Constructing the Theoretical System of Comprehensive Material Flow (CMF) Engineering

Abstract

Based on the methodology of technological economics, a fundamental theoretical system of integration and optimization of CMF resources is constructed, with the objective law of the contradictory relationship between the materials and their flow as well as its development as the study object and logical starting point. On account of the integral properties of the material of commodities (i.e., the substance, value and information), a core theoretical system of goods MF is constructed about the commodity flow, capital flow and information flow, which change separately but also form a complete and indivisible system. In light of the space attributes of the flow of commodities, a sustainable applied theoretical system of CMF is constructed, to explore the operation mechanism of the MF in economic circle, social circle and natural circle which are in both competition and symbiosis, contradiction and adaptation, development and balance with one and another.

Prof. Shoubo Xu was born in Shaoxing (a city which located at Zhengjiang province of China). He obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Power Engineering from Nanjing Institute of Technology in 1955. Then he graduated from the Energy Institute of the Academy of Science of USSR in 1960, with an Associate Doctorate Degree of Technological Science. Now he is honored as a professor, consultant and PHD supervisor of Economics and Management school at Beijing Jiao Tong University. And he also works as the Director of China Center of Technological Economics Research, the President of Comprehensive Energy Institute, Honorary Dean of the Material Flow School at Beijing Jiaotong University, and named as Chinese Director of the Sino-Austria Innovation Research Center. At the same time, Dr Xu is also regarded as the Chairman of Professors Association in the Economics and Management department. Besides that, he was the core initiator and co-founder of the Chinese Technological Economics and Comprehensive Energy Engineering, the pioneer of our nation’s Comprehensive Material Flow Engineering and the science of Managing According to Reason MR.

For more than 50 years, academician Xu has made 422 achievements in theoretical and application aspects in the three new scientific fields of TE, ETE/CEE and MFTE/CMFE. More than 50 of his achievements have received awards, including the National Science Congress Award, the National Science and Technology Progress Award and various awards from the Chinese Academy of Science, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, National Development and Reform Commission and City of Beijing, etc., he has received National Science and Technology Progress Award nine times (the first prize provincial, one time National Science and Technology Progress first prize and one time third prize, four times provincial second prize and three times third prize).

Illustration of theoretical system of CMF