China’s Utilities Cut Energy Production, Defying Beijing

[somebozo]

We can furnish them with our coal and let them export electricity across the border..sounds like a fair deal!

 

[oct605032048]

better idea is building power plants in pakistan that burns coal~

 

[S10]

That is not the issue. Of course the government branch responsible for public corporations can mandate prices. For ICBC the BCUC decides the rate for basic auto insurance, but unlike your homeland, other branches of the provincial or national governments cannot intervene.

Nice attempt at spin, but fail. If the premier decides to force ICBC to change prices, he's sure as hell going to get his way. When it's a crown corporation, the head of the government makes the call.

If you had read the article you would have realized that the state utilities executives (equivalent of BCUC) demand price changes. However, economic planners in Beijing surpressed decisions made by these corporations and cast an one-size-fit-all cap on prices. This is called price control.

Besides, your government excercises price control over not only state but also private enterprises; even discussing price hikes is banned. Unilever got fined for hinting price increases on TV.

China fines Unilever in inflation crackdown | Business | guardian.co.uk

If you had bothered to learn about state owned companies in China, they are subordinates to planners in Beijing. In another words, State Council is the boss. When your boss tells you to do something, you do it. Alot of governments around the world exercise price control, so I assume you will call all of them communist?

Hard to believe that China is still a state-run economy? It is not if you actually read non-state publications. Oh wait, all Chinese media distributers are state-owned. Is there any form of information dissemination that is not regulated by your communist government?

Another regarded statement from you. In my province we have a series of private newspaper/magazine publications called 南方系. They're liberal and receptive to foreign ideas to the point where some people consider them traitors, and yet none of them have been shut down so far. What are they teaching you in retard school?