scholarly journals Does Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy Alleviate Urban Haze Pollution? Empirical Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11287
Author(s):  
Jinling Yan ◽  
Junfeng Zhao ◽  
Xiaodong Yang ◽  
Xufeng Su ◽  
Hailing Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Haze Pollution ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Low Carbon City ◽  
The Impact

As a comprehensive environmental regulation, the low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCP) may have an impact on haze pollution. The evaluation of the effectiveness of LCCP on haze pollution is greatly significant for air pollution prevention and control. Taking LCCP as the starting point, in this study we constructed DID, PSM-DID, and intermediary effect models to empirically test the impact and mechanism of LCCP on haze pollution, based on the panel data of 271 cities in China from 2005 to 2018. The findings show that (1) LCCP has significantly reduced the urban haze pollution, and the average annual concentration of PM2.5 in pilot cities decreased by 14.29%. (2) LCCP can inhibit haze pollution by promoting technological innovation, upgrading the industrial structure, and reducing energy consumption. Among these impacts, the effect of technological innovation is the strongest, followed by industrial structure, and energy consumption. (3) LCCP has significantly curbed the haze pollution of non-resource dependent cities, Eastern cities, and large cities, but exerted little impact on resource-dependent cities, Central and Western regions, and small and medium-sized cities. (4) LCCP has a spatial spillover effect. It can inhibit the haze pollution of adjacent cities through demonstration and warning effects. This study enriches the relevant research on LCCP and provides empirical support and policy enlightenment for pollution reduction.

scholarly journals Does the Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy Promote Green Technology Innovation? Based on Green Patent Data of Chinese A-Share Listed Companies

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3695
Author(s):  
Jintao Ma ◽  
Qiuguang Hu ◽  
Weiteng Shen ◽  
Xinyi Wei
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Corporate Financing ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Low Carbon City ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Share

To cope with climate change and achieve sustainable development, low-carbon city pilot policies have been implemented. An objective assessment of the performance of these policies facilitates not only the implementation of relevant work in pilot areas, but also the further promotion of these policies. This study uses A-share listed enterprises from 2005 to 2019 and creates a multi-period difference-in-differences model to explore the impact of low-carbon city pilot policies on corporate green technology innovation from multiple dimensions. Results show that (1) low-carbon city pilot policies stimulates the green technological innovation of enterprises as manifested in their application of green invention patents; (2) the introduction of pilot policies is highly conducive to green technological innovation in eastern cities and enterprises in high-carbon emission industries; and (3) tax incentives and government subsidies are important fiscal and taxation tools that play the role of pilot policies in low-carbon cities. By alleviating corporate financing constraints, these policies effectively promote the green technological innovation of enterprises. This study expands the research on the performance of low-carbon city pilot policies and provides data support for a follow-up implementation and promotion of policies from the micro perspective at the enterprise level.

Research on Development Status and Countermeasure of Shandong Province Low Carbon City

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 2636-2640
Author(s):  
Xiu Li Sun ◽  
Xue Qin Sun
Keyword(s):  
Capital Investment ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Shandong Province ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
The Status ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions ◽  
Low Carbon City ◽  
The Impact

Due to the impact of climate change, the development of low-carbon economy and building a low carbon city has become one of the optimal mode of urban development in the future. This paper first describes the related concepts of low-carbon cities, introduces the status of the development of low carbon cities in Shandong Province, identify the favorable conditions and unfavorable factors of the development of low carbon cities in Shandong Province, and finally put forward countermeasures and suggestions. This article points out that Shandong Province should improve the low - carbon policies and systems, build a legal system, increase low-carbon capital investment, develop the carbon trading markets, adjust industrial structure, promote energy conservation etc, then realize the healthy development of low-carbon city.

scholarly journals Double Effects of Environmental Regulation on Carbon Emissions in China: Empirical Research Based on Spatial Econometric Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Yuanhua Yang ◽  
Dengli Tang ◽  
Peng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Significance Test ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Spatial Lag Model ◽  
Lag Model ◽  
The Impact

This paper theoretically analyzes the direct impact of environmental regulation on carbon emissions and its indirect effects on carbon emissions through foreign direct investment (FDI), energy consumption, industrial structure, and technological innovation. Then, this paper constructs a spatial lag model to empirically test the dual effects of environmental regulation on carbon emissions based on the provincial panel data of 2003–2017 in China. The results show that the average Moran’s I value of carbon emissions during 2003–2017 is 0.2506, passing the significance test at 1% level, and carbon emissions have spatial correlation characteristics. The direct impact of environmental regulation on carbon emissions is significant and positive. Environmental regulation could indirectly influence carbon emissions by influencing FDI, energy consumption, and technological innovation, and meanwhile, FDI, energy consumption, and technological innovation help to reduce carbon emissions under the constraint of environmental regulation, specifically. However, the impact of environmental regulation on carbon emissions through industrial structure is not significant.

scholarly journals Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Structure Transformation on Haze Pollution across China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5439
Author(s):  
Chenggang Li ◽  
Tao Lin ◽  
Zhenci Xu ◽  
Yuzhu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Structure Transformation ◽  
Haze Pollution ◽  
The Impact

With the development of economic globalization, some local environmental pollution has become a global environmental problem through international trade and transnational investment. This paper selects the annual data of 30 provinces in China from 2000 to 2017 and adopts exploratory spatial data analysis methods to explore the spatial agglomeration characteristics of haze pollution in China’s provinces. Furthermore, this paper constructs a spatial econometric model to test the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and industrial structure transformation on haze pollution. The research results show that the high-high concentration area of haze pollution in China has shifted from the central and western regions to the eastern region and from inland regions to coastal regions. When FDI increases by 1%, haze pollution in local and neighboring areas will be reduced by 0.066% and 0.3538%, respectively. However, the impact of FDI on haze pollution is heterogeneous in different stages of economic development. FDI can improve the rationalization level of industrial structure, and then inhibit the haze pollution. However, FDI inhibits the upgrading level of industrial structure to a certain extent, and then aggravates the haze pollution. The research in this paper provides an important decision-making basis for coordinating the relationship between FDI and environmental pollution and realizing green development.

Carbon Emission of Mining Industry’s Energy Consumption in Heilongjiang Province

2015 ◽  
Vol 1092-1093 ◽  
pp. 1597-1600
Author(s):  
Zhong Hua Wang ◽  
Xin Ye Chen
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Carbon Emissions ◽  
Carbon Emission ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Calculation Model ◽  
Energy Utilization ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Heilongjiang Province ◽  
Low Carbon

The need to reduce carbon emission in Heilongjiang Province of China is urgent challenge facing sustainable development. This paper aims to make explicit the problem-solving of carbon emission to find low carbon emission ways. According to domestic and foreign literatures on estimating and calculating carbon emissions and by integrating calculation methods of carbon emissions, it was not possible to consider all of the many contributions to carbon emissions. Calculation model of carbon emissions suitable to this paper is selected. The carbon emissions of energy consumption in mining industry are estimated and calculated from 2005 to 2012, and the characteristics of carbon emission are analyzed at the provincial level. It makes the point that carbon emissions of energy consumption in mining industry can be reduced when we attempt to alter energy consumption structure, adjust industrial structure and improve energy utilization efficiency.

scholarly journals An empirical analysis of the impact of technological innovation on China’s total employment

2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 02042
Author(s):  
Peihua Li
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Impulse Response Function ◽  
Destructive Effect ◽  
Total Employment ◽  
Promotion Effect ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Impact

Technological innovation represented by artificial intelligence and 5G networks has developed rapidly, since the reform and opening up, especially in recent years. Technological innovation promotes the upgrading of industrial structure, promotes the increase of employment in emerging industries, at the same time, eliminate the workers in backward industries, which will have an impact on overall employment. Therefore, this paper studies the impact of technological innovation on the total employment of China from an empirical perspective. Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and TFP growth rate calculated by the Solow residual method are used as indicators of the level of technological innovation, and the long-term cointegration regression model and short-term impulse response function are established with the number of employees and employment growth rate as the dependent variables, respectively. The study found that, the impact of technological innovation on employment levels has a stable promotion effect in the long run; in the short run, there is a destructive effect at first, but as time goes by, this destructive mechanism gradually occupies the peak, and the creative mechanism begins to take effect. The leading role, technological innovation has a steady promotion effect on employment.

scholarly journals Has “the Belt and Road initiative” Improved the Pollution Level?

2021 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 02023
Author(s):  
Jing Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Pollution Level ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Waste Gas ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Belt And Road

Based on the panel data of 278 prefecture-level cities in China from 2008 to 2018, this paper adopts DID method to verify the impact of “the Belt and Road initiative” on pollution level of these cities, the results are still robust through the placebo test and PSM-DID, the mechanism is also analyzed. The study found that “the Belt and Road initiative” has a significant effect on the emission of wastewater, waste gas and dust of cities in China; the mechanism test shows that “the Belt and Road initiative” has significantly reduced urban environmental pollution by promoting foreign investment, upgrading industrial structure and technological innovation.

The Effect of Technological Innovation and Market Size on Manufacturing Structure: Evidence from the World’s Largest Tobacco Producer and Seller

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 2422-2444
Author(s):  
Song Teng ◽  
Liu Yuxin
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Tobacco Industry ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Market Size ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
The Impact

Objectives: As the world’s largest tobacco producer and seller, China’s rapid development of the tobacco industry is inextricably linked to the promotion and support of the manufacturing industry. The optimization and adjustment of the manufacturing structure (MS) is critical in determining the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. This study examines the impact of technological innovation and market size on MS optimization in China using provincial data from 2001 to 2016. We obtain the following main results. First, market size and technological innovation are important drivers in optimizing MS. Technological innovation increases productivity and results in the redistribution of production factors across industrial sectors, altering the industrial structure. The market size facilitates labor division, which boosts productivity. Second, institutional innovation is critical for optimizing MS. It strengthens the impact of technological innovation and market size on MS rationalization. Furthermore, the study’s findings are robust to a variety of estimation techniques, several alternative proxies for core explanatory variables, and a long list of control variables. An important implication of the study’s findings is that the Chinese government should implement effective institutional reforms to accelerate China’s manufacturing industry’s development. China’s tobacco industry, in particular, will achieve higher quality development based on the transformation and upgrading of the overall manufacturing industry.

Energy Consumer Demand Predict of Hebei Province in the Domain of Low-Carbon Economy — Analysis Based on Gray Model GM (1,1)

2013 ◽  
Vol 380-384 ◽  
pp. 4456-4460
Author(s):  
Ju Qin Wang ◽  
Bao Lin Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Hebei Province ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
The Face ◽  
Consumption Situation ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Carbon Economy

The face of the world economic development has transitioned to a low-carbon economy, in order to meet the dual challenges of climate change and scientific development, the development of low-carbon economy has become the reality of the development of key choice. In this background, based on energy consumption situation in Hebei Province,we use GM (1,1) gray prediction model to predict Hebei Provinces energy consumption and energy consumption structure in 2003-2010. Based on the analysis of the results, support from the policies, laws, and adjust the industrial structure, promote the three levels of the low-carbon concept has made a number of recommendations for the Hebei Province future energy planning and low-carbon development.

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