Impact of Greenization on the Marginal Utility of Intensity of Carbon Emissions and Factors Affecting it in China

The impact of greenization on the marginal utility of the intensity of carbon emissions in China and factors influ-encing this relationship are explored in this study.China’s level of greenization is evaluated by using an index system developed based on the comprehensive index method.The intensity of carbon emissions is determined by using the standards for the coefficients of conversion of coal equivalent and coefficients of carbon emission.The impact of greenization on the marginal utility of the intensity of carbon emissions is then evaluated by using an elastic formula and factors affecting this relationship are verified by regression analysis.The results are as fol-lows:(1)China’s level of greenization has exhibited a trend of constant increase.The intensity of carbon emissions has followed a continual downward trend while the impact of greenization on the marginal utility of the intensity of these emissions has been declining.(2)Urbanization as well as scientific and technological developments have slowed the reduction in the marginal utility of the intensity of carbon emissions,whereas the structure of energy consumption has expedited it under the diminishing impact of greenization.The standard of living of the popu-lation,intensity of environmental regulation,and environmental quality have had different influences under dif-ferent conditions.

Green development of western cities from the perspective of informatization and greenization

The Fifth Plenary meeting of the 18 th Central Committee put forward the idea of creative green development, which become the guide which is important concept of economic and social development in our country in the future. The contradiction between resource environment and economic development is becoming more and more outstanding with the speeding up of urbanization process in western region. The coming of big data and information age, makes the wisdom of ecological city construction to be the mainstream direction of urban development, and green development also become the core of the ecological city wisdom. In ecological concept gradually deepening of the information age, the construction of smart ecological city becomes the mainstream direction, green development also becomes the core of the smart ecological city. The path and strategies of promoting green development of western cities based on the smart ecological cities were presented in this paper, through the analysis of the background of the smart ecological city construction, the calculation of the environment carrying capacity and the ecological footprint, as well as the target for the sustainable green development of the western cities.

Evolution of green development pattern in western China

Since the 18 th Party Congress, green and low carbon industry-oriented industrialization road became a new main industry development direction. Through analyzing four kinds of region industry development modes and current situation of the industrial development of the western region, this paper uses DEA method to evaluate 11 western provinces industry green degree and resource utilization degree between 2008 and 2014, and gets the evolution process of the industrial development pattern during 7 years. The results indicate that: industrial development models are not the same in the western China and green degree are generally low. On this basis, it is concluded that the evolution of green development patterns for reference are 4 kinds of industrial development models. Finally, on the basis of green development pattern evolution path this paper provides advice to improve green degree and the degree of resource utilization.