On Government Regulation Of Natural Monopolies

Traditional natural monopoly industries are mainly oil, electricity, water supply, gas supply, heat supply, railways, civil aviation, postal and other industries, these industries are the relationship between the focal point of national economy and people’s livelihood industry, strengthen the government regulation of the industry to perfect our country socialist market economy is of great significance, is an important link in the transformation government function, is the need of economic development and integration into the world economic environment in China.The post industry is the leader in the logistics industry. It is a very important industry in the service industry. It is a modern industry to promote the transformation of circulation and promote the consumption and upgrading. The rapid development of the postal industry, for better service production, inclusive and the people’s livelihood, expanding demand, reducing the cost of circulation, driving the development of new industries and promoting economic restructuring and upgrading is of great significance.This paper summarizes the characteristics of natural monopoly industries in China, study the reform of the postal service in China, analyzes the throughout the industry management system reform, the reform of the government of the postal service in China government regulatory issues were discussed. The author believes that in many natural monopoly industry, the reform of the postal service and government regulation is more has the significance, one is the reform of the postal service to break the monopoly of power is very large, express business to achieve the comprehensive competition, industry get vigorous development; 2 it is the government regulation system reform throughout the whole process of reform, to reform injected with great power, drive and promote the transformation and upgrading of the industry as a whole; Three is popular in the industry development, we should be conscious to the problems of government regulation, easy to break the monopoly, and then how to improve the ability of government regulation, how to establish and perfect the government regulatory system, so that the improvement of government regulation and industry on the pace of development, is the reform of natural monopoly industries must solve all problems.The purpose of this paper is to through the detailed introduction of the reform of the postal service in history and achievements, and analyzes the postal service government regulatory status quo and existing problems, and provide reference for the reform of other natural monopoly industries, to study the good practice of reform of the postal service to avoid similar problems from happening again. Finally summarizes four aspects should be improved government regulatory issues: first, to strengthen industry regulatory supervision; The second is to enhance the anti-monopoly enforcement authority enforcement; Three is to improve the management system for state-owned assets; Fourth, the reform of state-owned enterprises to the town. Five aspects of experience and enlightenment: one is to define the boundary and introducing competition in competitive business; The second is an objective analysis of the international and domestic environment; Three is to shelve disputes contradiction, the industry vigorous development, for the purpose; Four is to distinguish between administrative monopoly and natural monopoly, government functions were separated from; Five is to establish the government regulatory system.