Foreign trade, environmental protection and sustainable economic growth in China

Ji-yong, Chen; Liu, Wei; Hu, Yi

doi:10.1007/s11459-006-0018-1

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“…Yang et al (2018) studied the impact of government governance on regional carbon emissions in China and discovered that the level of legal regulation and regional corruption had a strong negative effect on carbon reduction [22]. There is a certainty result about the positive relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions depending on the EKC [25][26][27][28][29]. It has been found that the impact of trade liberalization on China's carbon emissions gradually changed over time, from a negative effect to a positive effect [30][31][32][33][34][35].…”

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Political Hierarchy of Opening-Up Policy and China’s Carbon Reduction: Empirical Research Based on Spatial Regression Discontinuity

Zhang

Zhou

2023

Sustainability

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This paper constructs a counterfactual framework based on the opening-up policies of provinces in the eastern coastal region. It analyzes the role of the political hierarchy of the opening-up policy in China’s carbon reduction at the county level by using Spatial Regression Discontinuity, and the data used are from 1997 to 2017. The study found the following: (1) The improvement of the political hierarchy of the opening-up policy is negatively related to the carbon reduction, which has significantly boosted the carbon emission of counties in the eastern coastal areas of China. (2) The impact on border counties is more significant, and there is an obvious boundary effect. In terms of net carbon emissions, the political-hierarchy difference has a significant impact only in the area adjacent to the border. (3) There is strong heterogeneity among provinces, showing the boundary jump effect and boundary depression effect. (4) The political-hierarchy differences are significantly related to the regional carbon reduction by changing policy intensity, resulting in fiscal subsidies effects and gradient transfer effects. The location selection for the implementation of the opening-up policy significantly impacted the carbon reductions.

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