Study Of Market Governance On Bottled Liquefied Petroleum Gas In Huizhou

Bottled liquefied petroleum gas industry is an industry that relates to people’s livelihood, and bottled liquefied petroleum gas is commonly used by urban and rural residents. Liquefied petroleum gas cylinders belong to special equipment, and the quality and safety of bottled liquefied petroleum gas are critical to people’s lives, property and interests. Due to market disorder and vicious competition, there are phenomena such as short weight(measure), blending dimethyl ether, and the use of expired bottles, discarded bottles. Instability in LPG cylinders and quality bring a lot of security problems to the citizens and there are many liquefied petroleum gas explosion accidents, some of which have caused mass death and casualty. Insufficient gas metering also undermines the interests of the masses. Relevant government departments carried out bottled LPG market rectification each year, but the effect is not obvious and they didn’t solve the problem fundamentally. The quality and security of bottled liquefied petroleum gas involve filling stations, supply stations, government departments, users, and other social organizations, but market governance system is imperfect, and some aspects exist unclear responsibilities, unequal benefits and responsibilities, leading to vicious competition and other market failures. How to improve the governance of bottled liquefied petroleum gas market and cylinder management so as to ensure the quality and safety of bottled liquefied petroleum gas is currently an important issue.This essay analyzes the current situation of market governance over bottled liquefied petroleum gas and the interests orientation of stakeholders in Huizhou through literature analysis, comparative analysis, empirical research methods and the use of public governance, market failure, externalities, asymmetric information, government failure theory, and studies the reasons of issues such as the existing market disorder, cylinders chaotic management, difficult quality and safety retroactive liability, and ineffective governmental supervision. The author refers to some experience and practice of some cities and puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions on perfecting bottled liquefied petroleum gas market governance from the perspective of public governance. The author emphasizes sound governance system design and establishing multi-governance mechanisms so that the government, society and market will combine and interact effectively to build a new LPG market governance system. It is of great significance to explore ways to reform the market governance system and LPG cylinders supervision.