Evaluation of Industrial Coordinated Development in Jing-Jin-Ji Region from the Perspective of Electricity Consumption

Regional industrial coordinated development is a key issue for economic circles and urban agglomerations. A comprehensive and accurate evaluation method plays an important role in understanding the effectiveness and shortcomings of regional industrial coordinated development. Existing evaluation methods are mostly based on macroeconomic statistics, which reflect comprehensive effects of multiple factors but pay less attention to technical characteristics. Coordinated development is a dynamic process that requires continuous and sufficient data for evaluation, but continuous macroeconomic statistics covering multiple industries are difficult to obtain. However, electricity can make up for the above shortcomings. With the gradual implementation of the low-carbon strategy, the electrification of terminal energy consumption has become the main trend. Therefore, the electricity consumption can better reflect the industry development. In this paper, we evaluate the industrial coordinated development from the perspective of electricity consumption. We divide the coordinated development into three aspects, namely industrial transfer, industrial specialization, and industrial isomorphism. Each evaluation aspect is assessed from both the perspective of economics and electricity consumption. Case study is carried out based on Jing-Jin-Ji region in China. Results show that sometimes the evaluation based on electricity consumption can more accurately reflect the policy’s implementation and effectiveness. With the help of electricity consumption statistics, more complete and continuous evaluation results can be obtained.

I. Introduction

Regional industrial coordination plays an important role in economic development. It includes not only the effective transfer of some industries, but also requires economic entities to take their unique advantages, promote industrial development, and avoid excessive industrial competition. A reasonable evaluation method can comprehensively assess the advantages and shortcomings of industrial coordinated development, and provide guidance for the future [1].