The Relationships of Industrial Division, Environmental Pollution and Regional Economic Development—A Study Based on Heavy Chemical Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt
The Relationships of Industrial Division, Environmental Pollution and Regional Economic Development—A Study Based on Heavy Chemical Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt
DONG Xinling1,2, ZHANG Yueyou1
1.Economics School, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China; 2.Business School, Jiangsu Open University, Nanjing 210036, China
Abstract In the context of the serious “heavy chemical industry surrounding the river” in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, in order to balance environmental restoration with economic development, this paper draws on the input-output analysis ideas, by using the 2005-2016 panel data of the economic belt, so to construct the spatial Durbin model to analyze the dual impact of the industrial division of the heavy chemical industry on regional environmental pollution and economic development. The results show that the division of labor in the middle reaches of the economic belt is continuously close to the downstream; the heavy chemical industry division of labor, environmental pollution and economic development in the economic belt are spatially dependent; the reduction of the level of heavy chemical division in the middle and upper reaches promote the decline of regional pollution levels. The “contamination transfer” does not occur with the transfer of heavy chemical industry in the economic belt; the weakening of the division of labor in the regional heavy chemical industry will lead to an increase in the proportion of the economy in the economic belt.
DONG Xinling,ZHANG Yueyou. The Relationships of Industrial Division, Environmental Pollution and Regional Economic Development—A Study Based on Heavy Chemical Industry in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Economic Survey, 2020, 37(3): 020.
2020, Vol. 37 
