Investigation and comprehensive evaluation of heating mode in rural areas of Northern China

Based on the focus group method, establishes a comprehensive evaluation system of heating mode using analytic hierarchy process. Through the evaluation and analysis of 9 kinds of heating modes, the results show that coal fired central heating mode，electric boiler heating mode, and gas-fired boiler heating mode have good comprehensive evaluation score, and ground-source heat pump heating mode has better comprehensive score. It is necessary to promote the transformation of rural heating mode and adopt the heating mode with high comprehensive score to replace the existing coal-fired boiler heating mode.