Studies On Recycling Industry In China

Resources are essential to human being, while waste recycling is an important way to get resources. The recycling, sorting, processing, research and service concerning wastes constitute the recycling industry. Recycling industry owns a long history and a new look in our country, which takes a strategic significance and value under the background of international attention about natural resources and ecological environment. Thus, the researches on recycling industry are necessary to meet the actual requirement.This paper studied the recycling industry in our country in an industrial view. By this prospective, we can search on the background, development trace, characters, infrastructures, the link and distinct with other activities in this clue, and get a whole impression of recycling industry, and know the development rule and influencing factors, as well as the trend and proper environment for this industry.Under an economic analysis framework, this paper use economic theories and tools to analyze the development issues of recycling industry. Compared to the available references, this paper put and exploited the scattering material under one framework and clue with the evidence of statistics, investigation results and market information, etc.Recycling industry could realize and create values by transforming waste to recycled resources. The recycled resources have a resource nature with homogeneity and sustainability, which causes the competition of recycling enterprises largely relying on the cost. Further more, the unbalanced substitution relationship leads to single direction price fluctuation from virgin resources to recycled resources, and increases the industrial risk. Thus, under the impact of world financial crisis, the recycling industry got a serious strike, and its market basis was ruined with the changing market structure of resource consumption.Along with the establishment and development of market economy, private-owned enterprises have become the component of recycling industry. And the employment quantity and growth rate are higher than national-owned enterprises. At same time, more foreign capital enters this field. As for the national-owned enterprises, the lagging reform and path-independence restrict the improvement of competition ability. The technological factors didn’t play an important part in the development of recycling industry. While the institutional factors pushed and accompanied with the progress of recycling industry.Recycling activities are the essential part for recycling industry. The recycling enterprises construct recycling network in different forms according to their own needs. Concerning the construction cost and recycling efficiency, it is meaning for to regulate and direct the recycling activities based on the different forms of recycling network. However, enlarging the recycling scale is not sufficient to pull the industry. Until now, a stable resource consumption structure which is virgin resource-centered has been formed with technology, institutions and regulations, market, etc. The demand for recycled resources is still limited restricting the growth of recycling industry.In some regions in our country, especially the coastal areas, agglomeration of recycling enterprises has emerged, including industrial parks and distributing markets. However, the agglomeration of recycling industry is still in a stage of factor gathering, rather than the improvement of products, organization and management, as well as research and service. And some homogenization and repeat-construction have been found. The scale expansion doesn’t make a change to its status in the benefit-distribution in the industrial chains. The recycling industry gets a vertical squeeze from the down-stream industry which may be partly solved by strengthening the market power.The recycling industry in our country is faced a great chance and also challenge. The chance comes from the requirement of resources and disposal of wastes home and abroad. While the substitution status, narrow product series and business scope, as well as the frail risk-control ability all constructs an embarrassment for recycling industry.Industrialization, modernization and marketization are the direction for recycling industry. These objectives include the diversified products, further division of work, as well as improvement of research, management, capital use and information collection. In the reform and development of recycling industry, the regulation and guidance of government are also essential.