Title: Chinese Industrialization: Resource Route and Resource Supply & Demand
Abstract: Industrialization means large-scale exploitation and use of natural resources. Accordingly industrialization routes tend to be based on highly-reserved and easily-exploitable materials. Because of their position as inputs in industrial production, those materials are regarded as of industrial exploitability. As basic resources of industrial process, most often basic living resources too, they are universally demanded. Once their prices rise, the long-time cycle of price mechanism regulation on resource allocation, especially on resource substitution, will be seldom tolerable, or bearable, to the society. Hence it calls for governmental interference in such forms as price control, behavior regulation, standard compulsion, governmental planning and state monopoly. In this respect, substances used as deficient resources in industrialization process are mostly those resource products with unusual price performance. Besides, most of the industrial resources are industrial products at the same time. Consequently in the industrial system there are gigantic production and supply industries of resource-product. Those industries are rather monopolized and highly involved in special interest; they possess powerful market forces that usually lead to strong socio-economic influences; moreover, governmental involvement puts state monopoly or governmental monopoly deeply rooted to the industries. Industrialization is virtually a realization through market process. Energies of market economy come from effective competition. So the decisive condition for the choice and transition of industrialization technical resource routes is the status and uptrend of industrial competitiveness sources. The technical and resource routes are the reflections of necessity to obtain competitiveness sources; accordingly transition of the routes is substantively turnaround of industrial competitiveness sources. In this context it can be asserted that search for new source of competitiveness has been the fundamental requirements and kernel contents of optimizing industrialization resource routes in the new developing phase.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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