ABSTRACT
In 2008, the global financial crisis influenced the world economy and China’s
economy negatively. Through the transmission mechanism, it blocked the development
of China’s iron and steel industry. During the financial crisis, the demand from dometic
and abroad market for steel products declined and the price of steel droped greatly, but
iron ore price did not, which lead to the profit margin of the whole steel industry
narrowed. What’s worse, most enterprises could not make the balance between income
and cost. Some middle and small sized iron and steel enterprises even went bankrupt.
The prospect of steel industry in the crisis is gloomy. In this way, it is significant to
analyze the challenges confronted with the steel enterprises and the measures they
should take to against the impact of financial crisis.
First of all, this paper summarizes theories related to iron and steel industry and the
transmission mechanism of financial crisis. Consequently, it illustrates the China’s steel
industry situation before and post the financial crisis. The sistuation of those
downstream industries that have large demand for iron and steel products is also
analysed in the paper. Based on the VAR model, it then analyzes the relationship
between the steel demand and the economic growth. In the model, GDP is selected to
stand for the economic growth and the apparent volume of steel consumptions
(STEEL)chosed to represent the steel demand. The research results show that there is
no relationship between the two series GDP and STEEL, while there are two
cointegrating equations between the two difference sequences, and DLNGDP ganger
cause DLNSTEEL in short term. In further impulse responses analysis, DLNSTEEL
positively responses to Cholesky one S.D. innovations of DLNGDP. What is more, by
variance decompositions we know that the change of GDP growth rate contributes two
second in three to the change of steel consumption volume. In 2008, the financial crisis
lead to the decline of GDP growth rate, which contributed two second in three to the
decline of the growth rate of steel consumption. Thus it evidences the impact of
financial crisis on China’s steel demand.
In this thesis, the development trend of China’s steel industry is also analyzed
through focasting the development trend of those downstream industries. Combined
with the challenges confronted with and development trend of China’s iron and steel
industry, we suggest that the the steel enterprises should improve their own
self-innovation abilities to addjust the product structure and improve the