Xinye Zheng is a professor in School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China. He is also the director of the Energy and Resource Strategy Research Center of the National Development and Strategy Research Institute of Renmin University of China, and Vice President of the Economic Research Institute of the “Belt and Road” of Renmin University of China. He was once selected for the Cultural Masters ("four batches") talent program held by Central Propaganda Department, "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" held by Ministry of Education. His research fields include energy economics, industrial organization and public economics. He has published more than 60 papers, an English monograph and eight books in Chinese. He provided decision-making consulting services for many departments of Chinese government and also wrote columns for news media such as China Energy News and China Business News, and received interviews from CCTV news broadcasts, focus interviews, CCTV English channels, NHK Japan, etc.Dr. Chu WEI is the Professor at Renmin University. His research focuses on energy economics, environmental economics and applied econometrics. He has worked extensively on the analysis of energy efficiency and evaluation of pollutants abatement cost. He is currently focused on the residential energy demand in China. This work includes six-rounds national-wide household surveys and several pilot intervention experiments to identify the policy instruments for residential energy management. His research has appeared in the Nature Energy, Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Economics, China Economic Review and other academic journals. He is the recipient of the 2009 Gregory Chow Best Paper awarded by the Chinese Economist Society, the 2015 Distinguished Research Prize awarded by the Ministry of Education and the 2016 Excellent Youth Scholars Grant supported by the National Science Foundation.

• Chapter 1 Research Background and Main Conclusions.- Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics of Questionnaire Data.- Chapter 3 Methods for Estimating Residential Energy Consumption.- Chapter 4 Analysis and Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption.- Chapter 5 International Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption Surveys.- Chapter 6 Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption in Urban and Rural Areas.- Chapter 7 Household Appliance Ownership and Income Inequality.- Chapter 8 Rural Resident’s Choice of Water heater in China.- Chapter 9 Does Air Pollution Reduce Residents’ Happiness.- Chapter 10 Study of Residential Demand-Side Management.

Xinye Zheng is a professor in School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China. He is also the director of the Energy and Resource Strategy Research Center of the National Development and Strategy Research Institute of Renmin University of China, and Vice President of the Economic Research Institute of the “Belt and Road” of Renmin University of China. He was once selected for the Cultural Masters ("four batches") talent program held by Central Propaganda Department, "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" held by Ministry of Education. His research fields include energy economics, industrial organization and public economics. He has published more than 60 papers, an English monograph and eight books in Chinese. He provided decision-making consulting services for many departments of Chinese government and also wrote columns for news media such as China Energy News and China Business News, and received interviews from CCTV news broadcasts, focus interviews, CCTV English channels, NHK Japan, etc.Dr. Chu WEI is the Professor at Renmin University. His research focuses on energy economics, environmental economics and applied econometrics. He has worked extensively on the analysis of energy efficiency and evaluation of pollutants abatement cost. He is currently focused on the residential energy demand in China. This work includes six-rounds national-wide household surveys and several pilot intervention experiments to identify the policy instruments for residential energy management. His research has appeared in the Nature Energy, Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Economics, China Economic Review and other academic journals. He is the recipient of the 2009 Gregory Chow Best Paper awarded by the Chinese Economist Society, the 2015 Distinguished Research Prize awarded by the Ministry of Education and the 2016 Excellent Youth Scholars Grant supported by the National Science Foundation.

• Chapter 1 Research Background and Main Conclusions.- Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics of Questionnaire Data.- Chapter 3 Methods for Estimating Residential Energy Consumption.- Chapter 4 Analysis and Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption.- Chapter 5 International Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption Surveys.- Chapter 6 Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption in Urban and Rural Areas.- Chapter 7 Household Appliance Ownership and Income Inequality.- Chapter 8 Rural Resident’s Choice of Water heater in China.- Chapter 9 Does Air Pollution Reduce Residents’ Happiness.- Chapter 10 Study of Residential Demand-Side Management.

Xinye Zheng is a professor in School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China. He is also the director of the Energy and Resource Strategy Research Center of the National Development and Strategy Research Institute of Renmin University of China, and Vice President of the Economic Research Institute of the “Belt and Road” of Renmin University of China. He was once selected for the Cultural Masters ("four batches") talent program held by Central Propaganda Department, "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" held by Ministry of Education. His research fields include energy economics, industrial organization and public economics. He has published more than 60 papers, an English monograph and eight books in Chinese. He provided decision-making consulting services for many departments of Chinese government and also wrote columns for news media such as China Energy News and China Business News, and received interviews from CCTV news broadcasts, focus interviews, CCTV English channels, NHK Japan, etc.Dr. Chu WEI is the Professor at Renmin University. His research focuses on energy economics, environmental economics and applied econometrics. He has worked extensively on the analysis of energy efficiency and evaluation of pollutants abatement cost. He is currently focused on the residential energy demand in China. This work includes six-rounds national-wide household surveys and several pilot intervention experiments to identify the policy instruments for residential energy management. His research has appeared in the Nature Energy, Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Economics, China Economic Review and other academic journals. He is the recipient of the 2009 Gregory Chow Best Paper awarded by the Chinese Economist Society, the 2015 Distinguished Research Prize awarded by the Ministry of Education and the 2016 Excellent Youth Scholars Grant supported by the National Science Foundation.

• Chapter 1 Research Background and Main Conclusions.- Chapter 2 Descriptive Statistics of Questionnaire Data.- Chapter 3 Methods for Estimating Residential Energy Consumption.- Chapter 4 Analysis and Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption.- Chapter 5 International Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption Surveys.- Chapter 6 Comparison of Residential Energy Consumption in Urban and Rural Areas.- Chapter 7 Household Appliance Ownership and Income Inequality.- Chapter 8 Rural Resident’s Choice of Water heater in China.- Chapter 9 Does Air Pollution Reduce Residents’ Happiness.- Chapter 10 Study of Residential Demand-Side Management.