Abstract
Based on the improved C-D production function model, the relationship of China’s energy consumption, economic growth and
carbon emissions are comprehensively studied in this paper through the panel data in China from1991 to 2009. The research
shows that energy consumption and economic growth have a long-term equilibrium and a one-way causality relationship from
energy consumption to economic growth. In both elasticity coefficients and contributive rate, energy consumption plays the most
important role among energy consumption, fixed capital and human capital. It is estimated China’s carbon dioxide emissions will
be reduced by 34.53% in 2020 compared with that in 2005 but there is a great pressure to realize this goal. Empirical research
results indicate that the energy consumption contributive rate to economy growth will decline by 8.5% with those targets during
the period of 2010-2020. The results of the research in this paper are against Environment Porter Hypothesis.