限制进口煤炭不仅将无助于环保事业,而且将严重损害中国经济在全球范围内的竞争力,这样的政策无异于自残。在煤炭进口持续高增长的同时,中国国内煤炭产业的“黄金十年”也在2012年走到了尽头,煤价大幅度下跌,煤炭企业盈利和煤炭业投资 Restricting the import of coal will not only help the cause of environmental protection, but will also seriously undermine the competitiveness of the Chinese economy on a global scale. Such a policy is tantamount to self-mutilation. While the coal imports continued to grow at a high rate, the “Golden Decade” of China’s domestic coal industry came to an end in 2012 with sharp drop in coal prices, profitability of coal mills and investment in the coal industry