Research On Operational Mechanism Of Urban Infrastructure Marketization

Urban infrastructure, the most important foundation and carrier of both social and economic development, bears a unique relation with the development of national economy and society. In the long time, the traditional system, of which the government monopolized, has failed to improve the development of urban infrastructure industry: causing the severe shortage, low running efficiency of corporations, insecurity and low efficiency of major facilities for insufficient investment and maintenance. It is urgent to innovate the operation systems of urban infrastructure for promoting the market competition, improving the construction management, and raising the operational efficiency and quality.Following the logical process of urban infrastructure development including investment, construction, operation and market regulation, this dissertation systematically concentrates the theme of marketization mechanism and focuses on aspects of the principal, process and political suggestion for marketization of urban infrastructure. And the main contents are as following:Part one: current situation research. Firstly, this paper gives a brief summary of concept and contents of Chinese urban infrastructure, and presents a detailed analysis of both social and economic nature of products and services of this industry. Secondly, with classification and statistics of deposit facilities, comparing with foreign countries, the paper analyzes the present construction and development situation of urban infrastructure in China, points out that the radical reason existing in the mechanism leads up to laggard development and low operation efficiency of the industry. Then, in the light of reality of reforming in market oriented economy system of China, the paper proposes the goal and orientation of innovation in the urban infrastructure industry systems.Part two: theory research. Firstly, the market economics and public economics have been applied to the study on supply patterns and efficiency of urban infrastructure products and services. In this section, the paper focuses on the following aspects: the "government failure" of public-goods and mixed-goods featured products (services) provision in urban infrastructure, the "budgetary soft restraint of enterprise" and "principal risk" of government production, and the "market failure" of natural-monopoly and public-goods and externalities featured products (services)provision in urban infrastructure. Secondly, the systems of both index and scope of matketization for urban infrastructure are established, and the results of the above research are applied to study on scope confirmation of alternative government and market functions under the market-featured economic systems. And the further study makes it clear that the government and the market functions are complementary: the government should limit itself to the provision of urban infrastructure with public-goods nature, enlarge the scope for private so that more products (services) can be provided and constructed mainly by the market. Therefore, centering on the claim for establishing "the partnership between public and private sectors", a marketization operation system is constructed for urban infrastructure of China, and its essence and character are expatiated in detail.Part three: application research. This section follows a format of logical process of urban infrastructure development, carries out a particular research separately on establishing and running operational mechanisms of investment, construction, operation and market regulation.Investment and financing: Firstly, with statistics analysis, a situation study is made for investment and financing of urban infrastructure industry, from aspects of overall amount, structure of governmental and social funds, and efficiency of funds appropriation. Secondly, through the development research of traditional investment system of Chinese urban infrastructure, the thought of orientation of governmental investment function is put forward to realize the administrant function of governmental investm...