The Ongoing Reforms to China's Government and State Sector: The case of the energy industry

Andrews‐Speed, Philip; Dow, Stephen; Gao, Zhiguo

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“…The scope of tasks to each level has to be agreed upon and regulated (Andrews-Speed et al, 2000). Some lessons of this allocation could be learnt from such countries as the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, where the national-level government is responsible for a unified national standard, while provincial or regional authorities are given more say on their decisions in line with their own situations.…”

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Regulating mine land reclamation in developing countries: The case of China

Cao

2007

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Regulating mine land reclamation in developing countries: The case of China

Cao

2007

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“…In line with this theory, between 1994 and 1998, parallel with an emerging strategic geoeconomic orien tation on Central and East Asia, Beijing reorganized most state-owned oil and gas assets into two vertically integrated companies owning both upstream and downstream assets, these being the China National Petroleum Corporation (cnpc) and the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec). Only a few years after their introduction Andrews-Speed, Dow and Gao (2000) argued that their impact was vitiated by the structure and allocation of responsibili ties within the government, together with the excessive power of state com panies. According to them, the key problem still needing to be solved was to simplify regulation and policy formation in the energy sector, including the taking into account of any role for the state companies.…”

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Chinese Energy Companies’ Relations with Russia and Kazakhstan

Cutler

2014

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This article concerns Chinese energy relations with Kazakhstan and Russia, surveying the foreign direct investment (fd i ) behavior of Chinese National Oil Companies (n o c s ) in Kazakhstan and Russia. The first section provides a schematic overview of the gen eral development of Chinese f d i strategy and behavior from the disintegration of the Soviet Union up until the present day. It systematically explains how that development occurred in three phases and gives some key indicators for distinguishing among the phases and the transition between successive phases. The second section looks more closely at the f d i strategy and behavior of the Chinese n o c s specifically regarding Kazakhstan and Russia, periodizing it according to the first two of the three chronologi cal phases distinguished in the first section. The third section of the article examines still more closely the phenomenon regarding Kazakhstan and Russia from the end of the last decade up until the present day, dividing the third above-mentioned phase into three subphases and inspecting the first two, of which the second is still ongoing. The fourth section of the article evaluates the conduct of Chinese n o c s with regard to Kazakhstan and Russia from the standpoint of motives of corporate behavior and com parative incentive structures. The fifth section of the article concludes by introducing some caveats on the basis of a glance at recent behavior with respect to another large resource-rich country, Canada, where Chinese n o c s have made massive f d i for some years now, but which has a rather different economic and social structure from Kazakhstan and Russia. The last section of the conclusion also includes a few final com ments on the prospects for Chinese energy and Chinese n o c s during the remainder of the decade and into the 2020s, on the basis of the analytical framework employed to structure the narrative analysis in the body of the article.

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“…During the late 1980s and early 1990s China faced two major problems: a major increase in generating capacity was required to meet the growing demand; especially in terms of water resources, there was a geographical mismatch between the location of resources and demand -with the hydroelectric potential concentrated in the south-west (Andrews-Speed et al 2000).…”

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“…The objectives were, first, to reduce the cost of government; second, to separate the functions of government and industry; and, third, to increase the effectiveness of government (Andrews-Speed et al 2000).…”

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“…The provincial and lower-level bureaus were reappointed as companies, in an attempt to separate government and enterprise functions in the energy sector (Andrews-Speed et al 2000). The second step was the dismantling of the SPCC into five power generation corporations -China Guodian Corporation, China Huadian Corporation, China Huaneng Group, China Power Investment Corporation and China Datang Corporation -and into the State Grid Corporation of China (Northeast, Northwest, North China, Central China and three independent provincial power grids) and the China Southern Power Grid Corporation Ltd. Yunnan province has its own independent power supplier and grid (China State Power Information Network n.d.).…”

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