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The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is … clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign … is crucial because it sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China …
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China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the … environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and …
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consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China's energy pricing reform since 1984 has been moving away from the prices …, petroleum products, natural gas, electricity and renewable power in China, and provides some analysis of these energy price … reforms, in order to have the market to play a decisive role in allocating resources and help China's transition to a low …
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Globally as well as in China, cities have contributed to most of the economic output and have accordingly given rise to … whatever climate commitments beyond 2020 that China may take. Given the paramount importance of cities, China is practicing low … characteristics of China’s LCC development. The paper then identifies eight problems and challenges for China’s LCC development …
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China’s global quest for resources, in particular oil and natural gas, has received unprecedented worldwide attention … and scrutiny. This is partly because of China’s own high-profile, active energy diplomacy, its national oil companies … energy security as a result of misconceptions and misunderstandings of China’s quest for energy security both inside and …
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Whether China continues its current energy-intensive growth path or adopts a sustainable development prospect has … contributes to an economic exposition of China's potential transition from an energy-intensive to an innovation-led growth path …. We find that in China's initial growth period the small amount of capital stock creates higher dynamic benefits of …
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This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
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China had been singled out by Western politicians and media for dragging its feet on international climate negotiations … paper provides some reflections on China's stance and reactions at Copenhagen. While China's reactions are generally well … rooted because of realities at home, some reactions could have been handled more effectively for a better image of China. The …
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This paper aims to examine the impacts of oil-price shocks on China's price levels. To that end, we develop a partial …-through mechanism during oil-price shocks. Using the models of both China and the U.S., we separate the impact of price control from … those of other factors leading to China's price stickiness under oil-price shocks. The results show a sharp contrast between …
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China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the … background, this paper discusses a variety of tactics that China's central government has been using to incentivize local …
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