Research On The Government Regulation Reform Of Chinese Natural Gas Industry

In recent years, the energy market of the world has changed very significantly.Especially, the demand of the oil has been increasing day by day. The natural gas wasonly the accessory of the crude since its discovery, but the natural gas industrydevelops very rapidly with people in the world known about its significance. Someexpertise predicts that natural gas will be the first energy in the future. Since ourcountry was founded, the natural gas industry in China has been developing veryslowly. Entering the 21c, the economics of our country is developing rapidly andstably. So the demand of the energy will be increasing stably, and the function of thenatural gas as the complement of the oil become increasingly obvious.With the construction of several long-distance natural gas pipelines, the naturalgas industry of China has entered fast developing period from the underway period.But the development of the industry is impacted because that the natural gas pricingpolicy takes on the feature of planning economic and there is no integrated legalframework covering with the whole value chain of the natural gas industry. Foreignexperience shows that the government plays very important role in the natural gasindustry development. The industry regulation of the government is very significant tothe favorable and health development of the natural gas. Along with the unceasingdevelopment of our country's natural gas industry, the government's regulation modelcharacterized by planning has not accommodated to the need of new phase. Releasingthe regulation of government step by step or changing the government's function inthe development of natural gas industry has become very necessary.Firstly, the nature of natural gas and its significance in the energy industry areintroduced. Then, the role of the governments in U.S. and UK whose natural gasindustry is developed earlier and mature is investigated and researched. Finally, thecountermeasure of the government's regulation changing in our country issummarized, combined with the nature of the natural gas in our country. Thecountermeasure of regulation reform concludes market structure and entranceregulation, pricing regulation, law regulation and quality regulation. Besides, theproblem on our government's regulation is analyzed detailedly based on which thejudgment of releasing regulation of government is brought forward. I hope this wouldhave some reference value to the natural gas industry innovation in our country.