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- Title
Empirical Study on the Relations between China's Export Trade Development and Environmental Pollution.
- Authors
Liling Zhao
- Abstract
China's foreign trade has greatly improved, and its export trade has grown steadily for a long time, thus providing a solid foundation for economic prosperity and development. However, environmental pollution caused by export trade has become increasingly prominent due to an extensive export trade model with low pollution punishment standards and ineffective government policy and management. To analyse the causes of environmental pollution caused by China's export trade and to quantitatively measure the relations between export trade and environmental pollution, the literature on the relations between China and other countries export trade and environmental pollution is firstly reviewed. Then, the cointegration measurement method is adopted to quantitatively measure the above relations. Existing literature indicates an uncertain relationship between foreign trade development and environmental pollution, wherein three viewpoints exist, namely, adverse, beneficial, and complex theories. Considerable pollution-intensive and resource-intensive industries, lacking of environmental protection awareness of enterprises, and insufficient environmental protection management of export trade by the government are the principal reasons for environmental pollution caused by export trade. Furthermore, a long-term cointegration relationship exists among industrial gas emissions, industrial solid waste emissions, industrial wastewater discharges, and total exports. Granger causality tests of industrial gas emissions and industrial solid waste emissions present the changes in total exports. The results have a positive reference value for further understanding the relationship between environmental pollution and export trade, thereby promoting the development of trade economy and ecological environment, and strengthening environmental regulation and supervision in export trade.
- Subjects
CHINA; POLLUTION; COMMERCE &; the environment; EMPIRICAL research; EMISSIONS (Air pollution); COMMERCE
- Publication
Nature Environment & Pollution Technology, 2018, Vol 17, Issue 4, p1251
- ISSN
0972-6268
- Publication type
Article