Analysis on the carbon effect of Chinas service trade liberalization(PDF)
《长安大学学报（社科版）》[ISSN:1671-6248/CN:61-1391/C]
- Issue:
- 2017年04期
- Page:
- 95-103
- Research Field:
- 经济管理
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- Analysis on the carbon effect of Chinas service trade liberalization
- Author(s):
- WU Fei-xia
- School Economics and Management, Fuqing Branch of Fujian Normal University, Fuqing 350300， Fujian, China
- Keywords:
- trade services; liberalization; scale effect; industrial structure; energy; trade scale
- PACS:
- F81
- DOI:
- -
- Abstract:
- The expansion of China’s trade in services has also brought about a series of environmental problems such as environmental pollution and the increase of carbon dioxide emissions while promoting economic growth. This paper estimated China‘’s service sector carbon dioxide emissions by the total energy consumption of various service industries from 1990 to 2016, and conducted a specific calculation of China‘’s trade liberalization situation by the price index method using financial data of listed companies in service area. It studied the impact of the liberalization of China’s service trade and the scale of service trade on the environment from the industry level taking the service industry carbon emissions as a measure of environmental quality indicators. The results show that lowlevel trade liberalization does not contribute to China‘’s carbon dioxide emissions, but will increase carbon emissions, while the expansion of trade will also increase the amount of carbon dioxide emissions. There are differences in the effects of trade liberalization and economies of scale in the services sector, where trade liberalization of transport, warehousing and postal services has the greatest impact on carbon emissions and economies of scale, followed by wholesale, retail, accommodation and catering. Therefore, to reduce Chinas carbon dioxide emissions, the industrial structure and trade open structure should be adjusted, and the size of different sectors of trade and the level of opening up should be controlled. Both the energy efficiency of the service industry and the energy consumption structure should be improved.
Last Update: 2017-10-20