Overcapacity in China – Causes, Impacts and Recommendations

Abstract Overcapacity is a blight on China’s industrial landscape, affecting dozens of industries and wreaking far-reaching damage on the global economy in general, and China’s economic growth in particular. Yet it is a strangely under-studied and seldom-examined phenomenon. In the Summer and Autumn of 2009, the European Chamber and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants set out to examine to what extent overcapacity harms China’s economic development and contributes to rising trade tensions, and to provide suggestions on how this increasingly urgent problem could be addressed. The study will look at how this problem is affecting several key industries, and ask what are the specific drivers of overcapacity in these sectors. The industries examined in detail are: Steel, Aluminium, Cement, Chemicals, Refining and Wind Power Equipment.
Author European Chamber of Commerce, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, December 2009
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Link http://www.cwpc.cn/cwpc/en/node/6666#P4
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6 Renewable Energy, 6.2.0 Wind, 6.2.4 International Cooperation and International Comparisons and Recommendations