How Will Foreign Trade Affect Green Economic Efficiency in Sub-developed Region? An Empirical Research Based on the Data From Central China

Abstract

Foreign trade in sub-developed regions may lead to serious environmental problems. Impact of foreign trade in sub-developed regions on green economic efficiency and its possible impact channels are qualitatively analyzed, empirical tests are conducted based on the data of 80 Prefecture-level cities in Central China. Results show that: 1. Foreign trade of Central China will have a significant direct negative impact on green economic efficiency, which is not conducive to green growth. 2. Expanding the scale of foreign trade in Central China will stimulate industries agglomerate to big cities and promote the level of industrial specialization within the region, which will have indirect negative impacts on green economic efficiency. 3. Foreign trade in Central China will improve the policy environment for industrial development, then have an indirect positive impact on green economic efficiency, whereas its impact on technological innovation is not significant. 4. Impact of foreign trade in different cities in Central China on green economic efficiency are heterogeneous from the perspective of spatial heterogeneity and from the perspective of city characteristic heterogeneity, and when environmental regulation exceeds a certain threshold, the negative impact of foreign trade on green economic efficiency will turn to positive. Policy implications are proposed.

How Do Intercultural Communication Textbooks Represent Culture? A Case Study of Chinese Culture

“…There are two major driving forces for studying how cultures are incorporated and presented in textbooks. One is a desire for constructing positive images associated with a particular cultural group so as to strengthen ingroup identification or improve outgroup evaluation (Geng and Liu 2020;Xiong and Peng 2021;Zhang and Gao 2022). The other motivational factor is the belief that culture is essential to language learning (Kramsch 1993(Kramsch , 2002, so it is desirable to analyze the cultural contents in language textbooks (Cortazzi and Jin 1999;Risager 2018).…”