Mechanism And Empirical Analysis Of The Impact Of Urbanization On Energy Consumption In China

With the convening of The Eighteenth National Congress of the CPC, the construction of new towns, reducing energy dependence, and the voice of promoting economic sustainable development is more and more high. This paper firstly summarizes the mechanism of the impact of energy consumption in the process of urbanization, and then introduces the spatial effect besides the traditional panel model, and analyzes the relationship between urbanization and energy consumption in China at present, based on the provincial panel data during the period of 2000-2012:Firstly, Through the preliminary exploration and analysis of the level of urbanization and energy consumption, we found that the level of urbanization is gradually increasing, while the intensity of energy consumption is gradually declining. There is a strong correlation between spatial and spatial correlation.Secondly, Through the empirical analysis, urbanization is the main factor leading to the increase of energy consumption intensity. The impact of urbanization on the intensity of energy consumption is huge, and the spatial spillover effect of urbanization in China is obvious, and the direct effect is not obvious. Different regions require different policy formulation.Thirdly, Through the comparison of the results of different spatial weight matrix, the model has strong robustness, and the model results are stable under the three weight matrix.Last, By observing the effect of urbanization on the threshold of different distances, the spillover effect of regional urbanization is the distance threshold. When the distance between the two regions exceeds the distance threshold, the spillover effect is not significant, and the overflow threshold is 550km.