A Study On Environmental Regulation And Economic Growth Quality In Northeast China

Before the 1990s,the northeast region,as a developed region in China's economy,was also an important industrial base in China.However,with the deepening of reform and openness,the economic development speed of the northeast region gradually lagged behind that of the eastern coastal region.A new round of national strategy for revitalizing the northeast has been put forward.The northeast region should be built into an ecological barrier in the north and alivable home with beautiful mountains and clear water.In order to achieve this goal,it has been difficult to continue to rely on the scale expansion of resources,environment and factor inputs to achieve growth.The power transformation and mode transformation of economic growth have become the strategic direction leading the northeast region and even the whole country to achieve economic development with quality efficiency and sustainable,which also requires local governments to implement strict environmental protection measures.The scarcity of environmental resources determines the inevitable contradiction between economic growth and environmental protection.Although the implementation of environmental regulation policies will realize the rapid development of the quality of economic growth in the long run,it is bound to exert increased pressure on innovation investment and enterprise costs during the implementation period,thus inhibiting the improvement of the quality of economic growth.Especially in the context of the new normal,we must actively seek new economic development impetus,and at the same time,we must give consideration to the quality of economic growth when realizing the economic aggregate development.Therefore,this paper focuses on the quality of economic growth in northeast China,and actively explores how to realize the rapid development of the quality of economic growth under environmental regulations.This paper takes the three provinces of northeastern as the research object,constructs the economic growth quality index from the three dimensions of economic growth conditions,economic growth process and economic growth results,and comprehensively analyzes and evaluates the economic growth quality of the three provinces by using the entropy weight method and principal component analysis method.The measurement results show that the quality of economic growth in the three provinces is gradually rising,but the quality of economic growth in Jilin province is obviously inferior to that in Liaoning province and Heilongjiang province.The measurement results in Jilin province show that although its fluctuation is small during the investigation period,the quality index of economic growth is very slow,only reaching 0.14 in 2017,while the quality index of economic growth in Liaoning and Heilongjiang provinces rose at a faster rate,both exceeding 0.7.After that,we analyzed and compared the change trends of the quantity index and the quality index of economic growth in each province,and found that the quantity index and the quality index of economic growth in the three provinces are out of sync.Although the three provinces show stable growth trends in economic quantity measurement,considering the quality of economic growth,each province has obvious fluctuations,and the growth rate of the quantity index is faster than the quality index for most of the investigation period.Considering that the implementation of environmental regulation policies may have a complex impact on the quality of economic growth,we discussed this relationship in the regression model.Thelag first-order explanatory variables were introduced into the basic regression model,making it a dynamic panelmodel,and the system GMM method was used to estimate the model parameters to avoid endogenous problems.Then the square term of the core explanatory variable is introduced into the model for study the non-linear influence of environmental regulation on the quality of economic growth.According to regression analysis,we find that,in general,increasing the intensity of environmental regulation plays a significant and stable role in promoting the quality of economic growth in northeast China.However,there are obvious differences in the sub-dimension index.Environmental regulation will promote the improvement of the conditional dimension index and the result dimension index of economic growth quality to a certain extent,but has no significant promotion effect on the structural dimension index.At the same time,environmental regulation will have a non-linear impact on the quality of economic growth,when the intensity of environmental regulation is weak,environmental regulation policies will promote the quality of economic growth.However,when the intensity of environmental regulation rises to a certain level,it will inhibit the improvement of the quality of economic growth to a certain extent.Finally,this paper puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions on how to improve the quality of economic growth in northeast China.