A Study On Export Potential Of China's Environmental Products

Since the 21st century,with the development of industry and economy,environmental pollution has been getting worse and worse,which has influenced many fields including international politics,economy,trade etc.Under the requirement of low carbon and green economy,"environmental product" rises quietly.The spread and application of environmental products,as an important way to promote sustainable economy growth,arouses extensive attention.The environmental product list putting forward by the OECD and APEC,the APEC2012 tax consensus of environmental products and the ongoing of the WTO environmental products trade liberalization negotiations,provide a good environment for the development of environmental products trade.Environmental trade started in 1990s in China to promote the sustainable development of economy.In 2009,the State Council makes the environmental protection industry as the strategic emerging industry,and promulgates a series of policies and regulations to protect environment in the "12th Five-Year"," 13th Five-Year",which ensures the status of the environmental protection industry and provides policy guidance for the development of environmental products trade.In this context,China's environmental products export increases rapidly,the international market share improves continuously and the export keeps a good momentum.Despite of the significant progress,there are still many problems.Recent years,China's exports of environmental products increases slowly.In addition,the export market of China's environmental products is out of balance especially for Asia,the United States and Germany.Excessive concentration of export markets will exacerbate trade risks to some extent.Therefore,it is of great importance to analyze the influencing factors of China's environmental products export and explore their export potential,so as to promote the sustainable and healthy development of China's environmental products export and achieve the goal of green economy.This thesis based on the theoretical basis,the status quo and problems analysis,the empirical research and policy suggestions,uses literature research,qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis methods.Firstly it analyzes the China's environmental products export situation and sum up the export problems,and then uses the empirical method to analyze the factors influencing the export of China's environmental products and the export potential and provides effective suggestions to promote the development of China's environmental products export.This thesis can be divided into five parts.The first part is an introduction.The second part gives the related optical bases.The third part illustrates China's environmental products export situation,competitiveness and problems.The fourth part demonstrates the practical analysis on the export of environmental products.Using gravity model,it analyzes the influencing factors on the export of the environmental products and estimates the potential of China's export to 48 countries in 2000-2015,and concludes that the export flow of China's environmental products has a positive relation with the output and achievements in science and technology of environmental protection industry,the importing countries' GDP,population and dependence on foreign trade,common boundary and preferential trade arrangements,and has a negative relation with the geographical distance.China's environmental products are over-exported to 15 countries,under-exported to 8 countries and moderately exported to 25 countries.The last part is the conclusions and policy suggestions.First,differentiate strategies for segment markets.Second,focus on and develop micro-saturated markets.Third,consolidate and expand the traditional markets.Fourth,strengthen the strategic position of environmental protection industry and improve the environmental protection industry strategy.Fifth,increase investment in environmental products development and master the core technology.Sixth,actively participate in environmental products trade liberalization negotiations and strive to negotiate the advantages.There are two innovative points.Firstly,it analyzes the status quo of China's environmental products export from the part of export competitiveness and compare the competitiveness with other mainly countries.Secondly,the gravitational model is applied to the export trade of environmental products,which enriches the current research on the export potential of China's environmental products.At the same time,for empirical analysis,this thesis adds the output and achievements in science and technology of China's environmental protection industry to the regression analysis so that the final environmental product export potential equation is more consistent realistic and more convincing.