Household Energy Consumption in China: 2016 Report

Xinye Zheng · Chu Wei

Apr 2019 · Springer

About this ebook

This book is primarily based on data from the third analysis of domestic energy consumption, and it combines the conclusive summarizes from the previous two investigations. The book sets out to extend the spatial dimension of the research to a global one and discusses future development of domestic energy consumption from a global perspective. Additionally, the book seeks to discover general rules and diversity features via comparison, domestic vs. global. Future predictions via observations and summaries of history are provided for the reader in this volume as well. The studies in this volume not only provide a basic and supportive index for academic research, but also provide readers with a concrete sketch for people to understand energy use in their day-to-day lives, and it provides policy makers with fundamental, need-to-know data.

About the author

Xinye Zheng is a professor in School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China. He is also the director of the Energy and Resource Strategy Research Center of the National Development and Strategy Research Institute of Renmin University of China, and Vice President of the Economic Research Institute of the “Belt and Road” of Renmin University of China. He was once selected for the Cultural Masters ("four batches") talent program held by Central Propaganda Department, "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" held by Ministry of Education. His research fields include energy economics, industrial organization and public economics. He has published more than 60 papers, an English monograph and eight books in Chinese. He provided decision-making consulting services for many departments of Chinese government and also wrote columns for news media such as China Energy News and China Business News, and received interviews from CCTV news broadcasts, focus interviews, CCTV English channels, NHK Japan, etc.
Dr. Chu WEI is the Professor at Renmin University. His research focuses on energy economics, environmental economics and applied econometrics. He has worked extensively on the analysis of energy efficiency and evaluation of pollutants abatement cost. He is currently focused on the residential energy demand in China. This work includes six-rounds national-wide household surveys and several pilot intervention experiments to identify the policy instruments for residential energy management. His research has appeared in the Nature Energy, Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Economics, China Economic Review and other academic journals. He is the recipient of the 2009 Gregory Chow Best Paper awarded by the Chinese Economist Society, the 2015 Distinguished Research Prize awarded by the Ministry of Education and the 2016 Excellent Youth Scholars Grant supported by the National Science Foundation.