Environmental assessment and investment strategy for China's manufacturing industry: A non-radial DEA based analysis

Kang, Yanqing; Xie, Bai-Chen; Wang, Juan; Wang, Yanan

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.043

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“…The environmental efficiency of these six industries has been increasing over the past decade, which is partly related to the fact that energy conservation and emission reduction tasks in the steel, petrochemical, and textile industries have been the focus of the 11th and 12th Five-Year Plan periods. Though the long-term pollution level of the chemical material and chemical products manufacturing industry (D19) is very high, the efficiency has been significantly improved from 2012 to 2014, which is consistent with the findings by Kang et al [45]. The environmental efficiency of ferrous metal mining and processing (D03) was found to be relatively high, ranking in the top 10 for more than six times.…”

Section: Industrial Environmental Efficiency Scoressupporting

confidence: 87%

“…First, from the perspective of yearly industrial classification: (i) The light-pollution industries (i.e., high environmental efficiency industries) are mainly clean industries and high-tech industries with low energy use and emission. These include oil and gas extraction (D02), water production and supply (D36), and computer, communication, and other electronic equipment manufacturing (D31), which, relatively speaking, are state monopolies or industries with more state supports (Kang et al, 2018). These industries also have the characteristics of high technology, low energy intensity, and low emissions, as well as relatively high levels of clean production technology and high awareness of environmental protection, which are helpful for improving production efficiency, energy saving, and emission reduction.…”

Section: Industrial Clustersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Dynamic Assessment of Environmental Efficiency in Chinese Industry: A Multiple DEA Model with a Gini Criterion Approach

Xie

Chen

2019

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While China’s rapid industrialization has brought great pressure on environmental pollution, great variations appear in terms of environmental pollution levels among industries. The effective assessment of the environmental performance of different industries is not only conducive to identifying the major sources of pollution in China but also of great significance to the Chinese government in formulating differentiated industry environmental control policies in a targeted manner. Using data of 36 Chinese industries from 2006 to 2015 and a multiple data envelopment analysis (DEA) with a Gini criterion as well as a systematic clustering approach, this study first calculates the environmental efficiency score of Chinese industries and then identifies those pollution sources based on a ranking and clustering analysis. The main result indicates that the ranking of environmental efficiency of various industries overall varies greatly by time. In addition, using a clustering analysis, this study finds that 13 labor-intensive light industries and heavy chemical industries with high energy use and high emissions are medium- and high-pollution industries. Important policy implications are drawn to achieve green industrial development.

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Section: Industrial Environmental Efficiency Scoressupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Industrial Clustersmentioning

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Dynamic Assessment of Environmental Efficiency in Chinese Industry: A Multiple DEA Model with a Gini Criterion Approach

Xie

Chen

2019

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“…Countries that implement ETBs augment their own sustainable development and protection of the natural environment, ecology, and human health, and simultaneously extend harsh environmental protection systems and standards for their imports. In recent years, China's exports of textiles and clothing have frequently encountered green trade barriers in developed countries [11][12][13][14][15]. People are paying more attention to ecological and environmental issues.…”

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A Comparative Study of the Role of China and India in Sustainable Textile Competition in the U.S. Market under Green Trade Barriers

Liu

Yang

2018

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The United States is the most important textile import market in the world, and one of the most important export targets of developing countries. In view of its ecological environment and consumer health, the United States has put forward increasingly harsh environmental protection systems and standards for imported textile products, and its environmental trade barriers have been steadily strengthened. China's textile exports increased substantially after joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2000; at present, the textile imports of the United States from China and India reach in total more than one third of all their imports. China and India both have comparative advantages in the import trade of textile raw materials and clothing in the United States (U.S.). On the basis of the United Nation ComTrade Rev. 3, this paper studies the role of China and India in the United States textile market, including calculating the trade competitiveness index, revealing the competitive advantages of China and India, and investigating the impact of both Chinese and Indian textiles on United States imports from the rest of the world across three main textile sectors in the period 2000-2016, especially in the context of green trade barriers. We find that the relative textile import prices, the ecological standard of China's textile production re-edited Oeko-Tex Standard 100 in 2008 and export tax policy, and the competitive advantages of China and India had varied impacts on relative U.S. textile imports across related sectors under green environmental trade barriers. These findings recognize China's competitiveness in international trading, and also provide suggestions regarding China's competitiveness and sustainable development in the U.S. market.

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“…This is especially conspicuous in Ezhou city, where heavy manufacturing accounts for even 74.2% of its GDP. Scholars have pointed out that light sub-industries performed better than heavy sub-industries in terms of ecological efficiency, and generate less natural resource consumption [53][54][55][56]. This may explain why cities prefer light manufacturing over heavy manufacturing in their city branding practices.…”

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City Branding and Industrial Transformation from Manufacturing to Services: Which Pathways do Cities in Central China Follow?

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A potentially attractive way for cities to maintain economic growth while reducing environmental harm is to let their production structures undergo industrial transformation, a process otherwise known as ecological modernization. This attraction lies mainly in the fact that residents, visitors and corporations prefer clean air, water and soil as a milieu to invest their resources in. Municipal governments can use city branding as an important instrument to force off such a transformation, if it is taken as a point of departure for the adoption of a strategy to which they are deeply committed and for the benefit of which they are willing to deploy their various policy instruments. In the literature on ecological modernization, five different pathways for industrial transformation in cities have been identified and these have been matched with city branding practices. In this contribution, the abovementioned conceptual framework is further detailed and specified to account for a variety in types of secondary and tertiary sector industries. In the empirical sections, all cities in the Chinese provinces Hubei and Hunan, where the transition from manufacturing to services is typically most pressing, are examined in terms of their industrial structures, pathways to industrial transformation and city branding choices. The results indicate, inter alia, that further subdivision of the secondary and tertiary economic sectors is useful in understanding key features of the transformation, and that different sub-pathways affect tradeoffs between economic expansion and ecological preservation differently. Branding practices among Hubei and Hunan cities also indicate that some industries are more easily embraced and utilized than others in establishing brand identities and adopting popular city labels.

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Environmental assessment and investment strategy for China's manufacturing industry: A non-radial DEA based analysis

Cited by 60 publications

References 44 publications

Dynamic Assessment of Environmental Efficiency in Chinese Industry: A Multiple DEA Model with a Gini Criterion Approach

Dynamic Assessment of Environmental Efficiency in Chinese Industry: A Multiple DEA Model with a Gini Criterion Approach

A Comparative Study of the Role of China and India in Sustainable Textile Competition in the U.S. Market under Green Trade Barriers

City Branding and Industrial Transformation from Manufacturing to Services: Which Pathways do Cities in Central China Follow?

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