This paper, based on 2004 to 2016 panel data of China's 282 prefectures, establishes a GMM model and spatial Durbin model to study the impacts and spatial overflowing effect of financial pressure and industrial structural adjustment on green economic efficiency from different areas, types and vicinities. Green economic efficiency is largely restrained by financial pressure, but boosted by appropriate industrial structure, and improved by financial pressure and upgraded industrial structure in the eastern and central China, but outstandingly restrained by upgraded industrial structure in the western China. Green economic efficiency is promoted by both industrial structuralrationalizations, also promoted by financial pressure and upgrading industrial structure in resource-based cities, otherwise in non-resource-based cities. Industrial structural rationalizing and upgrading industrial structure largely exert a spatial overflowing effect on green economic efficiency.

This paper clarifies the concept and nature of mining rights, analyzes its legal essence, discusses its issues and presents suggestions on revising mining rights in Mineral Resources Law. Mining rights system is an “administrative license plus contract” under the governmental supervision, but deficiencies emerge as reform goes forward and economy develops, with many contents lagging behind marketing reform, leading to insufficient market competition, hardly guaranteed legal rights, confused contracts, and unreachable contract effectiveness. This paper presents proposals on differentiating state ownership and managing rights of mineral resources, separating rights registry and license approval, cancelling mining rights transfer approval and making a competitive bidding of mining rights.