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This chapter will adopt a case study format and study railway development in China’s Shanxi coal-bearing region as well as examine the Shenhua coal distribution system, a major coal producer in China based in Shanxi. In addition to academic resources, to obtain an industry perspective, my textual research included reports from Chinese and Taiwanese academics from state research institutions and trade commercial sources. The emergence of Shenhua is the culmination of a long coal developmental history in Shanxi. To examine the historical origins of the rise of Shanxi as a coal-producing region, I conducted research in several libraries in China and gathered data, maps and secondary literature on this subject matter.
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Coal Industry Advisory Board, Coal in the Energy Supply of China (Paris: OECD/International Energy Agency (IEA)), 1999, p. 31.
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Coal Industry Advisory Board, Coal in the Energy Supply of China (Paris: OECD/International Energy Agency (IEA)), 1999, p. 29.
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Chuan, Han-sheng, The Relationship between coal resources in Shansi and the Industrialization of Modern China (Republic of China: Zhongyang Yanjiuyuan Yuankan), 1956, pp. 172–173. (mainland authors like Zhang Weibao translate the name of the company as Fugongsi. See Zhang’s reading citation in the bibliography.)
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Chen, Ciyu, Riben zaihua meiye touzhi sishinian (Taiwan: Daoxiang chubanshe), 2004, p. 291.
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Chuan, Han-sheng, The Relationship between coal resources in Shansi and the Industrialization of Modern China (Republic of China: Zhongyang Yanjiuyuan Yuankan), 1956, p. 173.
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Chuan, Han-sheng, The Relationship between coal resources in Shansi and the Industrialization of Modern China (Republic of China: Zhongyang Yanjiuyuan Yuankan), 1956, p. 174.
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Chuan, Han-sheng, The Relationship between coal resources in Shansi and the Industrialization of Modern China (Republic of China: Zhongyang Yanjiuyuan Yuankan), 1956, p. 175.
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Wright, Tim, Coal Mining in China’s Economy and Society 1895–1837) (Cambridge, London and New York: Cambridge University Press), 1984, p. 87.
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Coal Industry Advisory Board, Coal in the Energy Supply of China (Paris: OECD/International Energy Agency (IEA)), 1999, p. 44.
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For a Chinese historical perspective on the modernization of the national Chinese coal industry after the Opium War, readers may wish to refer to: Zhang Weibao, Jiannan de Tengfei Huabei Xinshi Meikuang yu Zhongguo Xiandaihua (China: Xiamen University Press), 2012.
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Chuan, Han-sheng, The Relationship between coal resources in Shansi and the Industrialization of Modern China (Republic of China: Zhongyang Yanjiuyuan Yuankan), 1956, pp. 175–176.
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Chuan, Han-sheng, The Relationship between coal resources in Shansi and the Industrialization of Modern China (Republic of China: Zhongyang Yanjiuyuan Yuankan), 1956, p. 177.
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Chen, Ciyu, Riben zaihua meiye touzhi sishinian (Taiwan: Daoxiang chubanshe), 2004, p. 150.
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Wright, Tim, Coal Mining in China’s Economy and Society 1895–1837) (Cambridge, London and New York: Cambridge University Press), 1984, p. 84.
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Wright, Tim, Zhongguo jingji he shehuizhongde meikuangye (Beijing: Dongfang chubanshe), 1991, p. 111. [Also refer to the original version: Wright, Tim, Coal Mining in China’s Economy and Society 1895–1837) (Cambridge, London and New York: Cambridge University Press), 1984, p. 83. Here Wright says Shanxi mines transported coal resources by cart rather than “pack animals and wheelbarrows”.]
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Wright, Tim, Zhongguo jingji he shehuizhongde meikuangye (Beijing: Dongfang chubanshe), 1991, p. 111.
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Chuan, Han-sheng, The Relationship between coal resources in Shansi and the Industrialization of Modern China (Republic of China: Zhongyang Yanjiuyuan Yuankan), 1956, p. 181.
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PN Consultants Ltd. and Petroplan a.s., China’s Coal (Hong Kong: PN Consultants Ltd. and Petroplan a.s.), 1981, p. 24.
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Coal Industry Advisory Board, Coal in the Energy Supply of China (Paris: OECD/International Energy Agency (IEA)), 1999, p. 44. Corroborated in Chen Yuchen, Zongguo dalu meikuang kaifayu chukou nengli (Taiwan: Zhonghua Jingji Yanyuan), 1990, p. 85.
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Coal Industry Advisory Board, Coal in the Energy Supply of China (Paris: OECD/International Energy Agency (IEA)), 1999, p. 44.
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Rui, Huaichuan, Globalization, Transition and Development in China (London and NY: RoutledgeCurzon), 2005, p. 1.
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Rui, Huaichuan, Globalization, Transition and Development in China (London and NY: RoutledgeCurzon), 2005, p. 136.
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Rui, Huaichuan, Globalization, Transition and Development in China (London and NY: RoutledgeCurzon), 2005, p. 138.
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Lim, T.W. (2017). The Historical Development of Shanxi’s Coal Industry as a Case Study. In: Energy Transitions in Japan and China. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1681-3_4
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