The Research On The Regulation System Of Urban Public Service: Heat Supply Regulation

The industry of Urban Heating Supply is an important part of city publicutilities,which related to the city’s development and the quality of life ofresidents.Unlike other city public utilities,the characteristics of the heating industry isoligopoly.Therefore, the government should utilize the characteristic of oligopoly, topromote the marketization and make the social welfare maximization.The character ofnetwork, regional, seasonal and information asymmetry,however,makes the HeatingSupply different from other city public utilities.This paper expounds the oligopolistic industry consolidation supervision andgeneral firstly, introducing of the related concept of city public utilities and thenecessity of the supervision from the point of view of technical and economiccharacteristics of the heating industry.Secondly, as the heating mainly refers to theheating supply in winter in the north of China,Only taking an example of the Northernarea of China, to summarize the domestic heating industry status, dilemmas and itslake of regulations.Thirdly, summarize the experience of reform of supervision systemto the heating industry abroad,from the part of into the city and delistingmechanism,the technical standard and service supervision,price control,the protectionof consumer rights and interests and complaint mechanism and the supervision of theenergy conservation to general situate of foreign heating industry and their worthyusing for reference.Finally,making a explicit goal of reform while to put forwardsuggestions on supervision system reform in our heating industry from five the partsof improving access mechanism,environmental problems,an independent regulatoryagency establishment,perfecting the laws and regulations system and Popularizing theInternet of Things for heating supply system.