The spatial spillover effect of high-speed railway on CO2 emissions in China

Jian, Jie; Li, Weidong

doi:10.1016/j.indic.2022.100204

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“…According to the environmental performance index (EPI) (2022) provided by both Yale and Columbia, China's environmental performance index ranked 160th among 180 countries in 2022. In addition, nowadays, China is the world's largest CO 2 emissions emitter [2,3]. In response to this situation, the Chinese government has not only made a solemn commitment to the international community to reduce carbon emissions but also incorporated the construction of ecological civilization into the economic development goals and put forward the notions of "building a beautiful China" and "realizing the high-quality development".…”

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Does National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone Construction Help Improve Urban Green Total Factor Productivity? A Policy Assessment from China

Jian-min

2023

Sustainability

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Taking the innovation policy pilot of the national independent innovation demonstration zone (NIIDZ) as a quasi-natural experiment, we select a set of data covering 283 cities in China from 2004 to 2016 to empirically test the impact and mechanism of NIIDZ on urban green total factor productivity (GTFP) by using a progressive difference-in-differences (DID) model. The research indicates that the NIIDZ policy pilot can effectively help promote the growth of urban GTFP; talent agglomeration and local fiscal expenditure on science and technology are important channels for the policy to promote urban GTFP. Various methods have proved the reliability of our research results. Further, affected by geographical location, resource endowment and population size, the pilot effects of the NIIDZ also demonstrate regional heterogeneity. Our study provides a useful supplement for innovation policy evaluation from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.

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Does National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone Construction Help Improve Urban Green Total Factor Productivity? A Policy Assessment from China

Jian-min

2023

Sustainability

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“…More microcosmically, at county level, Zhang (2017) reveals that operating HSR facilitates economic growth measured by GDP per capita or nighttime light data. On the other side, existing literature focuses on influencing factors on high-quality economy (e.g., Li and Jian, 2022). Very few studies have investigated HSR's influence on high-quality economy at county level.…”

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Opening high-speed railway’s influence on high-quality economy in China’s counties

Liao

Xu²,

Ji³

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Improving county economy is the key to realize high-quality economy and “dual carbon” target for developing countries like China where county economy has been weak. The aim of this study is to investigate influencing factors on high-quality economy from a novel perspective of opening high-speed railway (HSR). We apply panel data with time span from 2006 to 2018 and sample area in 396 counties in the upstream Yangtze River of China. As for methodology, we perform entropy weight method (EWM) to estimate the high-quality economy and multi-period Propensity Score Matching (PSM)-difference in difference (DID) methods for empirical analysis. Our results demonstrate that 1). Implementing HSR remarkably promotes high-quality economy at county level, which is stable after a series of verification and confirms our hypothesis 1. We also solve endogeneity by combining PSM-DID with instrumental variable method IV) and Generalized Method of Moment (GMM). 2). Further heterogeneity analysis reveals that opening HSR positively accelerates high-quality economy of counties above average, which proves our hypothesis 2. 3) Our impact mechanism analysis reveals that adjusting industrial structure is main channel, which also confirms our hypothesis 3. Accordingly, the findings provide policy implications: Firstly, a mechanism should be developed to facilitate implementing HSR by strengthening fiscal support from central government, attracting financial institutions with market mechanisms and optimizing spatial layout. Secondly, it is crucial to facilitate horizontal cooperation by hearings or joint meetings and facilitating horizontal financial transfer payments. Lastly, adjusting industrial structure needs to accelerate green industries, while transforming heavily polluted industries.

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Does the opening of high-speed rails improve urban carbon efficiency? Evidence from a spatial difference-in-difference method

Gao,

Wang

2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The spatial spillover effect of high-speed railway on CO2 emissions in China

Cited by 8 publications

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Does National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone Construction Help Improve Urban Green Total Factor Productivity? A Policy Assessment from China

Does National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone Construction Help Improve Urban Green Total Factor Productivity? A Policy Assessment from China

Opening high-speed railway’s influence on high-quality economy in China’s counties

Does the opening of high-speed rails improve urban carbon efficiency? Evidence from a spatial difference-in-difference method

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