| Public utilities'monopoly means that a few enterprises monopolize the industry in the scope of public utilities and these enterprises damage fair competition by right of their special status in the industry. Since the end of the 19th century, public utilities had sprang up in many countries. Various states have got to face a tough problem, which is whether the government should accelerate and maintain public utilities'mon -opoly or break and restrain it for the sake of public welfare. In these days, there are two approches which the government can use to intervene in public utilities'monopoly. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that we research government intervention of public utilities'monopoly from the angle of the harmony between government regulation and anti-monopoly law's regulation.In this paper, we firstly discuss the defination and characteristics of public utilities and demonstrate the necessity that the government intervenes in public utilities'monopoly. Next, we analyse the patterns that the government in foreign countries intervened in public utilities in different times and point out how government regulation and anti-monopoly law's regulation were harmonized to accelerate and maintain public utilities'monopoly or break and restrain it. Basd on these understandings and combined with the background that various states bring competition into public utilities, we analyse the patterns that government regulation and anti-monopoly law's regulation are harmonized to achieve competition interests in public utilities and point out the advantages of the pattern that the government regulation agency cooperate with the anti-monopoly legal agency. And then, we conceive how the government regulation agency and the anti-monopoly legal agency intervene in different fields of public utilities. Finaly, taking example for our electric power industry, we put forward some suggestions about how our government will intervene in public utilities'monopoly for the future. |
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