The study of the growth model of enterprises in Hubei province: “pollution” or “environmental protection”: Based on the research of China’s industrial enterprises database

With the rapid economic development, environmental pollution has become more and more serious, and the traditional “pollution-for-growth” economic growth model with high mining, low utilization, and high emissions has been increasingly unable to meet the requirements of modern sustainable development concepts. A big consumer of energy, its development model has always been the focus of attention. This paper analyzes the sales growth model of industrial enterprises in Hubei Province using the microscopic data of industrial enterprises in 2004 and the sales growth rate of industrial enterprises in 2005-2009, and analyzes the impact of the level of corporate environmental pollution on its sales growth rate. In this paper, the environmental pollution situation and economic growth pattern of enterprises are measured by whether enterprises are charged with pollutant discharge fee or not The Study found that the sustainable development model in growth than to pollution for more economic growth, is not business of collecting fees for discharging pollutants on the show higher sales growth, indicates that the development of environmental protection enterprises to get faster The“pollution-for-growth”model does not necessarily bring economic growth to enterprises, which indicates that pollution is not a long-term solution for enterprises to develop. The conclusions obtained in this paper provide a reference for promoting energy conservation transformation of industrial enterprises.