| Water is the precious resources for human survival and development. In recent years, as the population expansion and water pollution, the whole world is faced with the serious situation of the growing shortage of water resources. China is the fourth country in total freshwater amount, but is one of the poorest countries in per capita water. In our country the cities are particularly short for water, According to statistics, more than half of the urban lack of water. Because of the water consumption huge, the developed cities are faced with more severe situation. It is imperative to construct the "resource saving" society, and create the water-saving-type city!Based on the above, combined with the theory of price regulation in public finance on quasi-public products, the paper chooses the price regulation of urban water industry as the direction of research, and selects the Guangzhou water industry as a representative example for key research, in order to do some constructive contribution for constructing the water-saving-type city from the perspective of government price regulation.The research work and conclusions include: (1) in the analysis of urban water industry price regulation theory and the status and policy of domestic and international urban water industry price regulation, the paper mainly expounds and analysis on urban water industry characteristics, constitute factors of the water price, the necessity and the method of price regulation for urban water industry, the course and existing problems of price regulation for urban water industry in our country, and the experience of price regulation for urban water industry in the main developed countries; (2) In the research of price regulation for urban water industry in Guangzhou, the paper mainly analyzes the basic situation of Guangzhou water industry, does the empirical research on the price regulation of Guangzhou water industry. And based on high water pipe leakage ratio and the present situation of price reform in Guangzhou water industry, the paper puts forward the model of incentive price regulation under the condition of pipe leakage for Guangzhou water industry; (3) In the policy Suggestions for urban water industry price regulation, according to the existing problems in China and Guangzhou urban water industry, the paper puts forward relevant policy Suggestions. |