Emission Reduction and Energy Performance Improvement with Different Regional Treatment Intensity in China

Xiangyu Teng, Danting Lu and Yung-Ho Chiu
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Xiangyu Teng: School of economic management, Changzhou vocational institute of mechatronic technology, No.26 Middle Mingxing Road, Wujin District, Changzhou 213164, China
Danting Lu: School of Business, Soochow University, No.50 Donghuan Road, Gusu District, Suzhou 215021, China

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 2, 1-18

Abstract: China’s industrial sector, which has a significant position in the world, is the main sector of China’s energy consumption and waste gas emission. China’s government has promulgated a Guiding Opinion, setting key regions to establish an emission reduction target of air pollutants during the 12th five year plan (2011–2015). Thus, there is a different regional treatment of industrial waste gas in China. This study considers the waste gas treatment expenditure as a new input and employs the non-radial directional distance function in the framework of the meta-frontier model to investigate the energy and emission reduction performance of China’s industrial sectors. The study is aimed at finding a significant and expanded technical gap between key and non-key regions in the energy and emission reduction efficiencies. The empirical result presents an effective method to improve the performance by increasing the emission treatment expenditure to reduce emissions.

Keywords: emission reduction; energy-saving; performance improvement; meta-frontier; non-radial directional distance function; China’s industrial sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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