China consumed 116 million tonnes of steel in 2000, making it the largest consumer of steel in the world. China differs fundamentally from other countries at similar levels of economic development in that the secondary sector, the traditional consumer of steel products, already accounts for a...

In this paper, we investigate the presence of economies of scale in the global iron-making industry for integrated steel plants, iron-making being the first stage in the steel-making process. Iron-making depends on basic commodities, such as iron ore, coke and various forms of energy, required...

This paper examines the impact of intra-provincial regional inequality on crime rates in China. The results show that intra-provincial regional inequality is positively correlated with the crime rate in the regions. However, education is found to be negatively correlated with the crime rate. In...