The establishment of the National Energy Leadership Group may be upgraded to the Department of Energy in the future

According to “China Daily”, the “National Energy Leadership Group” led by Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council was established recently. The group aims to strengthen energy management and related industry guidance and has a “National Energy Office” (hereinafter referred to as “Energy Office”). ), affiliated with the National Development and Reform Commission, Ma Kai, director of the National Development and Reform Commission, led the former president of PetroChina as the deputy director Ma Fucai took office. Experts believe that: The Energy Office is expected to be upgraded to the Department of Energy a few years later.

Members include important ministry leaders

Yesterday, an official of the Energy Development Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission confirmed to the reporter that the relevant documents of the Energy Office (Guofa [2005] No. 14 Document) had already been issued.

The document clearly states that the National Energy Leading Group will serve as a high-level coordination mechanism for national energy work. The leading group office will be set up in the National Development and Reform Commission and will be responsible for the daily work of the leading group. He said that the deputy leader of the National Energy Leadership Group was chaired by Vice Premier Huang Ju and Zeng Peiyan. The leading group includes Ma Kai, Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, Minister of Finance Jin Renqing and Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai, and Director of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. Zhang Yunchuan and other department heads are also members of this group.

The official told reporters that the establishment of the National Energy Leading Group is to further strengthen the leadership of forward-looking, comprehensive, and strategic work on energy strategic planning and major policies, energy development and conservation, energy security and emergency response, and foreign energy cooperation. The main tasks of the National Energy Leading Group are: to study the national energy development strategy and plan; to study major policies such as energy development and conservation, energy security and emergency response, and foreign energy cooperation, and to make recommendations to the State Council. The leading group may, if necessary, invite the relevant departments and the main leaders of state-owned large-scale energy and related companies to attend the meeting, and invite relevant experts to form an expert group to provide consultation for the decision-making of the leading group. The expert group does not serve as an entity.

The leading group consists of a 24-member sub-ministerial level executive agency, the “Energy Office”. Its organizational structure is similar to the “Western Development Office” and “National Northeast Office.” It is a non-general organization.

It undertakes the daily tasks of the leading group, including: supervising and implementing the decision of the leading group; tracking and understanding the state of energy security, forecasting the macro and major issues of energy for early warning, and making recommendations to the leading group; organizing relevant units to study energy strategies and plans; and researching energy development. Major policies such as conservation, energy security and emergency response, and foreign cooperation in energy; other matters assigned by the State Council and the leading group.

In the past, the rumors of “the National Development and Reform Commission’s Energy Bureau will be upgraded to an Energy Office” have not come true. The Energy Bureau is still positioned as a division-level unit within the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Energy Office is a two-team team that will continue to pass inspections of industrial projects. Regulation of energy-related activities to control the energy industry.

Industry Expectations Upgraded to Department of Energy

The Energy Development Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission, established in 2003, is responsible for the overall management and coordination of the energy industry in the country, but the Energy Bureau has only 30 staff. The official from the National Development and Reform Commission’s Energy Bureau stated that China’s energy resources are so tense that they “do their best to increase efficiency but they do not have enough manpower and power to do things.”

“The exploration, production, transportation, and sales of energy in China are decomposed by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Commerce, and the State Administration of Production Safety. This not only makes management inefficient, but also easily leads to inadequate management. Negligence." Researcher Li Lianji of the Shanxi Academy of Social Sciences believes that the establishment of a special department-level energy unit can unify energy strategy planning and energy management systems. Otherwise, the current energy management system will continue to constrain China's energy and economic development.

Wang Guangde, secretary-general of the China Coal Industry Association, also hopes that the country can establish the Ministry of Energy. He said that the Energy Office belongs only to a temporary deliberative body, and “currently coal, electricity, oil, and transportation are all in power, but they are increasingly in a tense situation. The energy department at the ministerial and ministerial level helps coordinate the relationship between various departments. Only in this way can we achieve a coordinated development of energy and economy."

Su Zhengming, a researcher at the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that “the establishment of the Energy Administration by the National Development and Reform Commission itself was a transitional consideration. Facts have proved that only one energy bureau cannot completely solve the problem of managing the energy system in China; currently, setting up a sub-ministerial energy unit is actually only one. In the transitional considerations, if the practice eventually proves that there is a need to establish the Ministry of Energy, then the Department of Energy will surely come back in the future."

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