National Development and Reform Commission: Promote the Construction of a Unified Power Market

Polaris Electric Power Network learned that on January 7, 2025, the National Development and Reform Commission held a special press conference to introduce the relevant situation of deepening the construction of a unified national market. Wang Shancheng, Director of the General Department of System Reform of the National Development and Reform Commission, said: Promote the construction of a unified power market. At present, the inter-provincial power spot market and the power spot markets in Shanxi, Guangdong, Shandong and Gansu provinces have been officially launched.

Wang Shancheng pointed out that to build a unified national market with many aspects and many things, we must find the right focus of our work in order to continuously improve the quality and efficiency of our work. "Five unifications and one break" is the focus of our implementation. For details, please refer to:

First, strengthen the unity of basic market systems and rules. Institutional rules are the basis for the operation of market mechanisms. Without unified basic institutional rules, market operations lack consistent codes of conduct. We have promoted a series of reform measures from the perspective of institutional construction. For example, in terms of market access rules, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Improving the Market Access System", deeply breaking down market access barriers and creating a fair and unified market access system environment for all types of business entities. In terms of the rules of the fair competition system, the "Regulations on Fair Competition Review" was issued and implemented to strengthen the rigid constraints on fair competition review of laws, regulations, and policies and measures.

The second is to create a unified factor and resource market. The unification of the factor resource market plays an important role in better leveraging the advantages of a unified market to gather resources, encourage innovation, and release development potential. We focus on key issues in the construction of the factor market system, open up channels for factor flow, and enrich the supply methods of factor. For example, improve and perfect the supporting policies for the pilot work of rural collective commercial construction land entering the market, and promote the improvement of the unified urban-rural construction land market; the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development and Utilization of Public Data Resources" to promote the cultivation of a national integrated data market; and promote the construction of a unified power market. At present, the inter-provincial power spot market and the power spot markets in Shanxi, Guangdong, Shandong and Gansu provinces have been officially launched.

The third is to promote high-level unification of the commodity and service market. The commodity service market is not only an important part of the unified market, but also an area that is most closely related to the lives of the masses. We have vigorously promoted the implementation and effectiveness of relevant reform measures in response to issues of concern to enterprises and the masses. For example, building a unified medical service market, realizing direct settlement of medical insurance for cross-provincial and off-site medical treatment, and continuously promoting cross-regional and cross-medical institutions' inspection and inspection results, shortening diagnosis time, reducing the burden on patients, and saving medical resources. For example, in the past, consumers often had to choose specific platforms to pay for online shopping. We have promoted relevant parties to actively improve the interconnection level of platforms. Last year, Tmall had already allowed the use of WeChat payment on Double Eleven, and JD.com was about to connect to Alipay. The barriers between platforms are gradually being eliminated.

Fourth, promote high-standard connectivity of market facilities. The smooth connection of facilities is the basic condition for smooth economic circulation. We continue to promote the unified and efficient connection of various market infrastructure, effectively reduce logistics costs, and support the smooth circulation of all links of production, distribution, circulation and consumption. For example, improve the standardization system of multimodal transport and promote the national "common inspection and mutual recognition" of ship inspection, etc. Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a Unified and Open Transportation Market", promoting cross-regional coordinated layout, cross-mode integration, and cross-field coordinated development. For example, we will carry out pilot projects of modern commercial circulation systems, connect county and rural e-commerce and express logistics distribution systems, etc., and accelerate the construction of commercial circulation facilities. Through a series of measures, we will promote high-standard connectivity of market facilities.

Fifth, promote fair and unified market supervision. Fair and unified market supervision is a strong guarantee for market operation order and resource allocation efficiency. By unifying regulatory standards and standardizing regulatory behavior, we continuously reduce regulatory costs and improve regulatory efficiency. For example, the issuance of the "double random, one public" system documents on comprehensively deepening supervision, law enforcement, and inspection, and the improvement of the benchmark system for discretionary administrative penalties, etc.

The above is the situation of "five unifications". "Once breaking out" means breaking down local protection and market division. In response to the situation where problems such as local protection and market segmentation are prohibited and some even renovated, we have concentrated our efforts to tackle and rectify a number of prominent problems. For example, since last year, we have carried out special actions to clean up and rectify the order of the human resources market and the unified destruction of infringing and counterfeit goods nationwide. In order to open up channels for problem reporting, we have opened a portal for soliciting clues that violate the national unified market construction problem on the National Development and Reform Commission's portal, further improving the convenience of problems reflected by all sectors of society.

Overall, with the deepening of key tasks, various reform measures have been gradually implemented, and the social consensus on building a unified national market has been significantly enhanced, and its role in promoting high-quality development, stimulating market vitality, and improving economic circulation efficiency is emerging.