Study On The Influence Mechanism Of Urbanization On Energy Consumption Intensity

In the process of urbanization in China, the increasing demand of energy, the growing contradiction between supply and demand, the low utilization efficiency and the imperfect consumption structure and so on gradually become the bottleneck problems restricting the sustainable development of urbanization.Therefore, this article adopts the combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods, and comprehensively analyzes the influencing mechanism of urbanization in the energy consumption intensity.By influencing the industrial structure, human capital, energy consumption structure, investment demand and economic scale, urbanization can change the total energy consumption, the energy consumption structure as well as the efficiency of energy use, ultimately affects the energy consumption intensity.On the basis of qualitative analysis, the artical takes the empirical analysis.Both at the national and the local level, the development of urbanization in China is conducive to reduce energy consumption intensity.At the national level, the main power of urbanization reducing energy consumption intensity comes from the accumulation of human capital, the improvement of the energy consumption structure and the expansion of the economy. The effect of economic scale is the most obvious and the effect of human capital and energy consumption structure is not significant. The increase of the investment demand is the main power to increase energy consumption intensity. Urbanization cannot reduce energy consumption intensity through the adjustment of industrial structure.There are similarities and difference in the influencing mechanism of different regional urbanization in energy consumption intensity. Similarities: the effect of economic scale and energy consumption structure of urbanization is the main way to reduce energy consumption intensity. The degree of the former effect is stronger and the latter is not significan. The western region’s economic scale effect is stronger than the eastern and central region. Investment effect is main power to increase energy consumption intensity, especially in the central and western regions.Difference: only in western region human capital accumulation is a significant way to reduce energy consumption intensity. In addition, although industrial structure effect of three regionals is positivethe, but the internal reasons are different.Based on theoretical and empirical analysis, in order to reduce energy consumption intensity, more attention should be paied to the problems in the process of urbanization.