The Study On The Energy Security Of Economic Development In Hebei Province

The progress of human society depends on economic development and economic development depends on energy security. Hebei Province has made considerable economic development since reform and openness, what is inseparable from the strong support of energy industries in Hebei Province. However, there are many problems of energy industries in Hebei Province, such as unreasonable energy production and consumption structure and inefficient energy use. With economic development, energy supply and demand gap in Hebei Province has widen and widen and Hebei Province 11th Five-Year Development Plan targets is under serious threat, so the in Hebei Province has been put on the agenda.This article from the present situation in Hebei Province, studies the economic development of energy security in Hebei Province by qualitative and quantitative analysis. The article has following five parts:The first part introduces the background and significance of the topic. In this part, the article reaches a conclusion that it is essential to study the energy security of regional economic development by introducing the connotation and the importance of energy security. In addition, the article summarizes domestic and foreign scholars' researches on energy security and finds a breakthrough to study energy security by drawing lessons from these researches.The second part describes the relations between the energy and economic development. The article by recalling the history of energy development makes a conclusion that economic development depends on energy, on the other hand economic development promotes the development of energy industry.In the third part, the article from the present situation in Hebei Province points out the following problems of energy production and consumption in Hebei province: the structure of energy supply and demand is imbalance ; self-sufficiency rate decreased every year; the structure of energy consumption is imbalance because the proportion of coal consumption in primary energy consumption is too high; energy consumption in industry structure is irrational because the proportion of secondary industry is too high; the efficiency of energy consumption is under the national average seriously.The fourth part analyzes the level of energy security of economic development in Hebei Province by qualitative and quantitative method, from energy production, energy consumption, energy efficiency and so on. Basing it the article evaluates the energy-economy-environment coordination of Hebei Province. Although cointegration relations don't exist between energy production and GDP in Hebei Province, two-way causal relations exist. The article analyzes the factors affecting energy consumption in Hebei Province by RRS factor analysis and predicts Hebei Province energy consumption in 2010 through the RRS-model. Through the above analysis the article draws a conclusion that the level of energy security of economic development in Hebei Province is lower.In the fifth part the article proposes suggestions to improve the level of energy security of economic development in Hebei Province on the basis of the analysis on the energy security of economic development in Hebei Province.