Measurement and EvaluationResearch on China’s GreenGrowth Capacity.docVIP

Measurement and EvaluationResearch on China’s GreenGrowth Capacity 　　With the spread of global financial crisis and the challenge brought by the climate change， to develop green economy has become the global consensus. A number of developed countries and regions have taken the concept of green growth as their critical strategy to overcome financial crisis and achieve economic development. As the second largest economy entity， nine out of ten of China’s GDP growth is at the cost of environment. China urgently needs to transform its economic growth pattern to achieve green growth. At present， the research on green growth capacity in China is rare， however， the way to measure and evaluate green growth capacity of China is of significant importance for the achievement of green growth. For the record of that， this article took as the research object the green growth capacity of 30 provinces and municipalities of mainland China， designed the evaluation index for the green growth capacity of China， and used two ways of analyzing― factor analysis and cluster analysis to measure and evaluate the green growth capacity of various regions of China and hope that this article can provide a reference for the orientation of China’s green economy development. 　　1. Selection of Green Growth Capacity Evaluation Index 　　The essence of complex evaluation index system of green growth capacity is to use specific indicators to statistically describe and comprehensively evaluate all the fields included in green growth and the concept of green growth. Based on the related fields and concept of green growth， the measurement of green growth could reflect the development and change of regional economy， environment and social system. 　　To evaluate the sustainable development of different countries， the UN Commission on sustainable development established a universal framework of sustainable development index system， which is constituted with four major sub-systems： societyl， economy， env