Study Of Market-oriented Reforms Of Public Utilities In The Transformation Of Government Functions

The western marketization reform of public utilities which prevails in the seventies of the 20th century, have obtained compelling achievement in the practices of more than 20 years, one of the main reason lies in the government playing its roles appropriately and performing its function correctly. But our government plays all the roles such as offer, produce, manage, serve, supervise etc in public utilities traditional mode, the function is unclear and confused, leading to a lot of bad influences, so we have to go on the marketization reform.And the essence of the marketization reform of public utilities lies in breaking the situation that the government monopolizes the public utilities in traditional mode, competition mechanism should be introduced, also it should depended more on the folk organization and less on the government, make full use of the basic function of the market to meet the pluralistic demands of masses.Therefore, their marketization reform makes the new challenge to the government's function, it requires the government to change the basic function of traditional mode, including the transition of the unction of weight, the altering of f the function way and the changing of the functional relationship.How the government realizes the transformation of the functions, the public interests theory, the public supply theory, the city manage theory and the natural monopoly theory define scientist and reasonable roles for the government. The public utilities reform practices of such countries as Great Britain and American, France, etc. have offered a lot of significant experience. Advancing and deepening the reform of public enterprises, confirming and planning the project and way of reform, encouraging and strong the non-profit-making development, setting up and perfecting the modernized regulation system are the feasible choice.