Research On Low-Carbon Economic Competitiveness

Humans have produced and consumed numerous material goods since the industrial revolution, especially huge carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from fossil fuel, such as coal, oil, etc, which hade made the greenhouse effect, causing serious damage to the ecological environment. Climate change cased by greenhouse effect and carbon emissions has become a global public environmental issue and caused international concern. The United Nations and some other NGOs begun to organize and coordinate the work of carbon emission reducing, including setting up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC), designing carbon reducing international rules, allocation of carbon emission, creating carbon emissions market, etc. and curbing the excessive growth of carbon emission by the ways of control and market to make economic laws play. Most countries have developed laws, action program, policies to against climate change; develop low-carbon economy actively to achieve carbon reduction targets.But no country really want to accomplished carbon emission reduction targets when the task conflict to its interests, that make the international carbon reduction process would be a intense negotiations, for countries are difference in developmental stage, degrees affected by climate change, economic base for carbon reduction and motives to low-carbon economy. All the countries debated on how to establish an international mechanism about carbon reduction on the UN climate conferences, which means difference suggestion on allocation of carbon emission between developed and developing countries, in essence, countries compete for the right to development and ownership of the new international economic order. Many countries engaged innovation low-carbon technology, develop new energy industries, improve market mechanism to develop low-carbon economy and enhance the ability of carbon emissions reduction and impose carbon tariffs in international trade as new trade barriers to led the international low-carbon economy and obtain the maximum economic and political interests.Now the competition in low-carbon economy has become a full range of competition covering policy, technology, capital and industries, a competition for the national strategic interests, and an important part of the national competition in the global economy.As the biggest developing country, China still faces many challenges in economic and social, but Chinese government has always attached great importance to global climate change, concerned long-term interests of human and international responsibility. China abides by the "common but differentiated responsibilities", and participates in international cooperation on climate change actively; regard climate change as a major economic and social development strategy; has made positive efforts in decision, policies and action, and formally announced the targets on control greenhouse gas emissions that carbon intensity in 2020 would be 40%-45% less than 2005, and binds the target into "twelfth five" plan and other subsequent long-term economic and social development plan, which is a high standard and challenging goals and demonstrates the Chinese government's determination and confidence to low-carbon economy.Even though the rapid growth rate of economy, China still has long way to go on the industrialization, urbanization and modernization process for its low development, great population, lack of independent innovation capacity, and its economy has the characterize of "high input, high consumption and high emissions, lack of coordination, difficult cycle, low efficiency", duplication investment and backward production capacity have been wasting enormous resources and energy. Six high energy consumption industries including energy, automobile, steel, transport, chemicals, building materials have been developing rapidly, that make china a "high-carbon economy" typically. Environmental problems of developed countries over several centuries to solve in the process of industrialization emerge in just a few decades and leave china no more time to solve it.How can china implement carbon reduction targets and commitment to global when facing the urgent need for rapid economic growth and constraints from resources, energy, and environment? How to participate in international competition by promoting carbon technology innovation and developing low carbon industry? How can china enhance the international competitiveness continually by developing low-carbon economy and dealing with the impact on domestic economy effectively from international carbon reduction mechanism? Enhance China's low-carbon economy competitiveness is related to sustainable development and future international development space, is a profound theoretical and practical significance issue to study.This paper adheres to the basic theory of Marxism political economy; research the new cross-field between low-carbon economy and international competitiveness, including theoretical system, evaluation system and measures system.Theory system is the theoretical framework for competitive analysis based on literature research, research purpose and research significance. Based on economics, management science, environmental science and other multi-disciplinary theory, constructs theoretical system and defines the basic content for the low-carbon economic competitiveness, analysis main features, components, and intrinsic motivation of the low Carbon of economic competitiveness, constructs the operation system and factor model of low carbon economy, as a theoretical framework and the basis for assessment practiceCombined with the characteristics of low carbon competition, it builds a unique evaluation system for low-carbon economic competitiveness in mainstream method of evaluation, including index system, evaluation model and a comprehensive evaluation with data collected from yearbooks, from which comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the evaluation results. The evaluation system reflects the national low-carbon economy competition situation and trends in the current and future period, the country's competitive advantages and disadvantages, as the guiding for China to enhance the low-carbon economic competitiveness.According to theoretical deduction and the evaluation results, it summarizes key indicators, weak links and causes that influence the low-carbon economic competitiveness of various countries, analysis the potential development trend of them, and puts forward corresponding countermeasures, practical action and important policy recommendations for china to improve Chinese low-carbon economic competitiveness, which is benefit for scientific development and coordinated development.