Risk Assessment and Resilience Measurement of Global Supply Chain of Strategic Critical Minerals in China-Taking Nickel as an Example
摘要
The security of China’s strategic critical mineral supply chains directly impacts economic resilience and industrial competitiveness, necessitating systematic vulnerability and risk assessments. This paper develops a global supply chain framework covering four stages—acquisition, trade, transportation, and demand—and three segments: export, logistics, and import. Using two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Coherent-Data Envelopment Analysis (CoDEA), it evaluates risks in China’s nickel ore import supply chain from 2013 to 2022, with the 2020 Indonesian export ban as a shock event for resilience measurement. Results show: (1) Significant volatility and persistently high risks from 2013 to 2022; (2) Distinct risk drivers across stages: resource acquisition showed intense fluctuations, trade exhibited strong variability, transportation had intermittent spikes, and demand initially rose then declined; (3) High resilience due to diversified import policies. The “risk identification-resilience measurement” method combines ex-ante and ex-post perspectives, fully considers the relationships among all stages of the supply chain, effectively identifies vulnerabilities, and provides decision-making support for ensuring supply chain security under geopolitical interference.