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Study On The Reform Of State-Owned Economy And Government Regulation System Of Natural Monopoly Industry--Taking Railway Industry As An Example

Posted on:2005-04-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J CengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2156360122999262Subject:Political economy
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With the improvement and establish of socialism market system, more and more people fix their eyes on the strategy adjustment problem of state-owned economy on nature monopoly industry. Considering the importance and features of natural monopoly industry, state-owned economy cannot be apart from it. The control power of state-owned economy should be strengthened. In the 1970's, the worldwide regulations relaxation trend shocked and changed the railway transportation industry profoundly. In China, more and more people advocate to relax the regulations and capitalize the state-owned economy. Therefore, a dispute on natural monopoly state-owned economy & government regulations was arose among economists in China. Comparing to the developed countries, the Chinese railway industry is still under the environment of merging government administration with enterprise management into one, highly monopolizing, lacking motive force inside and pressure outside. The inside efficiency and external efficiency are very low, the complexity of reform is great. The paper drafts and takes railway industry as an example, uses the foreign railway reform experience for reference, combines the Chinese actual conditions, analyzes the state-owned economy of natural monopoly industry of our country and government regulation system reform together to promote the development of natural monopoly industry while interacting with reform of the state-owned economy and restructure of government regulation system.There are four parts in the abstract.I.Railway is a major force to push the economic development and social progress in China. It is called "Pioneer" of economical and social development. Comparing to other transportation tools, Railway has the features of energy consumption light, pollution little, high technological and safety. From the economic view, the economic feature of railway is that railway is a normal public goods, which has the combinative features of public goods and private goods. The establishment and operation of railway network system are obvious natural monopolistic. The operating departments (passenger traffic, freight transportation, locomotive, vehicle, etc.) are competitive, which is non-monopolistic. Railway is a combination of public welfare and commercialism. Some developments are public welfare such as developing national land, consolidating political and national unity, satisfying national defense. Others are commercial activities. Because of the technology features of railway industry, it needs the government to focus on the regulation of railway on principal. II.Government regulation and state owned economyAt first, the paper states the necessity of railway industry regulation. The technology & economic features are the important foundation of formation and operation of railway industry regulation. The infrastructure of railway network is natural monopoly industry, which must be strengthened by government regulations to avert the high price made by monopoly enterprise and protect the consumers. Moreover, railway has more social value and less economic value, government needs to strengthen regulation to subsidize the deficit. Then the paper analyzes the relation between state owned economy and natural monopoly industry. It elaborates from two sides: 1. The state-owned economy of the natural monopoly field is a tool that the government implemented the regulation policy. At first, the paper proves the inner link of natural monopoly, state-owned economy, government regulation from the general extent, The economic technology features of the natural monopoly industry and special role acted in the course of socio-economic development determines that the state-owned economy should exist and play an important role in this field. The state-owned economy is the tool that government regulates the failure of natural monopoly market. It has double nature of " government " and " enterprise". Afterwards, the paper points out the privatization transformation of the natural monopoly industry...
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