Industrial Innovation in China by Zhenyu Fu

Author:Zhenyu Fu [Fu, Zhenyu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, General, Research, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781003206101
Google: BFFkzgEACAAJ
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-01-15T03:13:46+00:00

Basic information about Yulin and semi-coke

As Yulin City is not well known and most people are not familiar with semi-coke, some background information will be given before discussing this case. Yulin is a prefecture-level city in the northern Shanbei region of Shaanxi province, China. It borders Inner Mongolia to the north, Shanxi to the east and Ningxia to the west. It has an administrative area of 43,578 km² (16,826 square miles) and a population of 3,380,000.

Yulin used to be a very poor city. It was the home of Li Zicheng (1606–1645), a rebel leader who overthrew the Ming Dynasty and established the Shun Dynasty. He led his rebellion because his hometown was so poor that he would have starved to death otherwise. In ancient China, Yulin was always a border city; the Great Wall passes through it. It is a dry city, surrounded by desert or desert steppe. The closest city to the south is Yan’an, which was the centre of the Chinese Communist revolution from 1936 to 1948.

Thanks to the discovery of a large coalfield, Yulin’s economy began to take off around 2000. Its GDP grew at a staggering speed, and together with Ordos City to the north it became nationally famous for its unparalleled development. In 2000 Yulin’s GDP was only approximately 10 billion yuan (about US$1.21 billion), but by 2010, this had increased to about 170 billion yuan (about US$25 billion), 17 times the previous figure. This can be attributed to the rapid development of the coal industry in the area.

Consequently, when the Chinese coal industry faces severe problems, so does Yulin’s economy. A turning point occurred in 2012; I happened to be in the city at that time. The city’s annual GDP growth rate in 2011 was 15%, but the same figure for 2012 was 12%. Over the next few years GDP plummeted; the figures for 2013, 2014 and 2015 were 8.8%, 9.0% and 4.3% respectively.1

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