关键词: 环境污染治理, 资本, 三部类再生产模型, 社会主义市场经济

Abstract: Capital is a critical participant in environmental pollution control. Analyzing the role and limitations of capital in environmental pollution control is a necessary prerequisite for regulating and guiding capital to fully play its positive role in improving the environment. The process of environmental pollution control of capital is a production process, and the commodities it provides are “pollution control services”. As a special sector of production materials, environmental pollution control is structurally bound to the general production materials and consumption materials. Only when smooth exchanges in value and in kind are enabled across all the three sectors can the dual goals of economic development and pollution control be achieved simultaneously. However, the limitations of capital will destroy the exchange conditions of the three sectors and lead to insufficient pollution control, which is specifically manifested in the coercion of capital interests over policies, the profitseeking nature of capital, and the serious imbalance between the supply and demand of pollution control caused by economic crises. In order to overcome the limitations of capital in environmental pollution control, we should insist on implementing the pollution control requirements through the environmental inspection led by the central government, rationally guiding capital to participate in pollution control through systematic design, and building an industrial structure of pollution control led by public capital and public institutions. 

Key words: environmental pollution control, capital, three-sector reproduction schema, socialist market economy