| Regardless of coal reserves, sales or productions, Shanxi Province is located in the forefront of our country, and has made outstanding contributions to China’s socialist economic construction. A long time, there are a lot of small coal mines in Shanxi coal market.Due to lacking of funds, the low technology equipment level, these small coal mines not only caused a lot of waste of coal resources, but also led to the disorderly competition of the Shanxi coal market, the environment pollution, coal accidents occurring frequently, and affected the healthy economic development of Shanxi Province to a large extent. Therefore, the Shanxi government to take drastic measures to the integrate coal resources, and obsolete many small coal mines with low coal productions, and the number of coal mines decrease from4389in2005to1053in2010. The integration of coal resources is of great significance. It not only is in favor of improving the market concentration of the coal industry in Shanxi Province, and improving the competitiveness of the coal industry, but also provides valuable experiences for coal industry development in other coal resources provinces and cities.This paper first describes the basic content of the SCP and integration, then, analyses the coal industry by SCP in Shanxi Province. It can be seen that the market concentration of the coal industry in Shanxi Province has been noticeably improved. The focus of this study is the market behavior of the coal industry. The author mainly summarizes the experiences and makes innovations from pricing behavior, the integration behavior, cooperative behavior, technological innovation, institutional innovation and the establishment of coal futures trading market.The author analyses the changes of the market performance of the coal enterprises on this basis and draws the conclusion that the utilization of coal resources improves further, coal mine safety situation improves, the profit margins of the coal industry has greatly improved, and largely changed the situation before the integration of coal resources. This is also the end result. This article also points out the problems after the integration of coal resources in Shanxi Province. |
