A Study On Energy Security Of China Under The Background Of Economic Globalization

Energy is the essential driving force of world development and economic growth, and also the basis of human life. In 21st century, energy security has been becoming the focus all around the world as the price is higher and higher. Meanwhile, economic globalization has been the most obvious trait of recent world economy, which necessarily process into the energy field and brings into a string of new energy problem. Based on the study on the present global energy issue and energy security structure, and combined with Chinese energy security situation, this dissertation analyses the challenge globalization cause to China energy field, so as to provide references for China to draw up practical energy security strategy. For researching this phenomenon, it can help to improve the safety theory research ability on one hand. On the other, it is also of great important for us to participate into economic globalization, ensure the energy's economy and security, sustain the continuously steady and healthy growth, and then as a result to fulfill the target of building a well-off society in an all-round way in 2020 which was proposed in the 17th Congress.This dissertation consists of six chapters, which contents are as follows:As the Chapter One, it introduces us the purpose and significance. Besides, it briefly summarizes the research status on energy security and reviews some literatures. What's more, it also introduces the researching methods, innovations and disadvantages.Chapter Two begins with the definitions and relevant theories of energy, energy security, and economic globalization, then analyzes the connotation and restricting factors of energy security and its relationship with globalization and energy. Besides, it also discusses the influences of globalization to energy field and the relevant problems it leads to. At last, it makes a conclusion that the conflicts in energy security with the background of economic globalization.Chapter Three mainly analyses the problems of China's energy security. China is the biggest developing country all around the world, and also it is one of the energy production and consumption superpowers. Since 1990s, Chinese economy increases rapidly at a rate of 10%, which drives the sharp rise of energy consumption. However, there are many problems of China's energy security, for instance, little energy reserve, difficult exploitation, large supply and demand contradiction, unreasonable consumption structure, low clean energy rate, poor efficiency, sharp contradiction between energy usage and environmental protection and so on so forth. On the other hand, economic globalization brings in fiercer challenge for us since the external dependence is deeper, global competition is more fierce, energy price is higher, and the invasion of transnational corporations to Chinese energy market is severer following the China's entrance into WTO. Therefore, how to ensure Chinese energy security has been becoming a quite important and urgent issue.In Chapter Four, it analyses the US, EU, Japan, Russia' energy security strategy, China should learn the implement energy pluralistic strategy from the US, utilize clean energy strategy of EU, the energy thrifty strategy of Japan, and energy diplomacy strategy of Russia.Chapter Five and Six point out the following suggestions from the point of the developmental process and overwhelming target of Chinese energy security strategy: China should carry out the policy of energy security strategy, by making use of the traits and tendencies of globalization from both inside and outside, and learning from other countries'advanced experience, based on the developmental process and total target of Chinese energy security strategy. Domestic energy security strategy include the following issues:formulate scientific sustainable developmental energy strategy, implement energy pluralistic strategy, vigorously carry out the energy thrifty strategy, and value environmental protection strategy. On the other hand, external energy security strategy consists of pluralistic energy supply strategy, competition and cooperation strategy with the other energy superpowers, cooperation strategy with the International Energy Agency and regional economic integration organizations, energy enterprises "Going Out" strategy, energy transportation safety strategy and so on so forth.The innovations of this dissertation are as following: 1. Deeply analyses the influence to the energy of economic globalization, the fact that international energy trade has been one of the important elements of world trade, the situation of energy market's pluralism, the phenomenon of multinational corporations' mergence and rapid development, international capital began to aggregate to energy field immensely, regional energy's integration and so on so forth. Based on the above analyses, this paper then points out the new problems of economical globalization to energy field, such as energy crisis, energy competition energy cooperation, energy technology, energy and environment.2. Comprehensively analyses the severer challenge of economic globalization to China, for example, china petroleum's increasingly dependence on foreign countries, the great pressure of higher and higher energy price to Chinese economy growth, the severer challenge of other superpower to Chinese energy, the snatch of china's energy market share. Accordingly, this paper aims to propose some relative suggestions to Chinese energy safety strategy from the point of accommodating economic globalization.3. Compared the energy security strategy of the US, EU, Japan, Russia, China should carry out the policy of energy security strategy, by making use of the traits and tendencies of globalization and learning from other countries'advanced experience. Chinese energy security strategy include the following issues:formulate scientific sustainable developmental energy strategy, implement energy pluralistic strategy, vigorously carry out the energy thrifty strategy, and value environmental protection strategy, pluralistic energy supply strategy, competition and cooperation strategy with the other energy superpowers, cooperation strategy with the International Energy Agency and regional economic integration organizations, energy enterprises "Going Out" strategy, energy transportation safety strategy and so on so forth.