Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Electricity consumption and economic growth in China

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth in China"
by Haipeng Wang, Peng Tian, and Ping Jin
in Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Services Systems and Services Management, vol. 2, pp 1331-1334.

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper is a near duplication of the original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:
"Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth in China"
by Alice Shiu and Pun-Lee Lam,
in Energy Policy, vol. 32, no. 1, Jan 2004, Elsevier, pp 47-54.
This paper applies the cointegration and error correction model to examine the causal relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth for China during 1953-2003. Our estimation results indicate that real GDP and electricity consumption for China are cointegrated and there is unidirectional Granger causality running from electricity consumption to real GDP but not vice versa. In order to overcome the constraints on electricity consumption, the Chinese government has to speed up the nation-wide interconnection of power networks, to upgrade urban and rural distribution grids, and to accelerate rural electrification.