Resource Depletion in China and its Implications for Mongolia

China's natural resources are concentrated in areas inhabited by ethnic minorities which constitute over 60 per cent of China's territory. When world attention is drawn to China's rapid economic development and its global energy strategy, people tend to forget how natural resources in the minority regions were extracted to fuel China's development prior to its high growth era. In other words, who or what regions sustained China's economy by providing energy and resources after the 1950s? We may also ask what has happened to these minority regions in China's new energy strategy. Since these regions are frontier regions, what does China's energy globalisation look like there? This paper studies the historical process of resource extraction in areas inhabited by the Mongols, focusing on the Daqing Oil Field and North China Oil Field. Through discussing how the depletion of oil in these traditional energy bases has led to China's energy expansion into its northern neighbour of Mongolia, it aims to define the place and significance of Mongolia in China's global energy strategy

Archaeology · China · Development economics · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Frontier · Geography · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Political science · Resource depletion · Global Energy Security and Policy · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology · Ecology

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