Understanding China's Overcapacity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Evaluation of Overcapacity with an Innovative Definition

   • Dianqing Xu, Ying Liu

   Pages 1-31

3. Is Steel Capacity Excessive?

   • Dianqing Xu, Ying Liu

   Pages 33-89

4. Is There Overcapacity in Cement Industry?

   • Dianqing Xu, Ying Liu

   Pages 91-183

5. Is Overcapacity True for Sheet Glass Industry?

   • Dianqing Xu, Ying Liu

   Pages 185-199

6. Is There Overcapacity in Primary Aluminium Industry?

   • Dianqing Xu, Ying Liu

   Pages 201-229

7. Does Shipbuilding Industry Suffer Overcapacity?

   • Dianqing Xu, Ying Liu

   Pages 231-248

8. Overcapacity and Role of Government

   • Dianqing Xu, Ying Liu

   Pages 249-264

9. Back Matter

   Pages 265-266

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This book analyzes of the surplus of production capacity in China. According to a government statement, there is a serious surplus of productive capacity in the steel, cement, glass, aluminum, and shipbuilding industries. There was no surplus of productive capacity in above industries between 2002 and 2012, and the current surplus is due to poor government policies on real estate prices after 2012. The book argues that if the Chinese government invested more in social welfare housing over the next few years the surplus of productive capacity would very soon disappear.

• Surplus of capacity
• Over investment
• Price control on housing
• Rational expedition
• Chinese policy

• Huron University College, University of Western Ontario, Toronto, Canada

  Dianqing Xu

• School of Statistics, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China

  Ying Liu

Xu Dianqing, PhD in economics of University of Pittsburgh, is a tenured professor of economics at the University of Western Ontario in Canada and a guest professor of the China Economic Research Center of Peking University and the Institute of national accounting of Beijing Normal University. He once served as the president of the Chinese society of American economics, and is known as "the father of China's private banks". He was awarded the Sun-Yefang- Prize in 2003, and the Zhang-Peigang-Prize for Economics Development in 2012. He have published more than 20 books, including "From Trade Surplus to the Dispute over the Exchange Rate", "the Road to the End of Poverty", etc.


Liu Ying, an associate professor of statistics at DUFE in China, has published  a book  "On Institutional Vicissitudes and Development of Bop Statistics" and several articles in statistical research.

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