The International Comparison Of Industrial Structure’s Effects On Transition Of Economic Growth Pattern

With the rapid development of our economy, deterioration of energy and environmentcaused by the simple pursuit of GDP becomes more and more serious, and the extensivemode of economic growth is difficult to go on. Therefore, actively adjusting the industrialstructure to achieve economic sustainable development under ecological trend is a pressingmatter of the moment in our country. This paper attempts to analyze contrastively the effecton economic growth mode transformation from the industrial structure change underecological trend in China, South Korea, Singapore, France, Japan and America. The arm isto provide direction for reference, to achieving targets of conserving energy and reducingemissions and the transformation of China’s economy from the angle of industrial structureadjustment.This paper consists of six chapters.The first chapter is introduction, mainly introduces the background of China’seconomic development, energy and environment, and expounds the significance ofadjustment of industrial structure effect on economic growth, energy and environment.The second chapter is the theoretical basis and literature review part, introduces thetheoretical development of the industrial structure and the conceptual rise of the greeneconomy, circular economy and low carbon economy. It also summarizes the domestic andforeign research about the industrial structure effect in the economic growth, efficiency ofenergy consumption and carbon emissions.The third chapter analyzes the historical change of industrial structure under ecologicaltrend in the six countries since1980. Firstly, this part analyzes the historical change ofindustrial structure, based on three industrial structures, industry inner structure and therationalization and upgrading of industrial structure. And then, the change trends ofefficiency of energy consumption and carbon emissions are analyzed in the six countries.The analysis result shows China, whether its industrial structure, or its energy intensity andcarbon emissions intensity is far behind the other countries.The fourth chapter constructs the panel data models of the industrial structure effect onthe economic growth, energy consumption intensity and carbon emissions intensity, andexpounds the selection of the relevant variables and sources of data in detail.The fifth chapter respectively using variable intercept panel data model and variablecoefficient panel data model, analyzed by stages that how the industrial structure did effecton economic growth, energy consumption intensity and carbon emissions intensity. Themain conclusions are:(1) after the Asian financial crisis in1990s, in all countries,especially in the developed countries, the increasing of the advanced industrial structure level reduced greatly energy consumption intensity and carbon emission intensity, and theeffect of energy-saving and emission-reduction was very obvious;(2)The influence ofindustrial structure on economic growth was obvious in the China, South Korea andSingapore, but in the old developed countries the result was not quite outstanding, and eveninhibiting. This result is a mere coincidence with the structuralism on the theory ofeconomic growth.The sixth chapter is the conclusion and the experience that we can learn part. All theconclusions in the paper are summarized, but also provide the experience from thedeveloped countries that we can learn for the economic transformation in China.