Impact of environmental investment and resource endowment on regional energy efficiency: evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pucha Wang ◽  
Jing Wu
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Environmental Investment ◽  
Regional Energy ◽  
Resource Endowment

Government cooperation, market integration, and energy efficiency in urban agglomerations—Based on the quasi-natural experiment of the Yangtze River Delta Urban Economic Coordination Committee

2021 ◽  
pp. 0958305X2110474
Author(s):  
Da Gao ◽  
Ge Li ◽  
Yi Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Yangtze River Delta ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Urban Agglomeration ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Yangtze River Delta

Energy efficiency is the key to green development, and the government plays a vital role in energy efficiency. This paper clarifies the mechanism by which the Yangtze River Delta Economic Coordination Committee affects the energy efficiency of urban agglomeration by promoting market integration. Based on panel data of China's prefecture-level cities from 2004 to 2017, we take the Yangtze River Delta Economic Coordination Committee as a quasi-natural experiment of government cooperation and use the difference-in-difference method to test whether this organization has enhanced the energy efficiency of urban agglomeration. The results show that the Yangtze River Delta Economic Coordination Committee can significantly improve energy efficiency in urban agglomerations. The mechanism analysis shows that it reduces the energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product by enhancing the marketization level, perfecting the relationship between the government and the market, and improving the factor market development. The heterogeneity analysis shows that cities with lower city size, lower level of innovation, and cleaner industrial structures gain more benefits in energy efficiency from government cooperation in urban agglomeration. This paper provides empirical evidence for cities to realize integrated energy conservation through government cooperation and market integration.

scholarly journals The Energy Efficiency and the Main Influencing Factors for the Logistics Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Xun Li ◽  
Chuan Lin
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Service Capacity ◽  
Logistics Industry ◽  
East Central

Logistics is the booster of economic development, and it is imperative to further improve the logistics energy efficiency and adjust its development model. This paper is an attempt to investigate the logistics energy efficiency and main influencing factors of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, which is the most economically intensive region that spans East, Central, and West China. The input-oriented SBM-DEA model is employed to identify factors such as energy input, undesirable output, and service capacity output as well as the logistics energy efficiency of Yangtze River Economic Belt. Energy efficiency is then further decomposed into pure technical efficiency, scale efficiency, and technical efficiency, from the perspective of which provinces and cities are compared. The research results show that the logistics energy efficiency of Yangtze River Economic Belt needs to be further improved and that energy efficiency differs greatly among cities and provinces, indicating that the development is quite unbalanced in different areas. Therefore, the local government should develop development strategies according to the main influencing factors and constraints to the local logistics industry, so as to optimize and upgrade the energy structure of the logistics industry.

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