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150749
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Improving energy productivity is one of the most cost-effective ways to achieve a sustainable development target. The existing literature has shown some factors that have driven the improvement in China’s energy productivity. However, these studies do little to tackle the role of Chinese local officials. Political promotions can be seen as the most important career incentive for Chinese local officials. Hence, we intend to study whether energy productivity affects Chinese local officials’ promotions in this paper. The data of position changes for the 31 provincial governors during 1978‐2012 are utilized. We adopted probit models to empirically examine the correlation between provincial governors’ political promotions and energy productivity. The empirical results demonstrate that (1) energy productivity has a significantly positive impact on provincial governors’ political promotions in China, meaning that the provincial governors have the momentum to improve energy productivity; and (2) the effect of energy productivity on provincial governors’ political promotions has evolved, dynamically changing along with the transformation of the economic growth mode and the adjustment of the local officials’ promotion mechanism. The results are helpful in understanding the drivers of the improvement in China’s energy productivity and provide insightful implications for conducting energy policy in China.
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171495
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This paper reports on a critical discourse analysis on a collection of international scientific journal articles, which are a critical edge of social epistemology. At the textual surface, the analysis finds that China's shale gas (SG) is compared most frequently with coal and energy imports but rarely with conventional natural gas (CNG) and coalbed methane (CBM), representing a prominent structure of epistemological dominance and ignorance. Situated in this structure there are four prevailing, albeit defective, reasoning forms. The prevalence of those forms suggests that there is a “knowledge deficit” on the comparative advantage of China's SG. This deficit concretely refers to that, the attention paid to the comparative advantage of China's SG toward CNG and CBM, the number of lifecycle-comparisons between energies, and the knowledge about the US shale gas boom, are significantly insufficient. China's energy mix, air quality and energy dependence, the conspicuousness of energy burning, and the nature of human thinking are interwoven factors of this deficit. The epistemological structure and thus the “knowledge deficit” are unfavorable for optimizing China's SG strategy and may delay natural gas' penetration into China's energy mix. This paper, especially its mental model representation, is awareness/introspection provoking to researchers and policy makers.
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192795
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Improving energy efficiency is critical for realizing energy conservation and emissions reductions. This study adopts a market integration perspective to undertake both theoretical analysis and empirical testing of the mechanisms underlying the impact of intra-industry and inter-industry agglomeration on energy efficiency within the context of China. The key findings are: (1) For intra-industry specialized agglomeration, market integration has conflicting moderating effects that offset each other. (2) For inter-industry diversified agglomeration, market integration has a singular moderating effect - as integration increases, the negative impact on energy efficiency diminishes. (3) The enhancement of market integration amplifies the “siphon effect” of industrial agglomeration, thereby intensifying the negative spatial spillage of industrial agglomeration to neighboring regions. This exacerbates the hindrance posed to energy efficiency improvements. This paper contributes to the current body of research on the determinants of energy efficiency, presenting valuable insights for guiding industrial agglomeration endeavors and formulating effective industrial policies.
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