『Abstract
　Despite the fact that China's energy intensity has continuously decreased during the 1980s and mostly 1990s, the decreasing trend has reversed since 1998 and the past few years have witnessed rapid increase in China's energy intensity. We firstly conduct an index decomposition analysis to identify the key forces behind the increase. It is found that: (1) the high energy demand in industrial sectors is mainly attributed to expansion of production scale, especially in energy-intensive industries; (2) energy saving mainly comes from efficiency improvement, with energy-intensive sectors making the largest contribution; and (3) a heavier industrial structure also contributes to the increase. This study also makes the first attempt to bridge the quantitative decomposition analysis with qualitative policy analyses and fill the gap between decomposition results and policy relevance in previous work. We argue that: (1) energy efficiency improvement in energy-intensive sectors is mainly due to the industrial policies that have been implemented in the past few years; (2) low energy prices have directly contributed to high industrial energy consumption and industry to the heavy industrial structure. We provide policy suggestions in the end.

Keywords: China's energy consumption; Industrial policy; Energy price policy』

1. Introduction
2. Past studies: A literature review
3. Decomposition methods and data
　3.1. Methods
　3.2. Data
4. Decomposition results and discussions
　4.1. Comparison of decomposed effects
　4.2. Identification of influential sectors
　4.3. Data reliability and biases
5. Analysis of industrial policies
6. Analysis of energy price policies
　6.1. Stage I: promoting economic development
　6.2. Stage II: increasing energy supply
　6.3. Stage III: optimizing resources allocation
　6.4. Further discussion
7. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
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