Abstract
Industrial structural adjustment plays a significant role in achieving the pollution reduction goals in China. It is an optimal choice for Hainan Province to promote industrial structure upgrading and build a "national demonstration area for ecological civilization construction". The emission factor method was used to estimate co-benefits of pollution emission reduction through closure of backward production capacities as a result of industrial structural adjustment policies. The results showed that in Hainan Province the cumulative reduction emissions of NO<i>x</i>, dioxins and mercury were 2826.0 t·a<sup>-1</sup>, 10462.5 mg·a<sup>-1</sup> and 280.8 kg·a<sup>-1</sup> respectively from 2006 to 2013, taking into consideration of cement, iron & steel, paper making and solid clay bricks sectors. The impact of eliminating backward production capacities on reductions of NO<i>x</i> was not remarkable, but the impacts on control over dioxins and mercury emissions were significant. The paper provided a new approach for estimating co-benefits from reducing the conventional pollutants and emerging pollutants.
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