An Empirical Analysis Of The Effects Of Trade Liberalization On The Environmental Technology Of Textile Enterprises

With the in-depth development of global economic and trade integration,environmental pollution in international trade has become a hot issue for domestic and foreign researchers.Since the reform and opening up,especially after China joined the WTO,the scale of China’s foreign trade has expanded rapidly.Meanwhile,China’s pollution problem is getting worse.This aspect has seriously affected people’s normal life,such as frequent haze weather.On the other hand,China has been criticized by some countries and regions for the increase of environmental pollution emissions.Therefore,the government pays more and more attention to environmental protection,and it is very important to balance the relationship between international trade and environmental protection.The 19 th national congress of the communist party of China(CPC)put forward the concept of "green" development,stressing the need to "build a market-oriented green technology innovation system." It is of great theoretical and practical significance to study the impact of trade opening on the environment.This paper makes a logical analysis of the theoretical and empirical studies on the environmental impact of trade as well as the classical and emerging studies on heterogeneous enterprises.Then,this article analyzes the current status of China’s foreign trade and environmental pollution.On this basis,starting from the textile industry,the cancellation of China’s textile export quota policy,which was forced by the outside,was taken as the impact event,and the change of export and pollution emission of China’s textile enterprises after the cancellation of quotas was explored by using the double-difference analysis method and the panel data of enterprises from2002 to 2007.The main conclusions of this paper include: first of all,we found that in China,even for such high pollution,high labor-intensive textile industry,our conclusion does not support the "pollution haven hypothesis",that trade liberalization will shift the production of highly polluting products to developing countries,thereby harming their environmental protection.However,this paper found that after the elimination of textile quota,the export volume of textile products surged,which did not lead to a significant increase in the total pollution emissions of China’s textile exporters.And this may be due to the effect of technology on the scale effect of the offset effect,we found that the trade environment of technical effect is significant,trade can bring enterprises in the production of the environmental performance of ascension,namely to reduce the emissions intensity,the technical effect offsets the textile export enterprises of the adverse impact of the expansion of trade to the environment;Second,a series of robust analyses and placebo tests confirmed the existence of this environmental technology effect.In addition,we also find that this technological effect is not significant for state-owned enterprises,and trade liberalization only brings about a significant reduction in the pollution emission intensity of non-state-owned enterprises.This article logically sorts out the theoretical hypothesis and empirical research on the environmental impact of trade,and makes statistics on the current status of China’s trade and environment,and then studies the impact of trade opening on the pollution of Chinese textile companies at the enterprise level,supplementing the Micro-experience research in the field has made certain contributions to solving the problem of coordination between trade and environment.Based on statistical data and empirical conclusions,policy recommendations related to improving the negative impact of China ’s trade on the environment are proposed.