China's New Normal, Supply-side, and Structural Reform

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cai Fang ◽  
Yan Peng Wittrock
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang LI ◽  
Haozhou CHENG ◽  
Yuqi REN ◽  
Kunpeng YANG

Abstract Background: After China's economy entered a new normal, the economic growth slowed down, energy market demand shrank, and the coal industry suffered from serious overcapacity. In this context, the Chinese government carried out supply-side structural reform and implemented a series of policies to cut overcapacity and destocking.Methods: By using time series data, this paper establishes vector error correction model, combined with Granger causality test and variance decomposition, to study the factors influencing coal prices under the new normal of economy. Results: The empirical results show that under the new normal of the economy, coal social inventory, oil production and natural gas production have a greater impact on the coal price, while coal consumption and raw coal production have a smaller impact on the coal price. According to the analysis, at the present stage, fossil energy, especially coal, occupies too high proportion in China's energy structure, which can no longer meet the requirements of energy use under the new normal of economy. Conclusion: According to the empirical results and analysis, the Chinese energy structure must be adjusted. In the short term, supply-side structural reform policies must be deepened to change the status quo of China's coal industry as soon as possible. In the long run, non-fossil energy technologies should be vigorously developed to provide stable and cheap non-fossil energy, thus reducing the use of fossil energy and increasing the use of non-fossil energy.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sangbaek Hyun ◽  
Min Suk Park ◽  
Jinhee Pak ◽  
Koun Cho ◽  
Furong Jin

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (04) ◽  
pp. 1037-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEN XIAO ◽  
JIA-DONG PAN ◽  
LI-YUN LIU

This paper measures the index of industrial structure upgrade nationally, regionally and provincially by employing angle cosine method. The results show that China’s industrial structure has upgraded and the East is higher than the Northeast and the Midwest. The paper presents an empirical study to examine the effect of variables including demand-side factors, New Normal as a dummy variable and supply-side factors on industrial structure upgrading. It implies that New Normal is not significant, while consumption, investment, technology improvement and labor supply significantly facilitate the upgrade. It highlights policy suggestions designed to adopt innovation-driven strategy and regional economy development strategy.


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