| China’s economic development has made remarkable achievements since the reform and opening up,however,with the industrialization and urbanization comes the ecological environment imbalance,resource binding enhancement and increasingly prominent issues.How to balance the contradiction between economic development and environmental pollution has become a major shackle that binds the sustainable development of China’s economy in the new era.From the domestic economic form,supply-side structural reform requires the adjustment of economic structure,what’s more,achieving innovation,coordination,green,open and shared economic quality development is the key to promote sustained and healthy economic development;From the perspective of international affairs,as a country with a sense of great power,it is natural to make energy conservation,emission reduction and protect the earth as a development priority.Comprehensive domestic and foreign environmental pressure,energy conservation and emission reduction,pollution prevention and control work is also in full swing,and environmental regulation policy as an important means of pollution prevention and control work,naturally also become an important consideration for sustainable economic development.At the same time,industrial agglomeration,as a kind of industrial development mode of resource optimal allocation,has been widely recognized by scholars as the effect of production scale,the advantages of infrastructure sharing and the spillover effect of industrial agglomeration on the reduction of production cost and the saving effect of social resources.However,the excessive agglomeration of industry will also produce the crowding effect caused by the excessive competition of enterprises in the region,and will also produce serious environmental pollution problems.Environmental regulation policy,as an important means to prevent and control pollution in regional and even countries,will also have an impact on industrial location decision-making,which will naturally affect industrial agglomeration.Therefore,analyzing theinfluence of environmental regulation on industrial agglomeration in China for the upgrading and adjustment of industrial structure and the sustainable development of economy having an important impact both on theoretical and practical aspects.In view of this,on the basis of combing the existing literature,the article adds environmental regulation variables to the new economic geography model,and analyzes the influence of environmental regulation on industrial agglomeration through theoretical derivation.It also collects data from 2000 to 2016 in China’s provinces,cities,and autonomous regions,and measures the environmental regulation and industrial agglomeration levels in various regions,and analyzes the changes and regional spatial distribution in China’s environmental regulations and industrial agglomeration.The labor-intensive industries and capital-intensive industries in the eastern provinces tend to shift to the eastern and western regions,especially to the central provinces.Finally,the spatial Dubin model is constructed to explore the heterogeneity of environmental regulation’s effect on China’s manufacturing agglomeration,labor-intensive industrial agglomeration,capital-intensive industrial agglomeration,and technology-intensive industrial agglomeration,as well as the influence of other control variables on industrial agglomeration.Based on the above analysis,this paper draws the following conclusions:First,the environmental regulation becomes stricter year by year during the sample period,and shows certain regional differences.During the sample period,the degree of environmental regulation throughout the country has increased significantly,and in the three regions it has fluctuated to a certain extent,but in general it has shown an upward trend.Judging from the regional distribution differences in the intensity of environmental regulations,the level of this variable in eastern provinces is greater than that in the central and western regions,while in the central and western provinces,there is no significant difference.Second,the agglomeration status of different factor-intensive industries is different,and the industrial agglomeration status of each region is also significantlyheterogeneous.Capital-intensive industries still dominate the manufacturing industry in China,with the output value of technology-intensive industries taking the second place,and labor-intensive industries having the smallest output value.The degree of agglomeration of all types of industries in the eastern region is at the highest level in all three regions,followed by the central region,and the degree of agglomeration in the western provinces is the lowest.In addition,the agglomeration degrees of all kind of industries in the central and western provinces have a great difference with the eastern provinces,while the differences s between the central and western regions are small.what’s more,labor and capital-intensive industries in the eastern provinces have a tendency to shift to the eastern and western regions year by year,especially to the central provinces.Third,the impact of environmental regulations on the aggregation of various factor-intensive industries is also heterogeneous.The effect of environmental regulation on the overall manufacturing industry agglomeration is non-linear and presents an inverted U-shaped curve relationship;it is negatively related to labor-intensive industry agglomeration;and the effect of capital-intensive industrial agglomeration also exhibits an inverted "U" curve relationship;There is no significant impact on the degree of regional technology-intensive industry agglomeration,that is,there is no obvious correlation between the two variables.At the end of the article,combined with the conclusion of the study,this paper gets the following policy enlightenment: China’s environmental regulation intensity is still in a generally low state,should continue to increase the intensity of environmental regulation,optimize the agglomeration of industrial linkages,give full play to the spillover effect of industrial agglomeration... |
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