Convergence And Divergence Analysis Of China’s Regional Economic Growth And Carbon Emissions’ District Differences

In the past twenty or thirty years, the Chinese economic developmentachievement attracted worldwide attention, however, while economy grows quickly,the problem that the gap between China’s regional economic development growingcomes out, that is the economic development of the Midwest is far behind that of theEast, so it is an emergency to accelerate economy of the Midwest. Economicdevelopment is inseparable from the consumption of energy, and the energyconsumption is bound to bring carbon emissions. The long-term high-consumption,high-emission, high-pollution Economic Development mode lead to the contradictionamong environment and economic development. While our country is in the processof industrialized and urbanization, how to transform the mode of economicdevelopment under the premise of not affecting the speed of economic development isthe important issues that government and the academic circles pay attention to.Whether the central and western regions adopt the sustainable development road inorder to promote their own economic development and narrow the gap with the eastpart region? In the new situation, center-west region can no longer rely on theextensive mode of economic growth, and should not accept the high pollutionindustry transferred by eastern blindly. How to reduce carbon emissions for centraland western region while catching the economy of the east part is another questionthat needs careful consideration.This article is set out from these problems, discuss the difference of economicdevelopment between China’s East and west regional and the relationship between itand carbon emission difference. This paper selects the1991-2010annual data,introducing economic convergence model to test China’s East and west economicdevelopment speed empirically, and by introducing carbon emission area differenceconvergence model to empirically prove whether the central and western regions takethe low emission and low pollution development model when they are trying toovertake the east part. The article uses two-group two-model two-phase analysismethod, by comparing vertically and horizontally in period of time, draw thefollowing conclusions: first, there is no difference convergence of our regionaleconomic development between1990-2010, the gap is widening. Second, the carbonemissions intensity difference is pulled big followes the economic gap. That means,western economic development is built on a high emission, high pollution development mode. This conclusion seems contradict to economic convergencetheory and China’s relevant policy conflicts, but it consistent with our experience andwe give some possible reasons from macroscopic environment change result ofaccession to WTO and the reform of state-owned enterprises. Through the aboveanalysis, this article bring out diversified policy recommendations from the energystructure, optimization and upgrading of industrial structure and other aspects.