On the Measurement and Convergence of Total Factor Productivity under the Constraint of Carbon Intensity
在碳强度约束下重新测度全要素生产率，发现其提升主要依赖技术进步，且东部省份引领创新，西部地区因碳强度高而无追赶趋势，建议政府加强政策引导与技术创新投入。
Chinese government put forward the index of carbon intensity in 2009.This move indicates that the China's economic development will confront the constraint of carbon intensity in future.Considering the traditional measurement method of total factor productivity fails to take carbon dioxide emission in the productive process into account,the paper estimates the index of total factor productivity under the constraint of carbon intensity. Compared with the traditional total factor productivity,the index of total factor productivity under the constraint of carbon intensity is turned out to be coincident with the goal of carbon intensity,and it is able to relatively and accurately evaluate the total factor productivity in the low-carbon development Furthermore,after the deposition of total factor productivity under the constraint of carbon intensity,the innovation analysis of shifting the production-possibility frontier,and the studies on the convergence of total factor productivity,we gain the results that,the improvement of total factor productivity under the constraint of carbon intensity is mainly relying on the technological advancement,the innovative provinces leading technological advancement are primarily focus on the eastern areas.Currently,there is no trend for western areas owing to its largest carbon intensity to catch up the developed areas in the view of total factor productivity under the constraint of carbon intensity.Above all,the government is supposed to reinforce the policy guidance involved around energy saving and mitigation and the supporting investment of technological innovation so as to grasp the opportunity of advancing the low-carbon transition in western areas.