| As China's economy changes its development model,the impact of environmental regulations on the spatial distribution of industries has become more significant.The traditional high resource consumption and high pollution economic growth mode has come to an end.Sustainable economic development requires green development and improved economic quality.Due to the geographical location and development policies,the economic development level of the eastern coastal areas is relatively high,and industrial upgrading began earlier,resulting in the gradual transfer of high pollution industries with high pollution and high energy consumption to the central and western regions.Reasonable environmental regulation policies are conducive to promoting the reasonable distribution of industries between developed and underdeveloped regions in China,promoting the optimization of the spatial distribution of industries,and thus conducive to the balanced development of various regions in the country.How does environmental regulation affect the spatial distribution of high pollution industries? What is its internal mechanism? What are the policy implications for sustainable regional economic development and regional balanced development?Based on reviewing the relevant theories of environmental regulation and industrial distribution,this paper analyzes and discusses the theoretical mechanism of the impact of environmental regulation on the spatial distribution of high pollution industries from the economic theory.Then,in empirical terms,a spatial econometric model is used to analyze the impact of environmental regulations on the spatial distribution of high pollution industries.The results of spatial correlation analysis show that from 2005 to 2015,China's high pollution industries have significant positive spatial autocorrelation,and there is a high-high,low-low aggregation phenomenon in the overall spatial distribution.The estimation results of the spatial Durbin model show that environmental regulation will have a suppressive effect on the high pollution industries in the region,as well as on the production in the adjacent areas;Population factors have a negative impact on the high pollution industries in the local area,and promote the high pollution industries in the adjacent areas;Market effect has a significant promotion effect on the high pollution industries in the region,and has relatively little effect on the promotion in other regions;The level of infrastructure has a promoting effect on the total output value of the high pollution industries in the region,and it has no significant impact on the adjacent areas;The impact of direct investment is not significant.At this stage,the environmental regulation competition among various regions in China is "Race to the Top" competition.From a nationwide perspective,China's overall environmental regulation policy is relatively strict.Although there are differences in environmental regulation policies across regions,it is also gradually strengthened.From a spatial perspective,China's high pollution industries have spatial aggregation in some areas.From the time dimension,high pollution industries show a phenomenon of spreading from high-aggregation areas to adjacent areas,with a " Pollution Heaven Effect ". |
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