China has embraced free markets and capitalism…to a degree. The government of China still sets the price for many of the key consumer products, such as gasoline and cooking oil. It also controls electricity prices.
The National Development and Reform Commission of China, the central economic planning agency, raised the price of electricity for non-residential use by $0.4 cents per kilowatt hour.
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