Casual Relationship among GDP, Coal Consumption and Coal Production in China

摘要：

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the granger causality relationship between GDP and coal consumption or coal production in China during the period of 1978-2008, after the polky of economics reform and opening was implemented in China, Results of the coin(?gration and Granger causality tests show that thert exists a unidirectional causality between GDP and coal consumption or coal production in the tang run.Evidence suggests that neither coal consumption nor coal production leads to economic growth.China is the largest coal consumer and also the largest producer of coal and CO2 emissions in the world.Our empirical findings hav? very important policy implications far decision makers in the fi?W of energy and economic planning.Based on tht empirical muht> we suggest thai China should keep a balance between ecDnomic growth and environment protection to reach sustainable development, which may help reduce coal consumption to decrease CO2 emissions.

关键词： economic growth coal consumption causality

作者: MA Hongwei

作者单位: College of Engineering Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing 211000,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Grey System and Intelligent Services Joint with the 15th WOSC International Congress on Cybernetics and System(2011 IEEE灰色系统与智能服务国际会议暨系统与控制世界组织第15届年会)

会议地点: 南京

会议语种:英文

页码: 58-61

在线出版日期: 2011-09-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）