Characterizing copper flows in international trade of China, 1975-2015

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.216

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	Characterizing copper flows in international trade of China, 1975-2015
	Zhang, Ling ; Chen, Tianming ; Yang, Jiameng ; Cai, Zhijian ; Sheng, Hu ; Yuan, Zengwei ; Wu, Huijun
刊名	SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
	2017
关键词	Industrial ecology Material flow analysis International trade Resource management Metal cycle IN-USE STOCK PATTERNS FUTURE
DOI	10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.216
英文摘要	Since the economic reform, China has actively participated in the global market with rapid industrialization and gradually dominated the utilization and consumption of some critical materials, one of which is copper. China has reigned the global anthropogenic cycle of copper since 2004. We explore copper flows along with the international trade of China during 1975-2015, through life cycle lens, from ore to final products. Our main finding is that China has become more active in the copper-related trade, indicated by its great increase in trade volume and the number of trade partners. The physical volume of copper flows through trade increased over 119 times between 1975 and 2015, mainly because of more imported raw materials of copper and exported copper products. Generally, China is a net importer of copper, with increasing import dependence through the study period, whereas the degree of dependence slightly decreased from 2010 to 2015. The indicator of Export Support Rate took a decreasing percentage, which has fallen about 35% since 2010. It suggests China's changing position in the global resource and manufacturing market. In terms of trade price of different copper products, the price of imported copper concentrate was noticeably higher than that of exported one, revealing the poor copper resource endowment of China; while the different trend of copper semis in recent years signifies that China is in urgent need to improve its capability of producing high value-added semis. From international trade perspective, the copper resource of China presented stable supply as well as demand. The One Belt One Road strategy proposed by the state will further expand both the resource and market of copper. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.; Qing Lan Project; Opening Project of Jiangsu Industrial cluster Research Base (Nanjing University of Science and Technology) [JICRBKFJJ2015]; Natural Science Foundation of China [41401652]; Anhui Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [1608085J09]; SCI(E); SSCI; ARTICLE; 1238-1246; 601
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/468917]
专题	城市与环境学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Ling,Chen, Tianming,Yang, Jiameng,et al. Characterizing copper flows in international trade of China, 1975-2015[J]. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,2017.
APA	Zhang, Ling.,Chen, Tianming.,Yang, Jiameng.,Cai, Zhijian.,Sheng, Hu.,...&Wu, Huijun.(2017).Characterizing copper flows in international trade of China, 1975-2015.SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT.
MLA	Zhang, Ling,et al."Characterizing copper flows in international trade of China, 1975-2015".SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2017).