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XUNPENG SHI

 

 

Energy Economist

 

 

 

 

 

EXPERTISE

 

Dr. Xunpeng Shi is specialized in energy, resource and environmental economics and the Chinese economics. He also has expertise in mineral law and policy.

 

 

 

EDUCATION

2009

Ph.D / Economics, The Australian National University (ANU), Australia

 

2006

Master / Environmental and Resource Economics, ANU

 

2004

LLM (Distinction)/ Mineral Law & Policy, University of
Dundee, UK

 

1997

BA (Distinction)/ Marketing, China University of Mining
and Technology, China

 

 

EXPERIENCE

 

 2009.7-                        

Associate Researcher, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia

 

 2008. 2.4-29

Business Analyst (Internship), Business Development Unit
(Brisbane), Rio Tinto Energy

 

 2005. 6- 2005.12         

Coordinator , Coal Division, Energy Bureau, National
Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of China

 

 2004.3.15- 2004.8.10  

Policy Adviser, General Office, State Administration of Work Safety/Coal Mine Safety of China

 

 2004.2.2-2004. 3.12    

Business Analyst (Internship), Rio Tinto Beijing Office

 

 2004.8.11-2005.12

Board Secretary, China Shenhua Coal Liquefaction Co. Ltd,
Shenhua Group Corporation

 

 2002.1-2002.12

Human Resource Manager, Tiandi Science and Technology (Listed) Co., Ltd, CCRI

 

 1997.7-2001. 12          

Researcher, Economic Research Institute of China Coal Research Institute (CCRI)

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS (Sole authorship unless indicated)

 

< Referred Journal Articles>

Shi, X., 2011. China’s Attempts to Minimise Non-CO2 Emissions from Coal: Evidence of Declining Emission Intensity. Environment and Development Economics, 16(5): 573-590. Cambridge University Press.

 

Restructuring in China’s State-owned Enterprises: Evidence from the Coal Industry (2010). China and World Economy, 18 (3):90-105.


Efficiency impact of the Chinese industrial transition: A quantitative evaluation of policies in coal industry (2010) (With Quentin Grafton). Economic Change and Restructuring, 43 (1): 1-19.


Have government regulations improved workplace safety? A test of the asynchronous regulatory effects in China’s coal industry, 1995-2006 (2009). Journal of Safety Research, 40 (3): 207-213.

 

<Book Chapters>

2011. Sustainability Assessment of Biomass Utilisation in East Asian countries (with Kudoh at al.), in Finkbeiner (ed.), Towards Life Cycle Sustainability Management, Part 7, Springer, 413-424

 

Can China’s coal industry be reconciled with the environment? (2008) Chapter 17 in Song and Woo (eds), China’s Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change, Asia Pacific Press and the Brookings Institution Press: Canberra and Washington DC, pp367-91. Also available at: http://epress.anu.edu.au/china_dilemma/pdf/ch17.pdf


Road to harmonize the coal industry with environment (2006), Chapter 16, in Garnaut and Song (ed.), The Turning Point in China’s Economic Development. Asian Pacific Press: Canberra, pp314-34. Also available at: http://epress.anu.edu.au/china/pdf/ch16.pdf


The Impact of, and Responses to, the Closure of Small-scale Coal Mines in China: A preliminary Account (with Andrews-Speed, P., Guo, M., and Shao, B.) (2003), Chapter 29, in Hilson, G. (Ed.), the Socio-Economic Impacts of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Developing Countries. A.A. Balkema: Rotterdam, pp511-30.

 

<Working Papers>

Shi, X., and Goto, S., 2011. Harmonizing Biodiesel Fuel Standards in East Asia: Current Status, Challenges and the Way Forward , ERIA Discussion Paper DP-2011-3, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Jakarta. Also available at: http://www.eria.org/pdf/ERIA-DP-2011-03.pdf


Shi, X., 2010. Carbon Footprint Labeling Activities in the East Asia Summit Region: Spillover Effect to Less Developed Countries, ERIA Discussion Paper DP-2010-6, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Jakarta. Also available at: http://www.eria.org/pdf/ERIA-DP-2010-06.pdf

 

Shi, X., 2009. The Prospects for Coal: Global Experience and Implications for Energy Policy, ERIA Discussion Paper DP-2009-16, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Jakarta. Also available at: http://www.eria.org/pdf/ERIA-DP-2009-19.pdf

 

<Selected Articles in Chinese>

  1. 'Changing Resource Tax will Lead to Waste, rather than Save, Coal Resources', Journal of Coal Economic Research, 2008 (7).
  2. Resources Development and Community Development— How to Promote t Sustainable Development of Mining Community?—Global experiences on maximizing benefits of mineral resource development (2005), China Mining, 12 (5).
  3. Transforming Coal into Oil, China Petroleum Enterprise, 2004 (11).
  4. Changing Thinking is the Key to Develop Coal Industry, The Journal of Coal Economic Research, 2004 (4).
  5. World Experience on Legalizing Small Scale Mines and its Hints to China’s Small Coal Mines’, The Journal of Coal Economic Research, 2003 (9).
  6. Economic, Legal and Empirical Study of Environmental and Energy: Coal Industry Future, the Journal of Coal Economic Research, 2003 (6).
  7. The Effects, and Coal Industry’s Countermeasures, on Electricity Industrials Reform, The Journal of Coal Economic Research, 2002 (9) :6-14.
  8. Cultural Instruments in Human Resource Management, The Journal of Coal Economic Research, 2002 (5): 66-68.
  9. Main Reasons of Disorders in the Coal Markets and its Countermeasures, The Journal of Coal Economic Research, 2000 (11) :20-24.
  10. The Hints from the Grain Circulation System Reform, Strategy and Management, 2000 (2).
  11. Price Capping: A Game without Winner-comments on the policy of prohibiting discount in Air transportation, Reform and Theory, 2000 (1).
  12. Analysis, Consideration and Proposals Considering the Policy of Closing Mines and Restricting the total Yield, The Journal of Coal Economics Research, 1999 (6).
  13. Coal Industry Development Strategies and Measures in the Era of Knowledge Based Economy, China Coal, 1999 (3).
  14. Thinking about the Sustainable and Healthy Development of Coal Industry, Economic Research Reference (1999), 17 (D-1).
  15. How to Understand and Deal With the Policy of Building Big Enterprise Group, Reform and Theory, 1999 (6).

 

 

<Conference Proceedings>

Productivity, Efficiency, and Restructuring policies: the case of China’s State-owned Coal Mines, in Sizhong Sun, Honbo Liu and Zhangyue Zhang (eds.), 2008. Proceeding of the 20th Annual Conference of the Association for Chinese Economic Studies Australia, Townville, Australia (Awarded as the Best PhD Paper, Referred)

 

 

<Newspaper Articles>

‘Renminbi Appreciation may Cause Coal Industry Turndown’, China Coal Daily, 12 May 2005

‘Let Market to Allocate Resources—Solutions to the Lack of Technicians in Coalmines’, China Coal Daily, 26 June 2004

 

OTHERS

<Professional Membership>

Member of East Asia Economic Association, 11/2008
Member of Association of Chinese Economics Study, Australia , 07/2006
Member of China Association of  Energy Economic Study, 01/1998
Referee for Journal of Business Economics and Management, 01/1999



<Slected Prizes, Honors & Awards>

The Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad 2009, 2010
Rio Tinto-ANU Graduate Scholarship, 2006-2009
British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chevening Scholarship, 2003-2004
Third prize of the 5th  ‘Challenge Cup’ National University Student  Extracurricular Academic Work Competition ,1997
Outstanding Graduate, China Science and Technology Development Foundation, 1996
Minister’s Award for Outstanding Student, Ministry of Coal Industry, 1996
Outstanding Graduate, China University of Mining & Technology , 1997