Research on challenges and strategies for China’s green economy development

Research on challenges and strategies for China’s green

economy development

Research on challenges and strategies for China’s green economy development

作 者：Sizhen Peng;Xinzhang Sun

作者机构：The Administrative Centre for China’s Agenda 21

出 版 物：中国人口资源与环境：英文版

年 卷 期：2015年 第2期

摘 要：The last 20 years have been the fastest economic developing period of China,and China has made great economic achievements through undertaking international industrial transfer.However,undertaking international industrial transfer has brought about severe environmental problems to China and the process of undertaking international industry transfer is also a process of undertaking international transfer of natural resource consumption and environmental pollution.Nowadays,China has the heaviest ecological burden and highest environmental risk in the world,and is gradually losing international competitive

advantages

among

traditional

industries.China

is

facing

unprecedented pressure of economic transformation.Besides the advantages like huge domestic demands and abundant civil capital,China faces more challenges in

its green economy development.First,China is still in the middle of industrialization and urbanization processes,hence the huge demands for traditional industries will only last 10-15 more years.Meanwhile,China lacks core technologies for transforming traditional industries,which means these industries will have high shut-down risks.Second,the domestic market share for new green industries is limited,since the market is dominated by traditional energy industries.Third,the value of land,water,mineral,and other natural resources is extremely underestimated because the environmental cost is excluded from the enterprises’cost-benefit calculation.China should foster and expand green industries based on domestic demands,and then strive for competitive advantages in the international market in the future.Therefore,China should focus on the following four points in order to promote green industry development:establishing a

forced-upgrading-mechanism

for

traditional

industries,an

incentive-

development-mechanism for new green industries and a TFP-based(total factor productivity based)economic development evaluation system;promoting the integration of new-type urbanization,new emerging industries,and new employments;taking the model of'technology innovating-patent formulating-standard establishing-market guiding'to enhance the global competitiveness of China’s new emerging industries;and building green consumption patterns in the whole society.

页 码：127-131页

主 题 词：

green;economy;traditional;industries;emerging;industries;incentive;mechanism;ne

w-type;urbanization;green;technology