民营化,港口建设的一贴良药?

Will privatization offer a way out for port construction?

东南某省港口管理局的负责人,面对记者关于港口民营化的质询,作如下答复码头经营确实是朝阳产业,赢利产业,收益稳定,不会大起大落,但要50年才会见效益,投资大、见效慢、周期长,所以吸引外资容易,吸引民间资本很难。一句话,港口民营化不适合我国国情。在我国新一轮港口建设的高潮中,专家学者为各地港口规划开出了一帖又一帖猛药,意欲催产孕育几十年而未果的港口经济。仅经济概念就有“XX湾资源整合”、“泛XX三角”、“环XX区”、“沿XX带”、“XX岸经济圈”之类。然而,规划是在纸面上的,要操作起来,资金的问题是当前最大的瓶颈。

When asked by reporter about the questionof port privatization, a principal source from theport management bureau of a province in south-east China said that port management is indeeda rising sun and profitable industry, which isrelatively stable and not easy to have bigchanges. However, port management also hassome disadvantages including large investment,longer term to finish, slow returns, etc., so itsmore difficult to attract private capital than for-eign capital. In a word, port privatization doesnot fit in with the situation of China.