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Space–Time Effect of Green Total Factor Productivity in Mineral Resources Industry in China: Based on Space–Time Semivariogram and SPVAR Model

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  • Rui Jiang

    (School of Economics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming 650221, China)

  • Chunxue Liu

    (School of Urban and Environment, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming 650221, China)

  • Xiaowei Liu

    (Yunnan Land Resources Planning and Design Research Institute, Kunming 650216, China)

  • Shuai Zhang

    (School of Economics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming 650221, China)

Abstract

Improving green total factor productivity (GTFP) is the key for China’s mineral resources industry to get out of the dilemma of resource depletion and environmental degradation. The Super Slacks-Based Measure (Super-SBM) model with undesirable output is used to calculate the GTFP of China’s mineral resources industry between 2004 and 2019, and the space–time correlation threshold is quantitatively determined by the space–time semivariogram. On this basis, the spatial weight matrix is constructed, and the spatial panel vector autoregression (SPVAR) model is used to quantitatively estimate the space–time impact response among GTFP, import dependence, and R&D investment. The results show that: (1) The maximum range of mineral resources industry GTFP in time and space are 12.28 years and 635.28 km, respectively. Taking the space range as the correlation distance threshold to construct spatial weight matrix improves the accuracy of spatial analysis. (2) The increase in import dependence and R&D investment can effectively improve the GTFP of local and its neighboring provinces. In the long term, an increase in import dependence has a positive impact on R&D investment, and an increase in R&D investment can reduce the import dependence. (3) In the response to impact, the eastern region is greater than the western region, the coastal provinces are greater than the inland provinces, and the provinces close to the impact source are greater than the provinces far away. Therefore, policies to limit resource and energy consumption, pollution, and carbon emissions should be strengthened. The incentive policies should be emphasized differently and adopted for the impact sources and response areas. The R&D investment in the full mineral industry process should be increased to improve the GTFP.

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  • Rui Jiang & Chunxue Liu & Xiaowei Liu & Shuai Zhang, 2022. "Space–Time Effect of Green Total Factor Productivity in Mineral Resources Industry in China: Based on Space–Time Semivariogram and SPVAR Model," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-16, July.
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