The north is too big a region, my answer is limited to us in Shaanxi Weinan and the surrounding areas.
There has been talk for a few years now of banning firewood for cooking, and in some places coal burning, and even an outbreak of sealing stoves with cement. However, in our area, there is no explicit prohibition of these, firewood and coal are still in use. Not only can they be used in rural areas, but some homes in the county are also being used for winter heating.
In the rural areas of our place, winter heating has also been implemented in the past two years, coal to electricity, free distribution of electric cabinets, heaters and other facilities, most of the farmers have received heating facilities with electricity, but the use rate is not high. The main reason is still too costly to use electricity, and the heating effect is not as good as the honeycomb coal stove.
Coal to electricity on the electricity subsidies, an electric household with more than one thousand yuan subsidies 800 yuan. But the smallest power heater is at least 2000 watts, an hour is two degrees of electricity, an electricity 0.49 yuan, all day open a day need 24 yuan, a winter needs nearly three thousand dollars, and with a honeycomb stove if a winter thousand dollars is enough. And the honeycomb stove heating not only good effect, but also can boil water for cooking.
So, although the Internet has been talking about banning firewood and coal in the countryside, it has not been explicitly banned in our area. However, most people in the countryside use electric rice cookers for cooking, and it is only in the winter that honeycomb stoves are commonly used, and some old people still use firewood and straw to burn their kangs.
This shows that a certain "forbidden" policy can be introduced in a rural area, the Internet immediately began to start the hot debate, and then it is the abuse of the farmers' injustice. In fact, in practice, some areas why the introduction of "banning" measures, must be and the local seriously polluted environment or special development related, not all rural areas of the country are prohibited.
All in all, the core of the agricultural policy is not to engage in a one-size-fits-all approach to local conditions.
Almost every household in rural areas has this kind of iron stove called "holding stove", using firewood to lead the coal, wang when the whole iron stove burns red, the room temperature also rises up quickly. Can not only heating, but also frying cooking stew boiling water. Because simple and practical, the people are very favorable.
Because of environmental issues, the rural areas now do not allow individuals to casually hoard coal trading, coal seems to have become a controlled material. There are formalities to sell coal to come, must be agreed by the village committee of the people can buy, or the higher-ups assigned to the coal seller can operate coal. It is said that the coal they deal with meets the combustion conditions required by the higher-ups, how many calories are generated, how much carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide are emitted, and so on, and this is broadcast over and over again on the village loudspeaker. In this way, the price of coal is also higher and higher, the people's heating cost is also higher and higher.