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The global contribution of energy consumption by product exports from China

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This paper presents a model to analyze the mechanism of the global contribution of energy usage by product exports. The theoretical analysis is based on the perspective that contribution estimates should be in relatively smaller sectors in which the production characteristics could be considered, such as the productivity distribution for each sector. Then, we constructed a method to measure the global contribution of energy usage. The simple method to estimate the global contribution is the percentage of goods export volume compared to the GDP as a multiple of total energy consumption, but this method underestimates the global contribution because it ignores the structure of energy consumption and product export in China. According to our measurement method and based on the theoretical analysis, we calculated the global contribution of energy consumption only by industrial manufactured product exports in a smaller sector per industry or manufacturing sector. The results indicated that approximately 42% of the total energy usage in the whole economy for China in 2013 was contributed to foreign regions. Along with the primary products and service export in China, the global contribution of energy consumption for China in 2013 by export was larger than 42% of the total energy usage.

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Notes

  1. The total energy consumption in China reached 343,601 (104 tce) by using a calorific value calculation and 360,648 (104 tce) by using a coal equivalent calculation from the data of China Energy Statistical Yearbook 2014.

  2. This is slightly different from the original analysis of Melitz (2003) but does not impact our following analysis associated with simplicity.

  3. According to τ, price in foreign market is p x (φ) = τp d (φ) associated with domestic price p d (φ). Hence, total export volume \( {q}_x\left(\varphi \right)= Q{\left[\frac{p_x\left(\varphi \right)}{P}\right]}^{-\sigma}={\tau}^{-\sigma} Q{\left[\frac{p_d\left(\varphi \right)}{P}\right]}^{-\sigma}={\tau}^{-\sigma}{q}_d\left(\varphi \right) \).

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Tang, E., Peng, C. The global contribution of energy consumption by product exports from China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 24, 14690–14699 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-9074-6

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