Transportation Infrastructure and Industrial Green Transformation:Mechanism Analysis and Empirical Evidence
Traditional industry relies on a crude growth model,resulting in an inability to balance economic de-velopment and the ecological environment.Industrial green transformation is to realize the win-win situation be-tween development performance and environmental performance.Based on China's inter-provincial panel data from 2008 to 2019,this paper empirically examines the mechanism and path of transportation infrastructure construction on industrial green transformation using a fixed-effects regression model.The study shows that:Transportation infra-structure significantly promotes the green transformation of industry in China;industrial scale,talents agglomera-tion;and technology agglomeration mediate the relationship between transportation infrastructure and green transfor-mation of industry,and the mediating path of transportation infrastructure on technology agglomeration is positively moderated by environmental regulations;there is regional heterogeneity in the impact of transportation infrastructure on the green transformation of industry,in which transportation infrastructure has a positive and significant impact on the green transformation of industry in economically developed regions while that non-significant in economical-ly underdeveloped regions.