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Reform of China’s Energy Sector: Slow Progress to an Uncertain Goal

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The Chinese Economy under Transition

Part of the book series: Studies on the Chinese Economy ((STCE))

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The national energy industries are of great importance in China for three reasons. First, they comprise a large part of the industrial sector of the economy.1 Secondly, the continued growth of China’s economy and improvement of people’s standard of living will require a sustained increase in energy supply. Thirdly, and in part as a consequence of these first two factors, China’s government would appear to accord the energy sector a special status with respect to other industries. Energy is treated more as a strategic issue than as a commodity.

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  1. Philip Andrews-Speed
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

    Sarah Cook (Fellow) (Fellow)

  2. University of Portsmouth, UK

    Shujie Yao (Professor of Development Economics) (Professor of Development Economics)

  3. Asian Development Bank, Philippines

    Juzhong Zhuang (Economist) (Economist)

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Andrews-Speed, P. (2000). Reform of China’s Energy Sector: Slow Progress to an Uncertain Goal. In: Cook, S., Yao, S., Zhuang, J. (eds) The Chinese Economy under Transition. Studies on the Chinese Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288164_6

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