The Optimization Research Of Shanghai Natural Gas Price Regulation Policy

With the long-term development of the society,natural gas and its related industries,as public utilities,have provided strong support for the infrastructure development of the city,as well as a strong guarantee for the daily production and life of enterprises and residents in the city.Based on the natural monopoly nature and social public welfare nature of the natural gas industry,the price of the natural gas industry directly affects the stability of the people's livelihood,so the price control policy of the urban gas industry has been the focus of internal discussion and research.The price control policy of natural gas in Shanghai,as the wind phase standard of domestic natural gas price,has been reformed and developed for decades and achieved remarkable results.Up to now,the price control policy of natural gas in Shanghai is still the regulation mode that the government directly controls the price of natural gas in the period of planned economy,which makes the price control of natural gas industry in Shanghai partially invalid and unbalanced in practice.At the same time,from the perspective of government supervision,there is also a failure of price control policy,which is mainly reflected in the government's weak supervision on the macro level of the natural gas industry and the failure of supervision on the defects of related state-owned enterprises.Therefore,under the background of market economy gradually perfect,in order to solve the gas price policy from the social development,the current price cannot really reflect the gas cost,must be effective reform of the natural gas price control policies,prompted the original is suitable for natural gas and other natural monopoly industries directly by the government gradually shift the market pricing mode of price policy and government regulation mode of price policy;At the same time,with the gradual liberalization of China's economic marketization and globalization,in order to integrate China's urban natural gas market with the international natural gas market,the corresponding reform of urban gas price control policy is also needed.This paper analyzes the price formation policy in the price control policy of natural gas industry in Shanghai and the related policies affecting price control.Firstly,from the perspective of price control theory,the necessity of price control in Shanghai natural gas industry is demonstrated and analyzed.Secondly this article from the Shanghai gas industry has a monopoly of business,resource scarcity,weak cost increases,the layout of the network characteristics,lead to the feature of natural monopoly of the industry,analysis if the lack of management in the corresponding price policy,will lead to industry allocation imbalance,low efficiency,loss of social welfare,and made the commitment to social welfare maximization of price regulation of natural gas industry policy goals.At the same time in the gas industry in Shanghai price control policy and relevant research and analysis of historical change,found that Shanghai gas industry price control policy on the four level there is a problem,one is under the market-oriented reform of defect,2 it is administrative monopoly price is high,the cost of three price controls is a lack of policy guidance,four gas price regulation lag.Finally,based on the reference and inspiration of foreign price control policies,this paper selects the price control policies in line with the current stage of Shanghai gas industry under the background of market liberalization and introduction of industrial competition.On this basis,specific measures for optimizing the price control policy of the natural gas industry are put forward for improving the price control policy of the natural gas industry in Shanghai.Separate the government from the enterprise and establish an efficient natural gas regulatory body;Scientific adjustment of personnel structure in the natural gas industry;By referring to the experience of other countries,a price control model suitable for the current environment of the natural gas industry in Shanghai is selected to establish a market-oriented price.Strengthen the supervision of the industry,promote the healthy development of the industry.Finally,it is of theoretical and practical significance to optimize the price control policy in Shanghai natural gas industry.