Abstract: Lack of climatic energy consumption data in socio-economics in China has become a bottleneck for researches on impacts of climate change on climatic energy consumption, such as residential heating and cooling etc. A method to construct the anomaly series of climatic energy consumption for residential heating in towns and cities is presented. It combines climate factors with socio-economic factors, such as population and per capita residential area, together, and intuitively reflects the impacts of climate on the energy consumption for urban residential heating. Based on four variables: annual town and city population, per capita residential area, heating degree-day (the base temperature is 18℃) and the standard coal consumption for heating defined in energy Conservation Design Standard for New Heating Residential Buildings (JCJ26-95)? the following conclusions are drawn: theoretically, about 360 thousand tons standard coal for heating in the warmer winter of 2001/2002 could be saved in comparison with the standard energy consumption for the average climate over 1971-2000 and in the colder winter of 2000/2001 extra 155 thousand tons standard coal for heating could be added in Jilin Province.

Key words: residential heating, climatic energy consumption, anomaly series, Jilin Province