The Chinese steel industry's transformation structural change performance and demand on resources

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, Haimin
Other Authors: Song, Ligang
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton, Mass Edward Elgar Pub 2012
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Summary: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
chapter 1. Steel industry development and transformation in China : an overview / Ligang Song and Haimin Liu -- chapter 2. Metal intensity in comparative historical perspective : China, North Asia and the United States / Huw McKay -- chapter 3. Economic growth, regional disparities and core steel demand in China / Jane Golley, Yu Sheng and Yuchun Zheng -- chapter 4. China's iron and steel industry performance : total factor productivity and its determinants / Yu Sheng and Ligang Song -- chapter 5. The technical efficiency of China's large and medium iron and steel enterprises : a firm-level analysis / Yu Sheng and Ligang Song -- chpater 6. The backward and forward linkages of the iron and steel industry in China and implications / Yu Sheng and Ligang Song -- chapter 7. China's shift from being a net importer to a net exporter of steel and its implications / Haimin Liu and Ligang Song -- chapter 8. China's iron ore import demand and its determinants : a time-series analysis / Yu Sheng and Ligang Song -- chapter 9. Restructuring China's steel industry and the implications for energy use and the environment / Guoqing Dai and Ligang Song
Physical Description:x, 183 p
ISBN:9781848446588
9781781006610