This paper estimates China's rural household energy's footprint from 1990 to 2008. The results showed that: 1) in the last 20 years, the increasing trend of rural household energy's footprint was very significant, 7.32% annually; 2) the footprint of firewood, straw and coal continued reducing while the footprint of gas and power increasing significantly; 3) Engel's coefficient influenced the firewood and straw so little, and changed in the same direction with coal footprint; However, Engel's coefficient changed reversely with the gas, ...