School of Film Television & Communication, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, China.
School of Applied Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China.
PLoS One. 2022 Jul 28;17(7):e0270226. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270226. eCollection 2022.
Due to the rapid progress of urbanization in China, the percentage of residential energy consumption out of total energy consumption has increased. This paper uses statistical data from 30 Chinese provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) from 2000 to 2020 to analyze the impact of urbanization on residential energy consumption and construct an econometric model to test the mechanism. The empirical tests show that the consumption of direct energy (energy that exists in nature in its original form and has not been transformed) is positively U-shaped about the urbanization rate. Furthermore, the impact of economic development on direct and indirect energy consumption is significantly positive. In contrast, the effects of population agglomeration on immediate energy consumption are adverse, and the indirect energy consumption is positive.
由于中国城市化进程的快速推进，居民能源消费在总能源消费中的占比不断增加。本文利用 2000 年至 2020 年中国 30 个省（自治区、直辖市）的统计数据，分析了城市化对居民能源消费的影响，并构建了一个计量经济学模型来检验作用机制。实证检验结果表明，直接能源（以原始形态存在、未经转化的能源）消费与城市化率之间呈正“U”型关系。此外，经济发展对直接和间接能源消费的影响显著为正，而人口集聚对即时能源消费的影响为负，对间接能源消费的影响为正。
