Management Review ›› 2020, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (10): 59-71.

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The Influencing Factors of Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Efficiency in China from the Perspective of Green Development —— An Empirical Study Based on Super-efficiency DEA and Tobit Models

Wang Yan, Su Yi   

  1. School of Economics and Management, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an 710054
  • Received:2020-05-11 Online:2020-10-28 Published:2020-11-07

Abstract: China's energy conservation and emission reduction efficiency has significant regional heterogeneity. Accurately identifying the influencing factors and extent of energy conservation and emission reduction efficiency in different regions is an important prerequisite for improving China's energy conservation and emission reduction efficiency. By constructing a regional energy saving and emission reduction indicator system from the perspective of green development, based on the research methods of super-efficiency DEA and Tobit, and China's provincial panel data from 2008 to 2018, the energy saving and emission reduction efficiency of 30 provinces is measured, and the green development perspective is empirically studied. The results show that there are large differences in the efficiency of energy conservation and emission reduction in China. The efficiency levels of energy conservation and emission reduction in the eastern, central and western regions display a descending order, and the differences in energy conservation and emission reduction efficiency between regions are converging, that is, this difference tends increasing insignificant. Industrial structure, degree of opening to the outside world, and per capita energy consumption at the level of 1% significantly improve energy conservation and emission reduction efficiency. Relying on FDI alone cannot improve China's energy conservation and emission reduction efficiency, and energy conservation and emission reduction can only be promoted on the basis of improving the industrial structure efficiency improvement. Market-driven industrial restructuring in the eastern region can effectively promote energy conservation and emission reduction efficiency. Speeding up the implementation of energy conservation and emission reduction policies in the western region and the implementation of the concept of green development are of great significance to improving my country's overall energy conservation and emission reduction efficiency.

Key words: energy saving and emission reduction efficiency, technical progress, industrial structure, green development