,experts suggest that the price reform to resource-natural products should move along asquickly as possible.Premier Wen Jiabao urged in his progress re-port released this March that China should reform the resource tax system and should improve the resource paid-use system and the environmental impact compensation system."To shift from high energy consumption to low energy consumption in the develop-