China is the world¿s second largest consumer of commercial energy and is therefore a significant contributor to atmospheric pollution. It is becoming a major player in global and regional markets for energy products, services and investment. This book provides an overview of the formulation and implementation of energy policy in China. Part One provides background information on China¿s energy sector. Part Two examines the nature of China¿s energy policy and of the policy-making process, with examples drawn from the coal and natural gas sectors, as well as from the government¿s drive to promote energy conservation and energy efficiency. Part Three focuses on recent efforts to reform the energy sector in China and to regulate it more effectively, paying particular attention to the electrical power sector and to small-scale coal mines. Part Four evaluates, from the perspective of the citizen, policy relating to the electrical power sector and to the closure of small-scale coal mines. Part Five addresses the international dimensions of China¿s energy policy, with accounts of both inward and outward investment, and of the international political implications.
About the author:
Dr Philip Andrews-Speed is Director of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He spent fourteen years as a geologist in the international mining and petroleum industries before coming to the Centre in 1994, gaining an LLM in Energy Law and Policy, and joining the academic staff.
Preface, Acknowledgements
Part One Introduction Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Background to China’s energy sector
Part Two Energy
Policy and Policy-Making in China Chapter 3 Energy policy and
policy-making
Chapter 4 China’s evolving energy policy
Chapter
5 Thirty years of government policy towards township and village coal
mines
Chapter 6 A framework for policy-making for small-scale mines
Chapter 7 Policy challenges for the development of China’s natural gas
industry
Chapter 8 Energy conservation and energy efficiency policy:
past success and future challenges
Part Three Reform and Regulation of
China’s Energy Sector Chapter 9 Energy sector liberalisation and its
prospects in China
Chapter 10 The 1998 structural reforms of China’s
energy sector
Chapter 11 The regulation of township and village coal
mines: a study of complexity and ineffectiveness
Chapter 12 Reform of
the electrical power industry: challenges facing the government
Chapter 13
Formulating the first steps in power sector reform: the case of Guangdong
Province
Part Four Social Dimensions of China’s Energy Policy Chapter 14
The impact on consumers of reform of the electrical power industry
Chapter
15 The socio-economic impact of and responses to the closure of township
and village coal-mines: a preliminary account
Part Five International
Dimensions of China’s Energy Policy Chapter 16 The foreign
investment regime for upstream oil and gas
Chapter 17 The challenges
facing foreign investors in electrical power generation
Chapter 18 The
international dimensions of China’s petroleum security policy
Chapter
19 China’s integration into the world energy system: the challenges ahead
Selected Bibliography, Maps, Index
