A good business environment is the institutional guarantee to stimulate market vitality and enhance the momentum of regional development,and the protection of the ecological environment is a major principle that must be adhered to in order to comprehensively build a socialist modernized coun-try,and the two are the important handles to achieve high-quality development.This article takes 30 provinces in China from 2007 to 2021 as samples and uses the spatial Durbin model to analyze the impact of business environment optimi-zation on environmental pollution and explore the mechanism of action.It is found that optimizing the business environment has a significant inhibiting effect on environmental pollution and can effectively reduce environmental pollution in the surrounding areas.In particular,optimizing the business envi-ronment can reduce environmental pollution by im-proving the quality of FDI.Therefore,when optimi-zing the business environment,it is necessary to consider the spatial spillover effect of environmental pollution,applying the rules of market economy to promote environmental protection,strengthening inter-regional coordination and cooperation in busi-ness environment and environmental policy making,and focusing on the introduction of high-quality for-eign investment.
Business environmentFDI qualityEnvironmental pollutionSpatial Durbin model
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