The Government’s Choice Of Coal Industry Regulation And Control Policy

In the coming decades, the coal resources will remain the main status in long-term China’s energy consumption structure. Even if in the case of full exploitation of the oil and natural gas, nuclear power, shale gas and combustible ice,the coal in one-time consumption will remain above 50% with a consumption of over45 tons in 2020. Once upon a time in the planned economy system, the coal enterprises were mainly controlled by the central government. Until the reform and opening up, with the development of the socialist ownership market system, the market system of coal industry also gradually reformed. The government regulatory policies played a decisive role in the process of speeding up the pace of coal market system. They have made a contribution to the healthy development of the coal industry. At the same time there are still many problems and shortcomings. This paper takes the impact of the government policy towards the coal market as the main object of study. Through the analysis of the government’s direct and indirect regulation and combined with the domestic coal enterprises, we take Shenyang coal industry group for example to make a general evaluation on the government regulation of China’s coal market and put forward some suggestions about choices of controlling the direction of the coal market.Based on the coal enterprises in our country, a large number of data analysis shows that, the coal supply, demand, price are the main factors that affecting the coal industry in China. The total supply of coal is mainly affected by the exploitation of coal resources, coal import and export costs. The total coal demand is affected by the economic environment and the impact of the adjustment of industrial structure. The price of coal is mainly affected by the supply and demand change, tax policy,government pricing. Therefore, the government regulation of the coal market should start from these aspects. Through the research on Shenyang coal industry group,one of the state-owned coal enterprises, we may study all kinds of domestic coal enterprises. To summarizes the analysis of China’s coal market competition rules and the mechanism of competition. Competition in the coal market is gradually moving towards rationalize and market, but far from the competition status and thecompetitive environment of high efficiency. The main factor is that the market?ˉs concentration degree is not enough, the high degree of monopoly and the technical level of the industry backward.Therefore, the key point of the government regulation should be to establish the industry standards and market environment which are conducive to the effective competition. Based on the overall protection of the healthy development of the national economy, the coal market mechanism can give full play to the market.Analyzing the operation of China’s coal market and government regulation and control policy, this paper mainly summarizes four aspects of the basic content about the government regulation and control policy of China’s coal market direction: the balance of supply and demand, price, energy conservation and emission reduction,efficient use of public resources.Finally, based on the full analysis of the market’s operation mechanism and government regulation, combined with the development status of China’s various types of coal enterprises and the basic conditions of the current, we put forward the direction of government regulation, the basic content and the specific policy recommendations.