Original Articles
Liu Shuliang and Wang Juanli
Abstract
Resources and environmental pressures which China’s sustained economic growth would face have become the focus of attention of the government and the community. It is more prominent in the thermal power industry, with high energy consumption and high pollution. Based on the DEA-Malm quist productivity index, considered environmental impact during 2000~2008, this paper has surveyed 30 provinces’ total factor energy efficiency, the technology progress, and the technology efficiency index. The results demonstrate that TFP of overall China grew slowly and the impact of its economic level and resource conditions in each region was obvious. Furthermore, the paper analyzes the TFP trend and the main reason of it. Through the convergence analysis of overall China and three major areas, there is noï³ convergence, but absoluteï¢ and conditionalï¢ convergence in the whole country, while in each area, there is only ï¢ convergence.