The Effect Of Different Environmental Regulation On Export Upgrading

Since reform and opening,China’s export industries have keeped rapid development and became one of the troika of China’s economic growth.Although our country became the world’s largest export country,China’s export structure is unreasonable.The overall growth mode is still extensive,of high investment and high consumption.Export products’ technology is low and our country is locked in the provision of raw materials,assembly processing and other global value chain of low-end links.At the same time,the rapid growth of the export industry occupies a lot of environmental resources and in the leave a lot of pollution in domestics,which leads that China’s environmental pollution problems become increasingly serious.So,environmental regulation and export upgrading is a "fish and bear’s paw can not have both" relationship?It is a big problem needs to answer clearly and urgently while China’s resources and environmental constraints in the context of increasingly serious,economic development is facing the challenge of transformation and upgrading.The theory has two different voices,one view is based on the "pollution paradise hypothesis" concluded that environmental regulation is not conducive to technological innovation,that environmental regulation will increase the export costs of export enterprises,negative incentives to reduce R&D investment and technological innovation Control costs will only lead to the transfer of enterprises to lower environmental control areas,seriously hindering the technological progress of enterprises,so as to enhance the level of export technology have a strong "offset effect".Another view is based on the "Porter hypothesis" affirmed the environmental regulation of the positive impact of technological progress,that the rise in environmental regulation costs will increase the competitive pressure of export enterprises,positive incentives to increase R&D investment and technological innovation,Especially green technology innovation,so as to enhance the level of export technology have a strong "innovation compensation effect"The academic community on the relationship between environmental regulation and export technology is still the word,has not yet reached a consensus.On the basis of reviewing the relevant research at home and abroad,this paper finds out the blank field of research.First of all,the environmental regulation is divided into two types:"Prior Control" and "End Treatment".The paper analyzes the realization mechanism of two different types of environmental regulation on export promotion and putforward three related hypotheses according to the above theory.Then,based on the H-O-V model,this paper empirically tests the effect of two different types of environmental regulation on the export upgrading of manufacturing industries in the East,Middle and West of China by using the panel data of China’s 31 provinces during 2005～2010.What’s more,differences of the effect of environmental regulation on the provinces in different technical level are tested with quantile regression for panel data.The result indicates that "Prior Control" and "End Treatment" environmental regulation not only impact on China’s manufacturing exports in opposite directions,but also generate great different effect in the three regions of the East,Middle and West.With the increase of quantile,the positive effect of "Prior Control"environmental regulation on export upgrading appears "Inverted U Shape" while the negative effect of "End Treatment" environmental regulation on export upgrading reduces gradually.In addition,the promotion of human capital’s export promotion in the western region is much greater than that in other regions,and the impact of FDI is positive only in the western region,regardless of the type of environmental regulation.This thesis combines the analysis method of theoretical and empirical,qualitative and quantitative,the subjective and objective,analyzing The Effect of Different Environmental Regulation on Export Upgrading,and finally proposes further implementation of this paper.