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1、EnergyPolicy39(2011)1330–1337ContentslistsavailableatScienceDirectEnergyPolicyjournalhomepage:www.elsevier.com/locate/enpolChina’senergysecurity:PerceptionandrealitynGuyC.K.LeungHongKongEnergyStudiesCentre,HongKongBaptistUniversity,KowloonTong,HongKon
2、gSpecialAdministrativeRegionarticleinfoabstractArticlehistory:China,nowtheworld’ssecond-largesteconomy,isworriedaboutenergysecurity,whichunderpinsReceived15June2010thecoreobjectivesofBeijingandthepoliticallegitimacyoftheCommunistPartyofChina.Thepurpos
3、eofAccepted1December2010thisstudyistoexplorecertainpopularmythsaboutChina’senergysecurity.ThestudyconsistsofsixAvailableonline7January2011parts.Aftertheintroduction,itformulatestheobscureconceptof‘‘energysecurity’’andattemptstoKeywords:contextualizeit
4、with‘‘Chinesecharacteristics.’’ThenitexplicitlypointsoutthatthelargestdriverofoilChinademandbyChinaasthe‘‘World’sFactory’’istransportinsteadofindustry.Next,itexplorestheEnergysecurityeffectivenessoftransnationalpipelinesasameasureofenergysecurityandex
5、plainswhytheyarelessOileffectivethanmanyobservershavepreviouslyassumed.Furthermore,itinvestigatestheglobalexpansionofChinesenationaloilcompaniesandquestionstheiractualcontributiontoenergysecurity.Afewconcludingremarksthenfollow.&2010ElsevierLtd.Allrig
6、htsreserved.1.IntroductionPrimaryCommercialEnergyConsumption(PEC)amountingto3066.5milliontonsofcoalequivalent(Mtce)in2009,up5.2%yearonyearThePeople’sRepublicofChina(PRC),hometo1.3billioninhabi-(Table1).Inotherwords,China’senergyneeds,currentlythesecon
7、d-2tantswith44,000birthseveryday(Fenby,2008,p.36),passedlargestworldwide,arelargerthanthoseoftheotherBRICcounter-Japaninthesecondquarterof2010tobecometheworld’ssecond-partscombined(BP,2010,p.40).Reportedly,Chinahasaccountedforlargesteconomy(Barboza,20
8、10).SharplyweakeroverseasdemandnearlythreequartersofworldenergydemandgrowthinrecentyearsamidanunfoldingglobaleconomiccrisishastenedChina’seco-(BP,2009,p.2).nomicslowdowninlate2008;yetthecountryhasmanagedtoChina’sfuelmixislargelydependentoncoal
