Production efficiency estimation of Chinaâ€™s construction industry and its influencing factors based on the DEA-Tobit model
Guang Cheng
Transactions on Machine Design, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2024.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6025/tmd/2024/12/1/20-31
Link: https://www.dline.info/tmd/fulltext/v12n1/tmdv12n1_2.pdf
Abstract:
The total output value of the construction industry, a pillar industry of China, is continuously growing with the expansion of the production and operation scale of Chinese construction enterprises. The extensive high-input mode has promoted the economic growth of the construction industry. Despite the fruitful and amazing results, the phenomenon of production inefficiency becomes especially prominent. Though developing rapidly, Chinaâ€™s construction industry possesses less ecological investments, accompanied by low environmental awareness and little importance to environmental protection, always failing to get rid of high energy consumption, high investments, and high emissions. In addition, the contradiction between the economic growth of the construction industry and ecological environment remains evident. In this paper, the production efficiency of Chinaâ€™s construction industry was transversely and longitudinally measured using the DEA-Malmquist index method, followed by the further analysis of the factors influencing the production efficiency of Chinaâ€™s construction industry based on the Tobit regression model. The results show that the average production efficiency of Chinaâ€™s construction industry is obviously the highest in the east, the moderate in the west, and the lowest in the center. The number of construction enterprises, per capita capital, industrial structure, the proportion of state-owned capitals, and GDP are significant at the levels of 1%, 10%, 1%, 1%, and 1%, respectively. The research results can provide theoretical reference for reasonably establishing an ecological efficiency evaluation system for the construction industry to analyze the differences in ecological efficiency among different provinces and regions, further find out the key factors influencing ecological efficiency, propose the corresponding pertinent policy suggestions, and ultimately improve the ecological efficiency of Chinaâ€™s construction industry.