Toward a sustainable energy system in China: Status and influencing factors

This paper focused on the endogenous and exogenous factors that affect China's sustainable energy system (SES). 19 Endogenous factors, from economic sustainability dimension, social environmental dimension security assessed SES by entropy method-analytic hierarchy process-criteria importance through intercriteria correlation method (EM-AHP-CRITIC). We used urbanization, foreign direct investment industrialization as variables explored extent of their long-term short-term impacts autoregressive distributed lag-error correction (ARDL-ECM) model.