Study On China's Industrial Environment And Energy Efficiency Based On The Perspective Of Industrial Structure Change

With the acceleration development of the reform and opening-up,China has experienced intensive development more than 30 years and great achievements have been made on economic development.Whereas,with the growing of China's economy,the deep contradictions between economic development and resources environment is gradually highlight,especially the environmental problems caused by the use of fossil fuels such as coal and oil is continuously well known.In this context,the coordinated development of resources environment and economic growth is becoming one of the central issues of sustainable development.In this paper,we analyzed and verified the evolution path between resources environment and economic development from theoretical and empirical two aspects to search the economic sustainable development under the constraint of the resources environment and provided the beneficial reference for subsequent environmental and economic policy formulation and implementation.Under the basic framework of environmental economics,based on the reality of industrial economy and resources environment in China,we discussed the function and the feedback mechanisms between resources environment and industrial growth by using the quantitative analysis method,then we analyzed the evolution mechanisms of the industrial environment and energy efficiency.At first,we analyzed the present situation of China's industrial development and resources environment in this paper.Then we used the provincial data to analyze the industrial environment and energy efficiency from the angle of convergence.Meanwhile,we reviewed the mechanisms of industrial structure change effecting on industrial environment and energy efficiency.Finally,we discussed the mechanisms between industrial economic growth and its related factors,such as foreign direct investment,environmental regulation and the technical progress et al.Main contents and conclusions of this study are as follows:The first chapter mainly introduced the research's background and significance,objectives and contents.The second chapter was the theoretical and empirical literatures on resources environment and economic growth,which provides a theoretical basis for this paper.The third chapter mainly analyzed the current situation of China's industrial development.In this chapter,we analyzed the current situation of China's industrial development from the economic growth,pollutant emissions,energy consumption and industrial spatial changes.The results showed that various departments of China's industry all have a significant development in the whole study period,especially in resource intensive industry and technology intensive industry.From the perspective of industrial pollution and energy consumption,the environment and energy efficiency have been significantly improved in all industries throughout the whole study period,especially the lower environment and lower energy efficiency industry,its lifting speed is most significant at the beginning of the study;viewing from the spatial distribution of the industries,the various departments of China's industry were overall in a relatively stable state of distribution,resource intensive industries moved to the Northwest direction significantly,while technology intensive industries showed a significant trend towards the East.The fourth chapter mainly analyzed the convergence and the spatial spillover effects of China's industrial environment and energy efficiency.We started from the similarity of the industrial structure to analyze the convergence of China's industrial structure.On this basis,we analyzed the convergence and the spatial spillover effects of China's industrial environment and energy efficiency.The main conclusions were as follows: viewing from the similar test results of the industrial structure,the industrial structure's similarity between each province and the whole country maintained at a relatively high level during 2001-2013,especially the western region's industrial structure and the national industrial structure's similarity has a rising trend;viewing from the convergence analysis on the industrial environment and energy efficiency,industrial environment and energy efficiency both exists obvious absolute ? convergence and conditional ? convergence.Differences between eastern and western industrial structure reduced 1% each times,the differences between eastern and western industrial environment and energy efficiency decreased 0.1684% and 0.08% respectively;the analysis on spatial spillover of the environment and energy efficiency showed that they all existed significant spillover effect,and the spillover effect showed a trend of first increase and then decrease with the increase of the spatial distance.The fifth chapter mainly discussed the influence of industrial structure change on the industrial environment and energy efficiency.In this chapter,we divided industrial structure change into industrial structure equalization and industrial structure upgrading,then used the panel data model and the pulse function to test the influence of industrial structure change on the industrial environment and energy efficiency.The results showed that: from 2001 to 2013,China's industrial structure equalization and industrial structure upgrading both had a significant change,and industrial structure upgrading had an obviously positive effect on the improving of industrial environment and energy efficiency,relatively,industrial structure equalization have only an obvious effect on the improving of industrial energy efficiency.We revealed the influence mechanism of industrial structure change on environment and energy efficiency in the development process of each province's industrial structure in China by establishing VAR model,the pulse function and variance decomposition.Relatively,the industrial environment and energy efficiency of more provinces were mainly affected by the industrial structure upgrading,but the impact of the industrial structure equalization is quite less.The sixth chapter mainly discussed the influence of multi factors on the industrial environment and energy efficiency.In this chapter,we turned various industrial pollutants into solar energy by using the energy analysis theory,then established index system about industrial environment pollution intensity and energy intensity,and based on this,we further decomposed it into three basic factors,which included industry structure,the overall technological progress and regional technological progress.Finally,we tested the effect of the foreign direct investment,environmental regulation,regional development policies etc on the environment and energy consumption.The results showed that FDI,environmental regulation,resource constraints,regional prosperity and other factors all had a significant positive effect on the regional industrial environment and energy consumption.The seventh chapter summarized the main ideas,conclusions and deficiencies of this paper and put forward the further research ideas in the future.