Measuring the Level of Industrial Green Development and Exploring Its Influencing Factors: Empirical Evidence from China’s 30 Provinces

Sustainability

Jing Han¹  Chaofan Chen¹  Peilei Fan² 

[1] School of Economics and Resource Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;School of Planning, Design, and Construction, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 488823, USA;

关键词: industrial green development;    assessment and measurement system;    analytic hierarchy process;    influencing factors;    dynamic panel data model;    panel threshold test;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su8020153

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Nowadays, with the green economy becoming mainstream in the world, an industrial revolution as the core of green development has emerged. Based on the empirical evidence from China’s 30 provinces, this study establishes an evaluation index system of China’s industrial green development and applies the analytic hierarchy process to determine the indices’ weights and properties to measure the level of industrial green development in China’s 30 provinces. Then, an empirical study is conducted to explore the relevant factors influencing China’s industrial green development by using the dynamic panel data model and a panel threshold test. The results show that China’s level of industrial green development has the characteristic of typical regional differentiation with a ladder-like distribution from the east and middle to the west, and the eastern region has the highest level on industrial green output, industrial green efficiency and industrial green innovation. Technological progress and innovation can stimulate industrial green development. The impact of environmental regulation and foreign investment on industrial green development presents a nonlinear “N”-type trend, and the positive effects are mainly observed in eastern China. Capital deepening, heavy chemical industries and an unreasonable energy structure are not effective in industrial green development. There is no direct relation between the enterprise scale and industrial green development.

【 授权许可】

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