Environmental Regulation,Pollution Treatment Productivity,and Industrial Environmental TFP in China  

环境管制、污染治理生产率与中国工业环境全要素生产率的提高

作　　者：梁泳梅[1] 董敏杰 

机构地区：[1]中国社会科学院工业经济研究所 [2]中债资信评估有限责任公司

出　　处：《China Economist》2015年第4期98-123,共26页中国经济学人（英文版）

基　　金：国家社会科学基金重点项目“产业升级与环境管制提升路径互动研究”(批准号14AJY015)~~

摘　　要：Amidst growing environmental protection intensity by the Chinese government, this paper investigates the effects of environmental regulation on China＇s industrial pollution treatment productivity and environmental TFP. By estimating China＇s pollution treatment productivity between 2001 and 2008 and analyzing environmental regulation intensity and the effects of the relevant factors and pollution treatment productivity using panel data, this paper discovers that （1） pollution treatment productivity contributed a significant share of about 40% to industrial environmental TFP during the investigation period; （2） environmental regulation may not necessarily cause adverse impacts on pollution treatment efficiency and productivity but demonstrates a U-shaped relationship： when the share of pollution treatment cost in industrial value-added is above the range of 3.8%-5.1%, environmental regulation is likely to promote pollution treatment productivity and thus environmental TFP Judging by the estimation result, enhancing environmental protection and expediting the development of ecological civilization are conducive to China ＂s economic transition towards an intensive, efficient, circular, and sustainable development pattern. China＇s current industrial development has the capacity to tolerate a rather demanding level of pollution treatment and management and China needs to further rely on energy conservation and the environmental production industries to promote the progress of pollution treatment technologies.在中国政府不断加大环境保护力度的背景下，本文探讨了环境管制对于中国工业的污染治理生产率进而对环境全要素生产率的影响。通过测算2001-2008年中国的污染治理生产率，并利用面板数据探讨环境管制强度及其他相关因素对污染治理生产率的影响，本文发现考察期内污染治理生产率对工业环境全要素生产率的提高贡献明显，前者对后者的贡献约为40%；环境管制对污染治理效率与生产率并不一定造成不利影响，而是存在着“U”形影响；当污染治理成本占工业增加值的比重高于3.8%-5.1%时，环境管制可能有利于污染治理生产率进而环境全要素生产率的提高。从测算结果来看，加强环境保护、加快推进生态文明建设的确有利于推动经济向集约、高效、循环、可持续的发展方面转变，目前中国的工业发展能够承受相当严格程度的污染防治管理，中国需要进一步依靠大力发展节能环保产业来推进污染治理技术的进步。

关 键 词：environmental regulation industrial environmental TFP pollution treatment productivity dynamic panel the Generalized Method of Moments. 

分 类 号：F424[经济管理—产业经济] X32[环境科学与工程—环境工程]