“铁老大”终于允许非国有资本参与铁路建设和铁路运营了。且不论其初衷是更好更快地进行铁路网络建设,还是因资金匮乏不得已向外界伸出了“高贵”的要钱之手。从更深意义上说,这件事情无疑是一件好事——铁路垄断的坚冰,已经开始融化了。长期以来,我国铁路运营一直处于垄断之中,缺乏竞争的土壤。垄断带来的恶果毋庸赘述,无论企业还是消费者都深有感触。此番,铁道部放开铁路建设、客货运输、运输装备制造与多元经营等四大领域的投资限制,可谓走出了市场化的第一步。虽然民营企业已经可以投资铁路建设,但从目前情况来看,这决非是投资人的盛宴。铁路领域数十年的垄断烙印,将使投资过程充满变数,困难重重。铁路投资完全市场化任重而道远。 “Iron boss” finally allowed non-state capitals to participate in railway construction and railway operations. Regardless of its original intention is to better and faster railway network construction, or because of lack of funds last resort to the outside world, “noble” money hand. In a deeper sense, this is undoubtedly a good thing - the ice of the railway monopoly has begun to melt. For a long time, China’s railway operation has been in a monopoly, the lack of competition in the soil. Needless to say the consequences of monopoly, both businesses and consumers are deeply touched. This time, the Ministry of Railways opened the railway construction, passenger and freight transport, transport equipment manufacturing and diversification of the four major areas of investment restrictions can be described as the first step out of the market. Although private enterprises have been able to invest in railway construction, but from the current situation, this is by no means a feast for investors. The decades-long monopoly of the railway industry will make the process of investment full of variables and difficulties. Railway investment completely market-oriented long way to go.