China's energy saving potential from the perspective of energy efficiency advantages of foreign-invested enterprises

Energy Economics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 104-112

  Jiang, Xuemei ^a   Zhu, Kunfu ^a   Green, Christopher ^b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chinese owned enterprises; Energy intensity; Energy saving potential; Foreign invested enterprises; Input output table

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

ENERGY INTENSITY; ENERGY SAVING POTENTIAL; ENERGY-USE EFFICIENCY; INDUSTRIAL SECTOR; INPUT-OUTPUT TABLE; OFFICIAL STATISTICS; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY UPGRADE;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY USE; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84923599130     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2015.01.023     Document Type: Article

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