Abstract:

The paper analyzed the relation between energy consumption and economic growth with the conceptual model of relative “delinking” and “relinking”,cointegration techniques and Grangercausality test based on annual data from 1990 to 2005 in Jiangsu Province.The results showed that there was weak delinking between energy consumption and economic growth during the years 1990～2000,but in recent years,the trend in Jiangsu Province was an expansive relinking of energy consumption from economic growth.The study also found that energy consumption and economic growth was cointegrated and there was only unidirectional Granger causality running from energy consumption to real GDP，but not the vice versa.The estimation results are of policy implication on economic growth and energy strategies for Jiangsu Province.〖