The purpose of the Measures is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of investors, entrepreneurs and users of electric power and maintain the safe services of electric power. The Measures are divided into 30 Articles. The people's government at or above the county level shall, when distributing electricity quotas, guarantee proper proportion of electricity for use in agriculture and in the rural areas, giving first priority to rural use of electricity for draining water-logged fields and combating drought as well as for seasonal agricultural production. The remaining articles of the Measures make provision, inter alia, for obligations of electricity suppliers, restrictions on the use of electrical products, and offences and penalties.
China · 1996-05-19