Study On The International Competitiveness Of Chinese Nuclear Power Industry

In recent years,China's nuclear power industry has undertaken fast development.As to August 25,2016,China's nuclear power units in operation reach to 37 units,accounting for about 8% of the global operating units.China's total nuclear power installed capacity is 33.39 GWe with 20 units under construction,accounting for about 33% of the global constructing units.In a global view,currently at least 45 emerging countries are considering developing nuclear power.Under conservative scenario,the global nuclear power installed capacity will increase from current 392 GWe to 456 GWe to 740 GWe by 2030 and the investment will reach to 200 billion US dollars.In China,exporting one nuclear power unit will generate about 300 billion yuan income.If taking into account the natural uranium,nuclear fuel,operation and maintenance,decommissioning and other relevant factors in the whole lifespan,exporting a single nuclear power unit will bring in about 100 billion yuan income.This is the direct reason why China is so vigorously promoting Chinese nuclear power industry "going global".In this context,it is of great theoretical and practical significance to study the international competitiveness of Chinese nuclear power industry.This paper can be divided into five parts.The first part describes the theory of international competitiveness.The second part gives a comprehensive description of the nuclear power industry in Russia,Japan,the United States,South Korea,France and China.The third part mainly analyzes the factor conditions,demand conditions,related and supporting industries,firm strategy,structure and rivalry,government and chance of Chinese nuclear power industry systematically by using Porter's "diamond model".The fourth part quantitatively analyzes nuclear power industry international competitiveness through trade competitiveness(RC)index,international market share(IMC)index,revealed comparative advantage(RCA)index and competitive advantage(CA)index.The fifth part gives suggestions to enhance the international competitiveness of Chinese nuclear power industry through government and enterprise aspects.The innovation of this paper is mainly reflected in: Firstly,Porter's "Diamond Model" was applied in the study of international competitiveness of Chinese nuclear power.Through qualitative analysis of the factors of Chinese nuclear industry,the strength and weakness of the factors were clarified.Secondly,A quantitatively analysis of international competitiveness of nuclear industry was made through the RC,IMC,RAC and CA index.Thus the ranking of Chinese nuclear power industry competitiveness in the international marked is illustrated.Lastly,suggestions were made to promote the international competitiveness of Chinese nuclear industry.Through the concerted efforts of the government and enterprises,the improvement of international competitiveness of Chinese nuclear industry can be achieved.