An Inquiry Into Resources & Environmental Management Based On The Policies Of Stimulating Consumption In China

The social economy of China is in the key period to build a well-off society in an all-roundway, and the demand of consumption has been increasing. Moreover, as a populous developingcountry, China has a very low occupancy per capita which is below the average in most naturalresources. So Chinese economic development has to face a dilemma: on the one hand, mostpeople hope their consumption level to be raised; on the other hand, the consumption of thenatural resources has been increasing, insufficient reserves have become increasingly obvious,and the growing levels of consumption has led to the amount of waste tossed into theenvironment increasing. All of these make the problems between the consumption and resources& environment become more acute contradictions. So this paper analyses the mechanisms andeffects that the policies of stimulating consumption impact the resources and environment fromthe connection between consumption and resources & environment. By the results of analysis theauthor discusses the principles and ways of Resource utilization and environmental protection onthe base of stimulating consumption in China from the sustainable consumption and the policytools of resources & Environmental management. Moreover, the author builds the modelbetween consumption and resources & environment and gives some suggestions to build a policysystem of resources & Environmental management for the Resources-saving andenvironment-friendly society in China according to the experience of the resources &Environmental management based on the stimulating consumption in the developed countriesThere are five chapters in this paper, the specific contents includes:Chapter 1, the author introduces the conditions of resources & environment in China afterstimulating consumption and the background and significance of this study firstly. And then theauthor analyses the scholars' studies for stimulating consumption and the theories of resources & environmental management. At last the author puts forward the study methods andbreakthroughs.Chapter 2 is one of emphases. The author analyses the concept of consumption in themeaning of existence, the social significance, ecological significance and economics significance.Then the author concludes that people could make the human beings and nature, consumptionand resources & environment harmony if they choose the sustainable development by analyzingthe connection between consumption and resources & environment qualitatively. On theconclusion the author divides consumption into four kinds——production consumption, lifeconsumption, government consumption and household consumption, and then analyses theconnection between them and resources & environment qualitatively.Chapter 3 is also one of emphases. The author studies the resources & environmental effectof stimulating consumption by quantitative analysis. The research gets the conclusion thatstimulating consumption has slowed down total energy consumption increasing and industrialwaste water discharge reducing, and quickened the industrial waste air emission and industrialsolid wastes discharge by ANCOVA model. By generalized difference regression model, we getthat the increasing of automobile consumption has made land resources and the energy fortransport supply hard, and led to the increasing of waste air emission. And then the author get theconclusion that the increasing of household consumption benefits the reducing of industrialwaste discharge, the increasing of government consumption benefits the reducing of energyconsumption, and the increasing of industrial waste discharge is in direct proportion to theincreasing of investment by PRF model. All of the conclusions supply the empirical basis for thechoice of policy tools.Chapter 4 summarizes the experience of stimulating consumption and resources &environmental management at the same time in the developed countries. The author analyses thedevelopmental trend of resources & environmental management and provides the experientialgist for Chinese government.Chapter 5 gives the suggestions for policies from consumption and resources &environmental management according to the conclusion of chapter 2, 3, 4. The suggestionsinclude that help the government to choose the sustainable consumption in the consumptionpolicies by regulating government consumption and guiding household consumption, and buildthe policy system of resources & environmental management by improving the market role in theallocation of resources, to deepening the reform of resources & environmental property rights,confirming resources & environmental responsibility.Comparing to existing studies, there may be a few breakthroughs in the paper:Firstly, the connection between consumption and resources & environment has beenanalyzed from several angles, and its attributes and functions have been studied in detail. Theframework of the connection has been deduced according to the theories of consumption and resources & environmental management.Secondly, the paper builds the ANCOVA model of household consumption and resources &environment, generalized difference regression model of automobile consumption and resources& environment, PRF model of consumption,investment and resources & environment by Eviewsaccording the data of consumption and resources & environment (1985～2005) in China. So wecan get the impact of stimulating on resources & environment and give empirical basis to helpthe government choose policy tools by the models.