Empirical Analysis on Scientific and Technological Progress and Sustainable Development of China's Economy

This paper uses Malmquist index to measure the total factor productivity of the eastern,central and western areas of China from 1996 to 2008 under taking into account the circumstances of human capital,which represents progress level of science and technology,then it is further decomposed into technical efficiency and technological progress,and technical efficiency isfurther divided into pure efficiency,scale technological progress,neutral technological progress and non-neutral technological progress.Finally,it empirically analyzes their effects on the china's economic sustainable development.The results show that: the technological process of China is out of balanced development,and technical efficiency progress only promotes the environmental protection economy,and pure technical progress has significantly negative effects on the energy saving economy,but it has no effect to environment protection.Scale technological progress and neutral technological progress has a positive impact on the environmental protection economy,but non-neutral technological progress only enhances the energy saving economy.