CURRENT INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF CHINA'S COAL INDUSTRY

Coal industry is a basic industry for China's national economy. For many years, there have been different opinions as for China's coal industry's international competitiveness. Some researchers think that China's coal industry is an industry with certain competitiveness in the world, while others hold that China's coal industry is the one with inadequate international competitiveness. The fundamental cause for different judgments on China's coal industry is that objective and quantitative indices or discriminating parameters are lacked. Therefore, a quantitative analysis and discussion of the international competitiveness for China's coal industry in terms of REP and TSC are provided in this paper, with extensive reference to existing literatures concerning coal industry. It concludes that China's coal industry has certain competitiveness in the international market. Besides, the comparative advantages of coal industry are briefly analyzed in order to illustrate the source of the international competitiveness of China's coal industry.