The SCP Analysis Of Urban Water Supply Industrial Organization In China

The development of the urban water supply industry is closely related with the production and people's life. In the meantime, the fast development of economy and the acceleration of the process of urbanization put forward higher requirements to our country's urban water supply industry .However, the traditional duties of the government and enterprises were not detached, and the urban water supply industry was monopolized by the local government, which directly led the urban water supply industry to develop slowly and became the bottleneck of urban economy and social development. This paper analyses the urban water supply industry mainly from the aspect of industrial organization, aiming to propose measures for optimizing the urban water supply industry.According to the industrial organization theory, this paper fully and systematically analyses the current situation of industrial organization of our country's urban water supply industry and optimizing target mode. Though studying the goal and mode, this paper proposes to perfect the market structure, lead the suitable market conduct and promote the market performance of the urban water supply industry. Thus, this paper has great theory and directive practice meaning.Starting with a review of the theories about the industrial organization, the views of the main sects and the main characteristics of the urban water supply industry, the chapter offers a studying frame. After that, this paper applies the SCP analysis frame of the theory of industrial organization to study the market structure,the market conduct and the market performance of our country's urban water supply industry The research draws conclusions as follows: the participants in the urban water supply market have become diversified gradually, but there few connections between the each other independent regional markets; the concentration degree of urban water supply market is not high; the barriers of entrance and quitting is very high. In the urban water supply market, enterprises are generally receivers of water price and the water price is decided by government. The obvious market conducts of water enterprises in the urban water supply market is merger conduct and innovation conduct. Due to the problems of system and management which have existed for long, the efficiency of resource distribution and the scale benefits of the urban water supply on the whole is poor. This paper also analyses the industrial organization policy of our country's urban water supply industry .Based on the characteristics of the urban water supply industry and the theoretical analysis of the government regulation, the paper constructs the government regulation system which contains price regulation, entry and exit regulation, quality and environment regulation, franchise regulation and so on.Moreover, on the basis of research and analysis of current situation and existing problems of the urban water supply industrial organization, and combining the reality of developing, this paper proposes reasonable target mode of industrial organization of our country's urban water supply industry. I believe the main problems of the urban water supply industry is that the whole economic efficiency is still very low and the effective market competition is still inadequate, the target of optimizing our urban water supply industrial organization is not only to break the monopoly, but also how to realize the effective competition. Though studying the theory of effective competition and the standards of measuring the effective competition, the paper puts forward the target mode of realizing the effective competition in our country's urban water supply industry from aspects of the market structure,the market conduct and the market performance.Finally, on the basis of the above analysis, the paper puts forward several measures foe the prominent problems which exist in the urban water supply industry in order to improve the imperfect situation of our country's urban water supply industry. The measures focus on two aspects of ameliorating government regulation and promoting marketization, aiming to achieve the goal of effective competition and promote a great advance of our country's urban water supply industry.