In order to thoroughly implement the deployment of the Third Plenary Session of the Twentieth CPC Central Committee on energy reform, solve the increasingly urgent problems of regulation, consumption and supply protection of the new power system, and to address the emergence of distributed new energy sources, new energy storage, virtual power plants and smart microgrids and other new business entities in recent years, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the National Energy Administration (NEA) have planned ahead, and actively guided the development and issuance of the "Guiding Opinions on the Innovative Development of New Guiding Opinions on Supporting the Innovative Development of New Business Subjects in the Electricity Sector" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"), which indicates the development path of new business subjects in the market-oriented environment of electricity in the coming period of time, and is of great practical significance.