Abstract
The industrial sector is a major contributor to resource consumption and environmental pollution in China. The energy-intensive industrial development and energy structure are dominated by coal, which has produced an enormous amount of industrial pollutants in China, and put great pressure on the ecological environment. Hence, improving the performance of industrial green development (PIGD) has become an urgent task of utmost importance. This study applies a global non-radial directional distance function to estimate the PIGD for Jiangxi Province during 2003–2015, and provides targeted policy suggestions. The empirical results show a rising trend in the PIGD in Jiangxi Province. At the city level, Nanchang and Fuzhou performed considerably better than other cities in regards to their PIGD. However, the poor environmental performance caused by the excessive discharge of industrial pollutants has also hindered its PIGD. Most cities in Jiangxi Province failed to efficiently use resources, especially energy and labor, in industrial production. The results of the influencing factor analysis show that the performance of industrial green development in Jiangxi could be improved through increasing per capita GDP, decreasing the share of coal consumption in the total industrial energy consumption, and decreasing the share of industrial GDP in the total GDP. Furthermore, a more efficient use of environmental management investment funds and timely transfer of the surplus industrial labor are needed.
Highlights
China has achieved remarkable progress in industrial economic development since the reform and opening-up of the late 1970s
Based on the global non-radial directional distance function (GNDDF) approach, we computed the performance of industrial green development (PIGD) for Jiangxi Province and its 11 cities during 2003–2015 (Figure 3)
As resources consumption and pollution in the industrial sector of Jiangxi Province have increased at alarming rates in recent years, estimating the state of performance of industrial green development and proposing effective countermeasures is an urgent task
Summary
China has achieved remarkable progress in industrial economic development since the reform and opening-up of the late 1970s. The great differences between regions in the development of industrial economy are not conducive to the balanced development of the country’s economy. After the successful implementation of two famous development plans (e.g., the Western Development program and Revitalizing the northeast old industrial base), the industrial sectors of the western and northeastern regions are catching up with that in the eastern region. In March 2004, Premier Wen Jiabao pointed out that industrial development in the central region should not be neglected, and implementation of the famous “Central rise” plan officially began [1]. The industrial development in China’s Jiangxi Province has enjoyed remarkable progress.
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