Technological Progress And Energy Intensity Of The Relevance Of Research 2000-2007,

During the past 30 years, we have great achievement in economic growth, but with high consumption of energy. Till 2009, China has become the second largest country in energy consumption, of course the USA is the largest one. As comes to say the source of energy,we are deeply dependent in the foreign market. In 2009, we have imported 204 million ton of oil, passed the line of 50%. Under the high consumption of energy lies our extensive growth pattern of economics. In the Climate Change conference of Copenhagen, the developed countries gave us great pressure to improved the efficient of energy using. Futhermore, they set the time to levy carbon tarrif on our products in their market. Then we have a look about our domestic condition, we are a developing country in everywhere. There is large distance between USA and us. We must developed thus is it mean that we must continue the old way we developed and have the great pressure that the developed country levy carbon tarrif on us? Or is there a better way that when we can continue to develop without the problem of energy consumption and harming the competence of our products? When we view through the path we developed, we found the key——technology progress that may solve the plight. During the last 30 years, in the market reform, we focus on the ownship structure reform that brings the new incentive, in the open-out policy, we hoped that as the foreign companies came in to the domestic market, the would transferred the new techonoly to us, at last, they did not transferred much techonology to us but some old equipment. in all, we did not have great progress in techonology in the last 30 years. So as we come back to the industries of our economics from 2000 to 2007, the relationship between the efficiency of energy consumption and the techology progress is essential. As we view from the governers, there might be several factors have influence on the energy consumption, if the governers have do things in different aspect, the result will not be good as we predict, if there is only one factor has influence on the energy consumption, they could concentrate resource on it thus the reuslt will be very good. Under this consideration, we must have further step to prove that only techonology progress has influence in energy consumption and have no relationship with other factors.From the theory, there are two ways to do the research, one way is the single efficiency factor framework, the full efficiency factor framework. In the condition of energy price controlled by the government,especially the price of electricity is controlled by the government, the full efficiency facor framework may not suit the reality well for the full efficiency factor framework goes well under the assumption that the labor, capital and energy price is free setteled by the demand and supply. After the review of the macro energy consumption, we take the single efficiency factor framework, from2000 to 2007, putting the energy consumption as the dependent variable, techonology progress as the independent variable, aslo we introduced two controlled variables, they are market reform step and the extent of opening. Our data is on the industry level.Through the panel regression that involved the control variable, we discover that only the technology progress is significant, the market reform step and the extent of opening is not significant under the 5% rule. this do proved the assumption that the energy consumption is only related to the technology. Then, we did the same model only to the energy consumption and technology progress, we discover the regression is very good, and energy consumption and technology progress is minus related, their coefficience is -0.77. Then we give our suggestion about how to improve the efficiency of energy consumption through the technology progress. At last,we give the shortage of the this paper and the space of improvement.