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and development of private businesses, and we summed up and promoted best
practices from private economy liaison cities and from efforts to stimulate strong

development in the private sector. We vigorously promoted entrepreneurship and
introduced and implemented guidelines on working faster to develop world-class
enterprises.
We deepened price reforms of electricity, coal, and water resources. We
developed a compensation mechanism for adjusting the capacity of coal-fired

power plants which are used to support large wind and photovoltaic power bases.
We fully implemented a system whereby power grid enterprises act as agents for
purchasing electricity, and we completed oversight and review of the pricing and
costs of electricity transmission and distribution by provincial and regional power

grids in the third regulatory period and of pumped-storage hydroelectric plants.
We revised and introduced provisions on regulating prices and on overseeing and
reviewing costs of water supply from water conservancy projects, and we steadily
advanced comprehensive price reform of water for agricultural purposes. We
advanced electricity system reform, promoted electricity spot trading and green

electricity and green electricity certificates trading across the board, and deepened
reforms with regard to the design and construction business segments of power
grid enterprises. We accelerated the reform to develop an “X+1+X” oil and gas
market system, deepened reform of the management and operation systems for oil

and gas pipelines, and further improved institutions and mechanisms for
managing oil products.
The first batch of 40 authorized items for the comprehensive pilot reform to
make Shenzhen a pioneering demonstration zone for socialism with Chinese
characteristics were implemented at a faster pace.

3) The business environment was improved.
We fully implemented regulations on improving the business environment
and regulations on promoting the development of self-employed individuals, and
we urged localities to work more quickly to overhaul old regulations that were

inconsistent with new ones. The guidelines on promoting high-quality
development of the social credit system to form a new pattern of development
were issued and implemented. We adopted the Internet plus government services
model, basically put in place a national online platform for government services,
and saw that more and better government services were provided on a

cross-provincial basis and were made available online. We promoted coordination

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