A Study Of China's Equipment Price Formation Mechanism

The present equipment price formation mechanism of our country, which has played an important role in national defense industry building up, is the legacy of history. Butt as time goes on, especially along with the establishment of socialist market economy system, contradictions between traditional equipment price pattern and outside environment as well as defects of the pricing pattern itself have been emerging. In this paper, with use of the research result of other people as reference, the author systematically brings forward reform proposals on equipment price formation mechanism.Firstly, through studies of present equipment price formation mechanism, the author points out the problems of interior and exterior environments, such as over competition in production sector, professional administrative monopoly, irrational pricing cost, unscientific price accounting method as well as management method creation.Secondly, the author makes some introduction of present equipment price formation mechanism of some foreign countries and their practice in equipment price management, especially the life circle price management experiences of the United States armed forces. It is aiming at reflecting insufficiency in our equipment price management and providing reference for future reform.Lastly, the author makes detailed introduction of reform proposals, including basic principles, long-term/short-term goals, external environment reform and internal control policies. It mainly includes laws and regulations system construction, adopting competition mechanism, taking appropriate pricing pattern according to different equipment acquisition method, flexible contracting, life circle price management, informationalization and emphasizing personnel training etc.In short, the equipment price formation mechanism reform is a very complicated engineering. It calls for all parties, the state, the armed forces and the defense industries to make joint effort and coordination, step by step, steadily and gradually to reach the ultimate goal.