Energy issues in a growing china - a bottleneck for further economic growth ?

1.0 Introduction 25 years of economic reforms and growth unsurpassed in human history has made china the freight train economy of the world. China is not the biggest economy, but given time, there is no argument that china will be. However, in any given developing country there are several bottlenecks on important resources which can seriously hinder or even stagnate the economic development. In this report, the student will look at what issues the impending energy shortage …

…NIC status, with hopes of becoming a fully developed economy is a process which requires serious and continuous efforts. The supply of vital resources, in which access to energy might be listed as the most important, must be paid closely attention to. The alternative is a far lower developing rate, both to infrastructure, economy and development in general. Chinas economy is large, but its potential, should these issues be dealt with sufficiently, is far greater.