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China’s energy revolution can be traced through the industrial dynamics operating in specific sectors, encompassing fossil fuels and non-fossil fuels. Having built the world’s largest coal industry China now faces the challenge of winding it down. In terms of oil and gas it is a matter of expanding to secure access to sources around the world. The principal achievements are the creation of new industries based on wind, solar photovoltaic and now a series of new technologies such as those based on light-emitting diodes, energy storage and electric vehicles. Much policy initiative is focused on building these new industries, as well as on reducing high levels of energy consumption (and carbon emissions) in key energy-intensive industries such as steel and cement.
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Mathews, J.A., Tan, H. (2015). China’s Energy Producing and Using Industries — Industrial Dynamics. In: China’s Renewable Energy Revolution. Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137546258_3
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