Impacts of Receiving International Industrial Transfer on China’s Air Quality and Health Exceed Those of Export Trade
Lu Liu,
Yu Zhao,
Hongyan Zhao
et al.
Abstract:Benefiting from international economic cooperation on
income, technology
diffusion, and employment, China also suffers its environmental and
health impacts, from both international trade (IT), as is now widely
understood, and international industrial transfer (IIT), which has
been largely unrecognized. Here, we develop a comprehensive framework
to estimate the impacts of exporting IT and receiving IIT. We find
that China’s emissions of CO2 and almost all air
pollutants associated with IIT and IT together grew … Show more
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