Pushing energy-saving appliances must prevent good memories

The Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have formally issued the implementation rules for energy-saving products and Huimin Engineering's highly efficient energy-saving household refrigerators, washing machines, and water heaters. In addition, the implementation rules for the promotion and implementation of the highly efficient and energy-saving flat-panel TVs and air conditioners previously issued have been fully published.

This is an important public policy aimed at boosting domestic demand following the policies of “Home Appliances Going to the Countryside” and “Trade for the New”. It is not only conducive to improving energy efficiency, reducing environmental pollution, and promoting the development of circular economy, but also more important. It is conducive to stimulating domestic consumer demand and enabling China to reverse the downward trend of the economy as soon as possible.

Although this public policy of benefiting the country and the people is sought after, supported and supported by the consumers, the promotion of energy-saving appliances must be based on the premise of safeguarding the vital interests of consumers. We cannot repeat the “home appliances for the countryside” or “renewal of the old”. The failure of the phenomenon. For example, during the first two years of implementation, there were many places in the country where home appliances were sold to consumers for renovation, and companies defrauded state subsidies. Therefore, we must be particularly vigilant about the "good deeds" being cherished by unscrupulous businessmen.

As for the implementation of energy-saving appliances in the promotion process, how to protect the interests of consumers from infringement, at least to do the following three things: First of all, we must improve the "gold content" of energy-saving products. The successful bidder should develop targeted energy-saving products suitable for urban and rural residents. Second, it is necessary to effectively prevent cheats from substandard. It is necessary to structure the traceability system for subsidized products to prevent “cheat compensation” behavior. This requires the supervision department to open its eyes during the supervision process and prevent some companies from abusing the home appliance energy efficiency evaluation labels and gaining improper benefits, thereby impairing consumer rights. Finally, it is necessary to supervise the promotion of home appliances energy conservation. From past experience, although the original intention of home appliances energy-saving promotion is good, but individual business words and deeds are not easy for consumers to accept, often appear to injure the consumer phenomenon, and may even cause legal disputes. In this regard, we may wish to allow the industrial and commercial, price and other functional departments to carry out the entire supervision of the energy-saving appliances to promote home appliances, where the discovery of consumer behavior to injure consumers, it is necessary to make heavy fists and crack down.