@article{Jing:332600,
      recid = {332600},
      author = {Jing, Zhao and Hongzhen, Ni and Xiujian, Peng and Wittwer,  Glyn and Genfa, Chen},
      title = {Modeling Hydropower investments in China based on Sino  TERM},
      address = {2015},
      pages = {11},
      year = {2015},
      note = {Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Melbourne, Australia},
      abstract = {China’s burgeoning economic growth has been accompanied by  soaring demand for electricity. Conscious of worsening  pollution in Chinese cities due to increased coal-fired  electricity generation, and of growing global concerns  about greenhouse gas emissions, Chinese authorities are  planning to continue massive investments in hydropower  generation. This study uses Sino TERM, a dynamic  multi-regional model of the Chinese economy from the TERM  family, to examine investment scenarios across China.  Preliminary results indicate that (1) Hydropower can  significantly boost local economic development, driving a  GDP growth of 43% per year on average. It can promote the  development of some industries such as construction, trade,  transport, and machine equipment, but have a little impact  on overall national economy. (2) Hydropower can provide 300  billion kW·h of power annually, thus alleviating conflicts  between the supply and demand and ensuring China’s energy  security. (3) Hydropower can replace 96 million tons of  standard coals each year, reducing 200 million tons of CO2  emissions, 2.59 million tons of SO2, with prominent effects  on energy saving and emission reduction. Hydropower  proportion increases by 1.6%, which is conducive to  improving the electric power consumption structure.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/332600},
}