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Table 3.17 Products/Services subject to price controls by the Central Government, 2017
Product Coverage/rationale
Government-set prices
(…)
Water supplied by conservancy projects The price of water supplied by conservancy projects directly under the Central Government or cross-province (cross-district or cross-city) conservancy projects is set by the Government.
Rationale: public utilities and natural monopoly.
(...)

Table 3.18 Products/Services subject to price controls by local governments, 2017
Product Type of control/rationale Regulation
Environment protection charges The compensated use and trading of pollutant discharge right and hazardous wastes disposal charges are subject to local government pricing regulation. Rationale: public utilities. Measures for the Administration of Collection Standards for Pollutant Discharge Fees
Urban household garbage disposal charges Urban household waste charges are subject to local government pricing regulation. Rationale: public utilities. Circular on Implementing Urban Household Garbage Disposal Charges and Promoting Garbage Disposal Industrialization
Sewage disposal charges Sewage disposal charges are subject to local government pricing regulation. Rationale: public utilities. Measures for the Administration of Collection Standards for Pollutant Discharge Fees
(...)

(…) According to the authorities, state trading remains in place to: ensure a stable supply and price of the products concerned; (…) protect exhaustible and non-recyclable natural resources, and the environment.

3.178. STEs in China have the exclusive right to import or export the following products: grain, sugar, tobacco, rice, corn, cotton, coal, crude oil, processed oil, chemical fertilizers, tungsten, antimony and silver (...)

The Tendering and Bidding Law (implemented on 1 January 2000, three years prior to the introduction of the Government Procurement Law) is, de facto, the law governing procurement by SOEs. (...) The Implementing Regulations of the Government Procurement Law reaffirm that where tendering is used in the procurement of construction works, the Tendering and Bidding Law shall apply with regard to tendering procedures. The Implementing Regulations of the Tendering and Bidding Law, which came into effect on 1 February 2012, are currently under amendment with a view to facilitating the use of e tendering and reflecting other developments in tendering practices. Proposed amendments were published by the NDRC for public comments on 29 August 2017. [115]

[115] The main proposed amendments to the Tendering and Bidding Law and its Implementing Regulations include, among others: (...) (2) allowing inclusion of requirements on (...) energy preservation and environment protection in tender documents (...)

Article 9 of the Government Procurement Law provides that government procurement shall be carried out to facilitate the realization of the economic and social development policy goals of the State, including environmental protection, (…)

With regard to environmental protection, China adopts policies to provide more favourable treatment to energy-saving products and environmentally friendly products in government procurement. The detailed policies are contained in the Circular of the General Office of the State Council on Establishing a Regime for Mandatory Government Procurement of Energy-Saving Products (Guobanfa No. 51, 2007) and the Opinions of the Ministry of Finance and the General Administration of Environmental Protection on Implementing Government Procurement of Environmental Labelling Products (MOF Caiku No. 90, 2006). Relevant authorities issue and update the separate lists of energy-saving products and environment-friendly products regularly. (...) Procurement of other energy-saving products and environmentally friendly products is prioritized.

The broader policy goals stated in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) and the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) of accelerating modernization in the sector to improve farmers' well-being was reiterated in the CPC Central Committee No. 1 Document of 2017. This document calls for deepening the supply-side structural reform in agriculture, by improving structures, promoting "green" production, (...) A key goal is to increase the output of high-quality products based on green and innovative production. To achieve that goal, China is to maintain its zero increase in the usage of pesticides and fertilizers, vigorously control water usage in the sector (...) The reform also aims to (...) control soil pollution (...)

In 2017, general export prohibitions continued to apply to eight agricultural products [14] (…)

[14] These products are: bezoar, black moss, bones, ivory, musk (…)

Table 4.7 Legal basis for support to agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, 2009-14
Description Starting year Form of subsidy Legal basis
(…)
Subsidy fund for small farmland water conservancy facilities, and key national construction projects on water and soil conservation 1983 Financial appropriations MOF Circular Cai Nong No. 335 of 2009 MOF Circular Cai Nong Zi No. 54 of 2012
(...)
Subsidy fund for agricultural resources and ecological protection 1984 Financial appropriations MOF Circular Cai Nong No. 139 of 2004 MOF Circular Cai Nong No. 32 of 2014
(...)

Table 4.8 Support programmes and budget outlays, 2014-17
(RMB 100 million)
2014 2014 2015, 2016 2015 2016 2017 2017
Agriculture
(…)
Subsidy fund for agricultural resources and ecological protection 179.85 Subsidy fund for agricultural resources and ecological protection 199.92 230.42 Subsidy fund for agricultural resources and ecological protection 218.60
(...)
Subsidy fund for small farmland water conservancy facilities and key national construction projects on water and soil conservation 228.08 Subsidy fund for farmland water conservancy facilities and key national construction projects on water and soil conservation 436.06 392.43 Fund for the development of water conservancyi 651.53
(...)
Forestry and water conservancy
(...)
Fund for the ecological protection and restoration of forestry 410