Abstract

Since the reformation and the opening-up policy in 1978, China has achieved a high economic growth for about 30 years. However, the problem of economic disparity in China has been worsened than ever before, and the environment inequality is beginning to be more noticeable. China faces the challenge this environmental inequality. In this paper, we first calculated the Green Contribution Coefficient in the 31 provinces in 2000 and 2014, and then clarified the fact that there existed regional environmental inequality in China. Based on the STIRPAT model, various factors affecting environmental in China from 2000 to 2014 were analyzed by the regression analysis, using the panel data on industrial air pollution published by each ministry. We examined the hypothesis that the increase in GDP, secondary industry ratio, the energy industry investment has a negative influence on Chinese environment. The environmental inequality is to be balanced by the progress of industrial structures in the various regions of China.

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