Research on Industrial International Competitiveness - Based on Low Carbon Economy

Humanity must choose a low-carbon economy as the way of development, forced by global warming. From the perspective of international competitiveness of industry, low-carbon economy will affect the flow of trade and investment between countries. This article collected 28 manufacturing industries in China from 1995 to 2011 to compare the industrial international competitiveness in traditional evaluation system with which in new evaluation system in low-carbon economy. The results showed that competitiveness of industries fluctuated frequently in low-carbon economy compared with traditional evaluation system, which meant China’s manufacturing internal low-carbon mechanism had not formed.