Impact of Heavy Industrialization on the Carbon Emissions: An Empirical Study of China

Abstract

Abstract In recent years, the boom of China's heavy industry has made our industrial structure becoming heavier, which has greatly increased the consumption of the energy as well as the carbon emissions. In order to deeply dig into the severe impact on china's carbon emission from the heavy change, the paper established the error correction model of china's carbon emissions under the condition of the heavy industrial structure (HIS). We found that the formation and development of HIS has a positive effect in promoting china's carbon emissions, the concrete embodiment lies: with a growth of 1 percent in heavy industrial output, the long - term effects show a growth of 0.278141 percent in our country's carbon emissions, and immediate effect shows an increase of 0.146636 percent in carbon emissions. Finally, we come up with some related policy suggestions on three aspects----to reform the traditional energy structure, to improve the energy efficiency and to promote a new industrialization.