The coal industry has been and continues to be of critical importance for China's economic modernization. With its huge labour force, country-wide infrastructure, and vital strategic importance for the economy, the industry presents special problems for reformers, and epitomises the problems of reform in the state industrial sector as a whole. This book examines the changes in the structure and operation of the Chinese coal industry from the mid-19th century to the present, concentrating on the years of reform. Although the focus is on the economics of the industry, the book also provides many insights into China's socio-political development.
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'[A] wealth of information on a vast range of production and consumption issues ... Thomson has also done an excellent job of placing the Chinese industry in its wider international context.' - China Quarterly
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Elspeth Thomson received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her main interests pertain to infrastructure development in China, particularly the energy sector. She has taught courses on the economies of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other Asian countries at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver and Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.
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Historical sources are more or less in agreement that coal was first used in various parts of the world during the Bronze Age, 3,000-4,000 years ago, that the Chinese began to use coal for heating and smelting in the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE), and that they are credited with organizing production and consumption to the extent that by the year 1,000 this activity could be called an industry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Five Year Plan, Inner Mongolia, World Bank, State Council, Soviet Union, Cultural Revolution, Hong Kong, Shanxi Province, Third Front, Ministry of Coal, South Africa, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, West Germany, Deng Xiaoping, Total Thermal, Ministry of Railways, China Energy Databook, Grand Canal, Minister of Coal, Source Calculated, Zhou Enlai, Courtesy of The Beijing Review, Individual Other, Prefectural County, South Korea New!
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Historical sources are more or less in agreement that coal was first used in various parts of the world during the Bronze Age, 3,000-4,000 years ago, that the Chinese began to use coal for heating and smelting in the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE), and that they are credited with organizing production and consumption to the extent that by the year 1,000 this activity could be called an industry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Five Year Plan, Inner Mongolia, World Bank, State Council, Soviet Union, Cultural Revolution, Hong Kong, Shanxi Province, Third Front, Ministry of Coal, South Africa, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, West Germany, Deng Xiaoping, Total Thermal, Ministry of Railways, China Energy Databook, Grand Canal, Minister of Coal, Source Calculated, Zhou Enlai, Courtesy of The Beijing Review, Individual Other, Prefectural County, South Korea New!
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- China's Socialist Modernization by Yu Guangyuan on 6 pages
- China's Socialist Economy: An Outline History 1949-1984 by Liu Suinian on 5 pages
- Energy Efficiency Improvements in China: Policy Measures, Innovative by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993 by Barry Naughton in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run by Angus Maddison in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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