Abstract:
Since the reform and opening-up, China’s energy production and consumption have had sustained growth. Correspondingly, the number and scope of energy policies issued by governments at all levels have also been expanding, demonstrating increasing diversity and complexity. However, prominent issues have emerged, including overlapping policy objectives, ineffective policy tools, conflicting initiatives, and imbalanced implementation segments. In this study, the TextCNN text classification model and correlation analysis methods were employed to deconstruct and classify
35557 energy policy texts across five dimensions: objectives, tools, initiatives, sectors, and segments, measuring both objective-tool-initiative and objective-sector-segment correlations. The research findings demonstrate that China has experienced consistent growth in energy policy issuance, achieving comprehensive coverage across four key policy objectives—clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy development—while still facing significant gaps in low-carbon policy implementation. Management and planning policies have consistently dominated, followed by economic incentive policies and educational and informational policies, while command and control policies are fewer and limited to specific sectors. Stable adaptive structures have formed between policy objectives and initiatives: clean, low-carbon, and efficient objectives are highly associated with market, technological, industrial, and fiscal measures, while the safe objective prioritizes infrastructure, emergency response, regulation, and legal initiatives to ensure secure energy supply.