Abstract
Industrial pollution control is a difficult problem in China’s current economic transformation, and the Chinese government has implemented many measures to deal with it. However, little research has focused on the relationship between land policy and industrial pollution. Based on the theoretical discussion of the mechanism influencing the market-oriented reform of industrial land (mainly refer to the marketization of land conveyance price and the openness of land conveyance process) on urban industrial pollution, we constructed an analytical framework by linking land policy with industrial pollution. Then, we constructed an econometric model and chose the statistical data of 104 large- and medium-sized cities in mainland China from 2003 to 2016. The results indicate that with the marketization of the industrial land conveyance price, urban industrial pollution is presenting an inverted U-shaped change trend. For cities in different development stages of industrialization, there is no difference in the impact of industrial land conveyance price on urban industrial pollution. However, the openness of industrial land conveyance promotes and inhibits the urban industrial pollution in the stages of industrialization and post-industrialization, respectively. Finally, this paper puts forward some suggestions on how to control industrial pollution from the perspective of further improving the industrial land conveyance mechanism.
Highlights
Pollution caused by human economic activities has seriously harmed the global environment [1], and environmental problems are a huge public concern [2]
Based on the above grouping of cities, we further explored the impact of the market-oriented reform of industrial land on urban industrial pollution for cities in different stages of industrialization
Based on the theoretical discussion of the mechanism influencing the market-oriented reform of industrial land on urban industrial pollution, we constructed an analytical framework by linking land policy with industrial pollution
Summary
Pollution caused by human economic activities has seriously harmed the global environment [1], and environmental problems are a huge public concern [2]. Cole et al [38,39,40] discovered from their case study in the United Kingdom, China, and Japan that enterprise size, energy use, capital and labor intensity, research and development expenditure, quantity of export commodities, and public awareness are the main factors affecting industrial pollution emissions. As can be seen from the above studies, the existing research focused less on the relationship between the allocation of urban land and industrial pollution Both macro factors (e.g., industrial characteristics, institutional policy) and micro factors (e.g., enterprises’ characteristics, production behavior) are closely related to the allocation of industrial land. We provide both conclusions and related policy recommendations
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