A Political Economy Analysis of China's Civil Aviation Industry (East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture)

First published in 2002.This volume is a political economy analysis o f China's civil aviation industry, with a focus on the reform period beginning in the late 1970s up to the present. The chief aim is to identify and analyze the most important political economy variables impacting on the industry's development during this time. The main purpose of this study is to break the Chinese civil aviation industry up into its most important parts and examine how these parts interact in determining how the industry functions in the contemporary period. With reform in the industry, new factors, or variables, entered the scene and a more diverse and plural environment gradually emerged. The study seeks to explain this more complex and diverse environment by identifying the most important variables present within the industry and grouping them under the headings of marketization, destatization (or quasi-privatization), decentralization and globalization. Through an analysis of these new dynamic forces for change, the book provides an interpretation of the role and effectiveness of the state and the policy process in contemporary Chinese political economy. Together with the fresh empirical information about civil aviation contained in the study, these features should appeal to a broad range of China watchers Annotation Deals with all the aspects of the application of column and mass stabilisation. It provides a description of the best practice, mainly based on the experiences at seven test sites of the European project EuroSoilStab