Study On Administrative Monopoly And Bringing In Competition Of Chinese Railway Transport Industry

According to China's WTO commitments, our railway transport market is gradually opening to the outside world. Foreign railway transport enterprises that regain vigor through reform will fiercely compete with domestic railway transport enterprises. At the same time, our railway transport industry must also face severe challenges from other domestic transportation means. In this situation, our railway transport industry still relies on the administrative monopoly system to exclude and limit the competition in the industry, which leads the industry into trouble day by day.Under this background, making a thorough analysis on the reform of our railway transport industry's administrative monopoly and the problem of its bringing in competition will not only promote the study of railway transport theory, but also provide realistic basis for the anti-monopoly law's implementing in railway transport industry, which is of great significance in theory and practice. However, through collecting and analyzing literatures available, it can be found that although domestic and foreign scholars have done much valuable and significant research on administrative monopoly and railway transport industry, in-depth studies in the field of administrative monopoly and railway transport industry's administrative monopoly are fairly scarce.In order to promote the existing research, this thesis does some tentative analysis on the reform of our railway transport industry's administrative monopoly and the problem of its bringing in competition, which tries to provides more effective theoretical and empirical proof for the efficiency improvement reform of our railway transport industry's administrative monopoly. The study of this thesis includes the following parts:The first part includes chapter 1 and chapter2. Firstly, chapter 1 introduces the background of selecting the title, the significance of the study, the definition and identification of administrative monopoly and other related concepts, the contents and research methods of the thesis. Secondly, through collecting and analyzing existing lectures on administrative monopoly and railway transport industry, chapter2 proposes the necessity of making a deep study on Chinese railway transport industry's administrative monopoly.The second part includes chapter3, chapter4 and chapter5. At the beginning, based on the important role of the railway transport industry in the development of our national economy, chapter3 employs the sate theory and path dependence theory in the new institutional economics to explain the formation and continuation of the railway transport industry's administrative monopoly. Next, based on the measurement index system of the administrative monopoly put forward by Liangchun Yu and others (2008), chapter4 measures the degree of Chinese railway transport industry's administrative monopoly in the transitional period. Finally, according to the index system of administrative monopoly's influence on efficiency designed by Liangchun Yu and others (2008), chapter5 evaluates the efficiency of our railway transport industry under the administrative monopoly in recent years and estimates the overall production efficiency and efficiency loss of this industry using the method of data envelopment analysis.The third part includes chapter6 and chapter7. Firstly, basing on the deduction of industrial administrative monopoly's mechanism, Chapter6 analyses the dual paths of administrative monopoly causing the railway transport industry's inefficiency and points out reforming the system of our railway transport industry's administrative monopoly and bringing in competition mechanism are necessary if we want to improve the industry's efficiency. Secondly, on the basis of summarizing the experiences and lessons of foreign Railway Transport Industries'reforms, Chapter7 analyses the three effects of developing effective competition in our railway transport industry and puts forward prerequites and policy recommendations for the industry to bring in competition.The fourth part includes chapter8. This chapter concludes the whole thesis and points out the shortcomings of thesis and the prospects of its future research.In the course of the analysis, this thesis mainly uses the following several kinds of methods:history analysis, new institutional economics analysis, combining quantitative analysis with qualitative analysis, combining statistical analysis with econometric analysis, combining mathematical analysis with empirical analysis, comparative analysis.The analysis of this thesis may make some supplements to previous related researches and its main innovations can be briefly summarized as follows:First, it measures the degree of our railway transport industry's administrative monopoly and assesses the state of the industry's efficiency under administrative monopoly, which provides some empirical proof for the reform of the industry's administrative monopoly.Second, it induces the dual paths of administrative monopoly causing the railway transport industry's inefficiency and analyses the effects of the railway transport industry's effective competition, which is of some reference value to our railway transport industry's bringing in competition.Third, it employs the sate theory to illustrate the formation of the railway transport industry's administrative monopoly and analyses the government's benefit and cost of implementing administrative monopoly in this industry or not, which does some contribution to the explanation of the administrative monopoly's formation.