Open AccessResearch on the correlation between regional energy consumption and urbanization rate in China
Author(s) -
Zongben Xu,
Baoguo Shan,
Jinhui Duan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/384/1/012038
Subject(s) - urbanization , per capita , china , energy consumption , consumption (sociology) , agricultural economics , electricity , clothing , business , natural resource economics , geography , economics , economic growth , engineering , environmental health , population , medicine , social science , archaeology , sociology , electrical engineering
By the end of 2018, China’s urbanization rate was close to 60%, and the proportion of energy consumed by cities to the total national energy consumption exceeded 80%. Cities, like huge machines that never stop running, consume a lot of coal, oil and gas, electricity day and night, and maintain the food, clothing, shelter and transportation of urban residents, as well as thousands of lights. Study of the relationship between urbanization rate and energy consumption provides important technical support for regional energy supply and demand research and forecasting. The results show that the process of urbanization development will inevitably lead to a large consumption of energy resources and an increase in per capita energy consumption.