Haze pollution control strategies in China from the perspective of energy conservation and emission reduction

Haze pollution has been effectively controlled through the vigorous implementation of China's measures for energy conservation and emission reduction in recent years. However, China's industrial development level and energy utilization rate remain low, and this condition seriously affects the efficiency of energy conservation and emission reduction. As a consequence, the desired effect of haze pollution control is not achieved. This study aims to analyse the current situation of China's haze pollution, explore the internal function mechanism of energy conservation, emission reduction, and haze pollution control, effectively identify the key links of energy conservation and emission reduction work, and effectively control haze pollution. Statistical data on China's haze pollution from 2000 to 2013 are collected to analyse the current situation and regional distribution of haze pollution. The current problems of energy conservation and emission reduction are identified, the intrinsic functional relationship among energy conservation, emission reduction, and haze pollution is clarified, and policy measures to control China's haze pollution are proposed from the perspective of energy conservation and emission reduction. Results indicate that China suffers from serious haze pollution, and the overall presentation area is imbalanced. Haze governance is mainly affected by five factors, namely, the government's lack of incentives to promote the development of energy technologies, the energy resource structure that is mainly based on high coal consumption, heavy industries that account for an excessively large portion of the industrial structure, the traffic transport structure characterized by high motor ownership, and the large amount of dust in construction sites during the urbanization process. Implementing energy conservation and emission reduction can effectively alleviate haze pollution. The findings of this research are highly significant because they provide full understanding of China's haze pollution level, promote the effectiveness of controlling haze pollution through energy conservation and emission reduction, and help achieve coordination between economic and environmental development.