Will land transport infrastructure affect the energy and carbon dioxide emissions performance of China’s manufacturing industry?

Boqiang Lin () and Yu Chen

Applied Energy, 2020, vol. 260, issue C, No S0306261919319531

Abstract: The energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of China's manufacturing industry accounted for 12.8% and 15.5% of the world in 2016, respectively. On the other hand, the construction of land transport infrastructure has become the focal point of the Chinese government recently. However, there is very little literature investigating the influencing mechanism of land transport infrastructure on the energy and environmental efficiency of the sector. Therefore, it is crucial and meaningful to study how the latter is affected by the land transport infrastructure to alleviate global energy and environmental issues. Non-radial directional distance function was used to calculate two indicators measuring energy and carbon dioxide emissions performance in this paper. The panel Tobit model was then applied to focus on factors affecting the performance. The results indicate that land transport infrastructure, economic growth, technological progress, energy prices, industrial structure have significant impacts on the energy and environmental efficiency of China's manufacturing industry. Different from the results at the national level, from a regional perspective, the development of land transport infrastructure in the eastern region plays a negative role in the performance of the manufacturing industry. Finally, some targeted policy recommendations are proposed to improve the policy design of the government.

Keywords: China’s manufacturing industry; Energy and environmental performance; Land transport infrastructure; Non-radial directional distance function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114266

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