Abstract
With the increasingly prominent problems of global resource consumption and environmental pollution, industrial green transformation has become one of the requirements of China’s industrial development in the new era. However, there is a lack of research on the impact of technological innovation and technology introduction on the industrial green transformation of resource-based cities. To bridge this gap, this study uses the panel data of 115 resource-based cities in China from 2003 to 2016, and uses the dynamic panel generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation method to study the impact of technological innovation and technology introduction on industrial green transformation of resource-based cities. The results show that technology introduction has a negative effect on the industrial green transformation of resource-based cities, while technological innovation can have a positive effect. Meanwhile, technology introduction has imparted a greater role to technological innovation in promoting this transformation. In addition, the interactive effects between technological innovation and technology introduction have obvious heterogeneity on the industrial green transformation of different types of resource-based cities. Therefore, resource-based cities should continue to increase investment in scientific research, to constantly improve and consolidate their technological innovation ability, optimize foreign investment strategy in technology introduction, and strengthen the digestion and absorption of imported technology, while increasing technological innovation and personnel training.
Highlights
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) aim to integrate the three dimensions of social, economic, and environmental development from 2015 to 2030, and enable sustainable development (United Nations, 2015)
Yan et al (2019) found the greater foreign investment a resource-based city receives, the lower its energy and technology efficiency. These results show that foreign direct investment (FDI) will have a negative impact on the environment of host countries, which means that technology introduction is not conducive to industrial green transformation in the region
Based on the panel data of 115 resource-based cities in China from 2003 to 2016, this study uses the S-generalized method of moments (GMM) method to empirically analyze the impact of technological innovation and technology introduction on the industrial green transformation of resource-based cities
Summary
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) aim to integrate the three dimensions of social, economic, and environmental development from 2015 to 2030, and enable sustainable development (United Nations, 2015). The goal of SDG7 is to “ensure that all people have access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable modern energy.” To achieve this goal, it is necessary to improve energy efficiency and accelerate industrial transformation (Adom and Adams, 2020). To achieve the SDG7 goals, China must increase investment in clean energy technology research and upgrade its industrial structure rapidly Both the National 13th Five-Year Plan (FYP) and the “Made in China 2025 Plan” (The State Council of the People’s Republic of China, 2015), announced the acceleration in developing an ecological civilization and promoting green industrial development. As per the “Industrial Green Development Plan (2016–2020)” (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 2016), by 2020, the concept of green development will become the development goal of the whole industry This will vigorously promote energy efficiency improvement and substantially reduce pollution emissions. According to the world environmental performance index (EPI) ranking in 2018 (Environmental Performance Index, 2018), China scored 50.74 points, ranking 120th among 180 countries in the world, indicating that improving the environment remains China’s top priority
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