Household Energy Consumption in China: 2016 Report

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Research Background and Main Conclusions

   • Shimei Wu, Dan Wang, Jingqiu Hu, Chu Wei

   Pages 1-37

3. Descriptive Statistics of Questionnaire Data

   • Chu Wei, Zhanming Chen, Shipei Zeng, Xiaohua Xia, Feng Song, Jieqi Wu et al.

   Pages 39-93

4. Methods for Estimating Residential Energy Consumption

   • Shimei Wu

   Pages 95-111

5. Analysis and Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption

   • Jingqiu Hu, Shimei Wu, De Bi

   Pages 113-158

6. International Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption Surveys

   • Yutong Zhao, Dan Wang

   Pages 159-178

7. Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption in Urban and Rural Areas

   • Xie Lunyu, Zhang Shuhan

   Pages 179-193

8. Household Appliance Ownership and Income Inequality

   • Xiaobing Zhang, Ping Qin, Naiyuan Hu, Qitong Wang

   Pages 195-217

9. Rural Resident’s Choice of Water Heater in China

   • Yihua Yu, Ben Ma

   Pages 219-235

10. Does Air Pollution Reduce Residents’ Happiness?

    • Ping Qin, Wenjie Miao, Yang Zhang, Shuai Chen

    Pages 237-251

11. Study of Residential Demand-Side Management

    • Feng Song, Jieqi Wu

    Pages 253-284

12. Back Matter

    Pages 285-292

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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.

• Energy Flow Diagram
• Biomass Energy
• Energy Poverty
• Consumption Welfare and Inequality
• Management on Energy demand
• Chinese Residential Energy Consumption Survey

• Department of Energy Economics, School of Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

  Xinye Zheng, Chu Wei

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. 

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