Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph ›› 2014, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (2): 118-124.

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Industrial Structure Low-Carbon Optimization under Double Targets in Chinese Industrial Sectors: To Achieve Emissions Reduction Target of 2020

ZHANG Yun and DENG Gui-feng   

  1. 1. Opening Economy & Trading Research Center, Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce, Shanghai 201620, China; 2. School of Mathematics and Information, Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce, Shanghai 201620, China
  • Online:2014-03-15 Published:2014-04-01
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Abstract: China faces dual pressure of emissions reduction on international climate negotiations and domestic economy transformation, and Chinese government has announced the specific quantitative targets in 2020. This article constructs an industrial model with double targets to analyze the results about industrial output and employment maximization with constraint conditions including emissions intensity, water resource, employment, upper and lower bounds, of output value and nonnegative constraint. The result confirms industrial structure low-carbonization is an effective way to achieve the emission reduction target. And the simulation results after adjusting the parameters confirms that output increase can help achieve emissions reduction target of 2020 under certain condition. Therefore, China need to keep industrial growth and try industrial structure low-carbon optimization in transformation period of economic development pattern, and strictly controlling the growth rate of highly polluting industries is the breakthrough point.

Key words: Low Carbon Economy, Industrial Structure;Low-carbonization;Optimization