Empirical Analysis about Influence Factors of Energy Consumption in China

As the world's second-largest energy consumer, it's crucial to realize the relationship between energy consumption and influence factors, in the need of achieving economy development and sustainable usage of the limited energy resource. Based on the relevant knowledge of statistics and econometrics, the paper analyzes some relevant factors, concludes that secondary industry output is the most important factor; and there are long-term stable cointegration relationships between energy consumption and GDP, secondary industry output, fixed asset investment; one-way causality relationships between energy consumption and GDP, population, traffic energy-using, industry energy-using, fuel power price index; and two-way causality between energy consumption and secondary industry output, resident energy-using, fixed asset investment. then gives lots of relevant suggestions, which is useful to realize the sustainable development of energy consumption and economy development.