The Impact Of Environmental Regulation On The Competitiveness Of Manufacturing Industry In China

With the problem in global warming and global energy and environmental pressure,the relationship between trade and environmental policies re-enters in people’s view,becoming cutting-edge issues in the field of trade research.When addressing global climate change,fearing that the response to the negative impact on the international competitiveness of industry has been an important consideration for governments to develop measures.China as a big developing country,30 years afters economic reform,in the traditional non-low-carbon economic conditions,the traditional "low-cost,high energy consumption and emissions" and "cost of carbon external development of the strategic foundation of our country through the International Trade(general trade and processing trade),international industry transfer(through FDI),foreign direct investment and other forms of international division of the road,so that China’s full integration into the international division of labor chain from finished goods,intermediate goods to the production processes,our economic development and scored remarkable achievements,and significantly enhance the international competitiveness of "Made in China".Facing external constraints of a low carbon economy,the traditional extensive participation in the strategy of the international division of labor is no longer sustainable,the adjustment of China to participate in the international division of labor strategy,adapt to the trend of world economic and technological change,improve environmental regulation,China’s manufacturing industry international competitiveness become the focus of the common concerns of society.It is in this context,through the implementation process of environmental regulation measures to sort out;build market share,the aggregation ability of the investment of resources and innovative capacity three manufacturing international competitiveness evaluation index system;the use of theory analysis and empirical analysis of the method of combining the analysis of the impact of environmental regulation on the competitiveness of manufacturing industry in China.The main conclusions are as follows:First of all,environmental regulation does not necessarily lead to the decline in international competitiveness.This article are to be passed of an important yes,the formulation of a country’s environmental regulation measures of the will from the micro,macro different point of view affect their international competitiveness,but between the strict environmental regulation measures with a country’s international competitive force’s size has not rendered a regular variation.Chapter III of the analysis showed that,although the stringency of environmental regulation continues to improve the international competitiveness of some industries in China has declined(mainly labor-intensive industries).However,the continuous improvement of the degree of environmental regulation,the international competitiveness of some pollution-intensive industries and capital-intensive industries,not fall.This study concluded that environmental regulation is not the main factors affect the international competitiveness of industry.A country’s international competitiveness will be affected by foreign capital,human capital and R&D investment and other factors.Thus,from our current situation,raising the level of environmental regulation,does not necessarily lead to the loss of international competitiveness of industry.Second,Environmental regulation and technological innovation can achieve a win-win.Chapter IV of this paper from two aspects of power and resistance analysis of the impact of environmental regulation on technological innovation mechanism;and build a corporate dynamic model theoretical analysis of the impact of environmental regulation on technological innovation.The theoretical analysis and empirical results of the analysis show that environmental regulation will affect innovation;Empirical Analysis of the results obtained further environmental regulation there is a large difference in the impact of technological innovation in different industries.First,environmental regulation will help to promote labor-intensive industries benefit from the demographic dividend of technological innovation.Second,strict environmental regulation will be diverted part of the factor inputs of capital-intensive enterprises,and thus not conducive to technological innovation of enterprises.Finally,strict environmental regulation measures coupled with resource scarcity and rising labor costs,boosting high-tech industries as a low-power,high-yield development of emerging industries,promote the development of technology-intensive industries in China.Additionally,environmental regulation has not led to the formation of the"pollution haven" in China.Therefore,the third important conclusion drawn in this article,although the environmental regulation will have a certain impact effect on business investment location decision-making,but the empirical conclusions do not support China’s "pollution haven" thesis.The entry of foreign capital to make up for lack of China’s capital,but the accumulation of capital in the economies of scale at the same time,will also have a negative impact of environmental pollution.The analysis also takes into account the impact of FDI absorption capability of foreign location choice,when the introduction of absorptive capacity,the impact of environmental regulation on foreign investment location choice will be significantly weakened.This analysis shows that environmental regulation will certainly affect the FDI location choice.However,FDI absorption ability to influence factors in determining FDI location,played a decisive role is much larger than the impact of environmental regulation.As described in Chapter,human capital,firm size and R&D investment as the absorption capacity of the main factors had a significant impact on attracting foreign investment.