The impact of environmental constraint on China's industrial productivity growth:An empirical study based on an directional environmental production model  

作　　者：涂正革 肖耿 

机构地区：[1]Professor, College of Economics, Huazhong Normal University [2]Research Fellow with Tsinghua-Brookings Research Center

出　　处：《China Economist》2010年第2期84-95,共12页中国经济学人（英文版）

基　　金：support by National Fund for Social Sciences (Project Number: 07BJY019 and 2008AJY032);Cultural and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education (Project Number: 2008JYJ059);the financial support by New Century Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education

摘　　要：Using input, output and pollution data of industrial enterprises in 30 Chinese provinces and municipalities from 1998 to 2005, this paper creates an environmental production frontier function model to assess China's industrial growth sources, particularly environmental control and changes in the industrial environmental structure's impact on industrial productivity. It found that (1) at its current stage, China's rapid industrial growth is accompanied by a slow increase in pollution; (2) environmental total factor productivity has become a primary driver of rapid growth with less pollution; (3) environmental control didn't cause any substantial restraint on China's industrial growth; (4) improvement in industrial environmental structure contributes an increasingly large share to economic growth with less pollution. China's industrial productivity is increasing, its growth model is being transformed, and the environment is exerting a diminishing constraint on economic growth.Using input, output and pollution data of industrial enterprises in 30 Chinese provinces and municipalities from 1998 to 2005, this paper creates an environmental production frontier function model to assess China’s industrial growth sources, particularly environmental control and changes in the industrial environmental structure’s impact on industrial productivity. It found that (1) at its current stage, China’s rapid industrial growth is accompanied by a slow increase in pollution; (2) environmental total factor productivity has become a primary driver of rapid growth with less pollution; (3) environmental control didn’t cause any substantial restraint on China’s industrial growth; (4) improvement in industrial environmental structure contributes an increasingly large share to economic growth with less pollution. China’s industrial productivity is increasing, its growth model is being transformed, and the environment is exerting a diminishing constraint on economic growth.

关 键 词：ENVIRONMENTAL TOTAL factor PRODUCTIVITY directional ENVIRONMENTAL production function INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTAL structure 

分 类 号：F424[经济管理—产业经济]