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Taiwan steel companies' investment in China

As a whole the steel industry in Taiwan has become relatively mature from a highly growing industry in the past till facing slow down in demand recently. Its growing rate has been decreasing gradually. During the past two years, the growth was decreasing following the saturation of the domestic market. On the other hand, the Mainland China has a strong demand on steel due to its rapid economic development, and has become an important export market for the steel industry in Taiwan. The strong demand from the rapid growing China market can absorb the extra production capacity of the downstream steel industry in Taiwan which is facing a bottleneck in the domestic market.
The present study is aimed to research the following issues:
1. Strategy and competitiveness of steel industry in Taiwan; and
2. Taiwan steel companies¡¦ investment in China.
The main conclusion obtained I the present study includes:
1. Shareholders structure of steel companies in Taiwan has affected decision making for investment in China.
2. The domestic market for steel in Taiwan has been saturated.
3. China is an opportunity for Taiwan steel industry.
4.Taiwan steel industry invested a lot and built steel mills in China, mostly during 2002 and 2003.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0907104-153014
Date07 September 2004
CreatorsLin, Chiao-wen
ContributorsJen-Her Wu, Iuan-Yuan Lu, Chi Cheng Wu
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0907104-153014
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