The Xinjiang Government’s Environmental Regulation Impacts On Total Factor Energy Efficiency

The “Five-Year Plan” clearly outlines energy-saving plans into the future development,which can be seen that the Government has been very concerned about energy issues. Thisis because one of the practical problems related to significantly improve long-termeconomic and social development and people-living standard; While hand in a fullyliberalized market, companies tend to overlook the uncontrolled consumption of energy andclean energy or use of renewable energy sources, it will not only result in a waste ofresources, but also on the environment will have a greater negative impact, thereforegovernment intervention has become inevitable. However, due to the impact of economicdevelopment level and the development of philosophy and other factors, the researchaspects of environmental regulation, especially on the local government is not very much.As a big province of energy and a less developed area, can Xinjiang environmentalregulation improve the energy efficiency? The critical intends to make a tentative answer tothe question so that the government can be better guide the market quotation.This paper, from the perspective of the research significance and research status athome and abroad, clear the meaning of government environmental regulation, and introducethe successful abroad experience and deficiency, such as the United States and Russiagovernment environmental regulation in overcoming market failure, control energyconsumption and environmental protection etc.; After that it is analyzed emphatically inaspects of mechanism on energy consumption and thus clear environmental regulation roleof conduction path; Then proceed from the aspects of Xinjiang’s economic developmentprocess and energy consumption situation and problems of Xinjiang governmentenvironmental regulation. Finally, from the aspects of reality, the article using the Frontierpackages and adopting the MLS estimation method, by the data in Xinjiang state of totalfactor the SFA efficiency evaluation model of energy and environmental regulation in indexsuch as environmental pollution control investment, resource etc. between2003and2010do the empirical analysis. The empirical results as we experience estimation that Xinjiangstate’s total factor on energy efficiency is not in the optimal frontier and is in a state ofincreasing its energy efficiency. Therefore, in the process of the future economic development of Xinjiang, energy efficiency, make it to the optimal frontier, not only canimprove the speed of economic growth, but also can improve the quality of its development,realize the benign development of economic society. In government environmentalregulation policy, firstly the effect of environmental infrastructure construction investmentperformance is not obvious. It is likely the reason for the current government infrastructureinvestment is not enough for the environment, and therefore, to make the environmentalinfrastructure construction investment effect on energy efficiency improvement, we mustfurther increase the investment in environmental infrastructure construction in Xinjiang;Secondly shown on the investment of pollution control to curb energy efficiency, and theeffect is very obvious, to show that the environment pollution of currently take investmentexist some shortcomings, such as too much emphasis on Three-of-a-Kind and propertytransactions and so on. We should be flexible Suggestions about Three-of-a-Kind problemand appropriate to reduce the environmental pollution control investment ratio, while theproperty rights can reference the successful experience of abroad or introduction the paiduse of sewage’s discharge right and appropriate time to deal with emission trading in sometime; Thirdly resource tax levied to effectively promote the energy efficiency. Therefore, itis a very effective breakthrough from the Angle of green taxation in order to improve thecontradiction between resources and environment in Xinjiang.Finally, on the basis of the above, combined with the content of the twelve-five–planning’s outline, further put forward the policy Suggestions to reduce the consumption ofenergy from the Angle of the Xinjiang government. At the same time, the governmentshould choose as far as possible the market as a means of intervention, in formulating theenvironmental regulation policies. The first reason is more conducive to improve the energyefficiency, the second it has small fluctuations to the market and is more conducive to stableeconomic development. In addition, the government should be appropriate to raise tilt ofenergy prices in terms of resource management, but the extent of ascension should not betoo high, Or the government could consider levying environmental taxes under appropriateconditions, through promoting green environmental price policy, reforming of existing taxsystem, establishing the system of paid use and transaction of sewage’s discharge right andbuilding ecological compensation mechanism and so on to build a relevant price system. Bythese ways, it can form a complete system of resources and environment tax.