Application In Ancient Times Of "Balanced" Theory And Its Enlightenment To Contemporary Price's Adjustment And Control

As a kind of economic management thought of regulating supply and demand, and curbing price, "Balanced "Theory played the role of Adjusting prices and stabilizing economy in China's ancient economy. A wide-margin fluctuation by of prices influences people's living standard directly, investment and expectancy, and then the whole national macro-economy. The relevant datum reveal, at present, the price of our country is in an upward situation, So it is necessary that studying our ancientry's Balanced Theory and its applications, and then discussing their enlightenment to today's price Adjustment and Control.Balanced Theory had its theoritical and practical background, which was in conformity with the social and economic developments at that time. The natural, economical, and political environments formed its foundation. During the slow and long feudal society, balanced Theory changed in form of application with the development of economy. But its essence is a kind of measure used by the government to buy back things when the price was low, and sell them when the price went up, so as to adjust the supply and demand, and level off price. Balanced Theory is one of China's traditional economic thoughts, which is, like other thoughts, the results serving for federal politics. It itself had formed its own unique characteristic during its development: it had macroscopic nature, dependency and monopoly on the whole, had the fluctuate and coexist with the stability, the cycle and lagging nature on regulating and controlling concretely. In history, balanced Theory showed its positive side, also had its negative side as well. Regulation of supply and demand, stabilizing prices; To combat unscrupulous traders, purification circulation environment; The agriculture and commerce are beneficial to commonly, promoting the coordinated development of national economy; Treasury income increased to consolidate the feudal regime is whose active history effect. On the negative side, the performance, to some extent, impede economic development; The role of stabilizing prices greatly reduced; The interests of the peasants in the process of implementing some damage; Violating the economic law on operating.The environmental factors between ancient and present applications of balanced Theory are both similar and discrepant. Existence of the commodity economy; Consistency of target's price; The occurrence of natural disasters; Market disruption wrongful factors is still the foundation of balanced Theory in the contemporary application. Based on the form of government with the basic contradictions, forms of ownership and economic base and changes in the external environment, which make contemporary price regulation and control different from that in ancient times.Balanced policy's objective is to ensure a balanced supply and demand, purchase and sell price to be relatively stable, prevent slumping and booming, and enventually pursue the social stability. Under the modern market economy condition,factors impacting prices have new characteristics: the satient structural contradiction of the Chinese agricultural products, natural calamity, accident-events, and more international economic influence. The form of regulating and controlling has greatly changed, and showed some characteristics as follow: firstly, utilizing the abundant market means, secondly, utilizing modernized prediction technology and information service. Draw lessons from history, the writer will obtain corresponding enlightenment with the contemporary reality. In contemporary international and domestic economic environment, Regulatory targets and commodity options include not only important agricultural and sideline products, but also basic materials and energy supplies; Regulatory agencies involved in the decision-making institutions and implementing agencies and the establishment of coordination; Material objects, funds, futures, foreign currency are essential tools; Attention should be paid to the formation of the price mechanism, price played lead role; Faced with an increasingly complex and open international economic environment, we need to fully take the impact of the international market price into consideration.