Impacts of high-speed railway on the industrial pollution emissions in China

Xiao-min, Fan; Xu, Yingzhi; Nan, Yongqing; Li, Baoli; Cai, Haiya

doi:10.1108/k-07-2019-0499

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“…Some missing data are completed by interpolation method. To alleviate the problem of heteroscedasticity, non-percentage variables are logarithmised (Fan et al, 2020). Descriptive statistics of each variable are reported in Table 2.…”

Section: Data Sources and Processingmentioning

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Economic growth, industrial structure upgrading and environmental pollution: evidence from China

Zhai

2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore the impact of environmental pollution and industrial structure upgrading on environmental pollution in different stages based on the temporal and spatial heterogeneity of economic development level and industrial structure upgrading level in eastern, central and western regions of China and discuss whether there is adjustment effect and threshold effect in the process of economic growth affecting environmental pollution, and finally realizes sustainable economic development.Design/methodology/approachBased on panel data from 30 provincial-level administrative regions of China (excluding Tibet and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) from 2000 to 2019, this paper uses the environmental Kuznets curve, regulating effect model and panel threshold model to analyze the impact of economic growth and industrial structure upgrading on environmental pollution.FindingsThe results present that the uneven distribution of natural resources leads to different levels of economic development and industrial structure upgrading in eastern and western regions, and its impact on environmental pollution is also different. Economic growth and industrial structure upgrading have a positive effect on environmental pollution, and the relationship between economic growth and environmental pollution is inverted U-shaped. At present, the eastern, central and western regions of China are at the right end of the inverted U-shaped relationship. In general, industrial structure upgrading in eastern, central and western regions has a significant inhibitory effect on environmental pollution. Industrial structure upgrading has a negative moderating effect on the relationship between economic growth and environmental pollution, and the regulating effect is most significant in the central region, followed by the eastern region, and not significant in the western region. The results of panel threshold model show that the industrial structure upgrading can slow down the positive impact of economic growth on environmental pollution and strengthen the negative moderating effect of industrial structure upgrading on economic growth and environmental pollution.Originality/valueThe innovation of this study is to bring economic growth, industrial structure upgrading and environmental pollution into a unified analytical framework, analyze the impact of economic development and industrial structure upgrading levels in different periods on environmental pollution, and select industrial structure upgrading as the moderating variable and threshold variable. It provides a thought for the influence mechanism of different levels of industrial structure upgrading on economic growth and environmental pollution. Based on the panel data in China, this study emphasizes the concept of sustainable development, adheres to green development and proposes relevant policies to improve environmental pollution. And this paper proposes relevant policies to improve environmental pollution from the perspective of transforming economic growth mode and optimizing industrial structure in China, which also has reference significance for developing countries to realize sustainable economic development.

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Section: Data Sources and Processingmentioning

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Economic growth, industrial structure upgrading and environmental pollution: evidence from China

Zhai

2022

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“…On the one hand, industrial agglomeration will produce a scale effect, which will reduce its production cost. Then it will be more conducive to technological innovation, which promotes clean production and ultimately helps to promote the efficiency of carbon dioxide emission [18,33,39,40]. On the other hand, high-speed rail construction can enhance the agglomeration advantages of labor and other factors in backward areas.…”

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Impact of High-Speed Rail Construction on the Environmental Sustainability of China’s Three Major Urban Agglomerations

Zhu

Zhou

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Sustainability

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Under the background of global warming, it is of great significance to explore how to realize environmentally sustainable development. This paper takes China’s three major urban agglomerations as the research objects: Yangtze River Delta, Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, and Pearl River Delta. Generally, we use carbon emission efficiency to represent the sustainable development of the environment. Then we use the city-level panel data of the three urban agglomerations from 2006 to 2019 to construct the slacks-based measure integrating data envelopment (SBM-DEA) model for calculating each city’s carbon dioxide emission efficiency. Finally, we construct the spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) model to explore the impact of high-speed rail construction on each urban agglomeration’s carbon dioxide emission efficiency and its internal mechanism. The findings are as follows: (1) On the whole, high-speed rail construction improves urban agglomerations’ carbon dioxide emission efficiency. Meanwhile, it has a positive spatial spillover effect on surrounding areas. (2) In terms of urban agglomerations, high-speed rail construction has significantly promoted carbon emission efficiency in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region. However, it has had negative external effects on the surrounding areas. (3) From the perspective of mechanism analysis, the construction of high-speed rail has promoted manufacturing agglomeration in the Pearl River Delta region and, at the same time, has had a negative impact on the local carbon dioxide emission efficiency. This study has strong policy implications for promoting the sustainable development of the three major urban agglomerations.

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“…In addition, public infrastructure is regularly treated as the key to promoting economic efficiency by reducing production costs and transaction costs (Chen and Vickerman, 2016;Diao, 2018). The role of rail transit in reducing air pollution (Zheng S. et al, 2019;Guo and Chen, 2019) and improving environmental quality (Fan et al, 2020;Guo et al, 2020) has also been widely confirmed. This raised the question of what impact HSR, which integrates clean, speed, convenience, and safety (Guo et al, 2020), has on the GTFP?…”

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Can High-Speed Rail Help Achieve Urban Green Development? From a Spatial Perspective

Liu

Zhang²

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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As a convenient means of transportation, high-speed rail (HSR) plays an important role in green development. In the context of the rapid development of China’s HSR, this study selects the SBM-DDF-SML model to construct the green total factor productivity (GTFP) index to measure urban green development; moreover, it empirically tests the impact of the opening of the HSR on GTFP using the spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) model. The results show that the opening of the HSR could significantly promote GTFP for HSR-served cities. In addition, the opening of HSR has a positive effect on the GTFP for neighboring HSR-served cities but a negative impact on that for neighboring non-HSR-served cities. The mechanism test shows that HSR can influence GTFP by promoting urban green innovation and entrepreneurial vitality. This study is a supplement to the research on the impact of HSR on the GTFP, in order to provide corresponding policy advice. The government should optimize the layout of HSR and help cities achieve green and sustainable development.

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Impacts of high-speed railway on the industrial pollution emissions in China

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Economic growth, industrial structure upgrading and environmental pollution: evidence from China

Economic growth, industrial structure upgrading and environmental pollution: evidence from China

Impact of High-Speed Rail Construction on the Environmental Sustainability of China’s Three Major Urban Agglomerations

Can High-Speed Rail Help Achieve Urban Green Development? From a Spatial Perspective

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