What Is Central Billing?

In order to implement the spirit of the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the CPC, in accordance with the deployment of the State Council executive meeting on November 15, 2014, we issued a "Pricing Catalog of the State Planning Commission and Relevant Departments of the State Council" (Order No. 11) was comprehensively sorted out and revised to form the "Central Pricing Catalog".

Central pricing catalog

Announcement of the National Development and Reform Commission on Publicly Soliciting Opinions on Revising the Central Pricing Catalog

In order to implement the spirit of the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the CPC, in accordance with the deployment of the State Council executive meeting on November 15, 2014, we issued a "Pricing Catalog of the State Planning Commission and Relevant Departments of the State Council" (Order No. 11) was comprehensively sorted out and revised to form the "Central Pricing Catalog" (draft for comments), which is now announced and publicly solicited opinions. People from all walks of life are welcome to participate actively and actively provide suggestions and suggestions.

The public comment period is from May 6, 2015 to May 19, 2015. People from all walks of life are welcome to submit their opinions through letters, faxes or the Internet.

Attachments: 1. Catalog of Central Pricing (Draft for Soliciting Opinions) 2. Notes on Amending the Catalog of Central Pricing

National Development and Reform Commission ^[2]

Annex 1 Catalog of Central Pricing (Draft for Soliciting Opinions) ^[2]

Serial number	Pricing item	Pricing content		Pricing department	Remark
1	natural gas	Natural Gas Gate Station Prices by Province, Autonomous Region and Municipality		Price authority of the state council	The pricing range is for domestic onshore natural gas and imported pipeline natural gas that is put into production before the end of 2014, except for direct supply to users (excluding fertilizer companies).
2	Water supply	Water supply prices for water conservancy projects directly under the central government and across provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities		Price authority of the state council	Except for the supply and demand sides voluntarily negotiated the pricing
3	electric power	Provincial and above grid transmission and distribution prices		Price authority of the state council	Before the formation of the electricity market, some on-grid tariffs and sales tariffs were still set by the price authority of the State Council. Among them, the on-grid price pricing range is the on-grid electricity that is uniformly dispatched by the provincial and above power grids to form a price that does not pass the market competition; the provincial and above-level electricity grids that do not form a price through market competition to form a price, the pricing authority of the State Council shall establish pricing principles and overall Level, provincial price authorities set specific price levels for various types of power users.
4	Special drugs and blood	Highest ex-factory and highest retail prices for narcotic drugs and first-class psychotropic substances		Price authority of the state council
		Clinic blood station supply price for citizens		The Health and Family Planning Department of the State Council in conjunction with the Price Control Department of the State Council
5	Important transportation services	railway transport service	Centrally managed enterprise wholly-owned and controlled railway passenger fare rates	Price authority of the state council	Excluding competitive areas
			Freight rates for wholly-owned and controlled railway goods and luggage of centrally managed enterprises
		civil aviation transport service	Passenger fare rates for domestic and international routes of civil aviation	The competent civil aviation authority of the State Council, together with the competent price authority of the State Council	Excluding competitive areas
			Service charges for monopoly links of civil airports and military-civilian airports	Civil Aviation Authority of the State Council
			Civil Aviation Flight Calibration Service Charges
			Civil Aviation Management Service Charges
		port service	Fishing port charges	The competent agricultural department of the State Council in conjunction with the competent price department of the State Council
			Monopoly service charges for major ports along the coast, the Yangtze River, and all other open ports	The competent department of transportation of the State Council together with the competent department of prices of the State Council
		Interprovincial long-distance pipeline transportation prices		Price authority of the state council
6	Important postal services	Letter rates		The competent price department of the State Council, together with the financial department of the State Council, and the postal administration department of the State Council	Excluding competitive areas
		Package (not more than 10 kg per package, excluding blister packages)
		Postal exchange rates
		Confidential communication charges		The competent price department of the State Council, together with the financial department of the State Council, and the postal administration department of the State Council
		National regulations on newspaper publishing fees
7	Important Professional Services	Commercial Banking Service Charges		The competent price department of the State Council together with the banking regulatory agency of the State Council	Pricing scope includes basic services of commercial banks such as transfer remittance, cash remittance, cash withdrawal, bills, etc.
		Bank card swipe fee		The State Council's competent price department in conjunction with the People's Bank of China
		National securities exchange venue charges		Securities regulatory agency of the state council
		Credit Service Fees		Price authority of the state council	Pricing scope is credit report inquiry service and account receivable pledge registration service provided by the People's Bank of China Credit Reporting Center
		Academic degree certification fees		Price authority of the state council
		Citizenship fees

Note: 1. Laws and administrative regulations clearly stipulate that items subject to government pricing and government guidance prices will automatically enter this catalogue; laws and administrative regulations clearly stipulate that items subject to market-adjusted prices will automatically exit this catalogue.

2. The prices of refined oil products (including those for the military and special users) are temporarily managed in accordance with the "Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission on Further Improving the Price Formation Mechanism of Refined Oil Products" (Faikai [2013] No. 624), subject to the timing of system reform open.

3. The price of table salt, value-added tax control system products and maintenance services, the price of private visa services for Chinese citizens, the price of national reserve sugar and meat trading services, and the price of military transportation by water are temporarily managed in accordance with current methods, depending on the salt industry system The relevant reform processes, such as reform, "tax-for-business" tax system reform, government procurement service reform, and market competition will be liberalized in due course.

4. The overall management of state administrative organs' fees has been converted into internal government approvals and will continue to be managed in accordance with the current methods; intermediary service charges related to administrative approvals and which are not sufficiently competitive are managed through the formulation of unified management methods or rules.

Annex 2 Notes on Revision of the Central Pricing Catalog

Article 19 of the "Price Law" stipulates that "the government's guidance price, the government's pricing power and specific scope of application are based on the central and local pricing catalogs." The Pricing Catalogue of the State Planning Commission and the Relevant Departments of the State Council issued in 2001 (Order No. 11 of the State Planning Commission, referred to as the Central Pricing Catalogue) stipulates that government pricing management shall be applied to the prices of 13 types of goods and services. For more than a decade, with the deepening of price reforms, the prices of commodities and services such as important central reserves, fertilizers, and basic telecommunications services have been set by the market. At present, the prices actually managed by the central government are 10 kinds (classes).

In order to implement the spirit of the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 18th Central Committee of the Party, make the market play a decisive role in the allocation of resources and better play the role of the government, and improve the mechanism for the price to be determined mainly by the market. The meeting was planned, and the National Development and Reform Commission discussed relevant departments. While steadily launching a series of price reform measures, it carefully reviewed and revised the current central pricing projects to form the "Central Pricing Catalog" (draft for comments). On April 24, 2015, the 14th Session of the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress passed the Drug Administration Law, the Tobacco Monopoly Law, the Railway Law, the Postal Law, the Civil Aviation Law, and the Amendments to the Compulsory Education Law, the Notarization Law, and the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Judicial Authentication Management (Presidential Order of the People's Republic of China Nos. 25, 26, and 27) The relevant provisions concerning price reform were revised to make this revision of the central pricing catalogue legally valid. The revised central pricing catalogue has 7 types (categories) and 25 pricing items.

To formulate or adjust the prices of items included in the central pricing catalog, they must be strictly administered in accordance with the law, in accordance with the "Price Law" and "Rules for the Government to Set Prices," "Measures for the Supervision and Examination of Costs by the Government," and "Measures for the Development of Price Hearings" And regulations, in-depth analysis of the impact of price changes on all aspects of society, especially the people s lives, according to the average social cost of goods or services, market supply and demand conditions, national economic and social development requirements, and social affordability, and perform price (cost) in accordance with law The procedures of investigation and supervision, price hearing, hearing of social opinions, expert argumentation, collective deliberation, announcement, etc., are really well managed. ^[2]

Attachment 3 "List of Pricing of the State Planning Commission and Relevant Departments of the State Council" (Order of the State Planning Commission No. 11)

Serial number	Product name	Pricing content	Pricing department	Remark
1	Important Central Reserve Supplies	Purchase price and sales price of reserve grain, edible vegetable oil (materials), cotton, reserve price of reserve sugar, ex-factory price and reserve price of reserve oil, reserve and release price of fertilizer, reserve purchase price and sale price	State Planning Commission In conjunction with relevant departments	The pricing scope is the central reserve grain collected and stored by enterprises undertaking central reserve tasks, the central reserve edible vegetable oil (material), the central reserve cotton, sugar, factory silk, the national reserve crude oil, refined oil, and the central disaster relief reserve fertilizer, etc.
2	National franchise tobacco leaf, salt and civilian explosive equipment	Tobacco purchase price, factory salt price, wholesale price, base price and floating range of civilian explosive equipment	National Planning Commission Relevant department	The mid-to-standard purchase price of tobacco leaves is set by the State Planning Commission and the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. The purchase prices of other specific grades are set by the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration and the State Planning Commission. The price range of salt includes fixed-point salt production enterprises and wholesale enterprises; the price range of civilian explosive equipment includes all production enterprises in the civilian explosion industry
3	Partial fertilizer	Ex-factory base price and floating range, port settlement price	State Planning Commission	The pricing range is the benchmark factory price and floating range of urea and ammonium nitrate produced by large-scale ammonia fertilizer enterprises with an annual production capacity of more than 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia. Settlement prices of chemical fertilizer ports imported by qualified enterprises according to the central import quota
4	Some important drugs	Ex-factory prices (port prices) of narcotic drugs, first-class psychotropic drugs, and uniformly purchased anti-immune drugs and contraceptives, and retail prices of other drugs	State Planning Commission	The pricing range is for drugs listed in the National Basic Medical Insurance Drug Catalogue and other special drugs with a monopoly in production and operation.
5	teaching material	Sheet price And floating range	State Planning Commission	The pricing range is for textbooks for primary and secondary schools and colleges. The State Development Planning Commission sets the standard price and floating range of printed sheets, and the provincial price authorities set the unit price and retail price of printed sheets of primary and secondary textbooks
6	natural gas	Ex-factory price	State Planning Commission	Pricing range for onshore oil and gas fields
7	Water supply for water projects directly under the central government and across provinces	Outbound (canal head) price	State Planning Commission	Pricing scope includes reservoirs, trunk canals and rivers directly under the central government and across provinces
8	electric power	On-grid tariff without bidding	State Planning Commission	The pricing scope is the electricity generation of independent power generation enterprises that have not implemented bidding for grid connection and are uniformly dispatched by the provincial and above power grids. After the reform of the power system, grid-connected electricity prices were formed in market competition, and the government no longer approved them.
		Electricity price	State Planning Commission	The pricing scope is the electricity sold by the provincial and above power grids. After the reform of the power system, the government mainly supervised high-voltage transmission prices and low-voltage distribution prices.
9	Military product	Ex-factory price	State Planning Commission	The pricing range is for equipment and supporting products for the armed forces, military rations (military supply prices and subsidy settlement prices), and refined oil for the military. Specific catalogs will be announced separately
10	Important transportation	Pipeline and miscellaneous charges, port charges, civil aviation prices and discounts (including airport charges), railway passenger and freight transportation prices, and miscellaneous operations charges	State Planning Commission And related departments	Pricing ranges are national railways, state-controlled joint ventures (cooperative) railways; major ports along the coast of the Yangtze River and all open ports; fees for civil airports and military-civilian airports; domestic air routes and international routes for domestic air transportation; miscellaneous charges for domestic pipeline transportation Loading, storage, and agency fees related to pipeline transportation
11	Basic postal services	Tariff	State Planning Commission	The basic postal service tariff covers the service price of letters, postcards, printed materials, parcels, newspapers and periodicals, postal remittance, speedpost, and confidential mail.
112	Basic telecommunication services	Tariff	Ministry of Information Industry	The basic telecommunication service tariff range includes fixed network long distance and local telephone and mobile phone services. The Ministry of Information Industry should consult the State Development Planning Commission in advance when formulating communication and information service tariff policies, reform plans, and communication service charging standards.

13	important professional service	Financial settlement and trading services	Base price and floating range	State Planning Commission	The pricing range includes settlement fees for commercial banks and non-bank financial institutions, transaction fees and seat fees for national securities trading institutions, and seat fees for China Foreign Exchange Trading Center, excluding interest rates and exchange rates.
		Engineering survey and design services	Base price and floating range	State Planning Commission Together with relevant departments [3]	Pricing scope is the survey, design and related technical services of investment construction projects undertaken by engineering survey and design units
		Partial intermediary services	Charges	National Planning Commission [2]	Intermediary services are differentiated in different situations by implementing government pricing, government guidance prices, and market-adjusted prices. Monopoly and compulsory services such as inspection, appraisal, notarization, and arbitration are subject to government pricing; services with insufficient competition such as evaluation, agency, certification, and bidding are subject to government-guided prices. Specific implementation of the "Administrative Measures for Intermediary Service Charges" (calculated price [1999] No. 2255).

Note: 1. The benchmark prices and floating ranges, charging standards and floating ranges listed in the "Pricing Content" column of this catalogue refer to government-guided prices, and others refer to government pricing. State administrative agency charges, published prices of crude oil, refined oil prices, and urban benchmark land prices are still managed in accordance with current relevant regulations.
2. The laws and regulations have clear provisions and the State Council authorizes the State Planning Commission to manage the prices of goods or services automatically entered into this catalog according to changes in market conditions. For products and services that are monopolized by the buyer or seller, the State Planning Commission shall coordinate and manage the necessary products in the event of price conflicts. Relevant departments of the State Council, in accordance with the relevant national laws and regulations, for the sake of special reasons such as safety and environmental protection, force the price of goods (or services) used throughout the country to be managed by the State Planning Commission as necessary.
3. According to the provisions of Article 19 of the "Price Law", the competent price departments of the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall formulate local pricing catalogs within the scope specified in Article 18 of the "Price Law". The local pricing catalog includes two parts: (1) The varieties listed in this catalog should also be listed in the local pricing catalog, and the pricing department of the State Council shall be indicated. Among the commodities listed in the central pricing catalog, the price department of the State Council only sets the prices of representative products, and the prices of non-representative products are set by the localities in accordance with the pricing catalog. (2) The prices of local goods and services that comply with the provisions of Article 18 of the "Price Law" on government guidance prices and government pricing conditions may be included in the local pricing catalog. ^{[2] [4]}

4. On October 21, 2015, the National Development and Reform Commission announced the revised Central Pricing Catalog. Compared with the current catalog, the newly revised Central Pricing Catalogue has reduced its pricing categories from 13 categories (categories) to 7 categories (categories) such as natural gas, water supply for water conservancy projects, electricity, and important postal services, a decrease of approximately 46%; specific pricing The number of projects was reduced from about 100 to 20, a reduction of about 80%. Of the 20 items retained, 13 were mainly managed by the Development and Reform Commission, and 7 were mainly managed by industry authorities.

In addition, the reserved pricing items are all listed in a list form, and the specific pricing content and scope are specified item by item. For some projects that are still managed temporarily according to the current method, and that the management method will be released or adjusted in a timely manner depending on factors such as the reform process, the items are explained in the "footnotes" of the catalog.

The new catalog will take effect on January 1, 2016. ^[4]