Resource Distribution, Interprovincial Trade, and Embodied Energy: A Case Study of China

Table 4

China’s major sites of energy distribution.

Types of energy	Reserves	Major provinces of distribution	Total proportion (%)
Coal	Prospective reserves	Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi	94.9
	Proven reserves	Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Xinjiang	80.5
Oil	Prospective reserves	Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Shandong, Liaoning	85
	Proven reserves	Heilongjiang, Shandong, Liaoning, Hebei	70

Data source: Chinese mineral resources report, 2014 [26].