Recently, the General Office of the State Council issued the Notice of the State Council on Stabilizing the General Level of Consumer Prices to Protect the People's Basic Livelihood, requiring all localities and relevant departments to take 16 measures in time to further improve price regulation and supervision, stabilize market prices and effectively protect the people's basic livelihood.
The circular pointed out that in order to effectively safeguard the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people and maintain social harmony and stability, all regions and departments should take effective measures in a timely manner, adhere to the combination of supporting production, ensuring supply and curbing unreasonable demand, implement short-term emergency measures and establishing a long-term mechanism, rationalize price relations and protect basic people's livelihood, maintain normal business activities of enterprises and crack down on price violations, and further improve price regulation and supervision with economic and legal means as the mainstay, supplemented by necessary administrative means.
The above-mentioned 16 measures include: vigorously developing agricultural production, stabilizing the supply of agricultural and sideline products, reducing the circulation cost of agricultural and sideline products, ensuring the production and supply of chemical fertilizers, coordinating the transportation of coal, electricity, oil and gas, granting temporary price subsidies, establishing a linkage mechanism linking social assistance and security standards with price increases, continuing to implement various provisions regulating fees, actively and steadily promoting price reform, and standardizing the order of agricultural product management and deep processing. Strengthen the supervision of agricultural futures and electronic trading markets, improve laws and regulations on price supervision, strengthen price supervision and inspection and anti-price monopoly law enforcement, improve the price information release system, earnestly implement the "rice bag" governor responsibility system and the "vegetable basket" mayor responsibility system, and establish an inter-ministerial joint meeting system for market price supervision.
The Notice requires relevant departments and localities to effectively strengthen the construction of vegetable planting bases and vegetable greenhouses. Southern provinces and related major vegetable producing areas should do a good job in winter vegetable production, and the central and local governments should give necessary support; All localities, especially urban people's governments, should expand the production scale of fast-growing vegetables and increase the supply of overwintering vegetables. Strengthen the field management of grain and oil production in winter. Improve the purchase price policy and benefit sharing mechanism of sugar materials, and stabilize the production of sugar squeezing enterprises.
In order to stabilize the supply of agricultural and sideline products, the Notice requires all regions to maintain local grain and oil reserves and implement a grain and oil reserve system for small packaged finished products. Relevant departments should continue to grasp the pace and intensity of the central grain reserves, grain, oil and sugar to ensure market supply. The people's government of the city should reserve agricultural and sideline products such as small packaged finished grain and oil and overwintering vegetables in advance, and speed up the construction of vegetable wholesale markets, community vegetable shops and cold chain logistics. (Down to Version A2)
(Continued from version A 1) In order to reduce the circulation cost of agricultural products, it is decided that all toll roads will be free of tolls for vehicles legally loaded with fresh agricultural products from this year121; If a small number of fresh agricultural products transport vehicles are mixed with other agricultural products and the overload range is within a reasonable measurement error, it shall be carried out in accordance with the legally loaded vehicles; Potatoes, sweet potatoes, fresh corn and flowers are listed in the catalogue of green channel varieties. All regions should further standardize and reduce booth fees and supermarket entrance fees in bazaars.
The circular requires all regions to grant temporary price subsidies to special care recipients, urban and rural low-income recipients and rural five-guarantee recipients according to actual conditions. The central government will give appropriate subsidies to the central and western regions with financial difficulties. In accordance with the affiliation, we will increase subsidies for students with financial difficulties from families and college canteens, and colleges and universities should keep the food prices in student canteens basically stable. Effectively arrange the life of students in rural boarding schools.
The circular requires all localities to establish and improve the linkage mechanism linking the minimum living security and unemployment insurance standards with price increases as soon as possible according to the changes in the price index of basic living expenses. Gradually raise the basic pension, unemployment insurance and minimum wage.
The "Notice" emphasizes that relevant departments and localities should grasp the timing, rhythm and intensity of government-managed price adjustment, and fully consider the social affordability of the price adjustment plan that has been determined, improve supporting measures, and prudently introduce it. When necessary, temporary price-intervention measures shall be taken for important daily necessities and means of production.
The "Notice" requires the promulgation of the "Regulations on Supervision and Examination of Government-set Prices and Costs" as soon as possible to strengthen cost supervision. We will promptly revise the Provisions on Administrative Penalties for Price Violations, include the act of fabricating and spreading price increase information in the scope of price supervision, enhance the pertinence of punishment, and increase the intensity of punishment; Strengthen the power of price supervision, focus on cracking down on malicious hoarding, price gouging, disguised price increases, price collusion, price collusion and other illegal acts, severely investigate and punish vicious speculation, and maintain market and price order.
Relevant departments will strengthen price monitoring and early warning, establish and improve the price news disclosure mechanism, timely announce market prices, objectively analyze price trends, accurately explain price policies, clarify false reports, and stabilize social expectations.
The circular also requires all regions and departments to report the implementation of this circular to the State Council before the end of June this year 1 1. The State Council will organize an inspection team to investigate the implementation of various policies and measures and the market price.