规制具有经济学和法学两个方面的含义.经济学意义上的规制已经成为经济学的一个非常正式的研究领域.从规范的方面看 ,规制包含如何选择能够达到规制目标的政策措施、应当如何设计规制本身 ,以促进资源的市场配置效率及规制与市场的范围等三个方面的问题.关于这三个方面的问题 ,已有浩瀚的文献加以论述 ,该文将考察规制理论的发展过程 ,揭示规制与放松规制的一般规律 ,并扼要提出应建立适合我国社会主义市场经济特征的规制体制主张“,”Regulation,as governmental intervention on the market,is both a legal and an economic concept.The economic regulation has evolved from three stages:normative analysis as a positive theory,the capture theory and economic theory of regulation.Regulation had been prevailing in the early times of last century,but with the development of contestable market theory,the progress of technology and globalization,policymakers are rethinking of some traditionally regulated industries.The author studied this phenomenon and revealed the serious problems underlying the regulation system of China.