Research On The Impact Regulation To The Technological Innovation Of Chinese Paper Industry

In recent years, China's paper industry has achieved rapid development and made great achievements. But the paper industry consumes plenty of water with serious pollution. In order to adjust the industrial structure, protect the environment, save the energy and regulate the paper industry, the government has formulated a series of environmental regulation policy. The government has proposed new conditions for market access, increased the barriers to entry and eliminated backward production capacity. Through these policies, the government wants to encourage the paper enterprises to continue to adopt new technologies, new processes, new equipment and new materials, for the purpose of cleaner production and environmental protection. In order to achieve sustainable economic and environmental development, the government continues to strengthen environmental regulation on China's industrial sector as a whole. The implementation of a series of environmental regulation policy will inevitably have a huge impact on the development of the paper industry, especially the technological innovation of enterprises activities. Technological innovation is the driving force of economic development and a key factor to determine a country's economic development and competitiveness. For businesses, technological innovation is very important so that we can say it is "the lifeblood of corporate survival and development” and “the long-term invincible magic weapons of the enterprises to participate in the competition”.This article studies the influence of environmental regulation on the technological innovation of China's paper industry through the method of theoretical analysis and empirical research. This study will help improve and enhance the level and quality of environmental regulation policy of China's paper industry. It has important theoretical value and practical guiding significance. On the theoretical side, this article analyzes the mechanism of the influence of environmental regulation on the technological innovation of China's paper industry. In the empirical part, this article analyzes the correlation between the strength of environmental regulation and technological innovation with the gray relational analysis In the empirical part of this article, this article established the index system of environmental regulation and indicator system of technological innovation, using the relevant data of China's paper industry in 2004-2012. The empirical results show that it has a high correlation between the strength of environmental regulation and technological innovation. So this article comes to a conclusion that environmental regulation will affect the technological innovation to a certain degree in China's paper industry.