 Regional disparity in energy intensity of China and the role of industrial and export structureXuemei Jiang, Yuwan Duan and Christopher Green Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 2017, vol. 120, issue C, 209-218 Abstract: In this paper we decompose the China’s regional disparity of energy intensity into the contributions of pure energy intensity gap and the difference in both industrial structure and export structure by trade regimes. Our decompositions suggest that the high energy intensities in western and central regions are mainly attributable to the high sectoral energy intensity, which accounts for more than half of the overall energy intensity gap. In contrast, the low energy intensities in coastal regions are mainly attributable to low sectoral energy intensity and to high proportions of output in relatively “clean” rather than energy intensive industries. A high proportion of processing exports also contribute positively to the low energy intensities of coastal regions, but the magnitude is very small, less than 6%. Our decomposition results provide policy implications for energy saving across Chinese regions. Keywords: Energy intensity; Region; Economic structure; Processing exports; China (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:recore:v:120:y:2017:i:c:p:209-218 DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.12.013 Access Statistics for this article Resources, Conservation & Recycling is currently edited by Ming Xu More articles in Resources, Conservation & Recycling from Elsevier |
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