Study on the participating strategy of China in the international energy security cooperation

• Main Authors: Zhao Shu-rong, Cheng Shao-pei
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: energy security; Government; international energy security cooperation; Monitoring; Petroleum; Pricing; Security; Standards organizations; strategy
• ISSN: 2155-1847
• DOI: 10.1109/ICMSE.2013.6586527

Energy security is a global and comprehensive issue. As the establishment and development of international energy market, the previous thinking model of ensuring energy security by restricting on supply of energy has been changed. The research in this field has shifted to the establishment of mechanisms such as cooperation or pricing mechanism by which, policies of different countries can be coordinated; self-sufficiency of each country in energy supply will be improved; common energy saving measures may be adopted and the information of the international energy market can be shared by all and etc. This paper, by understanding of the new situation of international energy security, learning from international experiences and combining with China's own feature, aims at analyzing the new situation encountered by China in the field of energy security from the perspective of international cooperation, generalizing and concluding the status quo, its problems and challenges facing China so as to to present participating strategy of China in the international cooperation of energy security, such as promoting the establishment of energy security mechanism of China in the context of international cooperation, enhancing bilateral cooperation mechanism and international cooperation in low-carbon and clean energy.