Change And Countermeasures Of China Coal Import And Export

Brief introduction to the reserves of Chinese coal resources is provided and the characteristics of China's coal resources distribution"More in the north and west while less in the south and east"is described. The development path of China's coal industry is reviewed, especially the status and development of coal production, international trade and economy over the last 10 years. It is pointed out that great contributions have been made by China's coal industry to the development of national economy after its development of more than 50 years'since New China was founded. Coal import and export business has been developed and support has been given to the development of world economy while the energy demand of domestic social and economical development on coal has been supplied. Comprehensive analysis has been given on the following sectors: the development and changes of China's coal import and export occurred in the reforming and development of China's coal industry; the changes and development trend of world coal trade and coal trade of major coal producing countries in the recent years; the changes of Chinese government's policy in the coal import and export sector; the changes of domestic demand on coal in the recent years.By analyzing the various factors affecting China's coal import and export, the writer finds out that the rapid increase of coal import and dramatic reduction of coal export in China recently is the results of the following factors: the strong push to energy industries brought by the rapid increase of China's national economy; the uneven distribution of coal resources in China and the unbalanced regional economical development; the changes and development of world coal trade; the changes of Chinese government's policy on coal import and export. Thus specific countermeasure are put forward to handle with the new situation in the field of coal import and export in these areas. It is believed that efforts shall be directed to increase the competitive ability of existing coal exporting companies and keep the major foreign end users of long term strategic importance when the new policy of the central government is followed. It is more important that coal exploration work is enhanced so as to maintain the current coal production capacity, rational coal stock is kept, the State's coal storage capacity is increased so as to reduce the rely on imported coal supply and safeguard the national energy security.