Abstract
This paper chooses the air quality index (AQI) as the main measure of air pollution, using the relevant data of CGSS (2013) to analyze the impact of air pollution and subjective well-being of residents. In the end, the paper is based on the above research in order to analysis the willingness to pay for air quality improvement, and help the government put forward the corresponding policy suggestions.
Highlights
Since the Reform and Opening Up, the growth of China continued to accelerate
The results show that there is no difference between different groups when we discuss the impact of environmental pollution on the happiness [15]
While taking the income situation into consideration shows similar results, higher income group are less affected by air pollution, from the macro side, with the improvement of people’s income, people should decrease the tolerance degree to the environment, but the high income group who living in the cities where have more economic basis and conditions to solve the air quality problems, for example, they can buy the house on the up-wind side, enjoy better medical facilities and other ways to enhance their sense of happiness, so they may not affect so much by environmental pollution
Summary
Since the Reform and Opening Up, the growth of China continued to accelerate. At the same time, the pollution of environment and deterioration of ecological environment is becoming worse than before. In the existing economic system of China, “high pollution, high energy” consuming industry based economy still occupies a pivotal position. This can make the air pollution worse nowadays. This can cause the haze weather in each area of China, causing serious impact on public health. The air pollution is a severe environmental constraint for China’s economic development and it is a major challenge to build an environment-friendly society in China. Under this background, it is urgent and important thing to study air pollution.
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