In view of the fourth industrial Revolution marked by the Internet of Things, the blockchain, the artificial intelligence, the 5G and the cloud computing, as the fundamental cornerstone of the high-quality economic and social development and the national security, it is necessary for the energy development and utilization to be closely integrated with a new round of scientific and technological achievements, with advantageous energy disciplines as the link to enable the efficient green development and the clean and efficient utilization of energy. This paper analyzes the energy production and consumption structure, the development status of the energy discipline, and the challenges faced by the discipline development, and puts forward the idea of creating a first-class energy discipline in combination with the future energy development. Following the principle of the "innovation-driven development", this paper puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions for the construction of energy discipline from the aspects of giving full play to the guiding role of the government, the construction of discipline connotation, and the role of resource allocation in the interconnected market.

energy discipline  /  discipline construction  /  first-class discipline