Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems 28 (2020) 100418

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Value chain reconstruction and sustainable development of green

manufacturing industry
Huiling Liu ∗ , Dan Ling
School of Economics, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t

Article history: In recent years, sustainable development has become the goal pursued by all mankind. In such an era,
Received 7 December 2019 the concept of green manufacturing industry has been put forward. While manufacturing industry gains
Received in revised form 22 March 2020 rapid development by taking advantage of this opportunity, it also faces greater competition. Sustain-
Accepted 7 July 2020
able development is a d̈ouble-edged swordf̈or the manufacturing industry. It not only brings unlimited
Available online 9 July 2020
opportunities for the long-term development of the manufacturing industry, but also makes the strate-
gic operation of the manufacturing industry full of unpredictable risks. The main purpose of this study
Keywords:
is how to carry out green innovation from the strategic level for the manufacturing enterprises in this
Sustainable development
Green Innovation
revolution. This study integrated application of green sustainable development theory, enterprise the-
Manufacturing Value Chain ory and enterprise strategic innovation theory, combining the particularity of manufacturing enterprise,
Green Manufacturing from manufacturing enterprise strategic operating level, the system of manufacturing enterprise for
sustainable development opportunity and risk, environmental competitiveness assessment, the green
value chain innovation, green organizational design, and performance evaluation of green and so on, to
guide our manufacturing enterprises how to abandon the traditional energy-intensive, highly polluting
manufacturing enterprise management mode, to somewhere in the world, every year rose nearly 76 %
of manufacturing output in terms of our country, It is of great practical significance to carry out green
strategy innovation in manufacturing enterprises.
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1. Introduction Facing today’s world-wide environmental pollution, people

Since the industrialization of human society, economic growth
and the development of traditional industrial civilization in all
countries in the world have brought about a series of serious neg-
ative effects. Human society and ecological system lead to sharp
contradictions between human and nature, poor resources and
worse ecological environment, endangering human health and
quality of life. Therefore, the thinking set of industrial civilization
and the rigid mode in practice should be abandoned. The basis of
sustainable development is industrial civilization. Ecological sci-
ence and technology. We will vigorously develop ecological and
environmental protection industries, develop information services,
develop and utilize new energy sources and resources effectively. It
is the combination of industry and ecology, the coordinated devel-
opment of economy and environment, and the harmonious and
sustainable development of man and nature.
∗ Corresponding author.
E-mail addresses: leohuiling@163.com (L. Huiling), danling@whut.edu.cn
(L. Dan).
have closely linked green with pollution-free, pollution-free, envi-
ronmental protection and sustainable development. In the context
of economic globalization, global environmental governance and
sustainable development are gradually becoming issues of com-
mon concern to all countries. Public demonstration projects are
used to promote the upgrade of China’s green manufacturing
technology to accelerate innovation c̈atch-upänd the transition to
sustainable development.
ZhouYuan’s projects face implementation challenges because
when it comes to complex economic issues and a large num-
ber of SMEs as adopters, the relevant obstacles are different from
traditional demonstrations in new technology areas. Therefore,
Zhou Yuan uses a case-based approach to study a specific Chinese
demonstration project to support large-scale green technology dif-
fusion and its pilot implementation. Through case studies, Zhou
Yuan revealed a different set of diffusion barriers these demos face
in testing technology and facilitating learning. In addition, while
emphasizing market-oriented policies and non-legislative actors
and combining them with traditional coercive measures, a new
policy model may be needed to address these obstacles [1], but
his research did not consider To green manufacturing value chain

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reconstruction. The governments of emerging economies are under
tremendous pressure to maintain rapid growth in manufactur-
ing. Unfortunately, manufacturing consumes a lot of energy and
other resources, emits a lot of greenhouse gases, and increases
environmental problems such as climate change and global warm-
ing. One possible solution to this problem is to implement green
manufacturing (GM) in the industry. However, GM’s implemen-
tation faces many challenges. Governments and industries should
promote various incentives known as d̈riversẗo make this change
possible. From the perspectives of the government, industry, and
experts, Mittal uses fuzzy ranking technology and uses similarity as
the ideal solution for ranking methods. It studies the driving factors
of GM implementation and its ranking problems. The study con-
cluded that competitiveness, incentives, organizational resources
and technology are the highest ranking drivers, and government
and industry should help implement GM. Manufacturing has been
under tremendous pressure from environmental regulations, such
as reducing pollutants such as carbon dioxide. Mittal’s research
found that manufacturing needs to consider the sustainability of
green manufacturing throughout the product life cycle [2], but in
his research, life cycle management did not consider the energy
consumption of product manufacturing. From the perspective of
sustainability, Zhao Wen-Bin proposed a new product lifecycle
management information model. Based on this, an energy simula-
tion framework for the impact of sustainability on manufacturing
is proposed. The analysis results show that the use of sustainable
product lifecycle management information model for energy sim-
ulation can help the manufacturing industry save energy [3], but
his research did not take into account the problem of green manu-
facturing value chain reconstruction.
In this paper, the application of sustainable development the-
ory, enterprise theory and enterprise strategic theory discusses the
green manufacturing under the perspective of sustainable develop-
ment of green technology innovation, from manufacturing strategy
operating level, analyzes the opportunities and risks for the sus-
tainable development of manufacturing, to improve the green
manufacturing research, to our country manufacturing industry to
abandon the traditional energy-consuming, high pollution of man-
ufacturing management mode, turned to the direction of the green
manufacturing provides a theoretical and practical guidance.
2. Proposed method
2.1. Sustainable development
2.1.1. The concept of sustainable development
The concept of sustainable development can be understood
from four perspectives: from the perspective of ecology, sustain-
able development is to p̈rotect and strengthen the production and
renewal capacity of the environmental system¨, that is, to seek
an optimal ecological system to make the living environment of
human beings sustainable; From the perspective of sociology, sus-
tainable development is: ẗo improve the quality of human life
without exceeding the capacity of maintaining the ecosystem¨;
From the perspective of economics, sustainable development is:
ẗo maximize the net benefits of economic development on the
premise of maintaining the quality of natural resources and ser-
vices provided¨; From the perspective of science and technology
application, sustainable development is to shift to cleaner and more
effective technologies, to approach ’zero emission’ or ’closed’ pro-
cess methods as much as possible [4,5].
2.1.2. Function and significance of sustainable development
The sustainable development ability of an enterprise is a nec-
essary condition for the sustainable development of an enterprise.
Whether it is the competition between enterprises or the coopera-
tion between enterprises, the sustainable development ability will
have a significant impact and function, just as the competition of a
country is the competition of comprehensive national strength. It is
practical to achieve development by relying on one’s own strength.
If it is difficult for an enterprise to survive for a long time by relying
on the opportunity or condition of öccasionally¨, it is necessary to
cultivate its core competitiveness and enhance its advantages to
achieve sustainable development [6,7]. With the economic glob-
alization, the full differentiation of market competition and the
improvement of transparency, the single resource or development
advantage of an enterprise is difficult to cope with the competi-
tion, threat and pressure from all aspects and levels, and will miss
the opportunity of development, which requires an enterprise to
speed up the new situation to adapt to the market, on the one hand,
we will accelerate the improvement of the strength of enterprises,
cultivate their ability of sustainable development. The sustainable
development ability of an enterprise can affect its market inno-
vation, technological innovation, management innovation ability,
etc., which plays a positive role in adapting to market competition,
improving management level and optimizing human resources. If
an enterprise has a strong innovation ability, it will have a strong
competitiveness after cultivation and development even if it does
not have a strong competitive advantage at present. It can enhance
the development ability of new business, accelerate the formation
ability of its own brand, and improve its response ability to market
changes, etc. [8,9].
2.1.3. Constituent elements
The main factors supporting the sustainable development of
enterprises include industrial platform, institutional platform, core
competitiveness platform and market force platform. The core
competitiveness of industry platform and system platform consti-
tutes the stable triangular element of enterprise development. They
interact with each other and support each other to jointly create
enterprise value, thus generating the market power of enterprises
[10,11].
2.1.4. Contents of sustainable development from the perspective
of manufacturing industry
1) Strong decision-making power of the leadership is the corner-
stone of enterprise development
The decision-making ability of the enterprise leadership reflects
the far-sightedness of the enterprise leadership, determines the
height and width of an enterprise, and determines the direction of
the enterprise and the sensitivity of the market response [12,13].
2) The execution ability of the team is a solid foundation for the
development of the enterprise
Executive force is a kind of action, is to reflect the speed and
effect of enterprise team to enterprise decision. Good execution
ability can ensure enterprises to effectively execute their own will
and decisions in the process of sustainable development, which is
very critical in market competition. Otherwise, no matter how good
the innovation and decision-making is just empty talk. Of course,
good execution is no longer just to complete a task, but should be
in work practice to play the role of ẗwice the result with half the
effort¨.
3) Excellent human resources reserve is the guarantee of sustain-
able development of enterprises
Human resources is the cornerstone of building the core com-
petitiveness of an enterprise and a powerful guarantee for the
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sustainable development of an enterprise. With the rapid devel-
opment of China’s economy, education has also made considerable
progress. In addition, the interaction with the international com-
munity has also promoted the cultivation and reserve of talents in
China and brought abundant human resources for the sustainable
development of Chinese enterprises.
4) Excellent corporate culture is the driving force for sustainable
development of enterprises
In the process of economic globalization, with the communica-
tion with international enterprises more and more common and
close, corporate culture is more and more respected. The cultural
connotation of an enterprise often affects its management, human
resources and innovation level. Whether an enterprise has an excel-
lent corporate culture is no longer an issue that employees in the
enterprise pay attention to. More and more young consumers, espe-
cially, will consider the corporate culture behind a product when
choosing a product [14,15].
2.2. Manufacturing value chain
2.2.1. Development process of domestic manufacturing industry
Since the 1980s, the trend of economic globalization is more
and more fast, it’s from each dimension influence the develop-
ment trend of global manufacturing, especially in the transfer of the
global manufacturing center on the one hand, brought opportunity
to the development of the manufacturing industry in our coun-
try, but also to domestic manufacturing industry has brought very
serious test [16]. Economic globalization has brought about world-
wide structural adjustment and industrial transfer. The new round
of international industrial transfer of transnational corporations is
characterized by large project scale, high technology content, many
export products, wide investment fields and diversified investment
methods. Because the domestic market environment that our coun-
try relies on for a long time to enlarge production scale no longer
exists, it has become the main trend of our country’s economic
development to realize industrial upgrading and structural adjust-
ment in the competition of economic globalization and gradually
form a relatively complete industrial system and industrial cluster,
has a strong industrial and technical support, and industrial sup-
porting ability, especially the shipping industry, textile and white
goods has become the world’s dominant industry; The output of
steel, cement and clothing has jumped to the first place in the world
[17].
But we must also see that the challenges of economic glob-
alization to our manufacturing industry are also very serious.
China mainly develops its manufacturing industry on the basis of
high energy consumption and low-end raw material processing.
According to statistics, the average value-added rate of the global
manufacturing industry is over 35 %, while ours is only 26. 5%.
In addition, China’s industrial organization is not reasonable, the
market structure is still too dispersed, restricted by capital, tech-
nology, management and other factors, domestic enterprises still
focus too much on price competition and participate in interna-
tional competition, which also brings difficulties to the sustainable
development of the manufacturing industry. In order to pursue
GDP output, some regions even sacrifice some immediate inter-
ests, which further worsens the long-term orderly development
of the market environment and greatly influences the sustainable
development of enterprises [18,19].
2.2.2. The status quo of sustainable development and cultivation
of domestic manufacturing industry
1) Local development without long-term planning
3
The development of China’s manufacturing industry can be
divided into several stages. The initial stage is the large-scale devel-
opment of state-owned enterprises, which is mainly the needs of
the national economy after the founding of the People’s Republic
of China and at present. But the problem is that these manufac-
turing companies do not have a forward-looking strategic vision
in the development process. Business leaders are keen on the ris-
ing numbers, but ignore the problems behind the numbers and the
increasing demands of the accumulating numbers on the capabili-
ties of enterprises.
2) Efforts to develop the economy, lack of core values
The economy has developed rapidly. The policy of s̈ome peo-
ple get rich firstḧas really played its expected role. However, if we
deeply analyze the values behind the development, it is not diffi-
cult to find that it is based on a deformed or distorted culture or
values. The rapid development covers up the enterprise’s lack of
social responsibility care, the enterprise’s lack of humanistic care,
and even the enterprise’s humanistic construction.
3) Available talents, talent reserve and training are seriously insuf-
ficient
In recent years, the domestic manufacturing industry has devel-
oped by leaps and bounds. However, the enterprise in the talent
reserve and training aspect appeared the very big question, lacks
the strategic talent reserve, the talent cannot satisfy the organiza-
tion development need. Many enterprises are keen on using talents
in the form of poaching, which leads to the consequence that the
recruited talents may not meet the needs of enterprise develop-
ment. Meanwhile, it also raises the investment of the market for
talents, aggravating the economic burden of enterprises and the
disorderly loss of personnel. This will make the employees of the
enterprise unable to settle down to the status quo and work, which
will bring great hidden dangers to the long-term development of
the enterprise. Even the leakage of the core information of the
enterprise will sometimes bring immeasurable losses to the enter-
prise.
4) The scale of investment is expanding, and the investment in
scientific and technological innovation is insufficient
Capacity for independent innovation is the development of Chi-
nese science and technology development and manufacturing of
s̈oft rib, although countries for technology research and develop-
ment spending increased year by year, but under the economic
globalization of manufacturing industry in China at the same time
of constantly expand the scale of enterprises, in the aspect of sci-
ence and technology innovation investment serious insufficient,
this has to do with the foreign advanced manufacturing than there
are still a big gap, many enterprises in the institutional arrange-
ments, the protection of intellectual property rights, there are many
insufficient innovation activities [20].
3. Experiments
3.1. Experimental background and methods
If enterprises want to maintain long-term initiative in mar-
ket competition, they must consciously cultivate and enhance the
cultivation of sustainable development ability. The relatively suc-
cessful evaluation method for the risk and opportunity evaluation
of external environment is the evaluation matrix of external fac-
tors (matrix). Through to the manufacturing enterprises face risks
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and opportunities for the sustainable development of factor anal-

ysis, to establish the external factor evaluation matrix, from two
aspects, opportunity and risk analysis of key factors affecting the
development of manufacturing enterprises in the future, based on
industry, according to the influence degree of the factors that deter-
mine the weighting size, and then based on the manufacturing
enterprise opportunities for various risk factors of effective reaction
to score, finally calculate the total weighted score of the enter-
prise, to determine whether the enterprise to evade the risk to a
great extent and the most effective use of the opportunity. Based
on matrix comprehensive assessment of risks and opportunities
faced by manufacturing enterprises in sustainable development,
the following three steps can be established: Fig. 1. The PEST model.

(1) List the key factors identified in the analysis of the external Table 1
environment and determine the evaluation indicators. Analysis Global crude steel output ranking in 2018.
according to the key factors for the sustainable development of
ranking countries 2018 2017 Compared with
manufacturing enterprises opportunity risk evaluation indexes, the same(%)
namely, policy and law. The change of market demand, the
1 China 822.7 815.4 0.9
change of enterprise competitiveness, enterprise upfront costs 2 Japan 110.7 110.6 0.1
increase, the government’s policy support, the improvement 3 The United States 88.3 86.9 1.7
of investment income, environmental competitiveness, market 4 India 83.2 81.3 2.3
positioning, to improve enterprise intangible value. Consider- 5 South Korea 71 66.1 7.5
6 Russia 70.7 68.9 2.6
ing the number of indicators required by matrix, in order to
7 Germany 42.9 42.6 0.7
include all key factors without affecting operability, the above 8 Turkey 34 34.7 −1.8
key factors were determined as evaluation indicators. 9 Brazil 33.9 32.8 −0.7
(2) Assign weight to each evaluation index. The weight value varies
from unimportant to very important, and the weight sum is.
According to the expert scoring, the index weight is determined,
following the principle that the weight is based on the construc- 4.1.1. Political and legal environment analysis
tion industry and can reflect the relative degree of influence At present, China’s political environment is stable. The gov-
of this factor on manufacturing enterprises in the construction ernment is deepening reform, streamlining administration and
industry. delegating power, and further creating a good environment con-
ducive to the development of enterprises. At the same time, the
3.2. Data sources state encourages and introduces a series of policies to support
enterprises to take the road of sustainable development. For the
The main sources of this study are: sustainable development of enterprises in our country, especially
in manufacturing industry to create a good political environment.
At the same time, the government is further standardizing the mar-
(1) Primary materials include in-depth interviews, listening
ket environment and improving various laws and regulations to
reports, emails, phone calls and field observation activities;
provide sufficient legal protection for the standardized operation
Information obtained from relevant industry suppliers, cus-
and fair competition of enterprises.
tomers, cooperative organizations and other stakeholders.
(2) Secondary data include enterprise summary, archives, news
reports and CNK1 search research literature, etc. The most
important source of data is the in-depth interviews conducted 4.1.2. Economic environment analysis
within the enterprise. In order to obtain enough information, The key factors that constitute the economic environment
two interviews were conducted with the safety managers, site include the level of interest rates, fiscal and monetary policies,
managers and some employees of two manufacturing enter- the level of unemployment, the level of disposable income, the
prises in a city, each interview lasting about 2−3 hours. The exchange rate, market mechanism and market demand. At present,
interview contents were recorded and sorted out to form the China’s economic environment is good, the disposable income of
qualitative data needed for case study. residents has further increased, the surveyed unemployment rate
is 5%, and the registered urban unemployment rate is 4.1 %. Under
the new normal, the national economy has maintained steady
4. Discussion growth, further improved its structure, improved its quality and
improved people’s livelihood. GDP grew by over 7% and 13.22 mil-
4.1. Reconstruction of green manufacturing industry under PEST lion new jobs were created. A stable monetary policy has injected
analysis stability and vitality into the market. Meanwhile, China’s manufac-
turing sector has been a world leader, as shown in Table 1. Faced
Usually based on the analysis of an industry or enterprise’s back- with such an economic environment, Chinese enterprises, espe-
ground, usually can through the P̈ESTänalysis, as shown in Fig. 1, cially the manufacturing industry, are relatively late to participate
the so-called P̈ESTänalysis of manufacturing means through the in the international market competition, so they need to accelerate
factors such as political, economic, social and technical analysis, the improvement of their sustainable development ability, effec-
to determine the change of these factors impact on the sustainable tively take advantage of China’s good economic environment, and
development of manufacturing, then we can make the correspond- establish a good basic platform to help enterprises transform and
ing way for the cultivation of sustainable development ability. upgrade.
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Fig. 2. Table of key factors of environmental risk capability.
4.1.3. Social and cultural environment analysis
Social and cultural environment includes a country’s people’s
education level, religious beliefs, customs, values and so on. Popu-
lation factors will directly affect the total scale of social production,
cultural level will affect the needs of local residents and the
human resources of enterprises, and religious beliefs and customs
will affect the realization of some economic activities. Different
countries and regions have different values, which will affect res-
idents’ perception of organizational goals and activities. All kinds
of social and cultural impact of the enterprise, some are directly,
some is indirect, the most important thing is that it can greatly
affect social and consumer demand for products, and the resi-
dents’ consumption and demand will affect the enterprise product
design, promotion and sales, for the expectation and enterprise,
so enterprises in development strategy, must pay attention to the
psychological factors of consumers.
4.1.4. Technical environment analysis
This analysis refers to the scientific and technological elements
in the social environment in which the enterprise is located and
the collection of various related social phenomena directly related
to these elements. Technology is not just a force driving globalisa-
tion. It is also the strength of every company. It is divided into four
elements: social science and technology level, social science and
technology force, national science and technology system, national
science and technology policy and science and technology legis-
lation. Among them, the level of social science and technology
is the primary factor that constitutes the science and technology
environment, including the research field of science and technol-
ogy, the type distribution of scientific and technological research
achievements, the advancement of scientific and technological
achievements and the promotion and application of scientific and
technological achievements. The power of social science and tech-
nology is the power of scientific research and development of a
country or region. The system of science and technology refers to
the structure, mode of operation and relationship with other sec-
tors of the national economy. National policies and regulations on
science and technology refer to the measures that the state uses
administrative and legislative powers to manage and guide the
development of science and technology.
4.2. Analysis on the ability of green manufacturing value chain to
cope with environmental risks
Environmental protection has become the mainstream con-
sciousness of manufacturing enterprises. Sustainable development
poses new challenges to manufacturing enterprises. To change
from the traditional high-consumption and extensive growth
model to the high-efficiency and intensive growth model, the con-
struction model should be transformed from labor-intensive to
technology-intensive, as shown in Fig. 2. Therefore, the ability of
5
Fig. 3. Risk capability factor judgment matrix.
Fig. 4. Internal structure of green manufacturing value chain (For interpretation
of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web
version of this article).
construction enterprises to deal with product and technical risks
should be mainly measured from the following aspects.
According to the figure above, the first-order judgment matrix
obtained by the analytic hierarchy process in this paper is shown
in Fig. 3.
4.2.1. The ability to develop green value chain
With the improvement of people’s living standards, the demand
for green manufacturing is constantly expanding. Green manufac-
turing industry is a new mission given by history to manufacturing
enterprises and a new requirement put forward by the sustain-
able development of economy and society. However, due to the
requirements of energy saving, environmental protection, water
saving, land saving and intelligent manufacturing, it is necessary
for manufacturing enterprises to adopt energy saving and envi-
ronmental protection materials and technologies in manufacturing
materials and processes, which will greatly increase the produc-
tion cost of manufacturing enterprises. It is also limited by the
current level of technology. Proactive enterprise should establish
the environmental protection idea, development of high quality
green manufacturing, the production technology, production man-
agement, business philosophy to g̈reen¨, as shown in Fig. 4, in order
to achieve the green manufacturing in the whole life cycle phase to
minimize the impact on the environment, the environment factors
as to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises green manufac-
turing.
4.2.2. The enterprise’s ability of green technology innovation
Compared with developed countries, there is still a big gap in
the technological level of China’s manufacturing industry. Differ-
ent from developed countries, China’s manufacturing industry is
still in the labor-intensive and extensive management level. There-
fore, domestic manufacturing enterprises need to strengthen the
research and development of green technology for backward prod-
ucts and processes in a timely manner. There is no doubt about the
importance of technology as a major productivity today, as shown
in the survey of employees in both manufacturing companies, as
shown in Fig. 5. With the rapid development of modern science and
technology, the green technology innovation ability of manufac-
turing enterprises plays a technical support role in realizing green
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Fig. 5. Employees’ views on the importance of environmental risk factors in manu-
facturing enterprises.
construction, developing green manufacturing and implementing
green management. The green technology innovation ability of
manufacturing enterprises mainly includes manufacturing prod-
uct innovation ability, green building technology innovation ability,
green management method innovation ability and enterprise busi-
ness model innovation ability. Manufacturing enterprises with
strong green technology innovation ability can not only intro-
duce green manufacturing products and services with high added
value to meet the needs of consumers, reduce the green cost of
enterprises and improve the contribution rate of technological
innovation to profits. It can also improve the enterprise’s abil-
ity to deal with technical risks and the full capacity of the green
wall.
4.2.3. Ability to deal with litigation risks
Environmental disputes or fines are legal actions, compensation
for the victims, and fines imposed by the government caused by
enterprises’ adverse effects on the environment or damages to the
environmental interests of others. Manufacturing enterprises are
the main sources of environmental pollution including solid waste,
waste water, waste gas and noise pollution. Manufacturing enter-
prises in daily production and operating activities, waste emissions
of various manufacturing, and manufacturing materials containing
pollutants discharge, release of leaven, benzene and other harmful
gases, in addition, there are some manufacturing activity especially
noise brought by the manufacturing activity within the city, all
these caused serious pollution to the local environment, and seri-
ously affected the local people’s life and property safety. Therefore,
it is inevitable for enterprises to effectively deal with the litigation
risks caused by environmental problems.
5. Conclusions
Sustainable development has become the common pursuit of
mankind, and the manufacturing industry is experiencing a g̈reen
revolutionöf sustainable development, striving to reach the green
manufacturing ”standard of f̈our stages and two environmental
protection¨. Due to the inherent energy consumption character-
istics of the industry, the innovation of green technology in
manufacturing plays an important role in the process of realiz-
ing sustainable development. Under the concept of sustainable
development, “green manufacturing” means that every link from
material selection, planning, design and manufacturing to waste
management should be transformed to protect the environment.
However, sustainable development is a “double-edged sword” for
manufacturing enterprises. It not only brings unlimited opportuni-
ties for the long-term development of enterprises, but also makes
the strategic management of enterprises risks. The main purpose
of this paper is to discuss how to carry out “green” innovation in
the value chain of green manufacturing industry from the strategic
level.
By studying the sustainable development of China’s manufac-
turing capacity, it is not hard to find: our country’s manufacturing
technology and product development ability is weak contradictions
increasingly prominent, our industry is still very low value-added,
meanwhile our scientific industries are lack of scale operation and
management, enterprises also lack effective long-term develop-
ment plan, the mentality and phenomenon of “one year’s work,
one year’s waiting, one year’s watching” is still very common, lack
of professional technical staff in enterprises, high energy consump-
tion problem is still prominent.
In this paper, the comprehensive application of the theory
of sustainable development, the innovation of enterprise green
theory and enterprise strategy theory is closely combined with
the particularity of production enterprises. From the perspec-
tive of enterprise strategic operation, the opportunities and risks
of sustainable development of systems oriented to manufac-
turing, environmental competitiveness evaluation, Green value
chain innovation, greening, organizational design and performance
evaluation of green, to improve the theory of green manufac-
turing research and corporate strategic innovation has a certain
theoretical significance, how to guide China’s manufacturing
enterprises from the traditional high energy-consuming and high-
polluting enterprise management model, it Practical innovation
with a very realistic practical significance to implement a green
strategy.
CRediT authorship contribution statement
Huiling Liu: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analy-
sis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software,
Visualization, Writing - original draft. Dan Ling: Supervision.
Declaration of Competing Interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing finan-
cial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to
influence the work reported in this paper.
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