A Study On Urban Water Market Reform And Model Path Selection

Urban Water is the critical infrastructure to the economic and social development. The urban water industry has a significant social welfare. Urban water project has significant internal benefits and externality, and the externality brings far greater than the internal gains. Therefore, properly handled the urban water industry will generate enormous economic and social benefits. Accompanied western countries in the wave of public administration reform by the late1970s and early1980s, urban water and the model of public utilities supplied by government must be broken, people began to realize that it is necessary to distinguish between public goods "supply" and "production". And widespread introduction of competition mechanism in the urban water industry, cancellation of the government monopoly, allow more enterprises to participate in the supply of services, implementation of privatization and market-oriented, improving the quality and efficiency of public services. Therefore, how to use economic theory researching on urban water market reform and selecting the model of market-oriented from the perspective of economy, undoubtedly has important theoretical and practical significance.This article is divided into seven chapters, focuses on the following questions:1、 Through the study of China’s water market reform process and status, analyzing the lack of public interest、funds for construction of water supply and the absence of government through China’s water market reform process.2、Analysis the problems in China’s urban water reform model selection, and by comparison of the governance model of the water market in developed countries to find international experience.3、 On the basis of description of the product concept of the water supply、classification and properties characterized, using cost-benefit analysis of the theory of market-oriented water projects to study the reasonable water market reform model path selection.4、As Lanzhou water company market reform model for example, empirical test of the path of the proposed urban water market reform model.