Analysis On CO₂ Emissions And Energy Consumption For Varied Urbanized Parts Of China

Along with the economic miracle,China has undergone a phase of swift urbanization development.By the end of 2016,the urbanization rate of China’s population increased to 57.4%.With the urbanization procedure,China’s industrial structure continues to upgrade,the second industry and the third industry’s added value in the proportion of GDP continues to improve,the level of production technology continues to upgrade.In the people’s lives,economic development and urbanization process brought about a change in the lifestyle of the people with consumer’s spending escalating,private car ownership surging,and Internet access rate increasing rapidly.However,with the growth of China’s economy and the urbanization,China’s energy consumption and CO₂ emissions have experienced sustained and rapid growth.So,based on the STIRPAT model innovatively modified with a view of the urbanization,the urbanization level factors’influence on CO₂ emissions and energy consumption are analyzed for different urbanized parts in China.Firstly,based on the factor analysis,China’s 30 provincial-level administrative units（the study did not involve Tibet,Hong Kong,Macao and Taiwan）are divided into highly urbanized area,urbanizing area and low-level urbanized area.Then,multivariable linear regression model was used to study the impact of urbanization on CO₂ emissions and energy consumption of the 3 area with varied urbanization level and whole nation with panel data.The analysis shows that the urbanization rate of the population decreases the per capita CO₂ emissions and energy consumption in the urbanized region but has a positive impact in other two regions and the national level.In the industry structure’s part,the share of the secondary industry in the economy has a positive relationship with the CO₂emissions and energy consumption while the share of the tertiary industry has a negative impact on the CO₂ emissions and energy consumption.Furthermore,the improvement of the life standard measured by the dropping Engel coefficient and the surge of the private vehicle ownership increase the CO₂ emissions and energy consumption significantly.Besides,varied impact scale of different factors exists in varied urbanized regions.