能源经济学研讨会 

【总第76期】

An Overseas View of China’s New Electricity Reforms: Background, Direction, Likely Outcomes
本次能源经济学研讨会邀请到美国匹兹堡大学Thomas G. Rawski教授做学术演讲。 时间：10月26日，星期三，10:30—11:30
地点：中国人民大学明德主楼729会议室
报告摘要：     China’s electricity sector displays a surprising combination of growth, upgrading, and inefficiency. Technical indicators are excellent, but economic returns are weak. Improving efficiency will be difficult, as the sources of excess cost are deeply embedded in the industry’s structure and operational mechanism. Current reforms focus on three elements: regulating grid charges, encouraging direct transactions between generating companies and large end users, and injecting competition into retail electricity sales. Vigorous pursuit of these reforms seems likely to deliver sweeping and possibly unwelcome outcomes. Coal-fired thermal plants have considerable scope for cost reduction; success in reducing costs could power an increase in the share of electricity output from coal-fired thermal plants. China’s nuclear sector has scored significant breakthroughs in the international market, but the economic underpinnings of its domestic operations are in danger of collapsing.    作者简介：     Thomas G. Rawski，美国匹兹堡大学经济学和历史学教授。曾长期执教于多伦多大学（1971-1985）。现为美国美中关系全国委员会委员（1987-）、China Quarterly编委（1991-）、China Reviews International编委（1994-）、China Economic Review编委（1995-）、The Global Economic Review编委(1996-)、Journal of Asian Business编委(1996-)、William Davidson Institute研究员（1997-）、The China Review顾问委员会委员（2001-）、亚洲研究协会金融委员会成员（2002-）。最新的著作有：China’s Great Economic Transformation（与Loren Brandt共同编辑，2008）、China’s Rise and the Balance of Influence in Asia(与William W. Keller共同编辑，2007)。

    能源经济学研讨会（Energy Economics Seminar）由中国人民大学经济学院能源经济系定期推出，旨在为研究中国能源经济问题的学者提供交流的平台。     联系人：宋枫（songfeng@ruc.edu.cn）  

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