In April 2026, the Party Leadership Group of the National Energy Administration (NEA) launched its fifth round of regular inspections, dispatching five inspection teams to the Party Leadership Groups of the North China Regulatory Bureau, Northwest Regulatory Bureau, Jiangsu Regulatory Office, Fujian Regulatory Office, and Sichuan Regulatory Office.
On May 22, Wang Hongzhi, Secretary of the NEA Party Leadership Group, Director General, and head of the Inspection Work Leading Group, chaired a leading group meeting that heard reports from each inspection team. Subsequently, on June 2, Wang Hongzhi presided over an NEA Party Leadership Group meeting to review the comprehensive report on the fifth round of inspections and set directions for addressing the problems identified.
In mid-June, the inspection teams formally communicated their findings to the Party Leadership Groups of the units under inspection. Song Hongkun, member of the NEA Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director General, attended the feedback meetings and put forward specific requirements for the rectification efforts.
The feedback stressed that the inspected Party Leadership Groups must thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourses on inspections, and carry out the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and all plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee. They must uphold and strengthen the Party’s overall leadership over energy work, treat inspection rectification as a concrete action to support the “Two Establishments” and practice the “Two Safeguards,” implement the new energy security strategy, balance energy security and green low-carbon transition, accelerate the construction of a new energy system, and advance the nationwide unified electricity market in depth, thereby contributing regulatory strength to building an energy powerhouse.
The feedback required the inspected Party Leadership Groups to firmly assume the primary responsibility for rectification, establish work mechanisms for addressing issues, conduct in-depth studies of each problem, and formulate lists of problems, tasks, and responsibilities. The Party secretary, as the first responsible person, must take the lead in tackling key and difficult issues, while members of the leadership must fulfill their “dual responsibilities” and ensure that rectification tasks in their areas of oversight are implemented concretely.
In addition, rectification efforts should be integrated with education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements and the “Year for Strengthening Branch Building” initiative, with a focus on correcting prominent problems in Party governance, leadership team building, and cadre team development. Discipline inspection agencies and organization and personnel departments are required to strengthen supervision over rectification, increase efforts in research, supervision, interview reminders, and on-site inspections, and hold accountable those who are perfunctory or engage in fake rectification.