Study On The Development Of China's Green Industry

When the world entered into the 21st century, the economy of the society develops fast still, but at the same time the issue of tackling resource pressure and environmental pollution becomes more and more urgent. The world's previous model of production was proved to be very short-sighted, since it was built upon the selfish and relentless intake and exploitation of our mother earth. Thus, the development of the human industry goes alongside with the destroying of the world's nature. If this way goes on without any effective readjustment, the situation will fall from bad to worst. The call of developing green industry (namely environmental-friendly industry) is the result of human being's reflection of their acts on the price of sacrificing the environment.Green industry not only shoulders the economic responsibility of ensuring a healthy development of modern agriculture, industry and business services, but bears the non-economic responsibility of ameliorating our eco-environment, realizing a harmonious development between man and nature. The situation of resource scarcity and the need of economic healthy development have decided that China must step on the road of developing green industry as soon as possible. A brand-new model of industrial development which is founded on greening the industrial facility, perspectives, and approaches is badly needed to set target on the reform which endeavors to maintain a sustainable development of the society. The development of green industry reflects the strategic orientation of China's economic and social development, suites the nowadays situation of China, thus becomes the choice of time.Generally, this paper will be divided into seven parts. Along with the first part of introduction and the last part of conclusion, the 2^nd, 3^rd, and the 4^th part of the paper are the theory parts, the 5^th part and the 6^th part are the empirical parts of the research. The arrangement of the paper goes as the following:The first chapter is the introduction. The paper begins with the research background, analyses its relevant theories studied by scholars from home and abroad. Based on the available references, then the paper defines the definition of "green industry", thus provides a theoretical basis and analytic viewpoint for the follow-up research.The second part of the paper takes the green trade barriers as the lead-in of the whole research, further explains its formation, international trend, and its "two-edged" impact on China's foreign trade after entering into the World Trade Organization (WTO). This chapter concludes to the statement that developing green industry is the only and effective way for China to tackle the green trade barriers.In the third part, this paper presents the basic theories of green industry, including industrial metabolism theory, material balance, and material recycling theory. They are the research foundation of the whole paper.The fourth part tries to build up a green industrial chain, setting effort to analyze its structure, mechanism and supervision system.In the fifth chapter, the paper focuses on the development of China's green fanufacturing industry, green agriculture, and green service industry on the whole, each followed by its development description and evaluation.The sixth chapter takes the Pearl River Delta as an example. Having calculated its ecological footprint with MATLAB program from 2001 to 2005, the author of the paper sums up to the conlcusion that the Pearl River Delta is in a state of "low capacity, low footprint, but high deficit" unsustainable development situation, measures should be taken immediately. Then the paper presents some valuable suggestions as: (1) continue the policy of birth control; (2) reduce the occupation of cultivated land for the economic use, and develop un-cultivated land with causion and reasonably;(3) adopt the high bio-techniques to improve the bio-productivity of the land resources per capita;(4) continue to adjust the energy consumption structure, carry out research and development of clean power, such as solar enery, wind power, and natural gas etc.;(5) Try to change the way of the present consumption style both in production and life, build up a more frugal society which is friendly to the environment.The seventh part of the paper, namely, the last part, lays down suggestions and conclusion for the whole research.Probable innovations of the paper can be summarized to the following three aspects:First, the paper builds up a systematically framework for China's green industry research. Utilized the theories from the fields of economics, management, and ecology etc., the author of the paper tries to describe the development of China's green industry from a lager and higher point of view, thus push the research of China's green industry a step forward.Second, the paper chooses the Pearl River Delta as specific example, with the data collected from trusted references, programmed by Ecological Footprint Analysis Approach, the result of the research becomes more scientific and persuasive.Third, this paper pays much attention to applying research to reality. Its realistic and applicable suggestions put forward will be valued by policy makers.