Mode selection of China's urban heating and its potential for reducing energy consumption and CO2 emission

Does urbanization lead to more direct and indirect household carbon dioxide emissions? Evidence from China during 1996–2012

“…Liu et al (2011) noted that there is a huge difference in carbon dioxide emissions between rural and urban households in China. Chen et al (2014) probed that CO 2 emission from urban central heating, which has an average annual growth rate of 10.3%, is responsible for 4.4% of China's total CO 2 emissions. And they implicated that the decreases in CO 2 emission will account for 24.5% of China's target to reduce total CO 2 emission by 2020.…”

How Much CO2 Emissions Can Be Reduced in China’s Heating Industry

“…Lastly, although energy price is controlled to low levels by the government, its impact on CO 2 emissions cannot be ignored. In the future, market-oriented energy pricing reform is necessary.…”

“…Chen et al [2] analyzed energy conservation and CO 2 emissions reduction potential of different models for urban heating in China. Niu et al [3] analyzed energy consumption of rural household heating under comfortable temperature in the Loess Plateau of Gansu Province in China.…”

“…In addition, CO 2 emissions of China's heating industry grew at an average annual rate of 6.39% over 1985-2010. In 1985, CO 2 emissions of the heating industry accounted for 4.64% of China's CO 2 emissions, while China's CO 2 emissions accounted for 9.29% of global CO 2 9.29% of global CO2 emissions. In 2010, CO2 emissions in the heating industry accounted for 5.01% of China's total CO2 emissions, while CO2 emissions in China was responsible for 24.85% of global CO2 emissions.…”

Burnout in Chinese coal mine safety supervision

“…Under the background of building a resource-friendly society in China, more scholars are focusing their attention on the effect of carbon emission and energy consumption on the environment (Wang and Song, 2014;Song et al, 2012). As the Chinese government has been making great efforts on the transition of resource-based cities and the use of new environmentally-friendly energy (Li et al, 2013;Chen et al, 2014), China's coal industry is now facing a gloomy future and coal mine safety supervision will confront more severe challenges. In the current safety supervision system of "national supervision, local monitoring, and corporate responsibility", it is obviously not realistic to extend the authority boundary of safety supervision personnel in an unlimited manner.…”