Electricity Pricing Policy Should Serve Macro-Economic Control

The National Development and Reform Commission beefed up its efforts to promote the work of electricity price reform in 2004. It took measures in aspects of easing price contradictions, tentatively implementing discriminated price and time-of-use price and issuing a policy on the linkage of coal and electricity prices and price administration. In 2005 the basic thinking of the Commission’s electricity price reform is to actively advance the pilot work of price reform, carry out the reform of transmission and distribution price, enlarge the scope of pilot work of large consumer’s direct purchase, simplify sales price structure and bring about the linkage of coal and electricity prices.