Dr.  Huajiao  Li
China University of Geosciences, Beijing,  China

Title: International trade and competitiveness structure of China's advantageous mineral resources from the international trade network of industrial chain perspective: a case study of Tungsten

Abstract:

In order to find the pattern and characteristics of international trade of products in each stage of the industrial chain of advantageous mineral resources, and identify China's trade competitive advantages and potential problems in the industrial chain, in this paper we used tungsten as example, and selected the international trade data of tungsten ore, tungsten concentrate, tungstate, ferroalloy and tungsten products in the upstream, midstream and downstream products of tungsten industry chain from 2009 to 2018, to construct the international trade networks to analyze the overall structure of international trade in each stage of the global tungsten industry chain from the perspective of trade volume, industrial concentration type, etc. We selected the countries/regions in the list of stable oligopolistic countries / regions as the typical research objects to analyze the oligopolistic index, the control ability of trade channels, the export structure index, etc., and we found that few countries hold a large amount of trade in every stage of tungsten industry chain, and China has the biggest competitiveness for exporting tungstate, and also has competitive advantage in midstream and downstream products. China’s competition advantage shows a "reverse U" shape. Meanwhile, China both has the advantage of the diversity of channels and the disadvantage of the control ability of trade channels. Therefore, if China wants to realize the discourse power matching with its own resource endowment and processing capacity, it still needs to improve its competitiveness in terms of refined product processing and intermediary control ability based on the existing oligopoly competitiveness. Finally, we combined the horizontal and vertical comparison of China's competitive advantage in the international trade in all stages to analyze the problems and potential risks, and the relative suggestions are put forward.

Keywords: Tungsten; industrial chain; international trade; competitive advantage; industrial concentration

Biography:

Huajiao Li, Ph.D., Doctoral Supervisor and Associate Professor of Management Science & Engineering in School of Economics and Management under China University of Geosciences， Beijing (CUGB), Beijing. Postdoctoral researcher  in China Center for International Economic Exchanges(CCIEE).Chaired or chairing 12 projects（including 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 Beijing Youth Talents Funding）. She has published more than 60 journal papers, 50 journal papers are SCI or SSCI indexed journal papers, such as Energy Economics, Environmental Science and Technology(ES&T), Applied Energy, Energy Policy, Resources Policy, Energy,  Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, Scientometrics, Complexity, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, et al. 11 papers were presented in 10 different international conferences held by different universities, such as the University of Cambridge, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the Northeastern University, et al. She was a CSC sponsored Visiting Scholar of Energy Economics and Policy in the Pennsylvania State University. Research Interests: Multi-source heterogeneous data analysis; Data mining and information service; Industry economics and resources policy; Complex relations in financial markets; Multi-layer heterogeneous networks.