Title: The Cause of the Change of Chinese Industrial Energy Consumption
Abstract: Based on LMDI,this paper decompose Chinese industrial energy consumption,coal consumption and oil consumption of 1997 and 2002 into production effect,structure effect and intensity effect respectively.The results show that the increase in the consumption of industrial energy such as coal,oil during the period of 1997-2002 was mainly due to the expanding of the scale of input and output of high energy-consuming heavy chemical industry.The adjustment of industry also contributed to this increase to some degree.The decrease of the intensity of actual energy in industrial sectors greatly reduced the scale of increase of the overall energy consumption.The results of this study show that heavy chemical industry shouldn't become the focal point of the development of Chinese industry.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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