| An established and perfected socialistic market economy system and then a national unitary market are the final objectives of China's economic reform. The national unitary market to which we refer is at least embodied by: 1. the national-wide continuous market space, and market boundaries at any levels are irrelevant to the borders of administrative areas. 2. Economic factors are flowing freely and spontaneously, and the function of market mechanisms is dominating in economy lives. In this thesis, we view the departmentalized economy under the highly centralized planning economy system as one of the forms of integrated economy. In this view, the phenomena of market provincialization, which are emerging during the course of economic and political system reform and the development of market economy, are the necessary steps to achieve the final objective——the unitary market.Many knotty problems, such as local protectionism, which were created by market provincialization and preventing us from building up the unitary market, may turn into vicious cycles, as are the so-called "traps". It is uncertain that market provincialization will automatically lead to the unitary market, on the contrary, it may be self-solidified and then become the obstacles in the course of unitary market. There is a logical necessity in the market integration from division, but there is not an actual one.Actually, in the meanwhile of opening to the worldwide market and developing liberal trade, china market was deeply divided and blockaded in the province level by the means ranging from rough and slipshod roadblock to complicated local laws and regulations. It is generally the transnational company that can operate national-wide in china. Take the city of Dalian as example, none of the first 10 retailer companies of china can enter this city, but Dalian has most foreign retailer companies in china. The economic effects created by the strict limitation of local laws and regulations are: higher transaction cost, price and repeated constructions, and lower investment benefit. Local barriers will probably be the sources creatingeconomic conflicts between china and the world, because lots of relevant terms of WTO require its members to ensure that goods, services and capital can move freely within their boundaries.How to review the functions and defects of the province markets? How to understand and hold the process of unitary market? For a period of time, there are eager appeals for forming the national unitary market, but the researches about these are more slogans and resorting to consciously developing and opening province markets of province governments than necessarily penetrating in and contending.The author of this article firmly believes in market mechanism and that the realization of unitary market must rely on the inner economic forces. After the analysis of the phenomena,problems,"traps"and their causes of market provincialization in which the local governments play the key role, the article strive to seek the inner motive forces of the course of unitary market on the background of the trend of economy development and in the view of economics.However, the market economy in China originated from the reform and opening of the planning economy system, the governments have enough motivations and abilities to intervene the economy all along. The equilibrium in market provincialization won't be broken in short period if there has no the outer charging of economy internationalization. Thus, we view the economy internationalization as the first driving force of the course of Chinese unitary market. Central government forced by the pressure of market economy development and internationalization strongly accelerate the process of unitary market, provincial and local governments forced by the reality of unitary market open their markets. The final perfection of unitary market is the result of functions of governments and firms in turn: "economy internationalizationâ†'central government accelerate the course of unitary mark... |
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