Trade And Environment In China Under Trade Liberalization: A Theoretic And Empirical Study

During the trade liberalization every country open to the foreign investment. With the increasing investment from developed countries and the deterioration of our country's environment, many people come to believe that in order to avoid its own environment resource restriction some developed countries have transferred their dense-pollution industries to our country, which has enormously damaged our country's environment and turns our country into a Pollution Heaven. This thesis is trying to discuss whether the theory of Pollution Heaven has become true in our country in the view of the amount of foreign investment and exports of foreign ventures in dense-pollution industries. The main innovation of this thesis is the empirical study part. Several indexes are chosen to analyze the dense-pollution industries step by step. Then come to the conclusion that developed country didn't transfer their pollution industry to our country. China is not the Pollution Heaven of developed country. The chapters are arranged as follows:The preface introduces the current situation of our country's trade and pollution and brings forward the main theme of the thesis.Chapter one is the theory study part. First, summarizes the related documents about trade and pollution. And the summary will be divided into two parts: theory and demonstration. Second, briefly introduce the economic characteristics of environment and in the basis of previous summarize to illustrate the basic theory of this thesis: H-O modal. By broadening the hypothetical conditions of the model, brings environment into H-O Model as a productive element, and fully illustrate the possibility of the Pollution Heaven Hypothesis.Chapter two is the empirical study part which is in the basis of our dense-pollution industry's data. First, introduce the research about the existed models, and then use the trade data to find out the comparative advantage in the international market. Find out suitable industries to the study through classify the results of comparative advantage. After compare the proportion of foreign investment and foreign venture's export, find out the industries that foreign investment plays an important role. And then specially study the foreign venture's proportion in the whole export amount of this industries, this will further prove the previous results of analysis.Chapter three is the policy implication part. Bring the policy implication by learning from developed countries and newly industrialized countries.