The prediction of medium and long-term primary energy demand in Hebei province

Hebei province is the main one of energy production and consumption, the plenteous supply of energy product is the foundation of regional economic sustainable development. The methods of energy consuming elastic coefficient and the energy consumption per GDP were used to predict the medium and long-term energy demand in Hebei province. The prediction result showed that the sum demand of energy is about 250 Mtce at the end of "the eleventh five-year plan" and the average increasing rate per year of energy demand in Hebei province is higher than that of the whole country's average value. It points out that the key tasks of energy development strategy of Hebei province are optimizing the energy structure and industrial structure to reduce unit energy consumption.