The cold wave is coming, and the lowest temperature in Xingtai, Hebei has dropped below freezing, and heating is urgently needed. However, there are restrictions on gas purchases in many places in Xingtai. Villagers in Longyao County, Xingtai City reported through the Sunshine Governance Platform and the media that China Gas Company (China Gas Company for short) has restricted gas purchases and can only purchase a maximum of 100m³ of gas per month, which is far from meeting the heating needs of residents.
According to the November 24 response of the Longyao County Development and Reform Bureau on the Sunshine Governance Platform, the contracts signed by China Gas and upstream enterprises are divided into heating season and non-heating season. When the villagers reported the situation (November 21), the heating season had not yet started. According to the contract, the upstream companies only supplied less than 50,000 m³ of natural gas to Longyao County every day before the heating season started. to ensure the normal cooking and living needs of the masses, purchasing restriction measures have been taken. After communicating with the Chimbusco Xingtai headquarters, the purchase volume of the villagers increased to 100m³ every time. The Longyao County Government and the relevant departments have asked the China Gas Company in Longyao County to actively negotiate gas sources with upstream companies, increase gas purchases, and immediately lift the purchase restriction measures, otherwise it will be deemed responsible according to the law.
On December 1, Longyao County Development and Reform Bureau staff told Red Star News reporter:The current purchase restriction policy has been changed to a purchase limit of 150 m³ each time, and you can refill and purchase after use, without waiting for a month. The relevant departments are still actively negotiating with China Gas, trying to completely cancel the purchasing restriction policy as soon as possible.A government official in Dongliang City, Longyao County, told reporters that the local purchasing restriction policy is expected to be completely lifted in January next year.
villagers:
It’s cold without the heat and the three layers of quilt
Worried about running out of gas and unable to cook
Mr. Yi (pseudonym), a villager from Dongliang, Longyao County, Xingtai City, told Red Star News that the local gas supply company is China Gas Company. In addition to going to the gas company to recharge, they mainly buy gas through Yipinhui mini program, China Gas’s online payment platform. About two months ago, he discovered that, both online and offline, he could only buy a maximum of 20m³ of gas per month. The local area usually enters the heating season around November 10 every year. After the gas purchase is limited, people’s heating has become a big problem.
Mr. Yi recalls that about 10 days ago, the gas purchase limit was raised from 20m³ to 100m³ per month, but the heating was still far from enough. If it’s just for cooking, it only needs two to three hundred square meters of gas a year. But for heating in winter, the stove in Mr. Yi’s house burns more than ten square meters of gas per day. Calculated in this way, at least 300 m³ of gas are needed per month. Now he has more than 60 cubic meters of gas left on his account, but he cannot buy any more gas. The screen recording provided by Mr. Yi shows that after logging into the Yipinhui mini program, he tried to buy 100m³ of gas with a unit price of 2.9 yuan / m³, but was unable to buy it . The system pops up a warning that it can only buy another 0.5 m³ of gas.
↑After buying 100m³ of gas, Mr. Yi can no longer buy gas in the current month
From November 28 onwards, the local minimum temperature drops below zero. Mr. Yi said that his house doesn’t have an insulating layer, he doesn’t turn on the heat, and even the temperature in the house is below freezing, it’s cold at night even under three layers of quilts. The boy was doing his homework, wearing a comforter over a large comforter, and his hands were still red from the cold. Mr. Yi put a little sun at his feet and didn’t dare to burn the gas, because he was worried that he wouldn’t be able to cook when the gas ran out.
In the past, Mr. Yi’s village mainly burned coal for heating. About three or four years ago, Mr. Yi’s home stopped using a coal stove and replaced it with heating. Every winter, he pays 3,000 yuan at a time to purchase more than 1,000 cubic meters of gas to meet his heating needs during the winter. Unexpectedly, this year he was only able to purchase a maximum of 100m³ of gas per month without receiving any notice. There wasn’t enough gas, so we had to burn wood, which produced a lot of smoke and polluted the air.
Mr. Yi’s village cadres told the Red Star News reporter that at present, each family in the village can only buy 100m³ of gas per month. If it is inconvenient to travel, the village can send people to help you buy it from the China Gas Company, but even if you buy it offline, you can only buy 100m³ of gas. Now the village can do nothing about it.
official:
The purchase limit policy has been changed to 150 m³ each time
You can top up and buy when you run out, no need to wait a month
The Red Star News reporter saw that some villagers reported through the Sunshine Governance Platform on November 21 that the China Gas Company in Longyao County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province has restricted the purchase of natural gas and could buy only 20 m³ of gas per month. heating has become a problem. The gas purchase screenshot uploaded by the inhabitant shows that he wants to purchase 1000m³ of gas, but the system suggests that “the maximum gas purchase volume is 20.5m³”.
On November 24, the Longyao County Development and Reform Bureau replied that after verification, the problems reported by the villagers were true. County supervision leaders cooperated with the Development and Reform Bureau, Housing Construction Bureau, Market Supervision Bureau and other departments to interview the head of China Gas Company, requesting that the purchasing restriction measures are lifted immediately. Since the natural gas is signed according to the heating season and the non-heating season, and the heating season has not entered at that time, it is implemented according to the gas volume contract of the non-heating season. For normal needs of kitchen and living room, purchase restrictive measures have been taken.
The Longyao County Government and the relevant departments have asked the China Gas Company in Longyao County to actively negotiate gas sources with upstream companies, increase gas purchases, and immediately lift the purchase restriction measures, otherwise it will be deemed responsible according to the law. After communicating with the central office of Xingtai City, it was determined that the purchase volume of the villagers increased every time from the original 20m³ to 100m³, and the cadres of the village committee could help.
↑ On the Sunshine Governance Platform, Longyao County Development and Reform Bureau answered questions from netizens
On November 30, Longyao County Development and Reform Bureau staff told Red Star News reporter that the relevant departments are still actively communicating and negotiating with China Gas, and the reason for the purchasing restriction is not still clear.
On December 1, personnel from the Longyao County Development and Reform Bureau, government personnel from Dongliang City, Longyao County, and local village cadres all told the Red Star News reporter that after much negotiation between the relevant departments and China Gas Company, China Gas Company’s purchase limit policy has been changed to 150m³ for each purchase, and you can refill and purchase when it runs out, without waiting for a month. Dongliang city government personnel told reporters that the local government plans to completely cancel the purchasing restriction policy in January next year. Mr. Yi also said that after he found out that the purchasing restriction policy had been changed, he reloaded 1,000 yuan to Yipinhuipintai. He believes this month’s gas is basically enough.
The Red Star News reporter called the China Gas Company many times, but did not receive an answer as of press time. In addition, a netizen left a message to reflect that China Gas Co., Ltd. in Sansi Township, Nanhe District, Xingtai, Hebei has a monthly purchase limit of 20m³ in winter, making it difficult to heat. The Development and Reform Office of Nanhe District, Xingtai City, Hebei Province responded through the “Sunshine Governance” platform and said that it had connected with the affected gas companies and requested that the restriction on the purchase was lifted immediately and that the purchase restriction was lifted.
According to the official website of China Gas, China Gas is one of the largest inter-regional full energy supply and service companies in China. As of March 31, 2022, China Gas Group has acquired a total of 660 pipeline projects with franchise rights in 30 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, and has 32 long-distance pipelines and 533 compressed/liquefied natural gas vehicles and vessels filling stations fueling, one coalbed methane development project, and 106 liquefied petroleum gas distribution projects.
