Abstract:Taking China's 35 industrial sub-sectors as the research object, using the STIRPAT model and the panel regression model, the effects of R&D investment on the carbon emissions of different industries and different types of industries are respectively explored. The results show that: at all stages, R&D investment has a positive effect on promoting carbon emission reduction, and it is more significant during 2011~2017. For different industries, for the heavy and moderate emission groups, R&D investment has a significant impact on reducing carbon emissions, and its elasticity is -0.041 and -0.018, respectively, while for the light emission group, carbon emissions show an increasing trend when R&D investment is increased. In addition, labor force scale is the most obvious driving factor of industrial carbon emissions at present, while improving energy efficiency and optimizing energy structure can significantly inhibit the growth of carbon emissions. The effects of various factors on carbon emissions are obviously different among different industries.