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Chapter 17

Energy Economics in China’s

Policy-Making Plan: From
Self-Reliance and Market

Dependence to Green Energy
Independence

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Xing Li , Woodrow W. Clark, II 1,2
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Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark; Clark Strategic Partners, Beverly Hills, CA,
United States

Chapter Outline
Introduction: From Self-Reliance to New Policy Thinking: Change of
Dependency 325 Economic Growth Strategy and
The Real Predicament: Energy- Promoting Sustainable Energy 340
Consumption-Based Economic Conclusion Remarks: Challenges
Growth 330 and Optimism Ahead 345
The Rise of China in the Context of Chart 1 346
Energy Dependency 334 Acknowledgements 347
Africa and Latin America 336 References 347
Middle East and Central Asia 336 Further Reading 349

INTRODUCTION: FROM SELF-RELIANCE TO DEPENDENCY
The historical transformation from Maoist social-communist China to Dengist
capitalist China since the end of the 1970s represents a sharp contrast as to
China’s national policy objectives, political agenda, economic development, and
more importantly development strategy. Dengist China took the capitalist mode
of economic development based on privatization of ownership and the means of
production and distribution to the marketization and allocation of resources
including the total acceptance of economic inequities and political privileges.
The basis of this form of capitalism placed emphasis on market-oriented

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