China’s Coal Chemical Industry: In the View of Governance Challenges

Xu, Xiaoran and Wang, Dong (2013): China’s Coal Chemical Industry: In the View of Governance Challenges.

Abstract

This paper examines the China’s coal chemical strategy. As a part of national energy strategy, China’s coal chemical industry induces conflicts on technical level, economic level and policy level. The analysis of this paper is under the policy framework and discusses the causes and effects of these conflicts and also proposes some possible solutions.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Coal chemical industry; low carbon; renewable energy
• Subjects: L - Industrial Organization > L5 - Regulation and Industrial Policy; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q4 - Energy > Q42 - Alternative Energy Sources; P - Economic Systems > P2 - Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies > P28 - Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q4 - Energy > Q43 - Energy and the Macroeconomy; L - Industrial Organization > L8 - Industry Studies: Services > L88 - Government Policy

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