Chinese Wool Textile Mills Project

Full project title

Chinese wool textile mills: Economic analysis of fibre-input/textile product selection and new processing technologies

Duration

January 2001 to December 2004

Funding

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

Outline

The primary goal of the project is to improve the long-term viability of Chinese wool textile mills. Ways to improve viability are to be identified through an economic analysis of mill fibre-input/textile-product selection procedures and effluent treatment technologies. One of the key expected outcomes is the development of an economic modelling framework that would allow mill managers to identify the impacts of fibre-input/textile-product selection and effluent treatment on mill profitability and viability, as well as assess the impact of other mill management strategies. The project can best be viewed as consisting of four sub-projects, the research objectives of which are listed below:

1. To analyse the impacts of fibre-input/textile-product selection and effluent treatment on mill profitability and viability.

2. To identify user preferences for particular characteristics of outputs from Chinese wool textile mills.

3. To examine the problems wool mills encounter when seeking to obtain domestically grown wool.

4. To examine the impediments to the free flow of imported wool to Chinese mills.

 

Photos from the book "Modernizing China's Industries"

Images of the CAEGWool workshop in Wuxi, 28-29 June, 2004

Publications

• Brown, C.G., Waldron, S.A. and Longworth, J.W. (2005) Modernising China's Industries: Transformation of the Wool and Wool Textile Industries. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar
• Brown, C.G., Waldron, S.A., Longworth, J.W. and Zhao, Y.T. (2005). Building Economic decision-making capabilities of Chinese wool textile mills, ACIAR Technical Reports 60, 108p. ISBN 1863204954.
• Zhao, Y.T., Brown, C.G., Waldron, S.A., Longworth, J.W. and Li, P. (2005) Zhonguo Fangzhi Qiye Jingji Guanli Juece Fenxi Fangfa (Analytical Methods for Economic Decision-making in Chinese Textile Mills). ACIAR Technical Reports No. 60a, 112p. ISBN 1863204954.
• Longworth, J.W., Brown, C.G. and Waldron, S.A. (2005) Domestic Wool Marketing in China: A Report Prepared for Australian Wool Innovation Ltd. The University of Queensland, China Agricultural Economics Group, St Lucia, January.
• Longworth, J.W., Brown, C.G. and Waldron, S.A. (2004) Chinese Domestic Wool Production: A Report Prepared for Australian Wool Innovation Ltd. The University of Queensland, China Agricultural Economics Group, St Lucia, December.
• Waldron, S.A. and Brown, C.B. (2004) Institutional Reform and the Chinese Wool Textile Industry in Laurenceson, J., Tang, K.K. and Waldron, S.A. (eds) Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the Association for Chinese Economic Studies held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, October 19-20, 2004, December,  ISBN 0-646-44425-5.
• Lyons, B. (2003) Risk Management and Contractual Issues in Sino-Australian Wool Trade in the WTO Era. Paper presented at the annual Association for Chinese Economic Studies Australia conference, Melbourne, October 2-3.
• Brown, C.G. On advancing Australian trade, investment and commercial opportunities in China. Australasian Agribusiness Review, 6(2), Paper 11, 1998. (electronic journal)
• Brown, C.G. Chinese wool auctions: failed agribusiness reform or future marketing channel? China Economic Review, 8(2), 175-189, 1997.
• Longworth, J.W. and Brown, C.G. Zhongguo Nongye CangGongXiao Tixi Gaige - Yongmao Anli Yanjiu (Chinese agriculture production, supply, marketing system reform – the case of sheep and wool), Shanxi, Shanxi Economic Press, 310pp + xxi, 1997.
• Longworth, J.W. and Brown, C.G. Agribusiness Reforms in China: The Case of Wool. Wallingford, CAB International, 260pp + xvii, 1995.
• Lyons, B. Southern Jiangsu Township and Village Enterprises Engaged in the Wool Textile Industry: an Industry Specific Study of Institutional Change in a TVE Model, Honours thesis in Chinese Studies, The University of Queensland, 2000.
• Brown, C.G. and Longworth, J.W. Lifting the Wool Curtain: Recent Reforms and New Opportunities in the Chinese Wool Market with Special Reference to ‘Up-Country Mills’. Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 369-387, 1994.