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NORTH‐SOUTH ENERGY RESOURCE TRANSFERS IN CHINA AND THE PORT INTERMEDIARY
Author(s) -
TODD DANIEL
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.1998.tb01550.x
Subject(s) - endowment , port (circuit theory) , china , resource (disambiguation) , product (mathematics) , business , energy (signal processing) , energy supply , natural resource economics , economy , economics , international trade , geography , engineering , political science , archaeology , computer network , statistics , geometry , electrical engineering , mathematics , computer science , law
A pressing problem confronting China is that of energy supply. Despite a huge endowment of energy minerals, the country must tackle the thorny issue of an alarming divide between the regions replete with energy and those devoid of it. Exacerbating die mismatch is die fact that the energy‐deficient regions are precisely die ones experiencing the most dramatic growth. Only a diorough revamping of transport infrastructure, in which ports and north‐soudi coastwise shipping play a seminal role, can hope to eliminate the energy imbalance existing between supplying and consuming regions. Bodi types of regions are expected to benefit in consequence: die former on die strength of interregional energy exports; die latter on die basis of international product exports. The part played by ports and associated land transport facilities is aired in this article.