2000-2010China Energy Efficiency Research

Energy is a special resource, one can derive the energy to meet the needs of production and life, promoting economic and social progress and development. From the point of view of the economic field, the energy as a very important input to one of the elements of modern economic growth, plays a decisive role for the growth of the world economy. Energy production and energy consumption, since the reform and opening up, with the rapid economic development, China in the energy sector has made remarkable achievements in energy production and total consumption of living in the world, but China’s large population, the per capita consumption is much lower at the level of developed countries, even lower than the world average. With the acceleration of China’s industrialization, urbanization, energy constraints is becoming increasingly prominent. Energy problem is no longer a simple production and consumption, has become related to the country’s economic security and stable and rapid development, related to the process of building a moderately prosperous society in China, related to the economic, social, environmental and industrial regions the coordinated development of major social issues related to national defense, politics, diplomacy.Energy consumption and energy efficiency perspective, first described the development of China’s energy supply and demand situation and the existing problems in the process of China’s energy development were studied in detail, followed by the main research of China’s28provinces, autonomous regions, the elements of energy efficiency, the use of qualitative and quantitative analysis, use DEAP2.1software, DEA (DEA) study estimated that China’s28provinces, autonomous regions and total factor energy efficiency, the results show that energy efficiency than the coastal provinces in eastern high, middle, followed by Western lowest. In addition, from the energy-saving potential, the eastern part of the energy consumption, value is also higher energy efficiency, energy-saving potential is greater than the small amount of energy consumption, low energy efficiency of the central and western regions. In addition, by defining generalized technological progress, Malmquist Index, try to break down the the generalized technical progress for the "hard" and "soft" technology, and learn from previous research ideas, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency and technological progress, as the explanatory variable, measured by the random effects panel data model, draw the impact of technological progress on the energy efficiency of the total factor, seen from the results, both on behalf of technological progress, or on behalf of the "hard" technology "soft" technology pure economic efficiency and scale efficiency can play to promote the improvement of the energy efficiency of the total factor. Then come to the sustainable development of energy policy proposals...