China's steel industry: the policy implications of technology transfer to the People's Republic of China
The subject of this dissertation is the development, under the Four Modernizations, of China's steel industry with imported technology. The purpose of acquiring technology from abroad is both to increase overall steel output and to enable China to produce needed varieties of specialty steel which it must now import. The success of this endeavor and the policy options open to the Chinese are assessed: (1) Is importing foreign technology for the steel industry cost-effective. (2) Will foreign technology enable China to become self-sufficient by the end of this century. (3) How difficult is it to assimilate modern foreign equipment into China's steel industry. and (4) What technological innovations can China produce without foreign assistance. During the 1970s and 1980s, China's steel industry has followed four paths to produce more and better quality steel. This paper presents case studies of four integrated iron and steel facilities, each representative of a unique modernization path.
- Research Organization:
- Rand Graduate Inst., Santa Monica, CA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5591685
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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