On The Impact Of Import Trade And FDI On China’s Carbon Emissions Performance Empirical Research

"The global carbon project"(GCP) recently released "carbon balance data,"whichsaid global carbon dioxide emissions will hit a new record in2013, reaching36billion metric tons, rising2.1%over2012.The greenhouse effect generated byGreenhouse gas emissions has posed a threat to the world. At present, our country hassurpassed the United States to become the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide,emissions accounted for about21%of the world, China faced with enormousinternational pressure for energy conservation and emissions reduction. China’scarbon dioxide emissions problem is not only related to the trade pattern, butpossibly related to the metastatic carbon emissions caused by internationalinvestment.First， this article reviewed the related domestic and foreign theoretical andempirical studies of import trade、FDI’s situation and performance of the carbondioxide emissions, thus put forward the research ideas and research methods. Second,based on the DEA of non-parametric method oriented distance function to measure thedirectional output to measure levels of Global carbon emissions performanceGlobal-Malmquist-luenberger total factor of carbon emissions performance index andits decomposition index, technical efficiency and scale efficiency index, the index oftechnical progress. Third, this article from the nation and features three regional levelrespectively analyzed the import trade, FDI and the performance of carbon emissionsoverall development trend and the situation of the regional distribution characteristics,etc. Finally, this article analyses the import trade and FDI scale, industrial structure,technological progress with multiple pathways, using China panel data except Tibet in2000-2011,, building dynamic panel regression model to make system GMMestimation. In this paper, we have found that:(1) nationwide: import and FDI promotethe technology progress, and inhibit the scale efficiency improvements, FDI makescarbon performance degrade, but the technical efficiency is improving, in contrastimport role is opposite (2) area: Both FDI and import of the eastern region areimproving technological progress, the eastern region’s import promotes theimprovement of the carbon emissions performance, have a lagging effect on thetechnical efficiency of promoting effect, and FDI makes carbon emissionsperformance and scale efficiency degrade; FDI of the central region deteriorates carbon emissions performance level, technical efficiency and scale efficiency, butimport improves carbon emissions performance; FDI of the western region improvestechnical efficiency, at the same time, restrains the scale efficiency, having a positiveeffect on the carbon emissions performance improvements, and import has a negativeeffect on the improvement of the carbon emissions performance, promoting theprogress of the technology. At last, based on the all research conclusion, this articleput forward policy suggestions from absorbing advanced production technology,adjusting the industrial structure.