Chinese Steel Industry’s Transformation

Structural Change, Performance and Demand on Resources

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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China today produces nearly half of the world's steel and is the world's largest importer of iron ore. This unique and informative book provides a central reference work on the Chinese steel industry and discusses China s increasing demand on metals from both macroeconomic and regional perspectives.It includes macroeconomic studies of developments in Chinese resource demand with particular reference to the ferrous metals and microeconomic studies that utilize comprehensive firm-level data to evince new knowledge of both firm and industry performance with respect to their productivity, the technical efficiency, and industrial linkages. The book also discusses trade in steel products and the impact of the restructuring of the industry on the environment.This detailed and analytical study will appeal to academics, students and researchers in Chinese studies, government agencies and private sectors - such as the mining industry, as well as financial agencies analyzing the Chinese demand on global resources.Contributors include: G. Dai, J. Golley, H. Liu, H. McKay, Y. Sheng, L. Song, Y. Zheng

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Utgivningsdatum2012-12-28
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781848446588

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Byggnadsindustri och tung industri inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

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 .’