ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Which Factors Can Stimulate China’s Green
Transformation Process? From Provincial Aspect
1 1 | School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, #619 Yonghua Street, Baoding China |
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Xueying Liu
School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China
School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China
Submission date: 2020-01-02
Final revision date: 2020-04-15
Acceptance date: 2020-04-18
Online publication date: 2020-07-17
Publication date: 2020-10-05
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2021;30(1):47–60
KEYWORDS
green total factor productivityeconomic agglomerationkernel density estimationgreen technology innovation
TOPICS
Environmental managementPolicies for economically sustainable developmentPolicies for socially sustainable developmentPolicies for environmentally sustainable development
ABSTRACT
Stimulation of green transformation is of great significance for central government in order to
realize high-quality development in China. Green total factor productivity (GTFP) is evaluated among
provinces during 2000~2017 to indicate their trends and find out their key driving factors. Results are
as follows: First, Chinese green transformation performance turns better as GTFP grows slightly in the
research period in a whole. Technical progress is the most contributor source and technical efficiency
is in the second order. Second, provincial green transformation performances obey typical ‘one-peak’
distribution curve. Its peak point moves to the right and downward directions from the horizontal and
vertical axis. Third, as parameter results of the dynamic panel data econometric model, economic
agglomeration leads to positive effects on GTFPs significantly. Enlarging economic agglomeration
is an important development potential to accelerate green transformation performance. Meanwhile,
regional heterogeneity among eastern, central and western in China should be considered in details to
comprehensively this transformation process. For eastern region, making the full use of its significant
advantages in R&D environment, endowment and achievement accumulation should be the best
choice while for the central and western regions, absorbing from eastern or foreign technology may
be more economic. The coordinated development of different regions will release more development
opportunities for China in the future.
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