Import Trade and the Green Transformation Development of Chinese Enterprises: Based on the Dual Perspectives of Import Technology Sophistication and Import Diversification
Import Trade and the Green Transformation Development of Chinese Enterprises: Based on the Dual Perspectives of Import Technology Sophistication and Import Diversification

Summary/Abstract: Expanding imports and promoting balanced trade have been the direction China has beenadhering to in recent years, and are also important measures for China to build an open domesticand international dual cycle development pattern. This paper incorporates the emissionsof “three industrial wastes” into the production function, uses the Slack Based Measure modeland the globally referenced Malmquist-Leuenberger index to measure the green total factorproductivity of Chinese enterprises from 2002 to 2013 in order to measure enterprises’ greentransformation development. Subsequently, it tests the green development effect of import tradefrom the perspective of import technology sophistication and import diversification. Afterwards,we discover that the improvement of import sophistication and import diversification cansignificantly promote enterprises’ green transformation, largely through spillover effects andintermediate import competition effects. Furthermore, the green development promotion effectof import trade is greatly heterogeneous. The research in this article provides beneficial insightsfor China’s economic opening-up and high-quality economic development.

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