NDRC to deepen pricing reforms in monopoly sectors

The National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planner, will further deepen the pricing reform in monopoly industries, such as electric power, natural gas and railroads, as part of the government efforts to perfect the market-oriented pricing mechanism by 2020.

The country will further improve the trading rules and regulations in the electricity market and deepen market-based reform of natural gas prices for non-residential users, as well as speed up the construction of natural gas trading centers in Shanghai and Chongqing, said Hu Zucai, deputy director of the NDRC.

A favorable pricing policy environment will be created for social capital to enter railway construction and operation, he said.