Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'Western China'

China Will Do What Suits China

By John Richardson CHINA might well be in the midst of deflation caused by overcapacity in some chemicals, and in many other industries as well, but the longer-term strategic direction of reducing dependence on imports doesn't appear to have changed....

Managing China's Middle Income Aspirations

Finding a way through.... Traffic in Shanghai. Picture: Rex Features   By John Richardson WHEN the blog first visited China in the late 1990s, it travelled around Beijing in a fruitless and naive attempt to get people to really talk about everyday life....

China Set To Gain The Most From Inland Boom

  By John Richardson LAST week we discussed how inland markets in China - which are booming thanks to government efforts to raise rural income levels - offer huge opportunities for petrochemicals producers. Here are a few further reasons to...

China PVC Capacity Binge Clobbers Northeast Asia

By John Richardson CHINA'S capacity expansions in industries including steel, aluminium and petrochemicals continue to astound. Take polyvinyl chloride (PVC) for example., where, according to a new report by ChemSystems, "capacity (in China) has expanded from 5m tonne/year in 2003...