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URBANIZATIONANDENVIRONMENTALPOLLUTION:

EMPIRICALSTUDYBASEDONPROVINCIAL

PANELDATAOFCHINA

DUJiang,LIUYu

(CollegeofEconomicManagement,HuazhongAgriculturalUniversity,Wuhan430070,China)

Abstract:Withtheextensionofthehypothesisof/EnvironmentalKuznetsCurve0,thispaperestablishedeconometricmodelsthroughcorrelatingsixkindsofpollutionindicatorswithurbanizationlevelandcon-trolledvariables.Byusingpaneldatafromthirtyprovinces(citiesandmunicipalities)ofChinafrom1998to2005,authorsconductedempiricalstudywiththehelpofEviewssoftwarepackage.Resultsdemonstra-tedthatinverted-Ushaperelationshipwasfoundbetweenfourkindsofpollutantindicatorsandurbaniza-tionlevel,andothertwokindsofindicatorshaveUshaperelationshipwithurbanizationlevel.Atpresent,Chinahasmovedtotherightpartofthecurvesasawhole.Duetothedevelopmentdisparitiesexistingamongregions,everyprovincemovestotherightpartofthecurvesatdifferenttimes.Withtheintroduc-tionofcontrolledvariablestotheeconometricmodel,theestimatedresultsshowedthatturning-pointofsomecurvesaswellastheUcurverelationshipbetweensomepollutantindicatorsandurbanizationlevelallchanged.Foreigntradedoesnotnecessarilyresultinenvironmentaldeterioration,andtheso-calledpollu-tionhavenhypothesisdoesnotexistinChina.Thechangeinindustrialstructureisanimportantfactorcausingenvironmentalpollution.ThedecreaseofenergyconsumptionperunitofGDPinducedbytechno-logicalprogresscanalleviatethepressureofenvironmentalpollution.Fastereconomicgrowthwillgiverisetomoresevereenvironmentalpollution.

Keywords:urbanization;EnvironmentalKuznetsCurve;paneldata;empiricalstudy