DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2015.v02i02.003

Pages: 159-164

It is argued that China’s economic growth in the recent decades has been relying too much on environmental inputs. In this paper, we study the contribution of pollution emission as an environmental input to the growth of China’s output. We base our empirical analysis on a relevant theoretical framework of environmentally sustainable growth. Our regression exercise produces a relatively high value of the elasticity of output with respect to pollution emission. Given our estimation results, we are quite concerned that environmentally friendly economic growth is not being sustained in China. Relevant policy measures regarding pollution emissions and pollution abatement are therefore urgently called for.