Study On The Impact Of Environmental Regulation On The Transfer Of Pollution-intensive Industries

The water pollution,air pollution and other environmental problems in China have become increasingly prominent.The state has paid more and more attention to environmental protection.However,due to the imbalance of economic development and the great difference of industrial structure among different regions in China,the severity of environmental regulation policy is different in different regions.To reduce the cost of environmental regulation,some enterprises will choose to transfer their industries to the regions where environmental regulation is more relaxed,which intensifies the environmental pollution of industrial relocation.The vigorous promotion of ecological civilization proposed by the 18 th National Congress further demonstrates the political will of the state to strengthen environmental protection.This paper intends to analyze the impact of environmental regulation on the transfer of pollution-intensive industries,with a view to providing valuable reference for regional governments to formulate reasonable environmental policies.The existing research ignores the important role of informal environmental regulation in regional environmental management when measuring the intensity of regional environmental regulation.Traditional econometric models are used in empirical methods,and there is a lack of pollution-intensive industrial transfer research at the national level.Based on the research purposes of this paper and the shortcomings of existing research,this paper first expounds the mechanism of pollution-intensive industry transfer under environmental regulation.Secondly,it selects indicators to measure and analyze the status quo of China's pollution industry transfer and environmental regulation.Then,select the spatial panel Dubin model,use the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2003 to 2016 to empirically analyze the impact of environmental regulation on pollution-intensive industry transfer at the national and regional levels,and the direct and indirect effects of explanatory variables and control variables were discussed and analyzed.At last,we draws the following conclusions:(1)From the point of view of the transfer of pollution industries in China,the pollution industries in China are mainly concentrated in the eastern region,the eastern region shows the trend of industrial migration and migration alternately,the western and central regions always show the trend of industrial migration,but the speed of migration slows down gradually,while the industrial transfer situation in the Northeastregion was relatively stable before 2014,but after 2014,there was a clear appearance of industrial migration.(2)From the perspective of the intensity of China's environmental regulation,the overall environmental regulation intensity has been continuously reduced from east to west,and the environmental regulation intensity of different provinces in the same region is also different.(3)From the national level,China's pollution industry shows a trend of transferring from areas with high intensity of environmental regulation to areas with low intensity of environmental regulation.The level of economic development,labor costs,investment in industrial fixed assets and the proportion of secondary industrial output to regional GDP also significantly affect industrial transfer.The impact of foreign direct investment is not significant.(4)From the regional level,the level of economic development and the proportion of the output value of the secondary industry to the GDP have a positive impact on the industrial transfer at the regional level.The labor cost and the investment in industrial fixed assets in Northeast China are quite different from those in other regions and the whole country.