Research On Privatization Reform Of Urban Gas Industry In China

The urban gas industry plays an important role in public utilities.It is not only a p ublic product,but also an important part of urban infrastructure.It is related to the regio nal economic development,the urban social and natural environment,and the quality of 1 ife of urban residents.It is also becoming a basic industry with overall situation and lea ding role in our national economy.At the same time,the state is still focusing on foster ing and opening up industries.For a long time,China has classified the urban gas indus try as a public utility enterprise,treated it as a public welfare product,and implemented the regulation system of monopoly operation of state-owned enterprises.However,with t he deepening of the institutional reform of China's market economy,the drawbacks of ad ministrative monopoly,low production efficiency,insufficient external competition,excessi ve dependence on government subsidies and prominent contradictions between supply and demand have gradually been exposed.These drawbacks have resulted in serious waste o f resources,low economic efficiency,government financial burden,and relatively stagnant Industrial Development in the urban gas industry?Therefore,in recent years,China has vigorously promoted the regulatory reform of monopoly industries in public utilities,including urban gas industry.Although there is po licy support,the reform of urban gas industry is still relatively slow compared with othe r industries,and its deep-seated institutional contradictions are quite prominent,and the r eform is still in the exploratory stage.How to ensure social stability and public interests under market competition,break monopoly,open market and introduce competition mech anism has become a problem to be solved in the reform of regulation system of urban g as industry.This paper attempts to study the regulation system reform of urban gas indu stry in China from the perspective of private capital injection.Starting from the original intention of privatization of urban gas industry,it uses the analysis mode of combination of privatization reform target system and supervision operation system to explore why t he urban gas industry should carry out privatization reform,the direction and purpose of reform,and the system design of reform.At the same time,drawing on the successful experience of the privatization reform of the same industry in foreign countries,this pape r studies how to establish the regulatory system of the city gas industry that meets the r equirements of the market economy in China,and puts forward reasonable suggestions an d opinions on the privatization reform of the city gas industry.