Empirical Research On Regional Difference Of Energy Intensity And Influencing Factors In China

Energy is not only the lifeblood of a country’s economic development, but alsothe material security of improving people’s living standards. However, with thedevelopment of economy, the contradiction between demand and supply of energy isincreasing. At present, countries all over the world are actively making domesticenergy policy to protect the country’s energy security. Since the reform and openingup in china, remarkable achievement has been made in economic construction, but therapid development of economy is based on wantonly consuming of energy resources.By2010, China has surpassed Japan to become the world’s second economy, at sametime, become the world’s first energy consumer, but energy intensity of china is fivetimes of Japan’s. Although China is an energy resource-rich country, tremendousdifferences of energy intensity for difference region are caused by obvious regionaldifference of energy resource endowment and the level of economic development.Forthe above facts, this paper uses1996-2009panel date of30provinces, municipalitiesand autonomous regions in china to do regression analysis, which analyzes thelong-term and short-term factors affecting regional differences of energy intensity.The conclusions of the thesis contain: In the long term, industrial structure,energy prices, energy consumption structure and technological progress have negativeimpact on the regional energy intensity, while regional resource endowments andgovernment spending will contribute to the enhancement of energy intensity, Amongthem, the impact of energy prices, energy consumption structure and technologicalprogress on energy intensity of middle and high-energy regions is much greater thanlow-energy region, it also shows that there is greater energy saving potential in theseregions. In the short run, energy prices and regional resource endowments are notsignificant to all regions. The low-energy region can make faster reflection to theadjustment of industrial structure and technological innovation relative to middle orhigh-energy regions.