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Administrative Monopoly in China: Causes, Behaviors, and
Termination is a further work of our previous book, China's
State-Owned Enterprises: Nature, Performance and Reform. This new
book analyzes the SOEs with respect to monopoly, and focuses on six
industries: telecommunication, petroleum, railway, salt, banking
and football.The book tells the history of how administrative
monopolies were formed in China, analyzes the factors responsible
for this, describes the behaviors of administrative monopoly,
enterprises, and individuals against the monopolistic background,
and presents data on the losses brought about by the administrative
monopolies.
The objective of publishing this book is to let the general public
have a better understanding of the food security situation in China
and better comprehension of the merit of allocating land through
market mechanism. In addition, it makes the public aware of the
inefficiencies of current government regulated land system. As a
populous country in the world, China emphasizes too much importance
of food to ensure people's sufficient consumption. There is a
national policy to protect farm land, farm land protection refers
to 18 hundred million mu of farmland which is specifically
designated for food production only. Unirule defined the national
food security as the capability to solve food shortages, and
calculated the gap between food supply and demand. Two approaches
can be used to solve the above food gap. Food security problems
will not happen under situations of free trade and factors
substitution in market economy, substantial storage and foreign
exchange income. In modern China, food insecurity or great famine
only happened in planned economy. To link tightly farm land size
and grain yield and even food security is baseless both in theory
and practices. The previous red line of 21 hundred million mu was
already broken through. The current red line of 18 hundred million
mu will also be broken through, in view of the process of
industrialization and urbanization. In fact, farm land protection
should focus on protecting the employment right of peasant in land.
This book provides a detailed description of state-owned
enterprises (SOEs) in China with respect to both efficiency and
income distribution. It demonstrates that state ownership in the
form of SOEs does not use resources efficiently, holds a poor
record in income distribution, and enjoys unfair advantages while
competing with other firms. To illustrate this, the book presents
data on how favored policies, monopolistic powers, and subsidies
benefit SOEs.This book, with its rich empirical data and
information, serves as an authoritative reference for researchers
interested in SOEs. It is also a good read for students of social
sciences and general public.
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