Research on Regional Green Efficiency of China’s Industrial Sector

Abstract

Based on the provincial panel data from year 2006 to 2015, the paper uses the SBM-undesirable model to calculate the Chinese regional industry’s green efficiency. Then the Spatial Lag Model (SLM) are adopted to figure out the green efficiency’s influencing factors including industrial transfer. The empirical results show that the Chinese industrial green performance is not yet efficient, even showing a decline trend in volatility, and there is big difference among the three big areas of China, ranking from high to low: the East, the Central and the West. Finally it is proved that both the industrial transfer and environmental regulation factors fail to promote the industrial green efficiency, and only technological progress, especially the green technology, has played a positive role.