The State Council Announces 16 Measures To Stabilize The General Level Of Consumer Prices

　　 General Office of the State Council On the 20 day, the State Council issued the notice of the State Council on stabilizing the general level of consumer prices and safeguarding the basic livelihood of the masses, requiring all localities and relevant departments to take timely measures. 16 measures We should further improve the supervision and control of prices. Stabilize market prices We should ensure the basic livelihood of the masses.

The circular points out that in order to effectively safeguard the fundamental interests of the masses 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 curb unreasonable demand, implement short-term contingency measures and establish long-term effective mechanisms, straighten out the relationship between price relations and safeguard the basic livelihood of the masses, maintain normal business activities and combat price violations, and take economic and legal means as the main means, supplemented by the necessary administrative means to further improve the regulation and control of price regulation and stabilize market prices.

The above 16 measures include: vigorously developing agricultural production, stabilizing the supply of agricultural and sideline products, reducing the circulation of agricultural and sideline products, ensuring the supply of chemical fertilizer and production, coordinating the work of coal and oil and gas transportation, issuing temporary subsidies for prices, establishing social assistance mechanisms and linking up the standards with the rising prices, continuing to implement the provisions of standardizing charges, actively and steadily pushing forward the price reform, standardizing the operation of agricultural products and deep processing order, strengthening the supervision of agricultural futures and electronic trading market, improving the price regulation and regulation, strengthening the supervision and inspection of price and anti price monopoly enforcement, perfecting the price information release system, earnestly implementing the responsibility system of "rice bag" governor, the mayor responsibility system of "vegetable basket", and establishing the inter ministerial joint conference system of market price regulation.

The circular requires the relevant departments and localities to effectively strengthen vegetable planting bases and vegetable greenhouses, and the production of winter vegetables should be done well in the southern provinces and the main vegetable producing areas. The central and local governments at all levels should give the necessary support. The people's governments, especially the 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. We should improve the policy of sugar purchase price and benefit sharing mechanism and stabilize the production of sugar enterprises.

In order to stabilize the supply of agricultural and sideline products, the circular requires all regions to maintain the delivery of local reserve grain and oil, and implement the system of grain and oil reserves for small packages. The relevant departments should continue to grasp the rhythm and intensity of the central grain reserves, oil and sugar delivery and rotation, and ensure market supply. The people's Government of the city should do a good job in the reserve work of agricultural products such as small packaged products, grain and oil and wintering vegetables, and accelerate the construction of vegetable wholesale markets, community vegetable shops and cold chain logistics, and make contingency plans for grain, edible oil and vegetables ahead of schedule. Railway departments should do a good job in Xinjiang's cotton distribution and transportation.

In order to reduce the circulation cost of agricultural products, the circular decided that from December 1st this year, all toll roads would be free of tolls for vehicles loaded with fresh and fresh agricultural products. A small number of mixed farm products and other vehicles with fresh overloading within the scope of reasonable measurement error should be carried out according to the vehicles loaded by the whole vehicle, and potatoes, sweet potatoes, fresh corn and flowers should be included in the green channel catalogue. All regions should further standardize and reduce the booth market fees and supermarket entry fees.

According to the actual situation, the circular requires that temporary subsidies be given to those entitled to preferential treatment, the urban and rural minimum living allowances, and the rural five guarantees. For the central and western regions with financial difficulties, appropriate subsidies should be given to the central government. According to the affiliation, we should increase the subsidy to the students with poor families and students' canteens in the secondary and technical schools. We should effectively arrange the life of students in rural boarding schools.

The circular requires all localities to establish and improve the linkage mechanism of minimum living standard, unemployment insurance standard and price rise as soon as possible according to the change of basic living cost price index. Gradually raise the standard of basic pension, unemployment insurance and minimum wage.

The notice emphasizes that relevant departments and local governments should grasp the timing, rhythm and intensity of government management price adjustment. We must give full consideration to the social affordability of the established price adjustment plan, improve the supporting measures and prudently introduce it. When necessary, temporary intervention measures should be applied to important daily necessities and production materials.

The notice calls for the government to formulate regulations on supervision and examination of price and cost as soon as possible, and strengthen cost supervision. We should pay close attention to the revision of the provisions on administrative penalties for price violations, incorporate the behavior of fabricating and distributing price information into the scope of price supervision, enhance the pertinence of penalties, increase penalties, strengthen the strength of price supervision, and focus on attacking illegal accumulating, driving up prices, disguised price increases and conspiring to raise prices, colluding prices and other illegal activities. We must severely investigate and deal with vicious speculation and maintain market and price order.

The departments concerned will strengthen price monitoring and early warning, establish and improve the mechanism of price news disclosure, publish market prices in a timely manner, objectively analyze the trend of price movements, accurately interpret price policies, clarify false reports, and stabilize social expectations.

The notice also requires all regions and departments to report on the implementation of this circular to the State Council by the end of November this year. The State Council will organize the inspection team to investigate and understand the implementation of policies and measures and market prices.