Environmental Technical Standards and the Green Transition of China’s Manufacturing Industry

Distinct from the existing literature conforming to the Porter hypothesis which emphasizes the technological innovation mechanism,this paper examines the mechanism of technological transformation through which environmental technical standards influence the manufacturing industry in reducing emissions and improving efficiency(i.e.green transition).Furthermore,drawing upon enterprise samples from the databases of Chinese Industrial Enterprises and Chinese Industrial Pollution Sources from Major Monitored Enterprises,it empirically validates the results of the theoretical analysis.Overall,our research reveals that environmental technical standards can propel manufacturing enterprises to reduce pollution and increase productivity by following an incremental path of technological transformation,thereby achieving a green transition.Moreover,environmental technical standards indirectly promote green technology innovation in the upstream equipment manufacturing enterprises.Heterogeneity analysis further shows that environmental technical standards have a stronger effect of green transition on those companies with higher pollution emission intensity,lower productivity,slower capital renewal and stronger financing capacity prior to implementing the environmental policies.

The Status and Trend of Research on Standards for Eoological Textile in China

The products of ecological textile have represented nowadays the new trend ofglobal consumption and production of textile while become an important means for some countries toutilize 'green barrier' as a limitation of import of textile products. Following the entrance ofChina into the WTO, the position of 'green barrier' becomes significantly important in the trade oftextile products. As China is a big country of textile production, speeding up the research onstandards for products of ecological textile, countering the latest situation appearing ininternational trade of textile, to take as quickly as possible responsive measures is a very urgentproblem in port, to enhancing the ability of international market competition and to promoting thestable development of foreign oriented economy.

The Econometric Approach to Technical Efficiency of Public and Private Textile Enterprises in Iran

This study considers measurement of technical efficiency of 250 public and privately owned textile companies in Iran.Two stochastic frontier production functions are used for this purpose.One assumes that firm characteristics directly influence the degree of technical inefficiency while the other assumes that the technology plays a key role.Maximum likelihood method is used to estimate parameters of the models and predict technical efficiency for each enterprise.The results obtained when using these two models are compared.The sensitivity of efficiency measures with respect to different model specifications is also analyzed.Empirical results show that most of the enterprises are operating at high level of efficiencies.The overall mean efficiency is 86%,indicating that,on average,there is a potential for an increase of output by 14%.The result also shows that the public firms are operating more inefficiently than the private ones.

First Batch of Topics of “Key Technical Standard Promotion Project” tarted,270 Important National Standards or Professional Standards Will Be Prepared

At the first working meeting of the 'Key Technical Standard PromotionProject', an important project of the national scientific and technical support plan during the'11th Five Year' held recently in Beijing, the first group of 11 research topics for the 'KeyTechnical Standard Promotion Project' was formally introduced. According to Ms. Yu Xinli, who is incharge of the project as Deputy Director of the China National Institute of Standardization, theproject comprises four aspects: the international standards key breakthrough project, the technicalstandards promotion project of adapting technical trade measures, the technical standards innovationproject of basic public welfare, and the technical standard enhancement project of public security.

Discussion on Foreseeing the Enterprises Technical Standards

Under the condition of market economy, the need for products to be characteristic is getting more and more outstanding, and the product market will be transferred gradually from the seller's market to the buyer's. After the issue and implementation of the enterprises technical standards, there will be a stable period. The matter of how to guarantee the products to satisfy the need of the market within this period requires that the enterprise must take the foreseeing of standards into account when developing technical standards, so as to ensure the products to be of persistent competitive power in the market. Here are some things that can show the foreseeing of enterprises technical standards.

Technical Textiles to Strut Their Stuff

Will geotextiles soon be successfully creating fertile soil from arid desert landscapes? Will creative forms in mobility make it possible for even more people to be transported efficiently in the near future? Will textiles a few years from now be able to open up new habitats for humanity on distant planets? Will textiles be made safe against a spark that might sparkle into a conflagration in high-rise cities? The answers to these and many other exciting questions relating to visionary textiles production are all being researched in the field of technical textiles.

Technical Textiles: 30% Growth in the First Half Year

Cinte Techtextil China 2010 will return to Shanghai from October 19th–21st, presenting opportunities for China’s ever-growing nonwovens and technical textiles industries. What’s about the status quo of the technical textile industry in China in the first half year of

Cotton Incorporated's professional curriculum expands with focus on technical textiles

Cotton University^TM adds four new courses to the College of Nonwovens Cotton Incorporated,the research and promotion company for U.S.cotton producers and importers,expands offerings on its Cotton University？platform with four new courses in the College of Nonwovens section.Cotton University^TM is an online resource aimed at supporting today’s industry professionals,while nurturing the next generation through education and engagement.

Application of Knitted Fabrics in Technical and Medical Textiles

Knitted fabrics and knitting technology play very important role on the fields of technical and medical textiles and their importance is ever greater. Experts estimate that their annual consumption is increasing by 3,8 % in average and it can reach about 24 million tons in 2010. Within this the consumption of each sector is increasing. Roughly one third of the world’s fibre consumption is used for production of technical textiles.The term "technical textiles" covers many fields of application that are mirrored in the terminology of Techtextil which is very much used generally when grouping these products. Techtextil differentiates 11 groups and knitted fabrics and products made by knitting technologies can be found in each of them.The lecture introduces such applications on many examples. We think that use of knitting technologies in the development of technical and medical textiles can help this sector to survive this difficult period of the European textile industry.

System for Sewing Machine Industry Standard Innovation——Constructive Research for a Technical Standards System for Sewing Machines

Constructive research of a market-oriented industry's system of technical standardization by redefining those technical standards is the basis of innovation. Through considering and implementing innovation of the industry's standards, rapid development and standardization of the industry can be achieved.

Analysis on the Technical Standardization System of Juvenile Product in Europe and the United States of America and Strategies of Technical Measures of Trade

China is the largest country in the trade of juvenile products in the world. However, the products suffered the loss of technical barriers to trade from Europe and the United States of America increased year by year. This paper analyzes the standard system of juvenile products in Europe and the United States of America with the method of standard comparison, to find its relative technical advantages, explore the reasons for the recall notification of juvenile products exported to the above regions by China, propose strategies for breaking down the technical measures of trade, and promote the development of international juvenile product export trade.

Designing Technical Standard System of Strong & Smart Grids Based on SLO Principle

In this paper, the international status of the research on the technical standards of smart grids is overviewed. An approach using the SLO principle to establish the technical standard system of strong & smart grids is put forward. A four-layered structure for the system is expounded, which consists of 8 domains, 26 technical fields, 92 standard series and hundreds of standards.

Build Enterprise Technical Standards Work Pattern to Adapt to New Condition

With new requirements proposed for technical standards work under the new circumstances,the article combining with the practice of Wuhan Iron and Steel Company Limited(WISCO)points out that enterprises must improve the work pattern of standards development and revision,and strengthen the standards implementation management and product quality supervision,so that technical standards can serve as a bridge between technologies and industrialization,support the industrial upgrading and structural optimization,create conditions for promoting trade and unify the market and provides means for global competition,helping enterprises to better cope with the increasing market competition.

A Comparative Study on the Labor Productivity of Provincial Textile Industry Based on DEA in China

Making use of the DEA-based method of quadruplicate decomposition of labor productivity, the paper analyzes the influence of labor productivity of provincial textile industry in China, caused by the effect of technical efficiency, pure technical progress, changes of scale efficiency of capital per labor and of capital intensity from the year of 2002 to 2005. Its results show that the improvement of provincial textile industry labor productivity has mainly resulted from technical progress since 2003. Meanwhile, labor productivity of underdeveloped provinces has been growing faster than that of developed ones owing to technology diffusion. And then, the above-mentioned improvement has originated from the enhancement of capital deepening and technology efficiency. In addition, scale return of capital per labor appeared to decrease during the period from 2004 to 2005.

Elaboration of a Conductive Textile by Coating for Clothes Equipped with Fourth-Generation Photovoltaic Cells

Conducting polymer coated in textiles possesses a wide range of electrical properties.The surface resistivity is influenced by concentrations of the reactants,thickness of the coating,nature of the substrate surface,extent of penetration of the polymer into the textile structure and the strength of the binding of the coating to the textile surface.Low resistivity in fabric results from highly doped thicker coatings that penetrate well into the textile structure thus enabling good electrical contact between fibers.In this study,we had chosen copper as conductor polymer for coating.The electrical conductivity is influenced by the thickness of coating paste,the nature of the substrate surface.The thickness of the paste and the concentration of the copper were studied in this paper.Furthermore,the electrical surface resistance decreased from 68 MΩto 8 MΩwith decreasing in coating thickness.However,the thickness of coated fabric is very important factor to determine conductivity and application of textile.In addition,we had noticed that the airflow is affected by the coating thickness which the penetration of the airflow differs from the lower thickness to the higher one.This study confirms that we can use coating woven fabric to develop a textile substrate responding to characteristics such as electrical resistance,drapability,air permeability and tensile strength,which are particularly important to be used as a support for flexible PV(photovoltaic)cells in clothes.

Strategy Selection of Production Technical Standards in a Manufacturing Supply Chain Network： The Role of Partnership Density

This paper presents the game of production technical standards between downstream and upstream suppliers on a manufacturing supply chain network when the two parties have different partnership densities, namely, the numbers of replaceable and mature manufacturing partners. We firstly constructed a manufacturing chain network and analyzed its three relationship structures among suppliers with the presence of different relationship densities, and found that all the three relationships brought about the game of production technical standards between partnership-rich and partnership-scanty suppliers. Then we built a two-party payoff matrix, and analyzed the two-party game and evolutionary stable strategy, based on replication dynamic equation and asymmetric evolutionary game theory. The evolutionary stable strategies of two parties under varying payoff parameters were validated through numerical simulation. Finally, we proposed some suggestions for both those manufacturers with more partners and fewer partners, respectively.

Technical Efficiency in the Chinese Textile Industry

This paper presents a measurement of the technical efficiency of textile industries with 4-digit codes in China by using the cross-section data from 2002 and 2007 and a fully nonparametric stochastic frontier estimation approach. The technical efficiency of these textile industries is compared across six economic ownership types and across seven regions in China. This uncovers the effects of the proprietary characteristics and the location of a firm on its technical efficiency performance. The nonparametric estimation provides some interesting findings. First, textile production in China performs with a decreasing return to scale. The difference between the output elasticity of labor and that of capital decreases from the year 2002 to 2007. Second, the technical efficiency of the 4-digit textile industry in China is significantly contingent on its ownership and location. Privately-run textile enterprises on average perform with the highest level of technical efficiency among the six ownership types while state-owned enterprises perform with the lowest level of technical efficiency, whether or not the location dummies are accounted for. Third, the technical efficiency evaluated by regions follows the order： ＂eastern area 〉 southern area 〉 central area 〉 northern area,＂ which remains unchanged across the two years.