Material Flows and Economic Growth in Developing China
Material Flows and Economic Growth in Developing China
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DOI：
10.1162/jiec.2007.1105
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发表时间：
2007-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Ming Xu;Tianzhu Zhang
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作者：
Ming Xu;Tianzhu Zhang
可持续发展的概念不仅涉及自然环境，而且涉及人类社会和经济。经济范围内的物质流核算和分析方法（EW‐MFA）被国际公认为研究经济物理维度的宝贵工具。EW‐MFA在许多工业化国家已经开展，但对于发展中的中国却做得很少;本文可以被视为从物质流角度研究中国经济的第一次尝试之一。本文编制了中国1990 - 2002年的物质流核算数据，并导出了相关的国际比较指标。结果表明，中国经济的物质消耗除1998年前后出现过一次下滑外，总体上呈持续增长的态势，而物质效率则呈现出三个阶段的变化趋势，反映了中央政府实施的“八五”、“九五”和“十五”计划的不同宏观政策。基于中国EW-MFA的经验，为改进EW-MFA作为更有效的环境管理工具提供了方法发展和进一步研究的建议。
The concept of sustainable development concerns not only the natural environment but also human societies and economies. The method of economy‐wide materials flow accounting and analysis (EW‐MFA) is internationally recognized as a valuable tool for studying the physical dimensions of economies. EW‐MFA has been carried out in many industrialized countries, but very little work has been done for developing China; this article can be regarded as one of the first attempts to study China's economy in terms of materials flows. In this article we have compiled materials flow accounts for China during the time series 1990 to 2002 and derived indicators associated with international comparison. Results show that the annual material consumption of China's economy continuously increased except for a slump around 1998, whereas the material efficiency exhibited a three‐phase trend reflecting different macropolicies of the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Five‐Year Plans implemented by the central government. Based on this experience with EW‐MFA for China, suggestions for methodology development and further research are given for improving EW‐MFA as a more effective tool for environmental management.