Research On The Promotion Of Reform At The Electricity Selling Side By The Chinese Government

In 2015,China started a new round of reform of the electricity system.Reform at the electricity selling side is the key to whether the bonus from reform can benefit the whole society,thus becoming the biggest highlight of this round of reform of the electricity system and a focused issue of the society today.Its core mission is breaking the monopoly and introducing competition at the electricity selling side,allowing social capital to be invested in power distribution and electricity selling,forming the mechanism in which the electricity price is mainly determined by the market,restoring the commodity property of electric energy,and playing the decisive role of market in the resource allocation.In recent years,the government has completed the top-level design when promoting the reform at the electricity selling side,opened up the electricity selling business,promoted the incremental distribution network pilots,implemented the verification of transmission-distribution price,and achieved the staged achievements.However,many problems have to be solved urgently in terms of opening the power distribution and electricity selling business,constructing the electricity market,forming trading rules and price mechanism,and establishing the credit and supervision system,because the transformation of government functions is incomplete,non-benign paths are still followed,and reform measures are unsound,thus creating barriers and resistance to the promotion of reform.This paper tries to look beyond the limitations of study in the power industry;examines practice results and realistic difficulties when the Chinese government promotes the reform at the electricity selling side from the perspective of marketization of public services;concludes that the separation of monopoly and competition is the premise of reform,a sound legal environment is the key to promotion of reform,and independent operation of public power is the basis for fair trade by analyzing and comparing practices of other countries;and reinforces the successful experience,such as the conclusion that the government and social supervision are the guarantee of marketization,thus giving targeted countermeasures and suggestions on further deepening the reform at the electricity selling side in China.First,publicity and efficiency should be balanced,and the multiple governance relationship between the government and enterprises and between the market and social organizations should be rebuilt;second,by measures such as complete separation of transmission and power distribution,diversification of market players,independent trading institutions and determination of the price by the market,non-benign paths should not be followed,and power grid enterprises should be reformed;third,the reform guarantee system should be rebuilt with improvement of power regulations at the beginning,improvement of electricity regulation as the core,and evaluation of reform effect as the means.