China's Natural Monopoly Industry Price Control Problem Research

To resolve the conditions that the system of price regulation in natural monopoly industry lays behinds, to bring about a greater advance in natural monopoly industry and meet with people to the production of natural monopoly industry, the article, with the analytical method of "explain the practical problem with theory" and "from the general to the concrete" analyzing the necessity to the general property of natural monopoly industry and price regulation in natural monopoly industry and the experience to control the price of natural monopoly industry in the developed-market-economy country, provides a measure to fit to the practical conditions in our country.The dissertation consists of five parts. Charter one chiefly discusses the necessity of natural monopoly industry and the price regulation in natural monopoly industry. The author draws the conclusion that the government must control natural monopoly industry and its price under the condition of market economy after analyzing the concept of natural monopoly and the basic character that the natural monopoly industry was in motion.First: The existence of "sunk cost" is the object base that the government control public utility and its price.Second: Protecting the benefits of the consumer and the user is the basic reason to control public utility and its price.Third: Cutting down the government's subsidy, leading the private capital to invest in the field of public utility and advancing the development of public utility is the power that the government control public utility and its price.Fourth: Strengthening the positive external effects and bringing about the harmonious development between public utility and other branches is essential purpose that the government control public utility and its price.Charter two chiefly describes the present situations and existing problems of price regulation to natural monopoly industry in our country. Analyzing the status and effects, the author finds the problems existing in regulation of natural monopoly industry in our country, and establishes logical base for founding the model of natural monopoly industry regulation fitting to Chinese social and economic under the condition of market economy. The existing problems are follows:First: The law and the code for regulating the natural monopoly industry must be provided.Second: No clear principle regulating the natural monopoly industry.Third: No clear and normative pricing methods.Forth: There are many problems in the institution of the natural monopoly price control.Fifth: No perfect supervisory mechanism in the process of making and adjusting price in the natural monopoly industry.Sixth: No reasonable price system in the natural monopoly industry.Charter three chiefly entitles the experiences of natural monopoly industry price regulation about the typical market-economy country. After analyzing the regulation to natural monopoly industry and its price in America, Japan, England, the author draws the general rule that the government regulates natural monopoly industry and its price.Charter four chiefly deals with innovatory directions on natural monopoly industry regulation in our country. Following above analysis and synthesis, combining the concrete practice in our country, the author finds out the new model about natural monopoly industry regulation in our country and the measures and means ensuring the model move well under the condition of socialistic market-economy. Then the author provides the model choice in natural monopoly industry regulation in our country. The model follows:First: The pricing main body of natural monopoly industry should be a multiple price decision body consisting of price regulation branches, the natural monopoly industry, consumers, experts, etc. and the price regulation branches are the chiefly component part.Second, the price formation in natural monopoly industry is the result that the natural monopoly enterprises compromise with consumers in the head of natural monopoly industry regulatio...