How to Evaluate the Green and High-Quality Development Path? An FsQCA Approach on the China Pilot Free Trade Zone.

Guanglan Zhou,Yulian Fei,Zhening Zhang

doi:10.3390/ijerph19010547

Abstract

In today’s world, green development has become an important trend, and many countries regard the development of green industry as an important measure to promote economic restructuring. Green development is consistent with sustainable development in ideology. China’s economy is in the stage of high-quality development. As an important foundation for China’s external economic development, the free trade zone can play a good role in promoting its green and high-quality development. Based on the data of 18 free trade zones in China in 2020, this paper explores the green and high-quality development path of the China Pilot Free Trade Zone. Firstly, the green development index is constructed according to the existing research and experience, and then the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis method is used to evaluate the green and high-quality development path. The results show that the development of pilot free trade zones is not the result of a single condition but the result of a combination of green policy effectiveness, foreign investment participation, green production growth rate, and other conditions. Combined with the green and high-quality development path, this paper further provides enlightenment for the development of the China Pilot Free Trade Zone.

Highlights

Global climate change is an indisputable fact and has become one of the biggest challenges to human development in the 21st century
Anthropogenic factors of climate change are mainly caused by economic activity since the industrial Revolution
Since 1750, the global cumulative emissions of 1.1 trillion tons of carbon dioxide, developed countries accounted for 80% of the emissions, the United States accounted for 26.9% in the first place, and China ranked second, accounting for 8.2% [1]

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Introduction

Global climate change is an indisputable fact and has become one of the biggest challenges to human development in the 21st century. With the rapid development of China’s economy, energy use and carbon dioxide emissions are increasing dramatically. Since 1750, the global cumulative emissions of 1.1 trillion tons of carbon dioxide, developed countries accounted for 80% of the emissions, the United States accounted for 26.9% in the first place, and China ranked second, accounting for 8.2% [1]. As the effects of climate change intensify, China is already facing increasing pressure from the world to reduce emissions. As a matter of fact, China’s energy conservation and emission reduction is a response to international pressure and an inherent requirement of China’s economic development mode transformation. Sustainable development means that we should consider both the needs of current development and those of future development, instead of meeting the interests of present generations at the expense of

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