A Study About Low-carbon Economy And International Specialization Status Of Manufacture

In the context of global warming,the low-carbon economy of "low energy consumption,low emissions,low pollution" has become the whole world’s common choice of the future economic development.As the largest developing country,and the largest country of energy consuming and carbon dioxide emission around world,energy and the environment is becoming a bottleneck restricting China’s economic and social sustainable development.So the low-carbon economic transition is imperative.Moreover,with the vigorous development of cross-border trade,the international division of labor has been refined,and the new division of labor promote countries in different sectors of the global value chain differ from energy use and environmental performance,thus affecting carbon emission in their national economic development process.Therefore,the study combined with low-carbon economic restructuring and the status of international division is very meaningful.Based on the sample panel data of 60 countries from 2000 to 2011,this paper first combined the data envelopment analysis and the non-radial direction distance function to measure the carbon efficiency of each country.Then we briefly introduce the global value chain theory and the trade in value-added,and use GVC position index calculated by KPWW method to measure the international division status.After that,through the construction of Tobit model,we combined international specialization status with carbon efficiency in the empirical analysis.The results show that,on the one hand,there is a positive relationship between the status of international division and the carbon efficiency.On the other hand,this relationship depends on the economic development level,and a weaker one has a greater"marginal utility" to help its emission reduction.On this basis,we subdivided a whole manufacturing into three types as labor-intensive,resource-intensive and technology-intensive manufacturing,then found that upgrading the international division status of labor-intensive manufacturing is the most positive and practical significance in improving carbon efficiency.