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2 - Minerals, Capital, and Local Economic Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2022

Jing Vivian Zhan
Jing Vivian Zhan
Affiliation:
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Summary

Chapter 2 opens with a description of mineral resource distribution and the development of mining industries in reform-era China. It then examines the impacts of resource endowment on local economic development, with a focus on capital accumulation and investment. Through qualititative studies on mining entrepreneurs and statistical analysis on Chinese provinces, it shows that resource boom in general benefits capital by not only boosting capital accumulation in the mining industries but also generating positive spillover effects on other industrial sectors, especially those labor-intensive ones. However, resource-generated capital tends to impede the investment in high-tech industries and induce speculative investment in real estate, which may discourage industrial upgrading and undermine economic growth in the long run. Therefore, resource boom has rather mixed effects on local economic development.

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CapitalChinafixed-asset investmenthigh-tech industrieslabor-intensive industriesmining industriespanel data analysisqualitative studiesreal estate
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China's Contained Resource Curse
How Minerals Shape State Capital Labor Relations
 , pp. 38 - 75
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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