Effect Of FDI Quality On The Ecological Pressure Of Carbon Footprint In China

As China joined in the world trade organization,it was becoming more and more closely related to the world economy.The inflow of capital,technology and human capital have led to the rapid development of China’s economy.Mixed,the rapid growth of China economy not only leads to consumption and depletion of energy resources,but also makes China becoming the world’s largest carbon emission country.Under the background of the economic globalization,environmental pollution and sustainable development,it is pretty important to take the relationship between the economy and ecological environment into consideration.The studied before have noticed the impact of Foreign Direct Investment on the environmental problem.But this kind of influence,whatever is from theoretical or empirical analysis has not gotten the same results.In order to research the deep reason,this paper starts from the perspective of the quality of foreign direct investment and the ecological pressure of carbon footprint.The existing literature mostly regards foreign direct investment as a homogeneous variable,neglecting the influence of its internal heterogeneity on the ecological environment.Based on this point,this paper tries to establish three methods to measure the quality of foreign direct investment,there are the average size of foreign direct investment,the ration of contract amount to the actual amount,and the trend of export in FDI companies.Referrence to the experts’ suggestion,we take1/3 weight of the FDI quality measured in the three dimensions,and then add the total,building a comprehensive index of foreign direct investment quality.In addition,it is found that carbon emissions have been used as a measure of the ecological environment.By means of the analysis of system dynamics,it should be combined the two sides of carbon source(carbon emission)and carbon sink(carbon absorption),establishing the carbon footprint ecological pressure model,that we can find out theactually impact of foreign direct investment quality on the ecological environment.In addition,the industrial structure,the personal real GDP,the urbanization rate,and the level of human capital as the control variables in the model.By selecting 2003-2015 panel data of China’s 7 geographic regions and 30provinces(except Tibet),and a series test of the model,using the variable coefficient panel data model with individual influence under fixed effect,analyzing the quality of FDI impacts on the carbon footprint ecological pressure in different areas in China.The emipirical result shows that in North China,East China,central China and Southwest China,the quality of FDI has a significant impact on the ecological pressure of carbon footprint.The improvement of the quality of FDI in East China,central China and Southwest China can really improve the ecological environment.As for the province’s data,the results of panel data regression showes that FDI quality of Beijing,Liaoning,Jilin,Heilongjiang,Shanghai,Fujian,Jiangxi,Hainan,Sichuan,Yunnan,Shanxi and Ningxia have a significant impact on carbon footprint ecological pressure.And in Shanghai city,the FDI quality has significantly improved the environmental condition.With the map’s geographical imformation we can find out that the quality of FDI has a significant impact on the ecological environment in China’s coastal areas alone the Yangtze River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.Finally,combined with empirical analysis results,the paper pointed out four suggestions.There are strictly controlling the quality of FDI,improving the efficient of FDI utilization,rational distribution about industrial construction and releasing surplus population,and improving the efficient of energy use and enhancing ecological carrying capacity.