Chinese Steel Industry’s Transformation

Edited by Ligang Song, Associate Professor and Director, China Economy and Business Program, Australian National University and Haimin Liu, Vice President, China Steel Industry Development Research Institute, China

• Contents:ForewordPreface1. Steel Industry Development and Transformation in China: An OverviewLigang Song and Haimin Liu2. Metal Intensity in Comparative Historical Perspective: China, North Asia and the United StatesHuw McKay3. Economic Growth, Regional Disparities and Core Steel Demand in ChinaJane Golley, Yu Sheng and Yuchun Zheng4. China’s Iron and Steel Industry Performance: Total Factor Productivity and its DeterminantsYu Sheng and Ligang Song5. The Technical Efficiency of China’s Large and Medium Iron and Steel Enterprises: A Firm-Level AnalysisYu Sheng and Ligang Song6. The Backward and Forward Linkages of the Iron and Steel Industry in China and ImplicationsYu Sheng and Ligang Song7. China’s Shift from Being a Net Importer to a Net Exporter of Steel and its ImplicationsHaimin Liu and Ligang Song8. China’s Iron Ore Import Demand and its Determinants: A Time-series AnalysisYu Sheng and Ligang Song9. Restructuring China’s Steel Industry and the Implications for Energy Use and the EnvironmentGuoqing Dai and Ligang SongIndex

‘This enlightening book benefits from the seasoned editorial hands of two leading scholars of state-sector restructuring in China. It provides historical, domestic regional, and policy perspectives on the dynamics of discontinuous growth in the Chinese steel industry. . . The book is highly recommended for scholars and students of development economics, economic history, industry analysis, politics and public policy of enterprise reform, and business management .’