| The development and operating efficiency of urban public utilities of China has always been a great concern. Meanwhile, the marketability and privatization of urban public utilities is also an issue discussed by the academe at all times. Therefore, it is a valuable task to research the development, deficiency and reform choice of urban public utilities in Shanghai.Firstly, the author explains the background of the research in a macroscopic sense, introducing the meanings, features, course and status quo of urban public utilities of China generally.Secondly, she gathers and analyzes the data on the development, industry scale and infrastructure of urban public utilities of China. Then, the author puts up further studies on the importance and operating efficiency of urban public utilities in china.After finishing analyzing these data, the result is thrown out that the urban public utilities has an obvious contribution to the national GDP, and the efficiency of un-state owned enterprises is higher than that of state owned enterprises.Meanwhile, the author summarizes the changing course of the operating mechanism of urban public utilities in Shanghai, analyses its current situation, and points out the existing problems as well.Thirdly, the author introduces the typical mode and reform experience of urban public utilities in foreign countries, including Japan, USA and Europe.Fourthly, through the cases regarding typical marketized reforms in shanghai urban utilities and enterprises, the author gets a general view of reformation and practice in the operation mechanism of urban utilities.Finally, the author brings forward that privatization should be strongly pushed and the mode of diversified financing should be set up in the process of improving the collaboration of state owned and unstateowned enterprises. In the situation of socialized market economy, the function and orientation of the government should be changed;the monopoly should be broken, the diversified market system of urban public utilities should be established and effective competition should be realized, etc. |