Industrial upgrading,domestic trade and green growth under China's new development pattern
This paper introduces the concept of"green growth"for the first time,emphasiz-ing high value-added economic activities coupled with low carbon emissions.It also elucidates the asymmetric effects of industrial upgrading and transfer that contribute to the realization of green growth.Furthermore,the paper employs the hierarchical structural decomposition analysis(HSDA)method to examine the impact of inter-regional industrial transfers on China's domes-tic economic and ecological balance.It identifies key industrial pathways that lead to the net transfer of value-added carbon emissions between regions.The primary findings are as follows:1)The industrial structure of China's regions is currently undergoing upgrades and adjustments,resulting in a noticeable"decoupling"between economic value-added and carbon emissions from 2012 to 2017;2)Nevertheless,the process of industrial transfer that accompanies asymmetric industrial upgrading exacerbates the green growth imbalance among regions.This is particularly evident in the net transfer of value-added carbon emissions from developed coastal provinces and cities to Hebei,Shanxi,and Inner Mongolia;3)Two dominant factors contribute to this imbalance:The industrial transfer effect,which played a crucial role between 2007 and 2015,and the differences in carbon emission coefficients that prevailed from 2015 to 2017;4)The key industrial pathways driving these transfers involve the final demand for construction services,medium-high/high-technology manufacturing,and other services in developed coastal provinces and cities.This results in the net transfer of production and value-added carbon emissions from medium-and low-technology manufacturing and other manufacturing industries in Hebei,Inner Mongolia,and Shanxi.These findings hold significant implications for proposing a differentiated carbon emission rights allocation mechanism,particularly at the industrial chain level.
green growthindustrial upgradingindustrial transferinput-output modelhier-archical structural decomposition analysis