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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Environ. Sci.
Sec. Environmental Economics and Management
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2025.1550493
Does China still need to deepen opening up? --Based on the perspective of reducing CO2 emissions
Provisionally accepted
Lin Yang*
Zhengnan Lu- Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China
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Institutional opening, which signifies a higher level of opening up world, enhances the linkage effect of domestic and international resources, breaks down institutional barriers, and achieves optimized allocation of factors.Energy consumption and carbon emission standards of Chinese products will be more integrated into international standards. Thus, reducing carbon content of export products has emerged as a critical concern. In this context, this paper uses fixed effect model to analyze the impact of opening up on China's overall carbon emission reduction and explores the transmission path from the opposite direction of product export and technology import. The results are as follows: (1) level of opening up can effectively reduce China's total carbon emissions; (2) the quality of export products plays a positive intermediary role in this impact; (3) technology import reduces overall carbon emissions by improving the quality of export products. (4) the carbon emission reduction effect of opening up is more obvious in non-coastal areas and the Belt and Road provinces. Based on the empirical results, this paper puts forward several policy suggestions for the government and enterprises.
Keywords: Opening up, Technology import, Export product quality, carbon emission, Direct carbon emissions
Received: 17 Jan 2025; Accepted: 15 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Yang and Lu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Lin Yang, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China
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