Study On The Government Regulation On Marketization Of The Municipal Public Utilities In China

Municipal public utilities are important infrastructures and the main carrier of the economic and social development in the city. They relate to public benefits and the living quality with city residents directly. Along with the development of socialism market economy, the irregularity of traditional development mode of the municipal public utilities and management system rears increasingly, causing the business enterprise lacking vitality, efficiency lowly, also the public finance resulted in heavy burden, in this kind of case, a reform to municipal public utilities and regulation system seems to be urgent.Since the early part of 1990's, some local governments carried on the first step to reform of the marketization of municipal public utilities. From 2000, the whole country raised the big tide of the reform. But the modern government regulation system hasn't been built up. The attribute and product characteristic of public utilities come to a decision that the responsibility of government can't reduce in the progress of reform, on contrary, the government has to not only create a condition for the reform, but also insures the public benefits to be free from loss. One hand, lead into the competition mechanism and raise economic efficiency, on the other hand, promote universal service and promise a society equity.Currently the government regulation of public utilities in our country exists many problems, for example lacking the support of regulation laws, the phenomenon of both excessiveness and imperfection of regulating, lacking in competing, the commitment imperfection, the price mechanism of the insufficiency, the government ability, the power and function of section to divide not reasonable etc., causing the regulation system is hard to function.This text makes use of basic theories and knowledge in public management, politics, economics etc., to inquire into the related measures, which takes regulation organization, public utilities business enterprise, people as point to be attended to. The regulation organization should perfect regulating laws, build up the modern regulation system of municipal public utilities and strengthen the direct toward the administrators. The business enterprise should lead into competition mechanism to reorganize the market structure, carry on encouraging regulation, and explicit the point of regulation. In the meantime, to grow actively social organization and to develop the functions of public medium well are also important.The text is divided into five parts. At first, the author defines the basic concepts of municipal public utilities and marketization, and then dissertates the marketization of public utilities in China. The second part defines the concept of regulation and analyzes the necessity of government regulation in the progress of privation, providing theories to prop up for the study of continuation. The third part analyzes the irregularity of the traditional regulation system in China, and highlights the necessity and urgency of reform. The forth part analyzes the existent problems of the current regulation system of municipal public utilities in our country, including the basis of regulating, the content of regulating, the process of regulating etc. At last, the author proposes that we should draw lessons from international advanced experience, and further perfect the government regulation system of municipal public utilities in our country to push the reform of marketization and carry out the public benefits to maximize in the end.