On April 22,National Energy AdministrationAnnual report on the construction of a government under the rule of law in 2023.

According to the report, the key tasks of building a government under the rule of law in 2024 include: solid promotion of energy legislation. Cooperate with the legislative review of the energy law, carry out pre-research on the introduction of supporting regulations and policies of the energy law, and create a good legal environment for the smooth implementation of the energy law. Promote the revision of the electricity law as a legislative priority. actively promoteRenewable energyLaw, Coal Law, Petroleum Reserve Regulations, Nuclear Power Management Regulations, etc.

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National Energy Administration 2023 Annual Report on the Construction of a Government under the Rule of Law

In accordance with the requirements of the Implementation Outline for the Construction of a Government under the Rule of Law (2021-2025) and the Provisions on the Supervision of the Construction of a Government under the Rule of Law and the Implementation of Responsibilities, the National Energy Administration's work on the construction of a government under the rule of law in 2023 and the work arrangements for 2024 are reported as follows.

Key Measures and Effectiveness of Building a Government under the Rule of Law in 1. 2023

In 2023, the National Energy Administration's Party Group, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implemented the spirit of the Party's 20th National Congress, and in accordance with the work requirements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council to build a government under the rule of law, put the construction of high-level and high-standard legal institutions in an important position, accelerate the construction of a modern energy governance system, and provide a solid legal guarantee for high-quality energy development.

(I) in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law

The National Energy Administration's Party Group Theory Learning Center Group organized the study of Xi Jinping's rule of law thought, and effectively implemented Xi Jinping's rule of law thought into the entire process of the bureau's party group's "three important and one large" decision-making and work deployment. Take Xi Jinping's thought of the rule of law as a compulsory course for the education and training of party members and cadres in the overall situation, carry out activities such as Constitution publicity week, Civil Code publicity month, and Administrative reconsideration Law publicity month, and invite experts to interpret important legal knowledge. to enhance the legal awareness of party members and cadres in the overall situation of knowing the law and administering according to law. Adhere to the constitutional oath ceremony as a concrete practice to promote the spirit of the constitution and strengthen the belief in the rule of law, and encourage and guide the majority of party members and cadres to consciously maintain the authority of the law, promote the spirit of the rule of law, and perform their duties in accordance with the law.

(II) systematic planning for the construction of a government ruled by law

and uphold and strengthen the party's leadership over the work of building a government under the rule of law. The party group of the bureau promptly conveyed and studied General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on the construction of the rule of law, and the main responsible comrades of the bureau conscientiously performed their duties as the first responsible person for the construction of a government under the rule of law, and regularly held meetings of the bureau's leading group on the construction of the rule of law to study and plan various tasks for the construction of a government under the rule of law. Energy legislative tasks to ensure that the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council are implemented in accordance with the law.

(III) promotes the construction of energy legal system

Earnestly implement the spirit of General Secretary Jin Ping's important instructions on "accelerating the improvement of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as the core", and improve the energy legal system.

Significant progress has been made in promoting energy legislation. The Party group of the Bureau attaches great importance to the legislative work, takes the legislation of energy law as the focus of its annual work, and promotes all parties to reach a consensus on the basic principles and main systems of the energy law. In January 2024, the draft energy law was discussed and passed by the executive meeting of the State Council and submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for deliberation. Promote the revision of the Electricity Law and the Renewable Energy Law to be included in the legislative plan of the 14th NPC Standing Committee.

Strengthen the management of regulatory documents. We will comprehensively carry out the "reform and abolition" of regulations and normative documents, systematically clean up the regulations of the former Ministry of energy, the Ministry of electric power, the Ministry of coal, the State Economic and Trade Commission and the State Electricity Regulatory Commission, revise 11 pieces and abolish 8 pieces, so as to further improve the industry management system. Organize the centralized clean-up of normative documents and abolish 51 normative documents that are no longer applicable. Throughout the year, 9 regulations and 14 normative documents were strictly reviewed for legality and fair competition to ensure that the contents of the documents were legal and effective.

(IV) and Improving the Functional System of Government Institutions

We will conscientiously implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions such as "optimizing the government's responsibility system and organizational structure, promoting the legalization of institutions, functions, powers, procedures, and responsibilities," speed up the transformation of government functions, and improve administrative efficiency and government credibility.

Continuously optimize the business environment. During the period of studying and implementing Xi Jinping's theme education on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, a three-month special rectification of frequent power outages was carried out throughout the country, and 510 typical and representative problems were supervised and solved, benefiting more than 2 million people. Fully implement the anti-monopoly and fair competition review system, continue to promote the supervision of natural monopoly links such as electricity, oil and gas, and ensure the smooth and orderly operation of the energy market. We will continue to strengthen the supervision of "access to electricity" services, promote the normalization of "three zeros" and "three provinces" service measures for telegraph installation, and save more than 200 billion yuan in electricity investment for power users.

Building a service-oriented government. Improve the construction of an integrated government service platform, implement electronic licenses, and realize the power business license "one netcom office, one netcom check". Accelerate the information construction of green power certificate issuance, and further improve the level of "Internet government services. The establishment of the National Energy Board network security information notification platform, timely notification of sudden network security incidents in the field of energy, enhance the ability to deal with network security attacks.

(V) Advancing Administration According to Law

Conscientiously implement the spirit of General Secretary Jinping's important instructions that "administrative agencies at all levels must perform their duties in accordance with the law, adhere to the statutory duties must be done, and the law must not be authorized to do so", strictly perform industry supervision and management duties in accordance with the law, and promote the healthy development of the energy industry on the track of the rule of law.

Adhere to scientific and democratic decision-making in accordance with the law. We will revise the working rules of the National Energy Administration and formulate the interim measures for the Administration of the Establishment of the National Energy Administration to further improve the administrative decision-making system. Strictly implement major decision-making procedures, convene bureau party group meetings, bureau affairs meetings, and director office meetings to study and deliberate major issues such as draft laws and regulations, major energy plans, and key construction projects.

Perform their duties in accordance with the law. In accordance with the relevant decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, formulate energy plans, industrial policies, and standard systems in accordance with laws and regulations, and standardize project approval. In the whole year, the installed capacity of electric power was about 0.33 billion kilowatts, and a number of large-scale hydropower, large-scale wind power photovoltaic bases, nuclear power and pumped storage projects were started. Strictly implement the standards and procedures in the project approval work, and review the legality of the approval documents.

Strictly regulate fair law enforcement. Issued the "National Energy Administration Administrative Penalty Case Provisions" and "National Energy Administration Administrative Law Enforcement Certificate Management Measures (Trial)" to further improve the administrative law enforcement system. Implement the benchmark of administrative penalty discretion and regulate administrative penalty acts in accordance with the law. Strictly regulate and carry out administrative law enforcement, a total of 521 administrative penalty decisions were made throughout the year, and a number of violations of laws and regulations were seriously investigated and dealt.

Do a good job of administrative reconsideration and response. Implement the newly revised "Administrative Reconsideration Law" and formulate the "National Energy Administration Administrative Reconsideration and Administrative Response Work Regulations." Administrative reconsideration and administrative response were handled in accordance with laws and regulations, and 21 administrative reconsideration cases and 37 administrative response cases were handled throughout the year.

Key Tasks 2. the Construction of a Government under the Rule of Law in 2024

2024 is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it is a key year to complete the goals and tasks of the "14th Five-Year Plan. The Party Group of the National Energy Administration will thoroughly implement the rule of law in Jinping, in accordance with the work deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on the construction of a government under the rule of law, focus on the goals and tasks of the modern energy governance system, focus on promoting legislation, law enforcement, law popularization and administration according to law, and comprehensively build legal authorities with statutory powers and responsibilities, Open and fair, strict law enforcement, clean and honest, and promote the modernization of energy governance capabilities.

(I) in-depth implementation of Xi Jinping's thought of rule of law

In-depth study and publicity of Xi Jinping's rule of law thought, focusing on the rule of law thinking and the spirit of the rule of law contained therein. Convene a meeting of the bureau's rule of law construction leading group to make overall arrangements for the overall rule of law construction in 2024, issue a list of key tasks for the implementation of the rule of law construction in 2024 and supervise its implementation.

(II) promotes energy legislation

Cooperate with the legislative review of the energy law, carry out pre-research on the introduction of supporting regulations and policies of the energy law, and create a good legal environment for the smooth implementation of the energy law. Promote the revision of the electricity law as a legislative priority. Actively promote the formulation and revision of the Renewable Energy Law, the Coal Law, the Petroleum Reserve Regulations, and the Nuclear Power Management Regulations.

(III) a sound system of administration according to law

Perform duties in strict accordance with the list of rights and responsibilities. According to the list of powers and responsibilities, systematically sort out, supplement and improve the implementation norms of administrative licensing matters, and further refine the implementation conditions, procedures, deadlines and ranges of administrative confirmation, administrative inspection, administrative punishment and other powers and responsibilities. Strengthen the management of normative documents, do a good job in reviewing the legality of normative documents, and promptly abolish and revise inapplicable normative documents.

(IV) seriously carry out the work of learning and popularizing the law

Focus on the party constitution, guidelines, regulations, etc., organize the study and publicity of internal party regulations. Organize and carry out the newly revised administrative reconsideration law, administrative punishment law special study and court hearing. We will continue to organize and carry out law popularization activities such as the "April 15" national security education day, the fair competition policy publicity week, and the "December 4" national constitution day, so as to implement the constitutional oath system. We will conscientiously implement the responsibility system of "who enforces the law, who popularizes the law" and promote the law-abiding usage of the energy industry.

(V) improve the quality and efficiency of administrative law enforcement

We will concentrate our efforts on carrying out comprehensive supervision in the field of electric power, and strive to solve the deep-seated problems that restrict the high-quality development of the industry and affect the satisfaction of the masses with electricity consumption. Carry out special supervision around the outstanding problems of the electricity market order to prevent improper local intervention in the electricity market. Strengthen the supervision of natural monopoly links such as power grids and oil and gas pipeline networks, and carry out key supervision in areas such as power safety. To study and formulate guidelines for the construction of a credit system in the electricity market, and to promote special supervision by comprehensive use of credit and other means. Promote the application of the National Energy Administration's administrative penalty information management system to enhance the digital level of administrative law enforcement.

(VI) Do a Good Job in Administrative Prevention and Resolution of Contradictions and Disputes

We will fully implement the newly revised administrative reconsideration law, strengthen communication with the parties concerned, and strive to resolve administrative disputes at the grass-roots level and within the administrative organs. Strengthen the construction of administrative reconsideration team and enhance the ability to resolve administrative disputes.