Abstract
Industrial green technology progress is an effective way to realize high-quality economic development in China. The different competitive incentives of local governments make a difference in the intensity of environmental regulation between regions. The intensity of environmental regulation is different in different areas of the same industry, leading to the inter-regional transfer of pollution enterprises. The regional distribution of industries is different, which determines the different industries’ needs to coordinate different regions. Only when various industries realize the coordination of regional governance can they jointly promote the progress of industrial green technology. Based on data from 33 industrial sectors in China from 2001 to 2015 and considering the institutional evolution of governance synergy, this study comprehensively investigated the influence mechanism of local government environmental regulation on the industrial green technology progress using the mediating effect model. We found that environmental regulation promoted industrial technological progress through governance synergy and a low degree of inter-regional regulation coordination hindered the industries’ green technology progress. With the change in inter-regional governance synergy levels, we further discovered that the impact of environmental regulation on industrial green technology progress changed substantially. At a low level of governance synergy, environmental regulation inhibited industrial green technology progress. At a high level of governance synergy, environmental regulation promoted industrial green technology progress. While strengthening environmental regulation, we should promote inter-regional cooperation at the industry level. Only by collectively enforcing pollution regulations in industrial level can industrial green technology progress be promoted.
Highlights
The extensive development mode with high energy consumption and high emissions in the early Chinese industrial movement created huge economic dividends
The results showed that the coefficient of environmental regulation intensity was significantly positive, at least at the level of 5%, which indicated that environmental regulation promoted the industrial green technology progress
The result showed that the coefficient of environmental regulation in model 5 was significantly positive at the level of 1%, which indicated that the intensity of environmental regulation promoted the industrial green technology progress under the high-level governance synergy
Summary
The extensive development mode with high energy consumption and high emissions in the early Chinese industrial movement created huge economic dividends. The central government promulgates environmental protection policy to promote green technology based on the regulation of the industrial sector. The relevant environmental policies of governance synergy focus on the problem of air pollution and the key cooperation areas of implementing regulations at the industry level are based on the inherent economic circle of air pollution prevention and control. It is important to construct industry-level governance synergy to effectively promote industrial green technology and solve China’s environmental problems. The main contributions of this study are as follows: (1) It constructed the mechanism of how environmental regulation promotes industrial green technology progress through governance synergy at the industry level. It is significant whether the co-operation of different local governments in a specific industry can realize the industrial green technology progress This is highly complementary to existing research. The rest of this paper is arranged as follows: the second part is the literature review, the third part provides the theoretical mechanism and hypothesis, the fourth part provides the research design, the fifth part shows the empirical results and discussions, and the final part provides the summary and policy enlightenment
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