Energy conservation in China’s energy-intensive enterprises: An empirical study of the Ten-Thousand Enterprises Program

Assessing the design of three carbon trading pilot programs in China

“…Although Chinese authorities no longer directly operate SOEs, they generally have more control over them than over private enterprises, as they continue to appoint and evaluate top executives (Naughton, 2008). If a local government stipulates compliance with a pilot as a key performance evaluation criterion, SOEs under its control would have a strong incentive to comply (Lo et al, 2015). Of course, local governments do not have control over the major SOEs owned and regulated by the central government, and thus these SOEs would continue to pose challenges to implementation.…”

Enterprise-level amount of energy saved targets in China: weaknesses and a way forward

“…As a result, the Chinese government has long recognized the urgency of launching industrial programs that set enterprise-level energy performance improvement targets (Cao et al, 2016;Lo et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2012). The most representative programs are the National Top-1000 Enterprise Program from the 11th Five-Year-Plan (FYP) period (2005e2010) and its replacement, the National Top-10,000 Enterprise Program from the 12th FYP period (2010e2015).…”

Industrial Energy Consumption in Northeast China under the Revitalisation Strategy: A Decomposition and Policy Analysis

“…The most favourable results can be observed in the following energy-intensive sectors: electricity and heating, coal mining and washing, processing of petroleum, coke, and nuclear fuel, and the manufacture of chemical raw materials and products. This decline of energy intensity is closely related to the initiatives taken by the government to promote energy efficiency since the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010), including the elimination of small coal-fired units, the implementation of the Thousand Enterprises Energy Conservation Programme, and the elimination of backward production capacity [36,37]. However, the decline in energy intensity has slowed down, especially post-2009 and, therefore, the impact of I effect on industrial energy consumption is weakening.…”