Analysis of the Efficiency of Environmental Regulation on the Transformation of the Resource-based Cities

Abstract

The transformation of resource-based cities is mainly to reduce the energy consumption of industrial enterprises, improve the ecological environment, adjust the industrial structure, and solves the problem about using a single industry as the main industry of the city. Based on the panel data of 111 resource cities in China from 2006 to 2017, this paper uses panel threshold regression method to study the impact of environmental regulation on resource-based urban transformation. The results show that environmental regulation has a significant single-threshold effect on industrial energy consumption, but environmental regulation has a significant linear relationship with industrial structure adjustment. The increase in the intensity of environmental regulation can effectively reduce the use of industrial energy consumption, while promoting the rationalization of urban industrial structure. The government can increase the degree of environmental regulation, increase market openness and increase investment scale to improve the efficiency of resource-based urban transformation.