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Apr, 2023;30 (17): 50772-50782.

Study on the impact of green finance on low carbon development of manufacturing industry from the perspective of multidimensional space: evidence from China.

Lingjuan Xu, Yijiang Liu, Bingdan Zhang, Beibei Xiang
Author Information
  1. Lingjuan Xu: College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 211106, China. nuaaxulj@163.com. ORCID
  2. Yijiang Liu: Lille College, Hohai University, Nanjing, 213022, China.
  3. Bingdan Zhang: College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 211106, China.
  4. Beibei Xiang: College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 211106, China.
PMID: 36800096 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-25690-6

Abstract

In order to test the impact of green finance on the low-carbon development level of China's manufacturing industry, this paper takes green finance as an explanatory variable, and chooses the level of fixed asset investment in the manufacturing industry, the intensity of environmental regulations, the proportion of environmental pollution control investment, and the proportion of R&D investment as four control variables. Empirical tests are carried out on the four dependent variables, including manufacturing industry's low-carbon development level, added value growth rate, industrial structure upgrading level, and environmental protection status. The test results show that green finance is positively correlated with the low-carbon development of the manufacturing industry and the growth rate of added value, and inversely correlated with industrial structure upgrading and environmental protection; green finance supports dependent variables in the following order: low-carbon development > environmental protection > economic growth > industrial structure. It can be seen that the main role of green finance is to promote low-carbon development and environmental protection, but it is not the best tool to promote the growth rate of manufacturing industry and upgrade the level of industrial structure. In addition, due to the spillover effect of green finance in the process of promoting the development of the manufacturing industry, it is necessary to increase green financial investment in a long-term and sustained manner to gradually promote the low-carbon and sustainable development of China's manufacturing industry.

Keywords

Environmental protection Green finance Low-carbon development Manufacturing Multi-dimensional space

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Grants

  1. 19YJA790098/Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China

MeSH Term

Carbon
Manufacturing Industry
Industry
Commerce
China
Economic Development

Chemicals

Carbon
Journal Article

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