ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Research on the Impact of Industrialization
and Urbanization on Carbon Emission Intensity
of Energy Consumption: Evidence from China
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College of economics and management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China
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Full Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S3G3, Canada
Submission date: 2022-02-07
Final revision date: 2022-03-14
Acceptance date: 2022-03-29
Online publication date: 2022-06-20
Publication date: 2022-09-01
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Lingjuan Xu
College of economics and management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 general Avenue, 211106, Nanjing, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2022;31(5):4413-4425
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ABSTRACT
In order to explore effective ways for energy conservation and emission reduction, seven correlated
variables are selected in this paper according to the government statistics with the extended STIRPAT
model, and the impact of China’s industrialization and urbanization on carbon emission intensity
of energy consumption is studied. The study found that urbanization rate and urban population
employment rate are the main factors affecting per capita carbon emission of energy consumption in
China;the industrialization has a reverse impact on per capita carbon emission of energy consumption,
indicating that China’s industrialization is relatively low and is not the main factor affecting per capita
carbon emission of energy consumption; the service industry added value rate and the agricultural
industry added value rate also have reverse effects on China’s per capita carbon emission of energy
consumption, and the degree of impact is relatively small. Therefore, China is supposed to develop
industry vigorously in the future, to appropriately control the development speed of urbanization and to
increase the agricultural industry added value rate moderately, so as to achieve effective control of per
capita carbon emission intensity of energy consumption.