An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Foreign Trade and Carbon Emissions of China's High Tech Industries

With the continuous development of trade and economy, China's high technology industry has a significant characteristics of "the imbalance of environment and interests", the increase of carbon emissions has a huge obstacle to the sustainable development of trade economy. This paper selects the volume of China's high technology industry foreign trade import and export and carbon emissions as basic data during 1994-2013 to and analyze. The results showed that their relation is the height of the long-term positive correlation and significant short-term dynamic relationship, along with the import and export volume of high technology industries in China foreign trade growing, carbon emissions is also showing the similar growth tendency. The results of the empirical analysis show that the development of foreign trade in China's high-tech industry will affect China's environmental problems, carbon emissions will still face a long-term severe challenge.