食盐专营制度在我国延续已久,政府几乎垄断了整个食盐业产运销的产业链。面对食盐专营制度存在的弊端,近年来政府不断推出放松食盐业管制的政策,包括放开价格管制,取消准运证以鼓励社会资本进入。本文简要分析食盐业专营制度历史,重点探讨食盐业放松管制政策的理论依据以及实践意义,并进一步强调放松食盐业管制后政府应履行的职责。 Salt monopoly system has been extended in our country for a long time, the government almost monopolized the entire salt industry production and marketing chain. In the face of the malpractices of the salt monopoly system, in recent years, the government has introduced policies to ease the control over the salt industry, including liberalizing price controls and canceling permits to encourage social capital to enter. This paper briefly analyzes the history of the salt industry franchise system, focusing on theoretical and practical significance of salt control deregulation policy, and further emphasizes the government should relax the responsibility of salt industry regulation.