The Gas Industry Antitrust Issues Research

Chinese gas industry is a part of municipal public utilities, due to its with strong public welfare, has long been established the national support. At the same time, the gas industry has a strong natural monopoly, so its price regulation by the government, for its state-owned. But with the development of the theory of economic regulation and public utilities management system reform, and the development of government regulation theory and practice, the original is considered not competitive areas into a competitive field, at the same time because of the gas industry as a kind of quasi-public products competitive and non-exclusive and limited the scarcity of the product, making it possible for the gas industry to use its monopoly competition exclusion behavior, so public utilities monopoly problem increasingly prominent. Gas industry is presented in this paper the anti-monopoly basic motivation based on the theory and reality, the cause of the gas industry monopoly problem, draw lessons from the successful experience of western developed countries anti-monopoly. On problems existing in the gas industry monopoly, methods such as literature research, comparative analysis, from strengthening the construction of anti-monopoly legislation, deepen the reform of the management system of the gas industry, establish an effective anti-monopoly management system, to set up the gas industry antitrust social supervision mechanism and perfect gas industry antitrust law relief mechanism and so on gives the suggestion and thinking.