The Road to Nirvana and Rebirth:Green Empowerment of Supportive Policies in Resource-exhausted Regions
Whether location-oriented aid policies are"growth poverty trap"or"thrust for rebirth"to resource-exhausted regions remains unclear.Based on the view of green transformation,this paper matches the Chinese industrial enterprise database,industrial enterprise pollution database,constructs a quasi-natural experiment based on the support policies of resource-exhausted regions,and uses the staggered DID method to identify the impact of RERSP on the pollution emission intensity of enterprises.The reliability of conclusion has been confirmed by adjusting the control group,applying PSM-DID method,and resolving the potential bias of the heterogeneous treatment effects in the staggered DID method.The RERSP can significantly improve environmental performance of enterprises.Mechanism analysis shows that RERSP can help manufacturing enterprises to increase production capacity through upgrading,achieve emission reduction effect by optimizing the selection effect of polluters,and encourage enterprises to strengthen investment in sulfur removal equipment to improve environmental performance.Heterogeneity analysis shows that in the sub-samples of regions with mineral resources,regions located in national borders,coastlines and provincial boundaries,non-poor counties and heavy industry enterprises,RERSP shows better emission reduction effect.Furthermore,from the spatial dimension,the more distant the county is from the provincial capital,the weaker the effect of RERSP on enterprises'emission reduction.In addition,as the distance between counties and prefecture-level city centres becomes longer,the pollution emission intensity under the implementation of the RERSP shows a distribution characteristic of"decrease-increase-decrease".In terms of target expectations,when the local government sets a lower economic growth target,the role of RERSP is more conducive,especially for areas where the regional growth target has not been completed in the previous year and adjust appropriately lower in the next year,this effect is more prominent.In the context of ecological civilization construction,this paper can theoretically answer how the aid-oriented location-oriented policies stimulate the green transformation potential in resource-depleted areas,and show policy implications for targeted stimulation of the green transformation vitality of resource-exhausted regions.
resource-exhausted regionscorporate environmental performancestaggered DID methodnew quality productive forces
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