『Abstract
　The analysis of rural residential energy consumption in China from 2001 to 2008 and corresponding impacts on climate change is presented in the paper. It is found that rural residential energy consumption has shown obvious transition from non-commercial energy to commercial energy. The percentage of biomass energy consumption dropped from 81.5% in 2001 to 70.9% in 2008, while the percentage of commercial energy increased from 17.1% to 25.1%. Besides, other renewable energy increased very fast with annual growth rate of 19.8%. Correspondingly, total CO2 emissions from rural residential energy consumption had significant increase from 152.2 Million tons in 2001 to 283.6 Million tons in 2008. The annual growth rate of per capita CO2 emissions was nearly 2 times faster than that of urban area. The major driving force for the consumption of commercial energy was the income of rural farmers, while strong rural energy policies supported the development of renewable energy. To satisfy the goals of energy supply and CO2 emissions reduction in rural areas, it is advised to change the energy structure and improve the energy efficiency, such as to generate electricity using renewable technologies and to replace coal with modern biomass energy for cooking and heating.

Keywords: Rural residential energy consumption; Carbon emissions; China』

1. Introduction
2. Data and methodology
　2.1. Data
　2.2. Methodology
3. Rural residential energy consumption in China, 2001-2008
　3.1. General situation of rural residential energy consumption, 2001-2008
　3.2. Residential commercial energy consumption, 2001-2008
　3.3. Residential biomass energy consumption in China, 2001-2008
　3.4. Residential other renewable energy consumption in China 2001-2008
4. Carbon emissions from rural residential energy consumption
5. Main factors affecting residential energy consumption and its CO2 emission
　5.1. Economic development
　5.2. Rural energy policies
6. Conclusion and discussion
Acknowledgments
References

Fig. 1. Total and per capita rural residential energy consumption in rural China, 2001-2008.	Fig. 2. Variance of rural residential energy consumption structure in China, 2001-2008.
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