Gradual improvement and reactive intervention: China's policy pathway for developing the wind power industry

Aitong Li, Ying Sun and Xiaobin Song

Renewable Energy, 2023, vol. 216, issue C

Abstract: Since the early stage of wind power development, the Chinese government has attached great importance to the nurturing of the domestic wind power industry and the establishment of a domestic supply chain. This paper examines the trajectory of China's policy pathway by linking the evolution of policy packages with the changing operation states of wind equipment manufacturers (mainly upstream and midstream). It is found that the government selectively combined quantity-oriented policies, quality-oriented, and cost-oriented policies at different historical stages and that a gradualist approach was adopted by strengthening quality and cost regulations in a piecemeal fashion. Though this gradualist approach might risk regulatory gaps, business disputes, and financial stress along the supply chain, it also provides some buffer time for manufacturers to adapt to new quality standards and cost expectations through technological improvement, optimization of production scale, and supply-chain management. The subtle balance between the strengths and weaknesses of this gradualist approach has been centered around the government's capacity to constantly assess the conditions and reactively respond to the needs of domestic enterprises. An in-depth analysis of these dynamic relations helps to better comprehend China's industrial policy pathway and appreciate both its past achievements and future challenges.

Keywords: Wind energy; Industrial policy; Manufacturing industry; Reactive intervention; Policy pathway (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148123009825
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:renene:v:216:y:2023:i:c:s0960148123009825

DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2023.119068

Access Statistics for this article

Renewable Energy is currently edited by Soteris A. Kalogirou and Paul Christodoulides

More articles in Renewable Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().