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Research on the Coordinated Relationship between China's Provincial Environment and Economy

GAO Tong, Zhu Hai long

Article ID: 2590
Vol 3, Issue 1, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/vfc.v3i1.2590
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Abstract

The aim of the paper is to study the coordinated relationship between environment and economy among provinces in China. The environmental total factor productivity of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2003 to 2017 are measured using sequential ML methods, and the influencing factors of environmental total factor productivity are analyzed in a panel. It is found that: environmental total factor productivity has no obvious regional distribution characteristics, and is highly consistent with the change pattern of environmental technological progress rate, with oscillating upward characteristics; foreign capital utilization, capital increase per capita, and long-term education and science investment all have positive effects on environmental total factor productivity.

Keywords

Environmental total factor productivity; Sequential ML; Regional patterns; Influencing factors.

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