Green Total Factor Productivity and Its Saving Effect on the Green Factor in China's Strategic Minerals Industry from 1998-2017

被引:2
作者
Jin, Yujian [1 ]
Yu, Lihong [1 ]
Wang, Yan [2 ]
机构
[1] East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China
[2] Linyi Univ, Sch Business, Linyi 276000, Shandong, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
strategic mineral; green total factor productivity; scale efficiency change; biased technological progress; truncated third-order function; EFFICIENCY; DEMAND;
D O I
10.3390/ijerph192214717
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Improving green total factor productivity (GTFP) is a fundamental solution to help the strategic mineral industry to achieve green and sustainable development. This study incorporates the dual negative externalities of resource depletion and environmental pollution into the GTFP measurement to capture the 'green' elements. By employing a truncated third-order (TTO) translog cost function and the feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) approach, we evaluate the GTFP growth performance and its components in China's strategic minerals industry from 1998 to 2017. Moreover, we explore the bias of technological progress toward the resource and environmental factors to grasp the green factor saving effects. The results show that: (1) during the sample period, the average GTFP growth rate of China's strategic minerals industry was 0.46%, but there were variances between mineral sectors. Nevertheless, after 2012, the GTFP of all mineral sectors experienced different degrees of decrease. (2) The main driver of adjustments in GTFP growth shifted from technological progress to changes in scale efficiency, with technological progress contributing less to GTFP growth. This is particularly evident in the metal and energy minerals sectors. (3) Green technological progress is biased toward saving environmental factor input but enhancing resource extraction. Therefore, the current development of China's strategic minerals industry falls into a non-sustainable mode of being environmentally friendly but not resource-saving.
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