The impact of China's western development strategy on energy conservation and emission reduction

Zheng, Chunji; Deng, Feng; Li, Chengyou; Yang, Zhiming

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2022.106743

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“…With the ultimate goal of enriching human well-being, sustainable development places an emphasis on the coordination of ecological sustainability, economic development, and social welfare development [ 1 ]. Due to the excessive use of natural resources brought on by the aimless pursuit of rapid economic growth, unsustainability has been negatively affecting well-being in western China on a consistent basis [ 2 ]. Western China’s ecosystem has paid a high price for problems such as soil erosion, desertification, and natural disasters, which have suffered irreparable damage or will take an extremely long period to recover [ 3 ].…”

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Assessing the Impact of Green Transformation on Ecological Well-Being Performance: A Case Study of 78 Cities in Western China

2022

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The contradiction between the endless pursuit of material possessions and finite natural resources hampers ecological well-being performance (EWP) improvement. Green transformation, recognized as an emerging strategy in sustainable development, can help to coordinate ecological, social, and economic growth by optimizing resource usage, with the ultimate objective of enhancing EWP. This research quantifies how green transformation influences EWP by using panel data from 78 prefecture-level cities in western China from 2012 to 2019. Using the super-SBM and entropy weight models, we assess the EWP and green transformation index (GTI) of 78 prefecture-level cities in western China. On this basis, we quantify the spatial characteristics of EWP by an analysis of the Theil index and spatial autocorrelation. Finally, we examine how GTI affects EWP using the Spatial Durbin model. The results demonstrate that the GTI can raise the EWP of local and nearby cities in western China. According to a GTI analysis of internal indicators, the industrial solid waste usage, harm-less treatment rate of domestic waste, savings level, and R&D expenditure significantly affect EWP. In contrast, the soot emission and consumption levels impede EWP advancement. The analysis of effect decomposition indicates that the sewage treatment rate, expenditure on science and technology, and green patents have a significant spatial spillover effect on the improvement of EWP.

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Assessing the Impact of Green Transformation on Ecological Well-Being Performance: A Case Study of 78 Cities in Western China

2022

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“…China's economy has developed rapidly over the last 40 years. The Great Western Development Strategy was implemented in 2000 to narrow the regional economic gap [37][38][39]. When the economy is rapidly growing, changes in some diseases may be ignored.…”

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Trends and age-period-cohort effects on incidence and mortality of asthma in Sichuan Province, China, 1990–2019

2022

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Background The provinces in western China have undergone rapid urbanization and industrialization, particularly since the Chinese government launched the Great Western Development Strategy in 2000. We examined the time trends and contributions of age, period, and cohort effects to asthma incidence and mortality in Sichuan Province, a populous province in western China, from 1990 to 2019. Methods The data of Sichuan Province from 1990 to 2019 were extracted from the Global Burden of Disease study 2019. Trends and average annual percentage change were estimated using joinpoint regression. Age, period, and cohort effects were estimated using an age-period-cohort model with the intrinsic estimator method. Results In the latest period (2015–2019), the highest incidence of asthma was 2004.49/100,000 in children aged < 5 years, and the highest mortality rate was 22.04/100,000 for elderly people aged > 80 years. Age-standardized rates generally remained stable (95% confidence interval [CI] − 0.21, 0.11) for incidence and declined by 4.74% (95% CI − 5.09, − 4.39) for mortality over the last 30 years. After controlling for other effects, the age effect on asthma showed that the incidence rate ratio (RR) was highest in the < 5 years age group, and the mortality RR was highest in the > 80 years age group. The period effect on incidence and mortality decreased from 1990 to 2019, respectively. A cohort effect was found the incidence RR increased slowly from the early birth cohorts to the later birth cohorts, especially after the 2005 birth cohort, whereas the mortality RR continued to decline. Conclusions There was a significant effect of older age on the asthma mortality rate over the last 30 years, and the incidence rate in children aged < 5 years increased. The relative risk of asthma incidence in the later birth cohorts increased. Effective preventive measures and public health policies should be to protect children and elderly people from potentially harmful chronic diseases.

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“…(1) Green development: With reference to Zheng et al (2022), based on the SBM-DEA model, this study calculates the green total factor productivity (GTFP) of 278 Chinese cities in the sample from 2006 to 2019, and the GTFP is used to proxy the level of green development for each city. The SBM-DEA model was calculated as follows:…”

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“…Considering the availability of city-level data, citing studies by Wang et al (2022), Yu et al (2022a), andZheng et al (2022), the following variables are chosen as covariates for this study: 1) economic development level (pgdp), expressed using real GDP per capita with 2006 as the base period; 2) industrial structure (is), using the value added of the tertiary industry as a percentage of GDP; 3) urbanization level (urban), represented by non-agricultural population as a proportion of total population; 4) population density (pd), represented as total population per unit administrative territory land area; 5) openness to the outside world (op), measured by total exports and imports of goods as a percentage of GDP; 6) science and technology level (rd), expressed using annual R&D expenditure; 7) human capital (hum),represented by the number of college students; 8) government intervention (gov), expressed using the ratio of fiscal expenditure to fiscal revenue; 9) energy consumption (ec), represented using the total energy consumption of the whole society converted to standard coal; and (10) environmental regulation (er), expressed in terms of the harmless disposal rate of municipal domestic garbage. In addition, to alleviate the possible heteroskedasticity problem, this study takes logarithms for all absolute quantities.…”

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The Green and Low-Carbon Development Effect of Comprehensive Sports Events: A Quasi-Natural Experiment From China

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2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Large-scale sports events can improve public environmental awareness, strengthen urban governance, and push green innovation. However, it may also increase the burden on infrastructure, cause energy consumption, and lead to some pollution. Using the panel data of 278 cities in China from 2006 to 2019, this study systematically discusses how comprehensive sports events affect the green and low-carbon development of Chinese cities. First, the green total factor productivity and carbon emission efficiency calculated by the SBM-DEA model are taken as proxy variables of green and low-carbon development. And then, the spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) model is used to undertake empirical analysis and further test the impact mechanism and heterogeneity. Four main results are derived from this study: 1) the hosting of comprehensive sports events can significantly enhance the green and low-carbon development of cities. This result is still valid after a whole string of robustness tests; 2) comprehensive sports events have a significant positive spatial spillover effect on the green and low-carbon development of adjacent cities; 3) the mechanism analysis shows that comprehensive sports events can encourage green development of cities through technological innovation, sports industry development, and foreign investment, but through foreign investment, sports events cannot significantly affect the green total factor productivity and carbon emission efficiency of host cities; and 4) heterogeneity exists between the city rank and the event level. The promotional effect of comprehensive sports events on cities’ green and low-carbon development is more significant in first-tier cities and for international events.

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The impact of China's western development strategy on energy conservation and emission reduction

Cited by 43 publications

References 45 publications

Assessing the Impact of Green Transformation on Ecological Well-Being Performance: A Case Study of 78 Cities in Western China

Assessing the Impact of Green Transformation on Ecological Well-Being Performance: A Case Study of 78 Cities in Western China

Trends and age-period-cohort effects on incidence and mortality of asthma in Sichuan Province, China, 1990–2019

The Green and Low-Carbon Development Effect of Comprehensive Sports Events: A Quasi-Natural Experiment From China

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