Water price hearings around the world are accused of entering the market with foreign capital

In the past two months, Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenyang, Guangzhou, Nanjing and other large and medium-sized cities held a water price hike hearings, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a continuous dispatch, requiring the cities to promote the water price reform smoothly.　　Industry insiders believe that five reasons for the recent water price adjustment: First, the water supply cost increases; the other is the sewage treatment needs to be included in the cost; third, the sludge treatment should also be added to the cost of water costs; four is the country to advance the price of resource-oriented products;　　Water shortage through price increases to adjust the price of water is inevitable. A villager of Little Tangshan village in Beijing told reporters that in the 70 's, their village wanted to hit a cold well, but it was full of hot spring water. According to the Beijing Geological Engineering Survey Institute submitted the "Small Tangshan geothermal Water Resources Evaluation report" shows that Xiao Tangshan was the only area of the Beijing plain with natural hot springs, There were 9 natural hot springs in the foothills of large and small Tangshan. In the late 70 's, the spring water gradually disappeared into drilling and exploitation.　　In the past 10 years, Beijing's big, small Tangshan's more than 10 hot springs have dried up. According to the long-term groundwater monitoring data of the Ministry of Land and Resources, the groundwater quality of two-thirds cities in China has generally declined, the water quality in local areas has deteriorated, and more than 300 cities have caused water shortage due to groundwater pollution.　　According to statistics, due to natural water quality caused by water poisoning 22.9778 million people, iodine deficiency, Keshan disease 5.675 million people, 1.025 million people suffering from Kashin-Beck, the country to drink the number of substandard groundwater is up to tens of millions of. The attention of Taihu lake and the algae problem in Dianchi Lake has been adopted by physics, chemistry and biochemistry for many years, and the effect is not satisfactory.　　Now, the surface area of 2400 square kilometers of Taihu Lake began to cultivate 100,000 mu of water hyacinth harvest made of organic fertilizer, to solve the surrounding 400,000 acres of farmland fertilizer supply, to reduce the harm of chemical fertilizers on Taihu Lake body.　　Kunming Municipal Party committee secretary Qiu learned that the grant of 40 million yuan research funding support research, Jiangsu Province Academy of Agricultural Sciences Research staff to Kunming, in the blue algae seriously endangered Dianchi Lake to carry out water hyacinth treatment eutrophication test.　　Water pollution and governance has become a worldwide problem, the protection of limited water resources, in addition to environmental governance, corporate clean production, publicity and water conservation, through the price adjustment is also the world's common method, because of the impact of water price increases, and therefore, the public's concern is extremely high. Water price hearing is "just" the motions of the December 16, Beijing residents water price hearings held, "Beijing's water resources are very tense, water shortage from the past a short time by chance has become the norm." "Beijing Water Conservancy Planning and Design Research Institute chief engineer, deputy Dean Zhang said, the first 10 months of this year, the water volume is only 145 million cubic meters, compared with the past to 2.2 billion cubic meters of water, decay quickly." At present, Beijing per capita water resources less than 200 cubic meters, the world is rare. "This time the adjustment of water resources and sewage treatment fee, did not adjust the use of tap water production, indicating that the government is not to subsidize the loss of water enterprises." "The Chinese people are bigProfessor of School of public Governance, China Price Association executive Director Guangjian Analysis, progressive water prices, the Government should promote the conservation and utilization of water resources.　　For the Water price adjustment scheme, Zhang that the supporting measures are key to the low-income staff to give direct compensation, can not let the water price adjustment over the impact of this part of the group's life. Water price adjustment affects the interests of thousands of households. Experts suggest that the water resources and sewage treatment fees and expenditures of the dynamic governance, each year to the income of the social publicity, public monitoring. In addition, enterprises need to provide detailed data and financial statements, and accept the question. December 8, the Harbin Water Price hearing, 13 consumer representatives only one retired teacher decisively opposed the price hike, a "retired workers" to participate in the hearing of the representative afterwards told reporters that he is a hotel in Harbin, chairman of the board, because this hearing representative identity fraud, transparency is not enough,　　So that the public from the concern about water prices to question the fairness and sincerity of hearings.　　July 31, Luoyang, Henan Province, held in the city water price adjustment hearings, 18 hearing representatives of 17 people in favor of adjustment, 1 people proposed "best not to raise prices" ... From all over the public opinion of the rising water price, the public on the price of water or have a considerable fear, if the local government does not carefully carefully do the corresponding science and policy dissemination of the groundwork, and the holding of hearings and lack of fair and transparent practice, will be a democratic deliberative, universal water-saving concept of drama,　　The director into a botched farce, let himself down, this will be a major failure of administrative management. Suspicion of foreign capital entering the water market a few years ago, reporters with the Water Conservancy organization of water-saving activities to a suburb of Shanghai to visit a water treatment plant, inadvertently found, and water plant wall is an elegant and heavy low-rise buildings.　　Talking to a colleague about the matter, she said quite knowingly, it is a foreign water company's building, foreign water enterprises for China's water resources market has long been concerned about, is now entering the country, the relevant part has been a low-key treatment. In the sound of rising water prices, the public began to pay attention to enter the water market in China is the real behind the hands, the reporter from the network to collect the relevant authorities and experts to see the response, have denied the participation of foreign investment in the water price, then, foreign capital into what is to do? Do you volunteer for the modernization of China's water service?　　Of course not, capitalists do not sell at a loss. There is a point of view that foreign water loss also to enter the Chinese market, there must be long-term consideration, they enjoy the "sign a Send 10" policy, around the aquatic products can be done articles, such as water, water and sewage treatment and other links can have a higher return on profits, now, just peel out the water to force the public to pay for high water prices,　　Exposed the loopholes in our rules. According to Guo Shida, executive director of the China-France Water Investment Co., Ltd., the Chinese public is extremely sensitive to the rise of water price in the city because many cities have not risen for many years, the amount of a price increase obviously caused the public's panic mentality, and the water price of foreign countries oftenIn the change, but the amplitude of each change is very small, the public also in the water price continued to rise in a certain degree of psychological endurance. Tao, director of the Center for Water Policy Research at Tsinghua University, said that the share of foreign investment in the water industry is about 10%, and that the private sector's share of investment is almost equal.　　By analyzing and investigating the water price of foreign capital entering into cities and not entering cities, it is found that the entry of foreign capital has no effect on Chinese water price.　　Tao said, water price payment rate in 2%~3% about, at present our country is about 1%~2%, thus in the reasonable endurance range, our country water price also has the floating space.　　Tao that water as a public service product, in the pricing, the state's compensation to low-income groups can be expanded, by the government to pay the basic cost of the foundation of the poor group of compensation, which is a government investment in infrastructure.　　Dadi, the former director of the National Development and Reform Commission's Energy Research Institute, suggested that water companies should make the information more transparent, ensure that it is neither high profit nor loss, the price of water prices should make water companies get slightly lower than the social average profit margin. Water resources are closely related to people's livelihood, so the local government should be more acceptable and accepted by the public as a public good attitude in the issue of water price. (Tao) Source: Worker