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Article

Analysis of Factors Contributing to Changes in Energy Consumption in Tangshan City between 2007 and 2012

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Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2017, 9(3), 452; https://doi.org/10.3390/su9030452
Submission received: 11 January 2017 / Revised: 21 February 2017 / Accepted: 16 March 2017 / Published: 18 March 2017
(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Abstract

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The aim of this paper is to identify the correlations between energy consumption and the factors that control usage in the city of Tangshan. To do this, we first analyze the current status of Tangshan’s economic development and energy consumption, and then applied the logarithmic mean Divisia index to identify the factors affecting the changes in energy consumption of all sectors. The findings are summarized as follows: (1) secondary industry accounts for an extremely high percentage of industry in Tangshan city, much higher than the national average; from 2007 to 2012, the proportion of secondary industry increased in Tangshan city; (2) Tangshan’s energy consumption in 2013 was nearly twice that in 2005. Coal and coke coal consumption was responsible for 96.2% of total energy consumption in 2005 and 95.1% in 2013; (3) Tangshan’s energy intensity decreased from 3.00 tce/10 thousand Yuan in 2005 to 1.85 tce/10 thousand Yuan in 2013. However, the energy intensity of Tangshan was far more than the average for China, and the decline in Tangshan’s energy intensity was much slower than the average for China; (4) The technical effect plays a dominant role in decreasing energy consumption in most sectors, and the scale effect is the most important contributor to increasing energy consumption in all sectors. Input structural and final use structural effects play different roles in energy consumption in different sectors.

1. Introduction

Global warming negatively affects the sustainable development of both ecosystems and the global environment. As a result, conserving energy and reducing carbon emissions have become common global goals to combat climate change. The Chinese government has committed to reducing carbon emissions per unit gross domestic product (GDP) by 40%–45% by 2020 compared to the level in 2005. In the 21st Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Chinese government further committed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions per unit GDP by 60%–65% compared to the 2005 level, with the peak carbon dioxide emission being reached by 2030. China distributed the emission reductions specifically to local governments during the 12th Five-Year Plans and will continue this policy during the 13th Five-Year Plans [1,2]. In this context, an in-depth study of the trends in urban energy consumption and influencing factors will help achieve the overall goals of saving energy and reducing emissions.
The city of Tangshan, locating in Hebei Province, is a resource-based city that is rich in coal mines and has a prosperous iron-steel industry. Because of the prevalence of heavy industry, Tangshan has a strong and invariant demand for energy, and carbon emissions are a prominent problem [3,4,5]. In this context, an in-depth study of trends in urban energy consumption and the factors that influence them contribute toward the overall goals of saving energy and reducing emissions. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the main factors contributing to the change in energy consumption in Tangshan. To realize this goal, a decomposition technique is employed to analyze the influential factors. Currently, structural decomposition analysis (SDA) and index decomposition analysis (IDA) are the most-used decomposition techniques for energy consumption and carbon emissions [6,7].
Of these techniques, the first (SDA) breaks down already decomposed variants on the basis of known economic relationships and mathematical rules, which broadens functionality and makes for a more thorough, convenient, and systematic analysis [7]. SDA is thus usually based on input–output tables and has been widely applied in studies that deal with energy and environmental issues [8]. In addition, Su and Ang [9] developed the multiplicative SDA method, proposing the further use of attribution analysis via the generalized Fisher index in the context of structural decomposition analysis, while in order to evaluate performance indicators for multi-regional comparisons, these workers also put forward a spatial-SDA framework for analysis [10].
Wachsmann, Weber, Kim, and Cellura and co-workers [11,12,13,14] used SDA to analyze the changes in energy consumption in Brazil, America, Korea, and Italy, respectively. They found that structural changes contribute the most to reductions in energy consumption. Since the reform and opening up in China, energy consumption has increased quickly and continues to rise; for example, energy consumption increased from 1549 Mtce in 2001 to 4260 Mtce in 2014 [15]. Scholars have paid much attention to the reasons for the growth in energy consumption in China. Xia, Li, Zhang, Zheng, and Zhao and co-workers [16,17,18,19,20,21] all applied SDA to analyze the main factors that have contributed to changes in Chinese energy consumption in different stages and showed that end-use increases have tended to cause this growth. In addition, other researchers have considered changes in energy consumption at the provincial level [22].
The alternative approach, IDA, mainly consists of Laspeyres index decomposition (LID) and Divisia index decomposition (DID). Compared with DID, the multiplier decomposition relation is difficult to separate in LID. Thus, DID is widely used in decomposition analysis. With the continuous development of DID, logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) becomes more complete. In the calculation of decomposition, LMDI can completely decompose the remainder with non-explainable remainders. LMDI can be divided into LMDI-I [23] and LMDI-II [24]. LMDI-I and LMDI-II will not produce an explainable remainder. However, the estimates of the effects of energy consumption change given by the two methods tend to differ slightly. Earlier studies that compared the two methods from the viewpoint of index numbers found that both have their strengths and weaknesses. Both methods satisfy most of the tests of index numbers, which are considered to be relevant to IDA; while both satisfy most index number tests considered relevant to IDA, additive LMDI-I fails the proportionality test, while additive LMDI-II fails the aggregation test [25].
LMDI is widely used for the quantitative study of factors that contribute to changes in energy consumption and carbon emissions because its data requirements are not high, and there is no unexplained residual. From the viewpoint of spatial scale, LMDI can be used at the country level, for example, to study energy consumption and carbon emission in China, the European Union, and other areas [26,27,28,29,30,31]. Many studies have also been carried out on energy consumption and carbon emissions at the provincial level [32,33,34,35,36,37], while such studies are relatively rare at the city level [38]. Research has also been conducted at the sector level; for example, Choi and Oh studied the energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with the Korean manufacturing industry [39], and Zhang and co-workers investigated the energy consumption of transportation services in China [40]. In addition to the SDA and the LMDI, the DEA method is sometimes also applied to decompose factors associated with changes in energy efficiency [5,41].
As described above, LMDI has many advantages. However, LMDI does not take intermediate input into consideration and thus ignores the changes in energy consumption attributed to energy consumption structure between sectors [42]. As a result, an increasing number of studies have used the SDA-LMDI model to analyze the forces driving changes in the economic system [43], energy consumption and energy intensity [11], and CO2 emissions [44]. Building on these earlier studies and considering energy consumption as a variable that can be decomposed, this paper applies a new method that incorporates the advantages of both the LMDI and input–output approaches, enabling complete decomposition and explaining how energy consumption structure affects changes in energy consumption. Further, because studies that deal with energy consumption changes at the level of cities are relatively rare, we chose the city of Tangshan as a case study in order to develop a better understanding of environmental problems in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region as well as the characteristics of energy consumption in China. The remainder of this article is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the LMDI method and the data used. Section 3 presents the trends in industrial structure and energy consumption in Tangshan city. Section 4 presents the effects of different factors on the changes in energy consumption in Tangshan city based on LMDI. Section 5 presents the conclusions and offers some policy implications.

2. Method and Data Preparation

2.1. Decomposition Method

In order to decompose energy consumption by sector, it is necessary to comprehensively calculate this variable. However, complete analysis of the energy consumption encapsulated within an industrial supply chain requires an appropriate method that considers the energy use in intermediate production processes by other industrial sectors that comprise the supply chain [45]. One appropriate method to capture energy consumption flows in the economy is the environmental input–output model (EIO), which is extended from the standard Leontief input–output model [46,47]. This tool allows the calculation of direct energy consumption from a sector’s final demand, as well as the indirect energy consumptions from other sectors within the same supply chain. The EIO model can be expressed as follows
E = e ( I A ) 1 Y = e × C × Y ,
In this expression, E denotes the embodied energy that results from final demand, while e is the row vector of direct energy consumption of unit total output, I is the unit matrix, A is the direct consumption coefficient matrix, C is the Leontief inverse matrix, and Y is the column vector of final demand. Thus, importing final demand structure into Equation (1) and adopting the competitive import hypothesis [48], Equation (2) can be generated, as follows:
E = e ( I A ) 1 Y = e × C × s × y ,
In this expression, s denotes the column vector of final demand structure, and y is final demand. We used the input–output model for the city of Tangshan to construct a decomposition method to analyze the factors that influence the embodied energy within this region. According to Ang’s research [25], the LMDI approach is preferable to other index composition methods. Ang [49] provided practical guide for the LMDI method, and Ang & Liu [50] proposed a technique for handling the zero values in the LMDI approach. Therefore, we carried out the decomposition analysis by combining the input–output model and the LMDI approach.
In order to apply the LMDI approach, Equation (2) can be rewritten as:
E = j i ( e i T C i j ) s j y .
Clearly, over the course of one time period, changes in embodied energy or final demand carbon will result from a range of effects. As a result, different techniques, compositions, and scale effects were first used to measure the effects of trade on the environment [51], as widely applied in the sectors of trade and environment [52]. Thus, building on previous research, we also define technique effect as the impact of sectoral changes on direct energy intensity, while holding all other variables constant. The structural effect includes not just input but also final use structural effects, again if all other variables are held constant. Input structure corresponds to production structure, while final use structure represents consumption structure, reflecting structural changes between supply and demand, respectively. Finally, scale effect measures changes in energy consumption generated by variation in the total amount of final use if all other variables are held constant. On this basis, it is possible to generate one general form for all four effects as well as formulas for their calculation.
Given that Δ denotes the changes in each variable, and superscript T represents the transpose of a vector, changes in E between the time points t0 and t1 can be decomposed using Equation (2) as follows:
Δ E = E t 1 E t 0 = f ( Δ e T ) + f ( Δ C ) + f ( Δ s ) + f ( Δ y ) ,
According to Equation (4), and following Ang [48] and Ang & Liu [49], the components of Equation (3) can be expressed as follows:
f ( Δ e T ) = j L j i ( w i j / w j ) ln ( e j t 1 / e j t 0 ) ,
f ( Δ C ) = j L j i ( w i j / w j ) ln ( C i j t 1 / C i j t 0 ) ,
f ( Δ s ) = j L j ln ( s j t 1 / s j t 0 )   and
f ( Δ y ) = j L j ln ( y j t 1 / y j t 0 ) ,
It therefore follows that:
L j = ( E j t 1 E j t 0 ) / ( ln E j t 1 ln E j t 0 ) ,
w i j = ( g i j t 1 g i j t 0 ) / ( ln g i j t 1 ln g i j t 0 )   and
w j = ( g j t 1 g j t 0 ) / ( ln g j t 1 ln g j t 0 ) ,
Similarly:
g i j = e i C i j   and
g j = i g i j .
The terms feT), fC), fs) and fy) represent variation in technique, input structural, final use structural, and scale effects in the embodied energy of Tangshan final demand during the period from t 0 to t 1 , respectively. Thus applying Equations (3)–(13), we calculated and analyzed variations in energy consumption in Tangshan resulting from these four factors.

2.2. Data Preparation

We used the 2007 and 2012 input–output table for Tangshan city from Hebei Provincial Bureau of Statistics [53,54]. We merged the original 42 sectors (Table A1) into 28 sectors (Table 1) and adjusted the price in 2012 to be comparable to that in 2007. We extracted energy data from the Tangshan Statistical Yearbook 2008–2013 [55,56,57,58,59,60], and calculated sector-unit energy consumption using standard coal values. Thus, values for total energy consumption are based on balance tables for the city of Tangshan as well as specific industrial sector energy measures resulting from industrial consumption, designated size, and total industrial consumption.

3. Tangshan’s Industrial Structure and Energy Consumption Status

3.1. Tangshan’s Economic Status

The city of Tangshan, which is located in the eastern part of Hebei Province, is one of China’s most important sites of iron and steel production (Figure 1). For example, in 2012, the crude steel production of this region was 81.07 million tons, 11.3% of total Chinese production, and 5.2% of world production. Steel production in this city has grown 9.64% annually since 2007, while the total GDP of Tangshan in 2012 was 586.16 billion Yuan, 1.1% of total Chinese GDP. The annual increase in the GDP of Tangshan is 13.01%, 0.75% higher than the national average. Available data shows that this city has a high GDP growth rate, alongside large-scale heavy industrial activity.
Data shows that the proportion of secondary industry within the city of Tangshan rose from 57.4% in 2007 to 59.3% in 2012 (Figure 2), while over the same period, this proportion within Hebei Province and across China generally slightly decreased (from 53.3% to 52.7% and from 47.3% to 45.3%, respectively). This trend shows that the economy of the city of Tangshan is highly reliant on secondary industry.
Energy consumption in Tangshan is still growing rapidly. Energy consumption nearly doubled from 60.3 Mtce in 2005 to 113.1 Mtce in 2013, with an average annual increase of 8.2% (Figure 3). Over this time period, however, the factors contributing to energy consumption have remained constant, although the proportion that can be attributed to coal and coke-coal decreased very slightly from 96.2% of the total in 2007 to 95.1% of the total in 2012.

3.2. Trend of Tangshan’s Energy Consumption

Data also show that the energy intensity of Tangshan is higher than the average for Hebei Province, and much higher than the national average (Figure 4). In 2005, for example, the energy intensity of the city of Tangshan was 3.00 tce per 10 thousand Yuan, 1.5 times the average for Hebei Province, and more than twice the national average. Similarly, in 2013, the energy intensity of this city was 1.85 tce per 10 thousand Yuan, translating to an average annual decrease of 5.9% since 2005. At the same time, the average in 2013 for the whole of China was 0.64 tce per 10 thousand Yuan, which translates to an average annual decrease of 9.3%, much higher than that of the city of Tangshan. The average energy intensity for this city was three times the national average in 2013; the reasons underlying this are likely slow adjustments in the industrial structure of this region as well as the high proportion of heavy industry.

4. Results

Decomposition results for energy consumption in the city of Tangshan between 2007 and 2012 are listed in Table 2 and Table 3.
Total energy consumption increased from 2007 to 2012 in most sectors, except for water production and supply (S24), coal mining and allied production (S2), food and tobacco (S6), oil and gas products (S3), paper printing and stationery (S10), and electricity and heat production and supply (S22). Among the sectors, electricity and heat production and supply (S22) had the largest reduction in energy consumption (237,211 tce), followed by paper printing and stationery (S10), oil and gas mining (S3), and tobacco, food, and beverage industries (S6), as well as the coal mining and allied products industry (S2). The energy consumption in all other sectors increased from 2007 to 2012. The metal productions fabrication industry (S15) had the largest increase (3,087,521 tce), followed by construction (S25), metal smelting and rolling processing (S14), chemicals (S12), and special equipment manufacturing.
In terms of reducing energy consumption, technical changes proved to be the most important factor. The three sectors with the largest reduction in energy consumption attributable to technical change were metal smelting (1,529,898 tce), non-metallic minerals (343,478 tce), and construction (322,179 tce). Input structural effects led to increases in energy consumption in most sectors. Metal smelting and rolling processing (S14), construction (S25), and chemicals (S12) were the three sectors with the largest increase in energy consumption caused by structural change, mainly because of increased production in these industries. The demand for intermediate inputs also increased, resulting in increased demand for intermediate energy consumption. Finally, final use scale effects also increased energy consumption in all sectors; the largest such increases were seen in the metal smelting and construction industries (S14) as this sector experienced the greatest production growth.
Data show that in terms of sectors that experienced an increase in energy consumption between 2007 and 2012, transport equipment (S17) exhibited the largest increase, by more than 200%, compared to other industrial activities (S21), manufacture of fabricated metal products (S15), electrical machinery and apparatus (S18), and the mining of nonmetal (S5). In terms of how each factor affected changes in energy consumption relative to 2007, data also show that 24 of the 28 experienced negative technical changes, which means that the majority made technical improvements to reduce energy consumption. Other industrial activities (S21), manufacture of fabricated metal products (S15), paper and products for culture, education and sports (S10) had the greatest technical effect. As for input structural effect, 24 of 28 sectors had positive effect in increasing energy consumption, manufacture of fabricated metal products (S15), construction (S25), steam supply (S23), electrical machinery and apparatus (S18), and textile (S7), which all had an over 50% energy consumption increase. In term of final use structural effect, about half of the sectors had a positive effect in increasing energy consumption. The other industrial activities (S21), manufacture of fabricated metal products (S15), electrical machinery and apparatus (S18), mining of nonmetal (S5), and mining of metal (S4) had the most obvious final use structural effect in increasing energy consumption, while mining of oil and gas (S3), mining of coal (S2), paper and products for culture, education, and sports (S10), and other service activities (S28) had the most significant final use scale effect in decreasing energy consumption. All sectors had a positive final use scale effect in increasing energy consumption. Sectors like other industrial activities (S21), manufacture of fabricated metal products (S15), and electrical machinery and apparatus (S18) had an 100% increase in energy consumption, which was affected by final use scale effect.
A number of key sectors contribute to a larger proportion of energy consumption in the city of Tangshan, including metal smelting and rolling processing (S14) which accounted for 53.2% of energy consumption in 2007, and increased 10.6% between 2007 and 2012. Results show that the four factors tested here contributed to −12.6% (technical effects), 11.2% (input structural effects), −25.2% (final use structural effects), and 37.3% (final use scale effect) increases in consumption between 2007 and 2012.

5. Conclusions and Policy Implications

In order to identify the factors contributing to changes in energy consumption in the city of Tangshan, we first analyzed current economic development and industrial structure within this region and then considered energy consumption. We used previously developed methods to determine the nature of factors affecting changes in energy consumption within the city of Tangshan. The four main conclusions of this research are summarized below.
(1)
From 2007 to 2012, the growth in GDP in the city of Tangshan was higher than the national average. Secondary industry output in Tangshan city accounts for an extremely high proportion of total GDP, much higher than the national average. This proportion translates into a rising trend, instead of a declining trend, in energy consumption during the studied period.
(2)
As a result of Tangshan’s economic development, Tangshan’s energy consumption in 2013 was nearly twice that in 2005. Coal and coke coal consumption was responsible for 96.2% of total energy consumption in 2005 and 95.1% in 2013, demonstrating that coal-related energy is the primary energy source, and that the energy consumption structure did not change significantly between 2005 and 2013.
(3)
In light of the increasing GDP and energy consumption, energy intensity has been gradually decreasing in Tangshan city. Tangshan’s energy intensity decreased from 3.00 tce/10 thousand Yuan in 2005 to 1.85 tce/10 thousand Yuan in 2013. However, the energy intensity of Tangshan was far greater than the average in China, and the rate of decrease in Tangshan’s energy intensity was much lower than China’s average.
(4)
In Tangshan city, the industries with the largest increases in energy consumption from 2007 to 2012 were metal products, construction, and metal smelting and rolling processing. Among the factors contributing to changes in energy consumption, the technical effect was the most important in decreasing energy consumption in most sectors, while the scale effect was the most important contributor to increases in energy consumption in all sectors. In contrast, the input structural and final use structural effects played different roles in different sectors.
In terms of policy, one obvious dilemma associated with reducing the energy consumption of the city of Tangshan is the dominance of heavy industry. Because the mining of metals, fabrication of metal products, and construction contribute the most overall to increasing energy consumption, any reduction brought about by technical changes to these industries will hardly offset corresponding increases caused by intermediate structural inputs and end-user consumption effects. Thus, strategies to significantly reduce energy consumption in the short term include adjustments to industrial structures and the development of low-energy-intensity industries. It is clear that strategies need to be implemented in policy in order to practically engage in the rationalization of industrial structures and modes-of-production. Improvements are required to both administrative and economic policies.
Our analysis of the effects of scale and technical factors show that, in terms of administrative policies, improving and enhancing the control of energy consumption standards as well as transforming the mode of economic growth to technique-oriented should be clear priorities if industrial production in the city of Tangshan is to be successfully adjusted. To do this, the government needs to strictly control the emissions of newly-added industrial producers in order to curb continued expansion of high energy consumption and high emissions, while at the same time, in terms of dealing with existing high energy consumption industries, we suggest that several typical enterprises are selected that exhibit the most energy saving potential so that available administrative resources are most effectively utilized in cutting energy consumption and in setting industry standards. It is also necessary that the government makes significant efforts to improve industrial production and techniques for the treatment of pollutants through investment and by encouraging research and development. Technical departments across all sectors would then be encouraged to try to solve these problems at their source. In addition, techniques involving administrative innovation also play equally important roles in steering reductions in energy consumption.
It is not sufficient or appropriate to simply rely on administrative means to reduce energy consumption as the market presently plays a much enhanced role. Thus, coordinating with administrative powers, the government of the city of Tangshan must adjust the local fiscal and taxation system and implement a number of other financial measures to directly lead and shape the development of industries. For example, the city government could levy high taxation on products from very heavily polluting and high energy consuming industries, while at the same time lowering taxation on enterprises that implement energy-conserving and emission-reducing production measures. In addition, the government could also waive administrative examination and approval fees for companies that replace traditional energy sources with renewable ones. The use of a range of different kinds of economic stimuli can move entire industries in the direction of energy conservation.

Acknowledgments

This paper is supported by the key research and development plan (grant No. 2016YFA0602804) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants No. 41430636; No. 41571518; No. 41201129).

Author Contributions

Jialing Zou, Zhipeng Tang, and Weidong Liu conceived and designed the experiments; Zhipeng Tang performed the experiments; Jialing Zou and Zhipeng Tang analyzed the data; Zhipeng Tang contributed analysis tools; Jialing Zou and Zhipeng Tang wrote the paper.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Appendix A

Table A1. Sectors of input–output table.
Table A1. Sectors of input–output table.
Original Sectors of Input–Output TableDescription
s1Agriculture
s2Mining of coal
s3Mining of oil and gas
s4Mining of metal
s5Mining of nonmetal
s6Tobacco, food and beverage
s7Textile
s8Wearing apparel, dressing and dyeing of fur
s9Wood and products of wood
s10Paper and products for culture, education and sports
s11Refined petroleum products, coking products and nuclear fuel products
s12Chemicals and chemical products
s13Nonmetallic mineral products
s14Metal smelting and rolling processing
s15Manufacture of fabricated metal products
s16Common and special equipment
s17Transport equipment
s18Electrical machinery and apparatus
s19Communications, computer and other electronic equipment and apparatuses
s20Instruments, meters, cultural and office machinery
s21Other manufacturing products
s22Scrap and waste
s23Production and distribution of electricity and heat
s24Steam supply
s25Water supply
s26Construction
s27Transport and warehousing
s28Post
s29Information communication, computer service and software
s30Wholesale and retail trade
s31Accommodation, eating and drinking places
s32Finance and insurance
s33Real estate
s34Renting and commercial service
s35Tourism
s36Scientific research
s37General technical services
38Other social services
39Education
s40Health service, social guarantee and social welfare
s41Culture, sports and amusements
s42Public management and social administration

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Figure 1. Location of the city of Tangshan.
Figure 1. Location of the city of Tangshan.
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Figure 2. Industrial proportions in the city of Tangshan, in Hebei Province, and across China, between 2007 and 2012.
Figure 2. Industrial proportions in the city of Tangshan, in Hebei Province, and across China, between 2007 and 2012.
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Figure 3. The structure of energy consumption in the city of Tangshan between 2005 and 2013.
Figure 3. The structure of energy consumption in the city of Tangshan between 2005 and 2013.
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Figure 4. Energy intensity values for China, Hebei Province, and the city of Tangshan between 2005 and 2013.
Figure 4. Energy intensity values for China, Hebei Province, and the city of Tangshan between 2005 and 2013.
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Table 1. Sector number according to its denomination of national economy of Tangshan from 2007–2012.
Table 1. Sector number according to its denomination of national economy of Tangshan from 2007–2012.
Sector CodeSector DescriptionOriginal Sectors of Input–Output Table
S1Agricultures1
S2Mining of coals2
S3Mining of oil and gass3
S4Mining of metals4
S5Mining of nonmetals5
S6Tobacco, food and beverages6
S7Textiles7
S8Wearing apparel, dressing and dyeing of furs8
S9Wood and products of woods9
S10Paper and products for culture, education and sportss10
S11Refined petroleum products, coking products and nuclear fuel productss11
S12Chemicals and chemical productss12
S13Nonmetallic mineral productss13
S14Metal smelting and rolling processings14
S15Manufacture of fabricated metal productss15
S16Common and special equipments16
S17Transport equipments17
S18Electrical machinery and apparatuss18
S19Communications, computer and other electronic equipment and apparatusess19
S20Instruments, meters, cultural and office machinerys20
S21Other industrial activitiess21–s22
S22Production and distribution of electricity and heats23
S23Steam supplys24
S24Water supplys25
S25Constructions26
S26Wholesale, retail, accommodation, eating and drinking servicess30–s31
S27Transportation, warehouse and posts27–s28
S28Other service activitiess29, s32–s42
Table 2. Four factors affecting change in energy consumption in Tangshan between 2007 and 2012 (unit: tce).
Table 2. Four factors affecting change in energy consumption in Tangshan between 2007 and 2012 (unit: tce).
SectorsTechnical Effect (ΔeT)Input Structural Effect (ΔC)Final Use Structural Effect (Δs)Final Use Scale Effect (Δy)Total
S1−74,69580,126194,642224,677424,751
S222,930105,832−250,82499,112−22,950
S3−429151,590−178,24337,542−93,401
S4−79,659−231,741508,055157,414354,069
S5−478−110423711454793
S6−44,99628,481−162,919116,485−62,950
S7−1807555810,701663421,086
S8171321,84113,72339,79077,068
S9−373111,45321916,44324,384
S10−147,92195,287−177,97480,801−149,806
S11−54,14358,660159,94785,983250,448
S12−100,684299,364408,627359,777967,084
S13−343,478159,661−266,913473,05722,326
S14−1,529,8991,354,136−3,061,7044,525,1991,287,732
S15−175,296247,1192,613,564402,1343,087,521
S16−140,587211,169232,051460,788763,420
S17−55,375108,125322,080154,334529,163
S18−23,20930,469256,47459,569323,304
S19−13,573−785140,82129,70749,104
S20−2102111737057045089
S21−169068,93062,8148909138,963
S22−260,443236,167−621,405408,409−237,271
S23−10745450−229045266612
S24−3185−4035−21632824−6558
S25−322,1791,219,034−359,083805,6831,343,455
S26150,13312,110−144,366184,400202,277
S27−176,588103,436−125,096295,45297,204
S28243,59975,314−522,242348,595145,266
Table 3. Four factors contributing to the change in energy consumption in Tangshan from 2007 to 2012.
Table 3. Four factors contributing to the change in energy consumption in Tangshan from 2007 to 2012.
SectorsTechnical Effect (ΔeT)Input Structural Effect (ΔC)Final Use Structural Effect (Δs)Final Use Scale Effect (Δy)Total Energy Consumption ChangeTotal Energy Consumption in 2007 (tce)
S1−16.8%18.0%43.7%50.5%95.4%445,119.9
S27.9%36.3%−86.1%34.0%−7.9%291,288.5
S3−2.7%32.4%−111.8%23.6%−58.6%159,406.6
S4−27.4%−79.8%174.9%54.2%121.9%290,405.4
S5−34.0%−7.8%301.5%81.4%341.0%1405.5
S6−12.5%7.9%−45.1%32.3%−17.4%361,155.4
S7−17.9%55.0%105.8%65.6%208.5%10,114.3
S82.2%28.0%17.6%50.9%98.7%78,113.5
S9−10.6%32.5%0.6%46.6%69.1%35,266.1
S10−47.6%30.6%−57.2%26.0%−48.2%311,037.4
S11−39.1%42.3%115.4%62.1%180.7%138,560.3
S12−16.6%49.3%67.3%59.2%159.3%607,252.0
S13−25.9%12.1%−20.2%35.7%1.7%1,323,656.8
S14−12.6%11.2%−25.2%37.3%10.6%12,135,370.7
S15−80.6%113.6%1201.7%184.9%1419.7%217,484.2
S16−14.7%22.1%24.3%48.2%79.9%955,602.3
S17−24.8%48.4%144.3%69.1%237.1%223,200.8
S18−42.0%55.1%463.7%107.7%584.5%55,314.3
S19−22.0%−12.7%66.2%48.2%79.6%61,653.7
S20−15.4%8.2%2.7%41.7%37.2%13,683.1
S21−304.9%12,434.1%11,330.9%1607.0%25,067.1%554.4
S22−20.4%18.5%−48.7%32.0%−18.6%1,275,082.0
S23−11.0%55.9%−23.5%46.4%67.8%9748.1
S24−27.2%−34.5%−18.5%24.2%−56.1%11,693.3
S25−19.3%73.1%−21.5%48.3%80.6%1,667,386.0
S2635.3%2.8%−33.9%43.3%47.5%425,704.5
S27−22.5%13.2%−15.9%37.6%12.4%785,997.8
S2826.7%8.3%−57.2%38.2%15.9%912,758.7

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