The artificial inter-provincial barrier in
power market and administrative monopoly power price hinders the circulation of power resources among different
regions so that there is no efficient allocation of resources all over the country. Besides, it is hard to rectify low
allocation efficiency by relying on market force. Regional protectionism and inter-provincial barriers of the power
market should be broken to form uniform national power market so that energy efficiency can be enhanced and huge
energy saving potentials can be released